Seminar VIII

Seminar VIII: Common Ground (Spring 2017)
Seminar VIII centres around the theme of ‘common ground’. The aim is to foster dialogue concerning themes, theories, methods and framings across all research areas. Subsequently sessions are devised based on where we find common ground, where we feel common ground is missing and to consider what readings, debates and approaches we can usefully pursue together. Concurrent with the Common Ground seminars, an AHRC funded seminar series on ‘Rhythmanalysis’, open to WSA staff and students and co-convened by Sunil Manghani, takes place at Goldsmiths College. Additional events include, WSA Staff Seminars, a symposium of the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research group, and various events related to the MA in Contemporary Curation.

Thursday 26 January (2pm – )
Pictures Not Homes – Exhibition Symposium 
A Symposium hosted by AMT research group to examine “Pictures Not Homes”, an exhibition of work by Ian Dawson and Louisa Minkin (12 January – 28 January 2017 in The Winchester Gallery, WSA). More details…


Wednesday 15 February
WSA Staff Seminar

Harvard Suite: 4-6pm
Mike Bastin: Fashion Brand Valuation: Where Marketing Meets Finance


Wednesday 15 February
Common Ground
PhD Study Room, 12.30 – 3pm
Details TBA

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite: 4-6pm
Calum Kerr: ‘Beyond the Edges of the Flash: an investigation of flash-fiction based collections and composite novellas’

Rhythmanalysis I
15th February 2017, 6.30-9.00pm
Room 305, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths
‘Rhythm in the work of Gilles Deleuze’ – led by Dr Stamatia Portanova (University ‘L’ Orientale’, Neaples)
** Booking Required ** More Details…


Wednesday 1 March
Common Ground
PhD Study Room, 12.30 – 3pm
Details TBA

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite: 4-6pm
Kate Langham: Play as a Design Tool


Wednesday 15 March
Common Ground
PhD Study Room, 
Details TBA

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite: 4-6pm
Nick Stewart: How I Learned to Stop Worrying, (about art), and Love Cinema

Rhythmanalysis II
15th March 2017, 6.00 – 8.30pm
Room 302, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths
‘Rhythm and Rhythmanalysis’ led by Dr Yi Chen (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London)


PhD Training Week Intensive

Monday 20 – Friday 24 March


Wednesday 29 March
Rhythmanalysis III

29th March 2017, 6.00 to 8.30pm

Room 305, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths
‘Rhythm and Education’ led by Dr Paola Crespi (Goldsmiths)
‘Rhythm and the Neutral’ led by Dr Sunil Manghani (WSA)
** Booking Required ** More Details…


Tuesday 25 April
Rhythmanalysis IV

6.00 to 8.30pm

Room 305, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths
‘Rhythm in the work of Emile Benveniste and Henri Meschonnic’ led by Dr Pascal Michon (Independent, Paris)
** Booking Required ** More Details…


Wednesday 3 May
Common Ground
PhD Study Room, 12.30 – 3pm
Details TBA

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite: 4-6pm
James Hall: Tate Modern Switch House: Facing the Future – or the Past?


Rhythmanalysis V
Tuesday 16 May 2017
6.00 to 8.30pm
Room 305, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths
TBC – Dr Derek McCormack (University of Oxford)
** Booking Required ** More Details…

Wednesday 17 May
Common Ground – GUEST LECTURE
PhD Study Room, 12.30 – 3pm
Magazined Art
Prof. Anna Dahlgren from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University will present on her recent book project. She will discuss fashion photography, which has since the 1990s to a larger degree migrated effortlessly between the art field and the commercial field, between being personal works and assignments harshly circumscribed by designers, brands and fashion publications.In this talk, Prof. Dahlgren will trace the beginnings of these transgressions through a close examination of the two magazines I-d and Artforum.

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite: 4-6pm
Adam Procter: decentralised, delightful, digital

Rhythmanalysis VI
Tuesday 30 May 2017
6.00 to 8.30pm
Room 305, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths
‘Rhythm in the work of Gaston Bachelard and Kodwo Eshun’ led by Dr Eleni Ikoniadou (Kingston University)
** Booking Required ** More Details…

Wednesday 31 May
Common Ground
PhD Study Room, 12.30 – 3pm
Details TBA

WSA Staff Seminar
Harvard Suite: 4-6pm
Seth Giddings: Toyetic technology: a media ethology of playful objects