Month: April 2015

If anyone on this network wishes to put in an application around topics such as virality, contagion theory, affect theory, assemblages etc. please feel free to make contact with me here.

University of East London – Excellence PhD Studentships

University of East London (UEL) invites applications from highly qualified and motivated students, for twenty Excellence PhD Studentships starting in September 2015. The Excellence PhD Studentships are the premier postgraduate merit studentship at UEL and provides full tuition fees, a generous stipend and access to a research training grant.

UEL is an innovative academic community, delivering high-quality applied research that is impact-led, intellectually stimulating, socially relevant and for public good. In the recent REF2014, UEL was ranked in the top 10 of modern UK universities, with almost 20 per cent of its research classified as world-leading and 95 per cent deemed at least at an internationally-recognised level. The university was particularly strong in…

Where is the Common Ground? Making Local Activism Work in Southend

3^rd May, 2015 at 8pm

Free entry

Upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea

www.railywayhotelsos.co.uk

The General Election on May 7^th is occurring against a backdrop of relentless austerity, food poverty, tax evasion and scapegoating of groups without access to the mainstream media that marginalizes them.

Is there an alternative to this politics of despair, and if so, is collective activism the answer? Is Essex man Russell Brand right when he tells us that the system is broken and what we accept as ‘common sense’ has been imposed on us? On one hand, events in Greece and Spain show that collective responses to inequality are working. On the other hand, there is the anti-European, anti-immigration stance of populists like UKIP and Le Front National in France, whose appeal seems to resonate with the mythologized ‘man in the…