This is Oliver Goldsmith, drawn by a certain Gilbert and engraved by a J. Linton. He looks splendidly grumpy which is how I think I sound below, browned off this evening by his college.
Dear Professor Besson,
could you please explain to me - or get a colleague to explain - what happened to the presentation under the auspices of the anthropology department of Jean Rouch's work that was scheduled for Tuesday 1st December? I had found a notice for it on the college website, and paste it at the bottom here.
The event did not take place in the location that was given. There was no sign announcing a change of venue or cancellation, not did the person holding a seminar in the room at that time have any knowledge of the event or of its whereabouts. The college porter's office knew nothing about it. One of the other half dozen people I met in search of the event went to the anthropology department to enquire but the administrative staff there knew nothing about it.
As a member of the public, I am appalled and angry that a department in a college of Goldsmith's standing could announce a public event and then apparently give no further notice about it or its cancellation. I wasted my evening as a result travelling from Pimlico and back.
If I do not receive a satisfactory response, I will make it my business to lodge a complaint with the pro-chancellor of the college - or whoever its most senior officer is – and with the body which funds the department.
I have also written to some of your colleagues and have dropped an email to someone I happen to know at the college, Nick Couldry of the Department of Media Studies, to ask him whether this kind of apparently shoddy behaviour is a regular feature of academic life at Goldsmith's.
Yours Sincerely,
Conor Joyce
Joram Ten Brink-on the African cinema of Jean Rouch
Goldsmiths Anthropology Society:
Discovering Jean Rouch work- early works in Africa and their impact on film making in Europe (including screening of extracts from Rouch's major film productions in West Africa)
Joram ten Brink is a filmmaker and a Professor of Film at the University of Westminster. He works as a writer/director of documentary and experimental films in the UK and Holland. His films have been broadcasted and theatrically released in the UK, USA, Holland, Israel, France, Germany and Spain. His work has been screened at the Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals and at MOMA in New York. Prof. ten Brink heads the practice based PhD programme in Arts and Design at the University of Westminster and is the director of Centre for Production and Research in Documentary film. In 2004 he organised a major international conference and a programme of screenings on the work of the French anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch. In 2007 he edited the first major book on Rouch's work in English – Building Bridges- the cinema of Jean Rouch (Wallflower Press, London). http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1163
Event Information
Location: RHB 137 Cost: Free to attend Website: www.calamma.net/anthropologysociety Department: Anthropology Time: 1 December 2009, 17:00 - 19:00
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