Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths

Behind-the-scenes footage of the interviews with students participating in the degree show, involving setting up and testing the camera, lighting and sound equipment prior to the official shoot, followed by the recording of the student interviews. The shoot took place at the PSH TV Studio on the Lower Ground Floor.

A new piece for by Ziv Epstein, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh and Vana Goblot asks why are we turning to AI chatbots for emotional guidance and what kind of support do we actually get when AI and Tarot are put in conversation?

Happy 10th birthday to Goldsmiths Press 🎉 A huge thank you for the vital, boundary‑pushing work you do and for championing so many of our MCCS colleagues’ publications. Here’s to many more years of innovative publishing ahead!

30th April 2026 6 - 8 pm

Cultural Studies From Below Session #2: Decolonising the Archive
Richard Hoggart Building Room 139


Decolonising the Archive are a UK-based Pan-African project whose work centres the ‘living archive’. DTA facilitate heritage-based therapeutic interventions for people of African heritage rooted in our cultural principles and technologies. For more than a decade, they have successfully built legacy through training programmes supporting community cohesion, narrative ownership, archival literacy and heritage-based therapy. Whilst DTA’s core focus remains grassroots communities, their work also involves collaboration with archives, museums and other types of heritage spaces where this can be achieved equitably.

In this first session of Cultural Studies From Below, DTA’s Connie Bell will share insights about DTA’s mission, their current practice and how the legacy of the Cultural Studies tradition connects to their ongoing work.
Connie Bell is a Memory Worker, Cultural Producer, and Co-Founder of Decolonising The Archive (DTA) and the University of Repair. Her work explores decolonial methodologies and memory as technology within archives. A doctoral researcher at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, focusing on Caribbean theatre archives. She leads the Museum Restitution course module, addressing the ethics of displaying ancestral human remains in museums, and produces the podcast Duppy Conquerors, which examines the legacy and resilience of the Jamaican Maroons. Her practice reimagines and activates archives as spaces of repair, dialogue, and community justice.
Cultural Studies From Below is an ongoing initiative to reflect on the future of Cultural Studies as an intellectual tradition and practice. With very few academic programs and little institutional presence surviving the drastic restructuring and cultural austerity reshaping universities in the UK, finding new forms of collective work and thought is becoming increasingly pressing. We will be hosting a series of conversations over the course of the Spring and Summer of 2026.

Fatema Rajwani was a second year Media and Communications student at when she was arrested in 2024 for what she described as “dismantling weapons of genocide”. Listen to her speech during our recent event honouring by renaming a lecture theatre after her.

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Preps for the ceremony, live stream very soon!