Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Events Archive
Below you can find listings of past events from DASS with information on the programme, speakers and where available, audio recordings.
2010 Events
12th March Book Launch
'Dowry Bridging the Gap between Thoery and Practice' by Tamsin Bradley and Emma Tomalin with responses from Southal Black Sisters.
11th March Book Launch
'Politics, Planning and Homes in a World City' by Duncan Bowie with guest speaker Ken Livingstone
10th March: American Popular Culture Seminar Series
'All you Jim Crow Fascits': Will Kaufman
26th February Zimbabwe Stakeholdes Workshop
17th February Makhan Singh and the struggle for trade union rights in Kenya
25th January 2010
Obescitie event with the GLA: see full story /news/latest-news/january-2010/seasons-biggest-london---new-york-trend-childhood-obesity.cfm
20th January Sustainable Communities Foundation Degree Launch
2009 Events
6th July CILIP Career Development Group and Diversity Development Group Conference
This was a joint conference organised by the CILIP Career Development Group and Diversity Development Group in partnership with the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University as part of their consultation for the Library Skills for Globalisation Work Project.
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CILIP Programme 2009 |
4th July SWAN Conference
Full details of this event including audio files can be found here: SWAN conference
1st July 2009 Ways forward for the future: 'presenting a manifesto for Community Radio in London'
Community Media Research Group of London Metropolitan University is
organising a further series of three seminars to bring together community
media practitioners to identify the needs and aspirations of London's many
disenfranchised communities and discuss a way forward that will give them a
voice over the airwaves and the internet. This is the third and last seminar in the series.
12th June 2009 Sustainability Funding Sources
Community Media Research Group of London Metropolitan University organised a series of three seminars to bring together community media practitioners to identify the needs and aspirations of London's many disenfranchised communities and discuss a way forward that will give them a voice over the airwaves and the internet. This was the second seminar in the series.
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Pathways for Community Media 2009 Seminars |
11th February 4pm
Speaker: Mark Wheeler
Darryl F. Zanuck was a truly engaged, hands-on studio chief whose involvement with movies grew out of real talent, and not merely an accident of ownership. Though he never directed a movie, as a producer and studio production chief, Zanuck contributed directly to the creative content of hundreds of films, many of them extremely important, and remained a major force in filmmaking for more than 40 years. His filmography includes 'All About Eve', 'The Day teh Earth Stood Still' and '42 Street'
2008 Events
Marika Sherwood on 'Liberating African past for a stronger future'
and Dr. Shihan de Silba Jayasuriyan on 'African Identity in Asia: cultural effects of forced migration'
Nick Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Urban Public Health, City University of New York
Jan Poppendieck, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York
David McCarthy, London Metropolitan University
Dorothy Rowe on What should I believe? Book launch
25th June 6pm
Depression and Happiness by Dorothy Rowe
5th June
Booklaunch: McDonaldization of Social Work by Donna Dustin
Professor Peter Beresford joined Dr. Donna Dustin to talk about The McDonaldization of Social Work to celebrate the launch of her book of the same title.
7th May
HIV/AIDS, Religion and the Trans-national African Family
Seminar 7 of the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Insitute
Seminar Series
1st May
Debate and Lecture Series: Free our Information -Information,
Society and Justice Journal Launch
This event celebrated the lauch of the Information, Society and Justice Journal, which seeks to provide a pro-active space for critical disussion on the issues around information, society and justice.
Speakers were Fironze Manji of the Pambazuka Press, Duncan Bowie of The Chartist, Tony Bunyan, Director of Statewatch and Shiraz Durrani of the Department of Applied Social Science at DASS.
Programme: Speakers' Details:
21st April
De-constructing trauma-a psychosocial approach to working
with people affected by disaster and war by Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery, a former LondonMet Social Work student, spoke about his work with Mercy Malaysia.
12th March
Human Rights and Health: Analysing Health Impact Assessment.Seminar 6 of the Human Rights and Social Justice Seminar Series. Speakers were Professor Eileen O’Keefe of LondonMet and Professor Paul Hunt (UN Special Rapporteur on Health, University of Essex)
Debate and Lecture Series: Strategic Planning in London with
Professor Robin Thompson and Duncan Bowie
2007 Events
Disparities in Health: 'Dying While Black' with Vernellia R. Randall to mark the launch of her book. Links Dyingwhileblack.org
24th October
Debate and Lecture Series: The Last Slave with Paul Kerr. The story of a black Briton, David Monteith, retracing the life of his great great great great grandfather, one of the last British slaves shipped from Africa to the Caribbean and one of only a handful of British slaves who left an account of his life in servitude.
13th June
Debate and Lecture Series: F. M. Bhatti on 'Gerald Hine Sir Ganga Ram and his work on Hindu widows'
14th May
Tamsin Bradley and Eileen O’Keefe spoke at the launch of Tamsin's book, 'Challenging the NGOs: women, religion and western dialogues in India, London, NY'. Published by IB Tauris (2006)
2nd May
Debate and Lecture Series: Norman Ginsburg on ‘Whither or wither Social Europe?" , Kieron Hatton on ‘Understanding Social Pedagogy’
and Sue Lawrence on ‘Taking forward the European Project’
25th April
Debate and Lecture Series: Democracy and Working Class Struggles in Africa
Professor Piyo Rattansi on 'Makhan Singh and the TU movement in Kenya', Dr. Usman Tar on 'Organised labour and democratic struggle in Nigeria' and Chris Coates on the 'TUC Library at London Met'
25th April
Sustainability and Communities - Roland Karthaus is a qualified architect and acts as a client for a regeneration organisation. At this event he spoke on how recent regeneration policy has tried to draw together development with popular lobby issues, such as empowering local communities and environmental sustainability which are mutually beneficial goals, helping to deliver healthy urban societies. On examining the reality of regeneration however, there is much evidence that radically challenges this view.
24th April
CASE STUDY: Aylesbury New Deal for Communities - Steve Pearce, Director of the Aylesbury NDC and of Tribal Consulting-Regeneration spoke about the past five years of the Aylesbury NDC in south London and the history of the estate and at the physical, economic and social regeneration of the estate.
28th March
International Women's Day event. Sukhwant Dhaliwal on 'Struggles of the South Asian Women in Britain' and Antonia Byatt on 'Using collections and resources at The Women's Library '
2006 Events
22nd November
Shiraz Durrani; Amrit Wilson and Professor Piyo Rattansi spoke at the lauch of Shiraz Durrani's book, 'Never be silent; publishing and imperialism in Kenya 1884-1963' (2006)
20th November
Sabur Ali Sayyid on 'Working Mothers: issues and policies in the UK: lessons for Pakistan'
7th June
Taking a Stand: Education, race, social action and civil unrest 1980 -2005 with Professor Gus John and Professor John Gabriel. More..
10th May
Science and culture: discussion on the issues of knowledge development and belief systems with Professor Dhirendra Sharma and Tony Benn. More...
2005 Events
Thursday 16th June
Children and Young people conference
Convenor Helen Pokorny. Presenters: Paula Skidmore Stephen Fox, Liz Kelly, Livingstone Musoro, Nora Duckett and Michelle Duxbury, Liz Davis, Sinclair Coward
A showcase of DASS's expertise and achievements in this area as well as contribute to future plans and ideas for taking this area forward.. There will be discussion groups, presentations, and videos. This topical and thought provoking event will allow us to consider what we have done, what we are working on and form a DASS wide strategy.
Thursday 2nd June
Towards a 2020 Vision
Convenor: Helen Pokorny. Presenters John Gabriel, Brian Hall and AL's /Subject teams. This half day forum will provide an overview of university priorities and business/budget planning processes, the current position within DASS as well as an opportunity for staff to contribute to the Department's plans and ideas for the future.
Tuesday 7th June
Supporting New Students - disseminating good practice
Presenters: Jim Lindsay; Carole Leathwood (Senior Research Fellow) Londonmet; Gordana Uzelac
This event will provide an opportunity share best practice focussed on the first experiences of new students in DASS. We will also hear from Carol about her longitudinal survey of students at North Campus.
Wednesday 18th May
Student Peer Support
Presenters: Jenni Wallace (Professional Development Advisor, Student Experience); a member of staff from Digital Media /Mass Comm with experience of piloting this scheme this year; students from DASS City who are themselves 'supporters'.
Wednesday 11th May
Making Provision for Students with Disabilities
Presenters: Geraldine Toman (Disabilities & Dyslexia Services Manager) and Carol Jones (Deputy Service Manager [Dyslexia] )
An overview of University policy, practices and services will be presented, covering matters such as procedures over disability needs assessment. We will look at both Depatmental and individual responsibilities, particularly regarding 'alternative' methods of assessment on modules.
In this American Popular Culture Series seminar, Mark Wheeler talked about 'Wilson', a biographical film about the former US President, Woodrow Wilson.
