Bauman Forum and Documentary Preview

Bauman Forum and documentary preview will take place today at State  Library of Victoria, Experimedia Room, between 4-8pm. It will include half-day  public forum on the work of Zygmunt Bauman with speakers from The Bauman  Institute, Leeds, including its director Mark Davis, and from The Thesis Eleven Centre; followed by screening of ‘The Trouble with Being Human These days’ by Director Bartek  Dziadosz, concluded with reflections on ‘The... Read More

Rough cut on its way to Australia

We gladly confirm that the ‘Being human these days’ rough cut is ready and on its way to Melbourne with Bauman Institute’s director Mark Davis. It will be screened soon during Thesis Eleven Centre’s ‘Festival of Ideas on Popular Print and Visual Cultures’ at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. The festival is held between Tuesday 7th June – Thursday 16th June 2011. It is an array of public and academic events: Research... Read More

See excerpts from the interview with Zygmunt Bauman

Excerpts from the interview recorded by the crew on Wednesday 25th of May. Zygmunt Bauman is talking with Keith Tester and Michael Hviid Jacobsen about the future of sociology.   The whole interview will be screened at the ‘Festival of Ideas on Popular Print and Visual Cultures’ organized by Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology between Tuesday 7th June and Thursday 16th June 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. More info about the event on... Read More

An interview with Zygmunt Bauman by Keith Tester to be recorded tomorrow

Tomorrow the Crew will visit Zygmunt Bauman in his house in Leeds to record the conversation between him and Professor Keith Tester. The interview will concern Professor Bauman’s reflections on “The Trouble with Being Human Theses Days” documentary as well as on the Professor’s latest book, “Culture in a Liquid Modern World” (English edition to be released by Polity Press on June 10). The interview will be recorded... Read More

Screening of excerpts from the movie at Thesis Eleven Centre’s ‘Festival of Ideas’

The excerpts from the movie will be screened during the ‘Festival of Ideas on Popular Print and Visual Cultures’ organized by Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology. Tuesday 7th June – Thursday 16th June 2011 An array of public and academic events: Research workshops; public lectures; master classes; exhibitions, films, performances Participating International Centres: Fine Arts Museum, Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences,... Read More