Event overview
An interdisciplinary festival of ideas including 60 papers, performances and installations along with a series of related themed conferences, public lectures and conversations with leading thinkers. This year’s programme has been constructed by three Goldsmiths PhD students Tim Hickman, Christopher O’Shaughnessy and Tuur Driesser on the theme of Theorising Otherness. While the festival features the research of Goldsmiths PhD students it also includes presentations from graduate students from other universities including Queen Mary, University of London and University of Naples L’Orientale.
The special features of this year’s event include an afternoon of discussions on topology and topological thinking with Celia Lury and Julian Henriques (30th April), the Politics of Listening and Voice with Nick Couldry and Les Back (1st May), public lecture by Professor Boaventura De Sousa Santos Epistemologies of the South (Sociology Annual lecture, 2nd May), the Visual Cultures Public Forum ‘How to Live Together’ (3rd May) with speakers Jean Paul Martinon, Isaïe Nzeyimana, Christian Nyampeta and Andy Stafford, and an afternoon of conversation with renown cultural theorist Ien Ang (Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), Australia) on scholarship and politics today (14th May).
In addition there are a series of events linked to the festival including The Rendering the Real Interactive Symposium(22nd March-27th April) organized by Sireita Mullings who recently completed her PhD at Goldsmiths and the Engaging Tactics Symposium organized by graduate students in the Department of Sociology (30th April- 1st May).
Goldsmiths Graduate Festival 2012
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2012 | 11:00am - 7:30pm | |
| 24 Apr 2012 | 10:00am - 4:00pm | |
| 25 Apr 2012 | 10:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 26 Apr 2012 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 27 Apr 2012 | 10:00am - 9:30pm | |
| 30 Apr 2012 | 10:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 1 May 2012 | 10:30am - 7:00pm | |
| 2 May 2012 | 10:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 3 May 2012 | 10:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 4 May 2012 | 10:00am - 1:00pm | |
| 14 May 2012 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
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