Award-winning childrens author and poet Michael Rosen is the latest to take part in the Made in Goldsmiths event series.osen, who is taking up a professorship in the Universitys Department of Educational Studies, is currently developing a new, practical and theoretical MA in Childrens Literature to start in September 2014.There are so many interesting elements to Childrens Literature that perhaps arent obvious; psychological and anthropological elements for example. Childrens Literature is...

Professor Blake Morrison reads from his latest poetry pamphlet, This Poem, reflecting on his career as a writer in different forms (memoir, fiction, drama and poetry), and discussing his interest in bibliotheraphy.

Professor Atau Tanaka, from the Department of Computing, presents his inaugural lecture, Getting Physical: Visceral Music Machines

Dr Vivienne Richmond, Department of History, reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. This event marked the publication of new book by Cambridge University Press Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-century England

Professor Eyal Weizman, Department of Visual Cultures, delivers his inaugural lecture. He uses the groundbreaking work of the forensic architecture team in places of conflict, such as Palestine, Pakistan and Guatemala to critically evaluate the politics and aesthetics of contemporary forms of spatial investigation.

To celebrate the publication of Music and Protest in 1968 (Cambridge University Press), co-editor Dr Barley Norton speaks on the theme of music, protest and war. The recording includes short performances of Vietnamese music and clips from Barleys film Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh. For the live music performances, Barley will be joined by the internationally renowned Vietnamese musician Nguyen Thanh Thuy and the multi-talented percussionist and Goldsmiths alumni, Mike Bennett.

In this, his inaugural lecture, professor Roger Burrows examined the sociological implications of digital data deluges in two contexts: city life and academic labour.

Most of us see funerals as modest, sombre affairs. But in parts of Africa, where death is such a central part of everyday life, funerals have emerged as vibrant, if controversial, sites of conspicuous consumption. Drawing from ongoing research on death and memory in modern South Africa as well as her documentary film, The Price of Death, Rebekah Lee explores in this talk the rise of a township-based funeral industry in post-apartheid South Africa, and will discuss the implications of the...

In this first in the Made In Goldsmiths series, David Graeber discusses his best-selling book; Debt, the first 5,000 Years with New Statesman economics writer Alex Hern. This series is designed to give people a chance to not only find out more about the work that goes on at Goldsmiths, but to meet each other in an informal setting.