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[Urban Encounters: City to SeaFriday, 11 June to Sunday, 13 June, 2010 Workshop Symposium at Bognor Regis]

Urban Encounters: City to Sea
Friday, 11 June to Sunday, 13 June, 2010 Workshop Symposium at Bognor Regis
For tickets see www.urbanencounters.org and email info@urbanencounters.org to join our mailing list

Urban Encounters: City to Sea is a weekend away of practice and theory, considering the complex visual, geographic and cultural relationships of coastal areas to urban centres. Held at the quintessential seaside holiday spot of Butlins in Bognor Regis, this weekend of workshops and conversation will bring together an international group of artists and academics by the sea to continue the Urban Encounters mode of interdisciplinary dialogue on urban visual practice, method and enquiry.
Weekend tickets include accommodation at Bognor Butlins in their new hotel.

Keynote speaker: Peter Marlow, Magnum

Participants will include:
Isidro Ramirez, University of Kingston
Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London Anna Fox, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham Rebecca Locke, Goldsmiths, University of London Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, University of London Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, The New School, New York Ingrid Pollard, Goldsmiths, University of London and more....

[Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions Saturday 29 May, 2010 : 10am - 6pm Tate Britain, London]

Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions Saturday 29 May, 2010 : 10am - 6pm Tate Britain, London

£25 (£15 concessions), with post-conference reception For tickets, please book online at:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/21168.htm
or call: 020 7887 8888

Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions explores the dialogue and practice of visual urbanism to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the transitional nature of contemporary urban space. This third annual conference will address how photographic practices and archives intersect with an understanding of local and global routes as ‘places’, considering the temporality of place and the cross-cultural juxtaposition of locales.

This conference approaches the city as a palimpsest of routes and its panels will consider local, global and remembered routes through film, photography and other visual urbanist approaches. Considering the cultural geographies of migration, change, place, identity and the process of making transitions, the conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.

Participants will include:
Yazan Al-Khalili, Goldsmiths, University of London Michael Keith, Oxford University Nirmal Puwar, Goldsmiths, University of London Kuldip Powar, filmmaker Suki Ali, London School of Economics Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain Jilly Traganou, The New School, New York Michael McMillan, independent curator Joseph Heathcott, The New School, New York Zeynep Turan, The Graduate Center, CUNY Tristan Fennell, Fugitive Images Lars Johansson, Fugitive Images Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Fugitive Images and more...

Organised with the Tate Britain and the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London

This symposium is the centre of the Urban Encounters series, which takes place in several UK-based and international locations this spring, including the London galleries Photofusion and Viewfinder, and at the events Urban Encounters: City to Sea at Bognor Regis, UK in June and Urban Encounters at the Festival of the Image, Manizales, Colombia. More information can be found at www.urbanencounters.org

Saturday April 3rd 2010
Dr Peter Coles, (photographer, journalist and researcher at CUCR)

‘Nature’ is everywhere in a city like London, from cracks in the pavement to rooftops, parks and rivers. Metaphors abound: Victorian cemeteries can be conservation ‘islands’ where species thrive. Rivers and railway lines can be ‘green corridors’, allowing species to migrate and maintain sustainable populations. Meanwhile, the ‘edge’ where humans and ‘nature’ meet in urban spaces can tell us a great deal about distant and recent local history, as well as current use.

This photography-based workshop invites participants to explore the relationship of people to ‘nature’ in an inner-city area, using photography, on a walk along the Ravensbourne River and Deptford Creek in South-east London. The derelict, urbanized tidal Creek is, in fact, extraordinarily ecologically diverse and alive. Studies have revealed over 25 aquatic species, 300 terrestrial species or insect and other invertebrates, over 140 trees, shrubs and wildflowers. The Creek is also home to breeding black redstarts, which are nationally rare birds.


More information & enrolment at http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/urban-edge/

[The Centre for Urban and Community ResearchGoldsmiths Collge, University of LondonUrban Edge Workshops 2009 - 2010 Calendar]

The Centre for Urban and Community Research
Goldsmiths Collge, University of London

Urban Edge Workshops 2009 - 2010 Calendar

The Sense of Making Sense Pt 1
Saturday 21 November 2009, 10am - 5pm
Karia Berrens, Alex Rhys Taylor (CUCR Researchers)
Paul Halliday (Photographer & Filmmaker)

The Sense of Making Sense Pt 2
Saturday 7 May 2010, 10am - 5pm
Karia Berrens, Alex Rhys Taylor (CUCR Researchers)
Paul Halliday (Photographer & Filmmaker)

Islands and Corridoes: the urban biosphere
Jan 23 & Jan 30 2010, 10am - 5pm
Dr Peter Coles (Photographer, Journalise & Researcher at CUCR)

The Eye of the Street Look Back: with a camer in a (very) foregin city
Saturday 13 March 2010, 10am - 5pm
Araidne van de Ven (Tourist, Photographer and Urban Researcher)

Directions: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us

1 day workshops £30 Wages, £10 unwaged
2 day workshops £50, £10 unwaged

Book to secure a place: email a.tu@gold.ac.uk

More Information: http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr

[The Art of Regenerationorganised by the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths]

The Art of Regeneration
organised by the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths
24th November 2009

Lecture theatre location: Richard Hoggart Building 309 Goldsmiths, 5.00 – 7.00 pm

Wine reception and exhibition by Gesche Weurfel 7.00 – 8.00 pm
Council Room in Laurie Grove Baths

Directions: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/

Speakers:
Graeme Evans, Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University
Hilary Powell, Artist
Emma Wheelhouse, London Development Agency
Sarah Weir, Olympic Development Authority and London organising
Committee of the Olympic Games
Gesche Wuerfel, Photographer

Chair: Caroline Knowles, Centre for Urban and Community Research

Event conceptualised on behalf of the Olympic Park Legacy Company by
Gillian Evans, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC),
University of Manchester and Caroline Knowles, CUCR

This event is free but please register to secure a place

http://www.legacy-now.co.uk/events/lecture-the-art-of-regenerationcreating-an-artistic-and-community-legacy-for-london-2012/

Further details: a.tu@gold.ac.uk

Text & Image
BSA visual sociology group panel at the BSA annual conference
7-9 April 2010, Glasgow Caledonian University

Papers for a special visual sociology group panel 'Text & Image' are currently invited. We particularly welcome papers that demonstrate a relationship between text and image (still or moving) through empirical research. This might include research that moves from image as data collection to text as output, or research that combines text and image as a form of presentation.

Abstracts should be submitted to c.bates@gold.ac.uk by 30 September 2009. Please download the BSA abstract submission form from http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/abs.htm
Any papers not selected for the panel may still be submitted to the conference (the final deadline for non-panel abstracts is 2 October).

[Getting a better picture: the use and scope of visual methods in geography and social science]

Getting a better picture: the use and scope of visual methods in geography and social science
Date: Wednesday 24th June 2009
Time: 12.30-3.30pm
Venue: L/T B (Room 1057) Shackleton Building (Building 44) University of Southampton
Speakers: Dr Michael Crang, University of Durham and Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London
Organisers: Dr Roberta Comunian, School of Geography, & Dr Paul Sweetman, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton

Despite growing interest in and use of visual methods across the social sciences and in geography, such methods are not always utilised as fully or in such an informed way as more ‘traditional’ methods of research. This seminar, sponsored by the National Centre for Research Methods, is an opportunity to learn more about the use and scope of visual methods in contemporary social science and their potential for developing innovative research within the disciplines concerned.

Programme:

12.30 – 12.40   Introduction

12.40 – 1.40 Dr Michael Crang, Reader in the Department of Geography, University of Durham: “Seeing Places, Doing Tourism, Watching Tourists: the challenges of visual methods”

1.40 – 2.00 Tea and Coffee

2.00 - 3.00 Professor Les Back, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London: “Portrayal and Betrayal:  Photography and Sociological Craft”

3.00-3.30 Discussion and conclusion


Attendance is free but spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email Roberta Comunian R.Comunian@soton.ac.uk by the 20th of June if you wish to attend the seminar.

All academic staff and postgraduate students from the University of Southampton are welcome. Students and academics from other institutions should contact Roberta Comunian to see if spaces are available. Dr Michael Crang is Reader in the Department of Geography, University of Durham. His interest in visual methods began with on the one hand thinking of urban heritage and photography in memorialisation. He has continued to work on both the visual as topic, in terms of landscape and identity and more lately with photography, aesthetics and waste. The two approaches recent collided in work on the consumptions of Kefalonia as a touristed and filmic landscape. Professor Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths. He is the author of The Art of Listening (Berg Publishers, 2007) and the convenor of the 'Live Sociology programme' an ESRC funded project to train researchers in the use of multimedia.

[Urban Encounters: Rethinking LandscapeSaturday 23 May 2009, 10.00–18.00Tate Britain Auditorium Bookings are made online via the Tate website.]

Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape
Saturday 23 May 2009, 10.00–18.00
Tate Britain Auditorium
Bookings are made online via the Tate website.

Tickets at http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/17657.htm

A one day symposium organised by CUCR and the Tate Britain, Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape uses the lens of urban photography to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the nature of contemporary urban spaces and cultures. It is of particular relevance to those engaged with urban image-making, analysis and research. Speakers will address photographic interpretations of urban landscapes in relation to migration and change, place, identity and the cultural geographies of city life. The conference will facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.

Keynote: - Markéta Luskačová

Schedule:

1. Mapping landscapes - Cartographies of looking
Discussant: Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain

Panelists:
Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Trangmar, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London

2. Human landscapes - Place & identity
Discussant: TBA

Panelists:
Susan Schwartzenberg, the exploratorium, San Francisco
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, the New School and Goldsmiths, University of London
Davide Deriu, University of Westminster

3. Changing landscapes - Archives & activism
Discussant: Alison Rooke, Goldsmiths, University of London

Panelists:
Janet Delaney, University of California, Berkeley
Tiffany Fairey, PhotoVoice
Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London

4. Discussion

Speaker Biographies:
Keynote: Markéta Luskacová was born in Prague, and graduated Charles University, Prague with a degree in Sociology of Culture. She later studied photography at Prague's FAMU. Her series *Pilgrims* and *Šumiac*, Slovakia captured the vanishing world of the rural pilgrim and the mountain people of Slovakia. For thirty years she has photographed street markets in London's Spitalfields, completing a great many other projects in Great Britain, focusing on the world of threatened minorities and children. As part of this work, she contributed to project "Citizen 2000" concerning children in Britain from various social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, a project that resulted in the exhibition "First year at school" for London's Museum of Childhood. Since 1990, she has also photographed children in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. Her work permits the viewer to share in the joys and griefs of being human.

Panelists & discussants:
Les Back is professor and Deputy Head of the Sociology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. His major research interests focus on the culture of racism with particular reference to social identity and popular culture. Publications include New Ethnicities, Multiple Racisms: Race and Nation in the Lives of Young People (UCL Press 1995) and The Art of Listening (Berg Publishers 2007).

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is a photographer, curator and environmental psychologist based in New York. Her work explores the experience of everyday life in public and home spaces through photographic and narrative work. She has worked on projects in London, Buenos Aires, San Francisco and New York, and has exhibited at institutions including the Center for Architecture New York, MIT and UC Berkeley. Portions of her work can be found at www.buscada.com. Gabrielle received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches at the New School in New York. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, and is co-founder of the Urban Encounters conference.

Janet Delaney received her MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. Her first major project, *Form Follows Finance: A Survey of the South of Market 1979-1982,* addressed issues of home in light of rampant gentrification. She has received three NEA grants, and various other awards. She has taught photography throughout the Bay Area since 1982 and since 2000 has been a full time lecturer in photography in the Visual Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Davide Deriu is a Research Fellow at the Department of Architecture, University of Westminster. He graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic of Turin and obtained an MSc and Ph.D from University College London. He received research fellowships from the Canadian Center for Architecture and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and was a visiting assistant professor at Middle East Technical University. His main research interests lie at the intersection between urban and visual cultures. He has contributed to various publications and exhibitions, and is currently at work on a book about aerial photography and urban visions.*

Tiffany Fairey is co-founder of PhotoVoice (www.photovoice.org), an award winning participatory photography charity that empowers marginalised groups to use photography as a tool for positive social change. She has been involved in over 40 participatory photography projects around the world and has pioneered the development of PhotoVoice's innovative methods. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths University.

Paul Goodwin is a theorist, curator and urban researcher. He is Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College and Cross Cultural Curator at Tate Britain. At CUCR he is director of Re-Visioning Black Urbanism, a project that explores how multiple modes of 'blackness' engages with the dynamics of contemporary urbanism in the UK. The project organises exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars and publications.

Paul Halliday is a photographer, filmmaker and sociologist based at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He studied social anthropology and art history at Goldsmiths College and Oxford University. He originally trained in photojournalism and fine art film at the London College of Communication, and Central Saint Martins Art College. His professional experience includes having directed a Channel Four TV documentary, freelance photographic projects for The Guardian and Independent Magazine, along with various media and arts consultancies. He is also a former media advisor for the British Refugee Council. He completed a twenty-year photographic project in 2006, about London's street cultures, on which he gave a talk at Tate Modern, and is currently completing a photographic project about global cities. Further details about his London work are on his website http://www.paulhalliday.org/. Paul is the course leader of the MA in Photography and Urban Cultures, a Director of Photofusion, and co-founder of the Urban Encounters conference.

Caroline Knowles is professor of Sociology and director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her recent research is concerned with the circulation of people and Job objects and developed in collaboration with photographers/artists. She is currently working with Michael Tan on a project called 'Shoes and Social Fabrics' which traces the journeys of a pair of flip-flop sandals from China to Ethiopia. Her book on British and SE Asian migrants living in Hong Kong, in collaboration with Douglas Harper, was published by Chicago University Press this year. She has published extensively on race, ethnicity, whiteness, belonging and urban landscape.

Alison Rooke is a visual sociologist based in the Sociology department at Goldsmiths College. Alison's teaching and research interests span issues such as visual methodologies, citizenship, visibility, embodiment and belonging in urban settings. The possibilities on multi-modal methodologies and art-based practice is central to Alison's research She has conducted on a variety of participative visual research projects including Sci:dentity: a project which worked with young transgendered people exploring the science of sex and gender through creative practices, and Signs of the City, a European arts project which employs photography and web2 technology to investigate young peoples right to the city. Alison has also has conducted evaluative research concerned with socio-cultural impact of creativity (with TrinityLaban) and the social dimensions of arts based interventions (with the Serpentine Gallery).

Susan Schwartzenberg is a photographer/visual artist. Her work is realized in multiple forms, investigating themes including; biography, memory, urban life and the psychology of place. She exhibits internationally, and has public works in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix and Seattle. Published works include: *Cento: A Market St. Journal*; *Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism*; and *Becoming Citizens: Family Life and the Politics of Disability*. She is currently developing a project with the School of Medicine, Stanford University and holds a senior staff position at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Susan Trangmar's projection and light based installations, photographs and moving image works have been widely exhibited internationally since the 1980's. Her practice explores differing cultural productions and representations of space including a concern with 'site' as the enactment of social relations. The artworks arise from specific landscape, architectural and social contexts and they amplify through their structure and duration, subjective experiences of recognition and recollection. The materiality of light is a constant concern. Recent works include : *A Question of Distance*, a multi-media work exploring identity and belonging through landscape in Israel/Palestine, touring to Israel, Palestine, Greece and UK 2003-6; *Road Map* Waygood Gallery Newcastle 2004; *Conditions of Visibility* a projection installation in Between Land and Sea, Box 38 Gallery Ostend and Peninsular Arts Plymouth 2007-8; *A Play in Time*, a film installation exploring practices of space within a public park, Photoworks UK and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery 2008. Susan Trangmar is currently Reader in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UAL London.

2009 IVSA CONFERENCE
Cumbria, UK
July 22-24, 2009
Appreciating the views:
How we're looking at the social and visual landscape
 

The 2009 International Visual Sociology Association conference will be held in the north-west UK region of Cumbria, probably better known as the English Lake District. It's being jointly hosted by the University of Cumbria and one of its Research Institutes, the Centre for Landscape and Environmental Arts Research (CLEAR). The conference will address two interrelated main themes; of subject – Landscape and the Environment, and of approach – the varied methodologies of visual enquiry.

http://www.visualsociology.org/conf_2009/

HARM...CRIME...INJUSTICE...
What does it look like to you?
Murder, theft or assault might be some of the first things that come to mind when you think about crime. Often it is the most visible and obvious harms and crimes that get the most attention.

Violent events caused by businesses and the state; hidden violence against women, children and the elderly; the way in which poverty hurts, injures, and kills; the impact of environmental pollution - all of these rarely attract the same level of political and public concern as `conventional' crime.

Rather than the usual law and order images of police, prison and judges, this competition invites entries which stimulate thinking about harm, injustice and crime.

Take part for the chance: 

- for your photo to be judged by an expert panel, including the award-winning film maker Ken Loach.

- for the chance to win a day working on the photography desk at The Independent.

- for your work to be shown in the What is crime? exhibition, to be held summer 2009 at the 198 Gallery, the contemporary arts and learning space set up in Brixton in response to the social unrest of the ‘80s.

Find out more about the judges, exhibition and prizes, or enter here www.whatiscrime.org.uk