Migrating University: στο Λονδίνο αυτή την εβδομάδα

[an invitation for all students, staff and community members including
asylum seekers and refugees to participate in a free open access
two-day education and arts event at Goldsmiths University]

No Detention, No Deportation, No Borders in Education:
Freedom of Movement for All

The Migrating University Project
14 – 15 September 2007

[programme subject to change -- see attached file]

Friday 14th September
Venue: Room 150 and 137a Richard Hoggart Building

10am     Welcome, coffee, tea, info stalls for No Borders Camp
Room 150 RHB

10.30    Introduction and welcome to The Migrating University Project
 Room 137a RHB

John Hutnyk (Goldsmiths) Introduction to the day
Camille Barbagallo (Goldsmiths) No Borders Camp at Gatwick.

10.50    Panel #1 – The Teaching Factory
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12.55     Chair: Leila
Does a university education offer a passport to a world of opportunity?
Are the old exclusions of race, class, gender and ability fully
redeemed by our policy initiatives and "inclusive" programs?  Or is
the new hierarchy a filtering mechanism promising precarious labour
for some, security and success for others?  While some may never
question their right to access, do some have to fight to move at all
and others struggle daily simply to pass or fail?
This panel asks if education is really a social good, a pass to
freedom; or if it is rather a ticket to a new set of subjugations?

Speakers:
Ash Sharma (University of East London)
Massimo de Angelis (University of East london)
Paul Hendrich (Goldsmiths)


12.55    Picnic in the Courtyard.
-    and  performaces
2.30pm

2.30    Panel #2 - Critical Pedagogy
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4.00     Chair: Francisco
Critical Pedagogy (CP) questions the relationship between education
and politics, between socio-political relations and pedagogical
practices, in short: the correspondence between power hierarchies in
the social world and the hierarchies that mark and define educational
institutions at large. Moreover it challenges the ubiquitous desire of
policy makers for a non-politicized, neutral educational context, free
of all social and cultural conflict.

Speakers:
Sanjay Sharma (Brunel University) – author of (2007) "Multicultural Encounters".
Glenn Rikowski (University of Northampton) – author of "The Battle in
Seattle" (2001)
Tom Woodin (Institute of Education, University of London)
4.15    Panel #3 – Organising in the Margins
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6.00     Chair: Olivia
Migration means traversing boundaries: between nations, between
legality and illegality. This panel is about organising those in the
seams and the struggles for justice for those who suffer or die in
such black holes.

Speakers:
Ava Caradonna (Sex Workers' Union)
What does it mean to organise the unorganisable? What does union
organising mean to people who are not considered workers, or who don't
necessarily consider what they do 'work', 'illegal' or worthy of
stigma? How do unions take seriously the need to organise migrants
workers? How can unionism be done differently in this context? Ava
Caradonna will discuss such questions and campaigns relating to them.

Susan Cueva (UNISON)
Is a life-long union activist in the Philippines and UK with
experience of organising the invisible, from seafarers to street
cleaners. Today's talk includes information about UNISON campaigns
seeking fair terms for migrant workers affected by swings in Home
Office policy on work permits.

Ken Fero (Injustice)
A short, YouTube, version of Injustice - a film about the struggles
for justice by the families of people who have died in police custody
– and accompanying talk by the film's maker.

6.15     Goldsmiths To Gatwick
meeting upstairs in Goldsmiths Tavern about collective attendance at Gatwick.

7.00    Joan Marie Kelly (Singapore)
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9.00     Workshop upstairs in Tavern (with drinks).
Foreign workers in Singapore and the use of art as contact and transformation


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Saturday 15th September
Venue: Cinema Richard Hoggart Building.

10am     Welcome, coffee, tea, info stalls for No Borders Camp

10.30    Panel #4 – Critical Practice Inside and Out
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12.30     Chair: John
It is believed there was once a time when the University was a place
where there thrived a rampant intelligence that was preoccupied with
something more than just cramming.

Speakers:
Hari Kunzru (Novelist – author of "My Revolutions" (2007)
David Graeber (Goldsmiths)
Mao Mollona (Goldsmiths)
   Sukant Chandran (Che Leila)


1.00     Panel #5 – Local Checkpoints
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2.00     Chair: Camille

This panel will provide an opportunity to hear from activists and
community members involved in grassroots and local campaigns and
projects.

Speakers:
Harmit Athwal (Institute of Race Relations)
Katherine Mann (Musician)
Almir Koldzic (Refugee Week)


2.00     Quick lunch


3pm    Battle of Lewisham commemorative walk
-
6pm

A walk along the route of the march/counter-protest against the NF in
1977, including people involved at the time. At present this will
start from Clifton Rise, New Cross at 3. (info/liaison with Paul).


19-24 September O7 – No Borders Camp at Gatwick

>From 19th to 24th September 07 we will gather at Gatwick Airport for
the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will be a chance to work
together to try and stop the building of a new detention centre, and
to gather ideas for how to build up the fight against the system of
migration controls.

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