Wednesday 24 November 2021, 5–7pm, Rose Studio Theatre, Kingston upon Thames
On Wednesday 24 November, Race/Gender Matters and PACE will host a screening and discussion of Dr Hannah Ballou's art film goo:ga in the Rose Theatre Studio.
goo:ga (2021) is a live art film that merges comedy, pregnancy, feminism, and trauma narrative around themes of fetal illness.
The film will be followed by a response panel featuring Dr Victoria Jowett, the Clinical Lead for the Fetal Cardiology Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, co-director of the Live Art Development Agency, and a reception.
For more information and registration, please visit this eventbrite page. The event is free and open to all.
Wednesday 8 December 2021, 5–7pm, Courtyard, Town House, Kingston University Penrhyn Road campus
On Wednesday 8 December, Race/Gender Matters and Collective Practice Conversations will host a screening and discussion of the documentary RIP Seni with its filmmakers in the new Town House's wonderful Courtyard space.
RIP Seni responds to the death of Seni Lewis, a 23-year-old black man who died at the hands of up to 11 police officers while he was in the care of the Bedlam Royal Hospital in South London. The film looks at what happened to Seni, the crises of mental health and racism in the UK, the long fight for justice, and what happens when members of the public take art into their own hands.
For more details about the film and its contexts, please visit this eventbrite page. The filmmakers will be in attendance and will participate in a post-screening discussion followed by a Q&A with the audience. The event is free and open to all.
Wednesday 13 January 2021, 6pm–7.15pm
Lisa Baraitser's talk, the following discussion led by Kingston PhD students Anna Johnson and Katie Hall, and a concluding Q&A will explore the complexities of failure and its possible relations to practices of care, politics, ethics, time, creativity and more.
Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Routledge, 2009) and Enduring Time (Bloomsbury 2017), and has written widely on motherhood, psychoanalysis, care and time. She is currently co-PI on the Wellcome Trust-funded project Waiting Times, that investigates the relation between time and care in health contexts. She is a psychoanalyst, and member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
This event is online and free to attend. For details about how to join the online event, please email Martin Dines: m.dines@kingston.ac.uk.
Thursday 11 February 2021, 11am–6pm
This training day of workshops, funded by AHRC Techne, will interrogate recent developments in the field of sexuality studies to help PhD students evaluate potential applications for their own research.
Facilitators include Broderick Chow (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London), Helen Palmer (Vienna University of Technology), Samuel Solomon (University of Sussex), and Nat Raha (University of St Andrews)
This event is online and free to attend.
For further information and to register to attend the training day please visit this eventbrite page.
Wednesday 17 March 2021, 6–7.15pm
James Polchin, author of the recently published book Indecent Advances, will discuss the historical recovery of queer true crime and contextualising these crimes within queer history. The event will begin with James Polchin discussing the history of true queer crime with Kingston's Dr Martin Dines; this discussion will be followed by an extended Q&A.
James Polchin is a cultural historian and Clinical Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University, and an Arts Instructor in the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. He has held faculty appointments at NYU sites in London, Paris, and Florence. His Edgar Award nominated book Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall (2019) is published by Counterpoint Press in the US and Icon Books in the UK. His articles and reviews have appeared in Slate, TIME, Huffington Post UK, Crime Reads, Paris Review, Rolling Stone, NewNextNow, The New Inquiry, Lambda Literary, The Irish Times, The Smart Set and the Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide.
James Polchin will be in discussion with Martin Dines.
This event takes place online and is free to attend. For details about how to join the online event, please email Martin Dines: m.dines@kingston.ac.uk.
Thursday 1 April 2021, 10am–1pm
This half-day session will explore the varied ways in which researchers at Kingston are currently addressing vital areas relating to decolonisation, as subject matter, as method, and within research and the curriculum. The session will include a range of short talks by speakers, group discussion, and space for participation. We hope that this session can be a platform for finding commonalities across the university for people working on this area to create more connections and collaborations.
The session will begin with a dedication and tribute to Mary Vaughan Johnson and her work in this area.
Speakers and chairs are Éadaoin Agnew, Michael Badu, Bill Balaskas, Helena Bonett, JJ Chan, Danielle Chavrimootoo, Martin Dines, Azadeh Fatehrad, Nasra Hersi, Astrid Korporaal and Ken Rona.
15 and 19 July, 2021, 2–5pm
R/GM have organised this pair of online workshops on producing podcasts, an increasingly important vehicle for presenting and disseminating research. These are free and open to all Kingston postgraduate researchers and staff, and will be facilitated by Fili Gibbons.
Fili Gibbons (we/them/us) are a musician and recording engineer working across a range of community and professional contexts to support plural voices, expressions, and sonic experiences. As well as leading community workshops they frequently work with other sound and video artists, drawing on listening, memory and intuition as guiding forces in collaborative making practices. Their work interfaces with plural cultural histories and experiences, intangible arts traditions, and community-oriented sound practice. They have recently co-curated a series of audio podcasts titled 'How to Think' for Performance Philosophy.
