Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths

23/05/2026

Happy 80th birthday, Michael Rosen!!!
From all of us ages 0-100+.

Except the bear. The bear thinks he got a bad deal,

13/05/2026

A new piece for by Ziv Epstein, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh and Vana Goblot asks why are we turning to AI chatbots for emotional guidance and what kind of support do we actually get when AI and Tarot are put in conversation?

13/05/2026

For our third session of Cultural Studies from Below, we are joined by Emma Warren. Emma is a writer and activist whose work focuses on independent youth and music culture and the infrastructures that make it possible.

In this talk, we revisit Emma’s seminal zine Document Your Culture, a text that offers guidance and methods for reflection and documentation of grassroots cultural practice. In the years since its publication, the zine has lived an independent life even as the challenges, tensions, and contradictions it was written to adress have sharpened.

In this session we discuss what documenting culture means today, using the zine as a jumping off point to think through what grassroots cultural scholarship, activism, and writing can be today.

06/05/2026

Happy 10th birthday to Goldsmiths Press 🎉 A huge thank you for the vital, boundary‑pushing work you do and for championing so many of our MCCS colleagues’ publications. Here’s to many more years of innovative publishing ahead!

15/04/2026

30th April 2026 6 - 8 pm

Cultural Studies From Below Session #2: Decolonising the Archive
Richard Hoggart Building Room 139


Decolonising the Archive are a UK-based Pan-African project whose work centres the ‘living archive’. DTA facilitate heritage-based therapeutic interventions for people of African heritage rooted in our cultural principles and technologies. For more than a decade, they have successfully built legacy through training programmes supporting community cohesion, narrative ownership, archival literacy and heritage-based therapy. Whilst DTA’s core focus remains grassroots communities, their work also involves collaboration with archives, museums and other types of heritage spaces where this can be achieved equitably.

In this first session of Cultural Studies From Below, DTA’s Connie Bell will share insights about DTA’s mission, their current practice and how the legacy of the Cultural Studies tradition connects to their ongoing work.
Connie Bell is a Memory Worker, Cultural Producer, and Co-Founder of Decolonising The Archive (DTA) and the University of Repair. Her work explores decolonial methodologies and memory as technology within archives. A doctoral researcher at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, focusing on Caribbean theatre archives. She leads the Museum Restitution course module, addressing the ethics of displaying ancestral human remains in museums, and produces the podcast Duppy Conquerors, which examines the legacy and resilience of the Jamaican Maroons. Her practice reimagines and activates archives as spaces of repair, dialogue, and community justice.
Cultural Studies From Below is an ongoing initiative to reflect on the future of Cultural Studies as an intellectual tradition and practice. With very few academic programs and little institutional presence surviving the drastic restructuring and cultural austerity reshaping universities in the UK, finding new forms of collective work and thought is becoming increasingly pressing. We will be hosting a series of conversations over the course of the Spring and Summer of 2026.

02/04/2026

Congrats to our own Professor Natalie Fenton 🎉🎉 - her book Democratic delusions: How the media hollows out democracy and what we can do about it. Polity, 2025 was nominated for the prestigious Karol Jakubowicz Award, granted for outstanding scholarly contributions in media, democracy, and communication.

Fenton’s book was commended for her interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the relationship between media systems and contemporary democracy. “The monograph challenges dominant assumptions about the role of media in democratic societies and proposes alternative models of media organization and ownership, including those based on the concept of “media commons,” pointing to directions for institutional reforms and media policy.”

31/03/2026

Fatema Rajwani was a second year Media and Communications student at when she was arrested in 2024 for what she described as “dismantling weapons of genocide”. Listen to her speech during our recent event honouring by renaming a lecture theatre after her.

28/03/2026

We renamed our lecture theatre in honour of . Report by .

25/03/2026

Preps for the ceremony, live stream very soon!

25/03/2026