Goldsmiths’ Art & Politics Society and MA Art & Politics are thrilled to welcome the following speakers to Goldsmiths this term. This series is part of our ongoing commitment to #KeepGoldsmiths as a critical, experimental space for art and politics.
Launched in Autumn 2025, the Art & Politics Speaker Series runs weekly (except reading week) from Tuesday 20 January to 17 March, 2026, and will resume in Autumn 2026.
Tuesdays, Term 2
12:00 – 1:00pm
Room: PSHB 332 unless noted or RSVP. Check announcements!!
Open to Art & Politics Society members, MA Art & Politics students and others in Visual Cultures / Media / PIR / Goldsmiths welcome if space allows.
Note - RSVP Events: Priority to members of Art & Politics Society. Join us now to contribute to the costs of bringing these stellar guests to Goldsmiths. Membership fee is only £5.00.
Term 2 speakers are: professor (Central St Martins), historian, and curator Michaela Crimmin, comedian Stewart Lee, ex-Sheffield Mayor and 'compassionate disruptor' Magic Magid, French film producer and distributor Carole Scotta (in partnership with MA Filmmaking), artist and professor of Cross Disciplinary Art (Sheffield Hallam) Lise Autogena, award-winning artist and photographer, and UAL professor Edmund Clark, artist (YoHa) and professor in Critical Technical Practice at Goldsmiths Graham Harwood, porcelain artist and PhD (Westminster) on counter-hegemony Victoria Burgher.
- 20 January – Michaela Crimmin (PSHB 332)
- 27 January – Edmund Clark (RHB 20a)
- 3 February – Lise Autogena (RHB 20a)
- 10 February – Graham Harwood (PSHB 332)
- 24 February – Victoria Burgher (PSHB 332)
- 3 March – Carole Scotta (PSHB 332)
- 10 March – Stewart Lee * RSVP (Room TBC)
- 17 March – Magic Magid (PSHB 332)
About MA Art & Politics:
In Autumn 2025, MA Art & Society students successfully lobbied Goldsmiths administration to get module 'Art, War, Terror' reinstated after an admin error prevented enrollment earlier in the year. You can request to enroll in PO71063B 'Art, War, Terror' for Term 2. The Module Change Request form is available from 5th January.
About Art & Politics Society:
By students from Goldsmiths' MA Art & Politics for anyone interested in a range of empirical, aesthetic, conceptual and material issues that traverse and exceed both 'art' and ‘politics’ to speak with our current contemporaneity.
The Society organizes a weekly Guest Speakers Series. Our Term 1 (Autumn 2025) speakers have included American filmmaker and activist Jonathan Skurnik, ex-Margate Mayor and asylum activist Rob Yates, American artist and professor Joseph deLappe, and MAAP alumna and artist Maria Gvardeitseva.
Any questions, email us: artpoliticssociety@goldsmithssu.org
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