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.
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The Society organizes a weekly Guest Speakers Series, as part of our ongoing commitment to #KeepGoldsmiths as a critical, experimental space for art and politics.
❗ Some events will be RSVP-only (Stewart Lee RSVP here) with priority admission to Society members. Our membership fee is only £5.00! Join us now to contribute to the costs of bringing these stellar speakers to Goldsmiths.
Term 2 (Spring 2026) will include: professor (Central St Martins), historian, and curator Michaela Crimmin, comedian Stewart Lee, ex-Sheffield Mayor and 'compassionate disruptor' Magic Magid, author and Chair of Photography & Media (Liverpool) Michelle Henning, 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.
The series will run from 20 January to 17 March, 2026, to resume in Autumn 2026.
- 20 January – Michaela Crimmin (PSHB 332)
- 27 January – Edmund Clark (RHB 20a)
- 3 February – Lise Autogena (RHB 20a)
- 10 February – Graham Harwood (RHB 140)
- 24 February – Victoria Burgher (MRB 10 - 2)
- 3 March – Michelle Henning (MRB 10 - 2)
- 10 March – Stewart Lee * RSVP (Room TBC)
- 17 March – Magic Magid (MRB 10 - 2)
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, MAAP alumna and artist Maria Gvardeitseva.
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.
Any questions, email us: artpoliticssociety@goldsmithssu.org or mdiss001@gold.ac.uk
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