Well... this place sounds fun.

"#Goldsmiths #College in #London has apologised to #Jewish staff and students after an 93-page independent inquiry uncovered a culture of #antisemitism on #campus.

Shocking incidents revealed in the report include #graffiti featuring #swastikas and the phrase “Gas the #Jews” found on campus, along with accounts of at least two Jewish staff members breaking down in tears due to a hostile environment.

In another disturbing account, one Jewish student felt pressured to leave college accommodation after their #mezuzah was removed and desecrated, and a fellow non-Jewish student cooked pork using their pan and utensils. When the Jewish student explained why they could no longer use their kitchen equipment, they said they were “abused."

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/gas-the-jews-graffiti-a-desecrated-mezuzah-and-jewish-staff-crying-on-campus-goldsmiths-inquiry-reveals-scale-of-antisemitism-at-london-university-kefg501k?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Nine organisations have withdrawn from the Goldsmiths inquiry into antisemitism, after finding that it marginalises Palestinians and appears to target those who criticise Israeli policies and Zionism.

https://elsc.support/news/joint-public-statement-in-response-to-independent-inquiry-into-antisemitism-at-goldsmiths

#antisemitism #antizionism #palestine #goldsmiths

A stunning #spring day! First lunch in the sun for months.

#spring #sun #London #Lewisham #Goldsmiths

#Gaza #Genozid #Völkermord #Netanyahu #IDF #Palästina #Israel #Studie #Report #Geolocation #DataMining #OSINT #RemoteSensing #PatternAnalysis #ForensicArchitecture #research #agency #Goldsmiths #University of #London

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

That’s great and all … but it’s Tuesday.

#london #goldsmiths #newcross

UCU members at Goldsmiths University of London have voted to take continuous strike action from 23 September in defence of jobs. Management must think again, cancel the cuts and work with us to safeguard Goldsmiths' future. If not they face long term disruption

Over 90 members of staff at risk of losing their jobs before the start of the next academic year in September.

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13686/Continuous-strike-action-announced-at-Goldsmiths?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social

#UCU #UKHE #HigherEducation #Goldsmiths

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/02/how-the-tories-pushed-universities-to-the-brink-of-disaster

#UK
Over 400 redundancies at York.
Half the history and soc depts at Goldsmiths gone.
Three unis close to total collapse.

And still the gov won't increase funding for higher education.

#UCU #goldsmiths #highereducation

#ErrollynWallen studied music and dance at #Goldsmiths, University of London and took a Master’s in composition at King’s College London.

After working as a session musician, Errollyn formed #EnsembleX whose motto is “we don’t break down barriers in music…we don’t see any.”

Please consider signing this open letter by written by Nicholas Mirzoeff following the recent redundancies at #Goldsmiths Visual Cultures:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtpRaTpmtiu4Lp1OabK8_E7DD2VwdVGANXmDgfbNQxbQIlow/alreadyresponded

I left #Goldsmiths a year ago. My friends and colleagues are fighting an even more dreadful set of redundancies now and are on strike -- people in the art dept have put together this incredible raffle, tickets £5. #HigherEducation #UCU #art

www.gucu-raffle.com

Please, if you can afford it, contribute to our union Hardship Fund for colleagues suffering salary deductions for taking action short of a strike, and in the likely near future, for colleagues going on strike.
https://gofund.me/7385ae35
#Goldsmiths
#UCU
#Universityand CollegeUnion
#Strike
#ActionShortOfaStrike
#WorkersRights

Go Goldsmiths! They also peacefully reconciled their campus protest quickly and with the minimum of fuss.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/10/goldsmiths-university-to-keep-black-british-literature-course-open

#Goldsmiths #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #UK

@pvonhellermannn YES, go #Goldsmiths!!! Their webpage/statement should be a template for all #universities responding to #studentprotests demands on #Palestine! They address a RANGE of demands, from supporting #education reconstruction in #Gaza, #scholarships, security response, culture (use of #antisemitism vs. #islamophobia). As for the #divestment demands, EXTENSIVE response as well, fund manager review, review of honorary grad. donations... CONGRATULATIONS, protest works!!🥳

Student protesters at Goldsmiths, University of London, win concessions, name room after Shireen Abu Akleh

“To have that recognition of a Palestinian journalist that was murdered by the [Israeli military] and have that memorialised at this university will be amazing and something we are really proud of.”
Samira Ali

@palestine
#Gaza
#London
#Goldsmiths
#student
#Shireen
#journalists

UPDATE: Petition launched to save Black British #Literature MA at #Goldsmiths amid serious funding cuts

"[We're] committed to both protecting and enhancing arts and humanities subjects in the best way we can," a Goldsmiths spokesperson told us.

#education #books

https://howtobe247.com/petition-launched-to-save-black-british-literature-ma-at-goldsmiths-amid-cuts/

Petition launched to save Black British #Literature MA at #Goldsmiths amid serious funding cuts

"It's like Black Lives Matter. The whole thing didn't happen years ago. It hasn't disappeared," Dr Kadija George tells us, who initiated the petition and is an honorary fellow

#education #books

https://howtobe247.com/petition-launched-to-save-black-british-literature-ma-at-goldsmiths-amid-cuts/

#UK #HigherEd #Humanities #Universities #Goldsmiths: "More sinister is the sense that Freedman describes: “It’s hard not to think that a culture war is being evoked against you simply for trying to think independently and critically.” Science minister Michelle Donelan’s recent shameful attack on two academics, reporting them to UKRI (the national research-funding body) for extremism and blighting their lives over an accusation that was wholly without foundation, springs to mind – but then so does almost everything Donelan and education secretary Gillian Keegan say about the sector in general, and humanities in particular. All those references to “woke ideology”, “intolerant woke bullies” and “cancel culture” are increasingly accompanied by defunding of the humanities, using increased accessibility to education as a fig leaf, as Keegan announced last week.

“Your subjects are mocked and called low value,” Freedman says. “Arts, humanities and social sciences haven’t played the instrumentalist game, so they’re seen as easy targets by tabloids, by GB News. We would laugh it off, but this is a huge asset to the British economy.” More importantly, he continues, “it’s not just a tragedy – it’s almost like a crime to shrink those spaces that provide a home for the inquisitive, the experimental. If the space disappears, it’s very hard to recreate it.”" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral

representing as they do “a pedagogical practice that calls students beyond themselves, embraces the ethical imperative for them to care for others, embrace historical memory, work to dismantle structures of domination, and to become subjects rather than objects of history, politics, and power”.

That’s from Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Fascist Politics by the American academic Henry Giroux,...

but cf #brexit #goldsmiths

2/3 oh it got even better, read it all but

"Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack"

The scale of forced redundancies in English Higher Education is currently unbelievable, & it's mostly arts, humanities & critical social sciences affected.

#UK #HigherEducation #Redundancies #Goldsmiths

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral

Zoe Williams on what is hsppening at #Goldsmiths and related assaults. #UCU #HigherEducation https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral