Professor Maggie Humm reported that the ‘Women, Work, Equality: From Dagenham to the Coalition Cuts’ event was a key finale to our successful seminar series, ‘women are being hit disproportionately by the Budget cuts. Studies show they will carry three-quarters of the burden because they rely more on benefits, and two-thirds of public sector workers are women (77% of [...]
[ 2 March 2011; 14:00 to 17:00. ] The Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London, presents:
The Art of Protest
A seminar to mark the launch of Fight Back! A reader on the winter protests
March 2nd 2011, 14:00-17:00
Papers:
Dan Hancox
Pow! in Parliament Square: Riot music and the kettled generation
Dan Hancox is a freelance journalist writing on music and politics for The Guardian, New [...]
The Critical Lede has announced a brand new interview with member of the CCSR Advisory Board Lawrence Grossberg about his new book Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. In the interview Dr. Grossberg discusses the problem of reductionism in much of current cultural studies work, how to remedy it with radical contextuality, culture as both [...]
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Anat Pick will speak on cinema and animality.
3 March 2011, 17:00 – 19:00, Goldsmith, University of London
Despite the dominance of narrative cinema, film is essentially a zoomorphic medium that does not privilege either the human form or human stories. A consideration of a number of visual [...]
[ 1 June 2011; 17:30 to 19:30. ] The Centre for Cultural Studies Research is delighted to announce its 2011 annual lecture:
‘Total Belief – Delirium in the West’ by Jacqueline Rose
What is the nature of our political investments? In what, psychically, do they consist? In this lecture, Jacqueline Rose will return to Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism as mental control and ask: what form of [...]
[ 16 February 2011; 14:00 to 16:00. ] University of East London, Docklands Campus, Room: EB.G.10
The idea of job creation and job cuts, working and what to do with those who aren’t working, lies at the heart of the coalition government’s reform programme. The plan is simple: public sector jobs and the welfare state are to be cut radically, while the private sector [...]
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