What's on? Occasionally. Haphazardly.... John's centralized info pages.

2016-09-23T06:01:00.001-07:00

The main blog for Trinketization has moved: http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/

but also see

On Cultural Revolution: An Interview with John Hutnyk | stateofnature.org

www.stateofnature.org/?p=5966

20 Apr 2009 - John Hutnyk: Insofar as my work is that of an academic commentator within cultural studies, in a Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths which ...

Interview with John Hutnyk from Yale University Radio WYBCX

museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/john-hutnyk/

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John Hutnyk: Quid pro quo: the East as a career - YouTube

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmsJJAAmMk

26 Oct 2014 - Uploaded by SkriptaTV

15/5/2014, 21h, Cinema Europa, Zagreb, Croatia John Hutnyk: Quid pro quo: the East as a career 7th ...

John Hutnyk: Translating Capital in context, politics, struggles - YouTube

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28 Sep 2014 - Uploaded by SkriptaTV

14/5/2014, 15h, Cinema Europa, Zagreb, Croatia John Hutnyk: Translating Capital in context, politics ...

What's on has become what is to be done, and moved

2008-05-25T11:18:00.000-07:00

What's on has become what is to be done, and moved over to wordpress at:

http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/

reprise

2008-05-24T11:20:00.000-07:00

What's on has become what is to be done, and moved over to wordpress at:

http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/

What is to be done? - this is how the page looked end of May 08 (sans pics):

Some of the things I have helped organise at Goldsmiths, or thought worth mentioning, recommending or just could not avoid gawping at, are posted on this page.

You should also check the CCS Events Page and the Goldsmiths Calender (not everything at Goldsmith gets on this page - its hardly NASA, so we don’t feel the need to do the difficult rocket science that would be required to co-ordinate these things college wide [sometimes there are just too many astronauts]).

The old list of past events in case you want to check up on who said what when, well they are *here*.

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Frankfurt Talk…

“Vortrag von Prof. Dr. John Hutnyk (University of London):

“Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’)”

(in englischer Sprache)

Veranstalter: Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie

Donnerstag, 29.5.2008: 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr; IG 454″

John Hutnyk Thursday 29 May 2008 Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor) Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt

Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’).

Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, where the Queen’s subjects are called upon to ‘report any suspicious baggage’; with stop and search security policing focused upon Muslims (and unarmed Brazilians shot on the London underground); and with restrictions on civil liberties and ‘limits’ to freedom proclaimed as necessary, it is now clear that spaces for critical debate are mortally threatened in contemporary, tolerant, civilized Britain. This discussion addresses new performance work by diasporic world music stalwarts Fun-da-mental and the drum and bass outfit Asian Dub Foundation, relating to insurgency struggles, anti-colonialism and political freedom in the UK. The presentation will argue for an engaged critique of “culture” and assess a certain distance or gap between political expression and the tamed versions of multiculturalism accepted by/acceptable in the British marketplace. Examples from the music industry reception of ‘difficult’ music and creative engagement are evaluated in the context of the global terror wars and a new paranoia that appears endemic on the streets of London today…

Thursday 29 May 2008
Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor)
Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt

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Marx and Philosophy

June 2nd 2008

A one day workshop reflecting on issues relating to globalisation,
resistance, value and the Interpretation of Capital.

The day will be geared towards discussion, and is organised around
presentations dealing with the following topics: global community; civil
disobedience and its tactical evaluation; the political implications of
value theory; the content and implications of Marx’s work, and his
relation to philosophy.

Click on the poster to enlarge it….

Speakers and timetable

2.00 – 3.15
Jonathan Brookes: “Marx and Global Community”
Sam Meaden: “A Critical Appraisal of the ‘Reclaim the Streets’ Movement”

(3.15 – 3.30 - break)

3.30 – 4.30
Sean McKeown: “Value – Between Economics and Politics”
Nick Gray and Rob Lucas: “Formal and Real Subsumption – Logical or
Historical Categories?”

(4.30 – 5.00 – break)

5.00 – 6.30
Nicole Pepperell: “How to Walk with Hegel – On the the ‘Peculiar Social
Character’ of Commodity Production”
Alberto Toscano: response

Venue: Hatcham House seminar room, 17-19 St James Street, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
The event is hosted by the Graduate School of Goldsmiths University of London.

For any enquiries please contact Tom Bunyard at: cup01tb@gold.ac.uk

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April May 2008 - Cinema Division: a film festival traversing the Mexican-American border.

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Raminder Kaur Wednesday 12 March 2008

2008-03-10T15:30:00.000-07:00

CCS presents a special Lecture:

Dr Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex)

"A Nuclear Dawn in South India:
Cultures of Anti-Nuclear Resistance in Kanyakumari District"

RHB 137a on Weds 12 March between 6-8pm. All Welcome.

(pic is of Raminder's book on Ganapati Festivals)

Cinema Division - Tuesday films March 11 and 18, then April-May

2008-03-02T12:04:00.001-08:00

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Jeremy Valentine Tuesday 4th March 2008

2008-02-25T07:54:00.001-08:00

The Centre for Cultural Studies presents:

A talk by:

Jeremy Valentine, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.

Tuesday 4th March

Goldsmiths cinema, RHB, 6pm - all welcome

"Everyone's at it: The Rentier Economy and the Morality of the Cultural Industries"

This paper is written in the spirit, but not the style, of Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1705). It begins with a critical analysis of theoretical claims that reduce culture to economy by virtue of the meaningful and embedded nature of the latter. There are two aspects of this critique. Firstly, an internal one directed at the assumption of a telos of homogeneity in cultural economy approaches. Even though the notion of economy is broadened everything is located within an equilibrium. Secondly, an external one which draws attention to the coincidence between cultural economy approaches and contemporary political rhetorics of ‘creative economy’. Both aspects naturalise historically specific relations of production through the category of culture and both privilege and generalise cultural industries as the leading edge of wealth production. The paper argues that both approaches are organised by a disavowal of the political dominance of the economic category of rent and the regimes of rights and fees on which it depends. Following a discussion of the problem of rent for capitalism, from Smith via Marx and Keynes to Buchanan, the paper outlines the role of rent in contemporary neo-liberal capitalism and its links to practices of ‘value capture’. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possible reasons for the valorisation of culture in contemporary neo-liberalism and in particular the example of the cultural industries in the formation of moral subjectivity.

Bob Avakian on Film 18-19 Feb 2008

2008-02-14T07:14:00.000-08:00

"Revolution: Why its Necessary, Why its Possible, What its all about"
is a lengthy yet fascinating lecture by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States.

This monday and tuesday we can watch the first four hours (in two sittings) of Avakian:

"in his first public appearance since 1979, Avakian offers an astute critical analysis of American politics and the Maoist tactics that he believes can bring about revolutionary change. Although 20th century history has demonstrated the complications inherent in achieving the Communist ideal, Avakian puts forth a compelling case that a revolutionary program is what contemporary America needs (if not necessarily what it desires)"

"Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he's an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he's a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science and he's a pit-bull fighter against oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor"

Goldsmiths RHB Cinema Monday 18th Feb 6pm - 8pm and Tuesday 19th Feb 6pm-8pm
All welcome.

See here for the DVD promo material, and here for my recent squirt of praise for his latest (quite funny, but serious) book.

Weds Feb 6th 2008

2008-01-28T22:07:00.000-08:00

a special seminar for Weds Feb 6th 2008:

Double Header:
Professors Michael Taussig and Andrew Benjamin. 4pm - 7pm, Goldsmiths Cinema.

Topics:
Michael Taussig on art and vision (fieldwork),
Andrew Benjamin on Art and Abstraction (Mondrian).

Chaired by Christopher Pinney, Visiting Crowe Professor, Northwestern University

- this is a seminar exclusively for the Centre for Cultural Studies, not to be missed.

monday 28 Jan - Stanwyck classics.

2008-01-28T03:35:00.000-08:00

After the epic engagement with Heidegger last week, the tone for the film this evening is decidedly less philosophical (largely because I am moving house and the Bob Avakian film I wanted to show is lost in a huge pile of boxes...)

So instead, a very special treat - two very early Barbara Stanwyck films

- 1932 B&W - "The Purchase Price"
and
1933 B&W - "Ladies They Talk About"

According to the video cover blurbs, the first one is described as 'a racy drama' and the second is ' a film worth seeing over and over again' . Both films are 1 hour ten minutes long, so 2 hours 20 in total.

Starts 6 pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 28 January.
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talk at Sussex 18 Jan 2008

2008-01-14T08:40:00.000-08:00

Venue: Arts A 071, Sussex University at 4pm on friday 18th Jan 2008

Pantomime Terror: Media South Asia as Civil Society Green Zone.

John Hutnyk

Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, where the Queen's subjects are called upon to 'report any suspicious baggage'; with stop and search security policing focused upon Muslims (and unarmed Brazilians shot on the London underground); and with restrictions on civil liberties and 'limits' to freedom proclaimed as necessary, it is now clear that spaces for critical debate are mortally threatened in contemporary, tolerant, civilized Britain. This discussion addresses new performance work by diasporic world music stalwarts Fun-da-mental and the drum and bass outfit Asian Dub Foundation, relating to insurgency struggles, anti-colonialism and political freedom in the UK. The presentation will argue for an engaged critique of "culture" and assess a certain distance or gap between political expression and the tamed versions of multiculturalism accepted by/acceptable in the British marketplace. Examples from the music industry reception of 'difficult' music and creative engagement are evaluated in the context of the global terror wars and a new paranoia that appears endemic on the streets of London today...

CCS Pinney Thursday 13.Dec.07

2007-12-04T09:43:00.000-08:00

Thursday 13th December, 2007
Professor Christopher Pinney
Lessons From Hell: Karma and Governmentality in Popular Indian Imagery

5pm, Goldsmiths Small Hall (Cinema)

Synopsis: "Karni Bharni" images embody the importation of a Jain soteriology into mainstream Hinduism in the late nineteenth century. They depict punishments in hell for moral transgressions and eventually transmute, in the mid-twentieth century, into a parallel genre known as "Ideal Body" which visualise codes of citizenship. The lecture explores the powerful "underneath" of this world of punishment and its role as a visual mode of governmentality.

Christopher Pinney is Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. & Professor of Anthropology & Visual Culture, University College London

This lecture is free and all are welcome. It is organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies in collaboration with the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

A River Called Titas Tues 4th Dec 07

2007-12-03T12:29:00.000-08:00

Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

- our last Ghatak film for this year.

All welcome.

Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Cinema Goldsmiths
City/Town: New Cross, United Kingdom

"Adapted from the Bengali novel by Advaita Malo Barman, A River Called Titas is a thoughtful, sincere, and bittersweet chronicle of poverty, obsolescence, cultural identity and erasure. Ritwik Ghatak characteristically integrates visual economy, stylized camerawork, and idiosyncratic lyricism through allusive, traditional folk songs, cyclical environmental (and existential) phenomena, and exaggerated natural rhythms and diegetic sound"
from - www.filmref.com/

Meghay Dhaka Tara - Tues 27.11.07

2007-11-26T02:48:00.000-08:00

মেঘে ঢাকা তারা
Meghay Dhaka Tara
(The Cloud-Capped Star)

A film by Ritwik Ghatak 1960

Set at the time of partition, a bengali Bhadralok family (from East Bengal, moved to Calcutta) endures. But Nita, loved only by her brother, who wants to be a singer, suffers misfortune after misfortune. Melodrama poignant.

All welcome, Goldsmiths Cinema, 6pm Tuesday 27 November.

November 15, 2007 The People's Struggle In Nepal And Its International Importance

2007-11-15T09:59:00.000-08:00

Very special speaker With Gaurav (aka C.P. Gajurel) a Senior Leader of the Nepalese revolution
Host: Goldsmiths College Centre for Culture Studies & Nepali Samaj
Type: Education - Lecture
Time and Place Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: at Richard Hoggart Building (formerly Main Building), room 308 (3rd Floor), Goldsmiths Uni, Lewisham
City/Town: London

Description
A senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (M) is coming to speak in London. Comrade Gaurav (C.P. Gajurel) is in charge of the party's International Bureau.

(Please note: Gaurav is also speaking on Wednesday 14th November at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn at 7pm)

talk at Nottingham

2007-11-15T02:03:00.000-08:00

Tuesday November 20 2007

Seminar
IAPS Seminar 4 of 6 JOHN HUTNYK
Room A40, Sir Clive Granger Building
5.00 - 6.30pm

School of Politics presents JOHN HUTNYK from GOLDSMITHS

seminar on 'SCREENING SOUTH ASIA (INDIAN MEDIA)'

All seminars take place in the Clive Granger Building, 5.00-6.30

A discussion of the politics of news media in India. The talk includes an updateon the case of Mohammad Afzal.

Further details can be found at:

www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics

Ritwik Ghatak tues 13 Nov 2007

2007-11-09T23:00:00.000-08:00

You are invited to view a film by Ritwik Ghatak - Nagarik 1953

6pm - Cinema Goldsmiths - all welcome.

Part of the Centre for Cultural Studies series on Bengali Cinema.

Nagarik was only released after Ritwik's death, it deals with varous small personal trials - job search, marriage negotiatons, bustee-life - in the context of the trauma of partition and the plight of refugees. Not without melodrama, but also with optimism. The film predates Ray's 'Pather Panchali' and might be said to be superior in both in sensibility and politics. No apreciation of Bangali cinema is complete without this (almost lost) film noir classic.

The Cinematic Mode of Production - Jonathan Beller at Goldsmiths

2007-11-09T22:52:00.000-08:00

The Cinematic Mode of Production
Tagline: Jonathan Beller at Goldsmiths
Host: Goldsmiths
Type: Education - Workshop
Time and Place Date: Monday, November 12, 2007
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: The Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building
Street: 8 Lewisham Way, Lewisham, London SE14
City/Town: London, United Kingdom

Contact Info Email: jeff @ sakerna.se

Description
Jonathan Beller will be discussing his latest book, The Cinematic Mode of Production, at a workshop at Goldsmiths on 12 November 1-4. The book has been widely praised with Steven Shaviro (The Cinematic Body, Connected) calling it 'the most important work of film theory since Deleuze’s two Cinema volumes appeared more than two decades ago.' Beller's presentation will be followed by three respondents (yet to be confirmed) and a general discussion. Please circulate

Spivak poster for 8th Nov 2007

2007-11-08T16:43:00.000-08:00

Gayatri Spivak 8th November 2007

2007-11-08T06:54:00.000-08:00

As part of the MA Postcolonial Studies program taught by the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths we are very happy to announce a talk by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Great Hall, Goldsmiths New Cross on Thursday 8th of November 2007, from 5pm.

Topic :
"Revisiting Postcolonialism"

ALL WELCOME

there will also now be a book launch at 2pm on friday the 9th of November. More details as they arrive.

co sponsors - Centre for Cultural Studies, Graduate School, Media and Communications, Politics Department.

Ritwik Ghatak 30 Oct 2007 6PM

2007-10-26T16:27:00.000-07:00

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo
- a film by Ritwik Ghatak
(national award winner 1974)
- 120 mins.

Event Info Name: Bengali Film
Tagline: Ritwik Ghatak
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Cinema Goldsmiths
City/Town: New Cross, United Kingdom

All Welcome. No Charge.

Goldsmiths Stop the War 24 Oct 2007

2007-10-24T03:19:00.000-07:00

Stop the War teach-in sponsored by Goldsmiths Students
Union and Goldsmiths UCU on Wednesday 24 October.

Full timetable:

The Demonisation of Islam?
1-2.30pm MB139
Suhail Malik (Visual Art): Visual representations of Abu Ghraib
Bart Moore-Gilbert (English): Representations of fundamentalism
Les Back (Sociology): The War on Terror and the politics of misrecognition

Truth: The first casualty of war
1-2.30pm MB355
Peter Lee –Wright (Media): Reporting the war
Des Freedman (Media): Silencing the media
Natalie Fenton (Media) The media and mobilisation

Palestine under occupation
3-4.30pm MB355
Kay Dickinson (Media): Resistant media in Palestine
Ahmed Masoud (PhD candidate, English): Education in Palestine
Eyal Weizman (Visual Cultures): De-colonising architecture

The war at home
3-4.30pm MB139
John Hutnyk (Cultural Studies): Anti-war hip hop and the 7/7 bombings
Angela McRobbie (Media): War in the domestic context
Nirmal Puwar (Sociology): Memorialisation and violence

Plenary: Stop the War
5-6.30pm Small Hall
Chair: Hannah Bullivant (GCSU President)
Alberto Toscano (Sociology)
Mehraj Miah ( GCSU Black & Ethnic Students Officer)
Stop the War speaker
Grace Lally (GCSU Campaigns Co-ordination officer)

(note - The image I chose here is not the mage chosen by GCSU or UCU, but its sentiment is interesting).

Mrinal Sen Film, Tues 23 Oct. 07. @ 6.30

2007-10-21T04:53:00.000-07:00

6.30 in the Cinema, tuesday 23rd October (after Keith Hart lecture in IGLT)

Antareen - by Mrinal Sen (1993 - 91 mins)

Another great Bengali film, this time with Dimple Kapadia (seen on the original flyer)

All welcome, in the Goldsmiths Cinema - no charge -

Akaler Shandhaney (In Search of a Famine) 16 Oct 07

2007-10-11T12:40:00.000-07:00

Aakaler Sandhane: In September, 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side- product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the “famine-seekers”!

All welcome 6pm Cinema, Goldsmiths.

More Bengali Films at Goldsmiths

Tuesday's CCS Film Night 6pm–9 pm RHB SH/Cinema Goldsmiths

Its 150 years since the 1857 uprisings, 60 years since Independence (for Pakistan and India) and 40 years since Naxalbari (see, dialectics!)... In a kind of angular appreciation of these anniversaries, the film slot for CCS in Autumn term 2007 will be a series of great Bengali films.

We will start with Satyajit Ray's "The Chess Players" on the 2nd of October

16 October - Aakaler Sandhane - Mrinal Sen
23 October - Antareen - Mrinal Sen(will start one hour later because of Keith Hart's Inaugural Lecture in IGLT (at 5.30)

Then in the following weeks, some Ritwik Ghatak, films by Arparna Sen and one by Buddhadeb Dasgupta - dates to be announced (but its nearly every tuesday at 6)

All welcome.

Tim Mangin 4-6pm Tuesday 9 October 2007

2007-10-03T10:44:00.000-07:00

CCS special seminar

Tim Mangin RHB141 from 4-6pm Tuesday 9 October – all welcome

Cosmopolitanism in Senegal: Jazz and Rap

This paper explores how Senegalese local popular culture thrives not in spite of transnational influences and processes, but as a result of them. Popular music scholars and social scientists have increasingly begun to study the impact of popular African diasporic musics in Africa such as jazz and Latin musics in West, South, and Central Africa. However, the meaning and role of black U.S. pop musics in identity formations in Francophone West Africa has received less attention. This paper addresses this problem by examining how Senegalese have used diasporic musics since the 1940s as one way to assert their modern cosmopolitan identities. Based on fieldwork conducted in Saint Louis and Dakar, Senegal, I explore how jazz and rap have become vitally cultural expressive practices for negotiating national and black identities.

Tim Mangin, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia University, studies transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in African diasporic popular musics and culture. His masters thesis explores collaborations between DJs, rappers, visual artists, dancers, and jazz musicians in underground hip hop clubs in New York City and his dissertation is an ethnography of mbalax, the popular music of Senegal.

Indian Media Saturday, Oct 13th, 2007

2007-09-27T10:26:00.001-07:00

SACREDMEDIACOW and the
Centre for Film and Media Studies present:

INDIAN MASS MEDIA
AND THE POLITICS OF CHANGE

One-day conference for Postgraduates & Early Career Researchers
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Khalili Lecture Theatre
Saturday, Oct 13th, 2007
10:00-18:00
(followed by a party)

Opening address: Prof Paul Webley (Director of SOAS)
Keynote Speaker: Prof John Hutnyk
Endnote Speaker: Prof Laura Mulvey

The conference jointly is organized by SACREDMEDIACOW, an independent student-led research centre on Indian media, and the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the School Of Oriental and African Studies. Having said that, SACREDMEDIACOW is not really a centre for India media research (perhaps, a periphery of Indian media research would be a more appropriate title), but more of a Collective.