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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths
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Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL
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What a wonderful degree show opening yesterday...!

It's on all weekend and open to all, so come and see the fantastic student work in film, documentary, sreen fiction, audio, animation, journalism, promotional media, scriptwriting, creative writing, photography...

www.goldsmithsmediashow.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Symposium: Transmedia True Crime in the Algorithmic Era
11th June 5-7:30pm

@tanyah.bsky.social on Luigi Mangione @memorieschild.bsky.social on AI true crime
& Dr Michael Goddard on true crime on YouTube

READ MORE: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
June 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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At the Reactionary Politics, Women and Feminist Critique symposium organised by @jillybkay.bsky.social and sponsored by @ejcs-journal.bsky.social @angelamcrobbie.bsky.social is delivering the keynote, 'Top Girls No More..?'
May 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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At the 'Reactionary politics, women and popular culture' conference at @lborouniversity.bsky.social today, @kat-hig.bsky.social is presenting her work on 'Intolerable futures'.
May 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🎉Special celebratory / taster event to launch our new MA module on Fashion, Sustainability and Global Culture

With @angelamcrobbie.bsky.social Feyzi Ismail Nirmal Puwar & Catherine Hahn

12 June 2-5 PSH102

Read more here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
May 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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NEW! MCCS are offering a limited number of fee reductions of 20% on the following MAs for students from low income/care experienced backgrounds:

• MA Broadcast Journalism
• MA Script Writing
• MA Filmmaking: Screen Documentary
• MA Filmmaking: Experimental Film

www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
April 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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NEW! MCCS are awarding a limited no of 100% fee waivers for 2025–26 for students who are the first in their family to attend university on these MAs:

• MA Cultural Studies

• MA Gender, Media and Culture

• MA Race, Media and Social Justice

Full details: www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
April 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Director Talk with Jaydeep Sarkar, Director of queer docuseries Rainbow Rishta, which challenges the stereotype that small-town India is more regressive than cities for livable sexualities and queer lives

Weds 26 March 4-5.15pm RHB 142

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
March 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Wonderful event last night on podcasting & feminism. 3 podcasters discussed their work: Zoha Zokaei on ‘Price of Secrecy’, Agata Lisiak on ‘Spatial Delights’ + Sabrina Etherington on her & Amelia Donkor's 'The F Less Travelled’, made on the MA Gender, Media, Culture here @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Sabrina Etherington talks about doing the MA in Gender, Media and Culture here @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social and the development of the feminist podcast The F Less Travelled: Tracing Feminist Pathways which is being re-activated today
February 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Calling all abstracts!

The @meccsa.bsky.social Postgraduate Network Conference @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social invites contributions that explore the concept of instability and its relationship with media from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective.

Scan the QR code to apply....
February 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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As the UK government seeks to 'turbocharge' AI so it is ‘mainlined into the veins’ of the nation, what opportunities for resistance are still available?

Join us for an urgent discussion ft. Lina Dencik (Goldsmiths MCCS), Seeta Peña Gangadharan (LSE) and Dan Mcquillan (Goldsmiths Computing)

🔗👇
February 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Brilliant event with Pauline Black this week: the new documentary about her life 'A 2 Toned Story', plus her Q&A w Profs Nirmal Puwar and Julian Henriques from @mediacomgold.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Full house for Adam Curtis on Tuesday!
February 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Our Audio and Creative Writing third years just collaborated and created a podcast which will be published on our digital gallery and magazine, GoldDust. Here they are hard at work!

Read more about our BAs here:
www.gold.ac.uk/media-commun...

Find GoldDust here:
www.golddust.org.uk
February 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Full house here for Adam Curtis, who talks about identifying first & foremost as a journalist; using film to portray the ‘hazy flux’ of the present; his mother discussing aliens at 2am; and finding joy in thinking about alternatives to anti-democratic individualist societies ruled by the superrich 🎬
February 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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5 Feb, 5pm: David Lynch memorial talks & screening:

- a selection of Lynch’s early short films
- talks by Dr Lindsay Anne Hallam, Jamie Ruers, Stefan Marianski
- Refreshments break
- followed by a screening of the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
January 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🔥 🏁 12 Feb, 5:30pm: Free screening of new doc on Pauline Black's life history: on the 2-Tone music movement, working-class life in Thatcher's Britain racism, gender, adoption and cities.

With Q+A w Pauline Black, Prof Julian Henriques & Prof Nirmal Puwar!

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
January 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Adam Curtis masterclass: 11 Feb 5-7pm

The BAFTA-award winning filmaker's (Century of the Self, Hypernormalisation) favourite theme is "power and how it works in society"

Clips and conversation with MCCS lecturer Leah Borromeo.

Free, details here: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Join us on Thursday 30 Jan at 6pm in the Students Union Lounge for

TRUMP: HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHERE DO WE GO?

MA Political Communications students, Dr Jacob Mukherjee, Professor Catherine Rottenberg and Guardian US editor Chris Michael will be speaking as part of this participatory discussion.
January 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Congratulations to our MCCS students who are graduating today! We are so proud of you all 🎉
January 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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We were very pleased to welcome Hayley Wicks (left), a director at leading PR company Brands2Life, who came to Goldsmiths to lead a session for our 1st yr BA Promotional Media students on planning and creativity in PR. Thanks Hayley!

Read more about our BA Promotional Media: shorturl.at/4PTsR
January 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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📣 Find your voice. Unleash the power of journalism!

Come and study BA Journalism @GoldsmithsUoL and learn the skills to craft stories that go beyond stereotypes in one of the world's most multicultural cities: London.

Apply now! Check out our programme ⤵️
www.gold.ac.uk/ug/ba-journa...
December 14, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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From Absolutely Fabulous to Little Voice and Life is Sweet: Jane Horrocks recently shared fascinating insights into her 40-year career in film, TV, music & theatre with us in MCCS @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎭🎬

Here's her two cents for graduates stepping into an adventurous career! 🌟
December 9, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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📣 Find your voice. Unleash the power of journalism!

Become a BA Journalism student @GoldsmithsUoL & learn the skills you need for exciting journalism careers, just like our alumni

Apply now! Check out our programme ⤵️

www.gold.ac.uk/ug/ba-journa...
December 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM