{"id":2217,"date":"2016-10-15T04:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T04:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:25:45","slug":"goldsmiths-showoff-strange-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"Goldsmiths Showoff: STRANGE DAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.php_.jpeg\" alt=\"image-1-php\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.php_.jpeg 750w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.php_-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image-1.php_-500x281.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What happens if you fill a pub with clever and lovely people then invite loads of amazing Goldsmiths academics to entertain them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a chaotic cabaret in the pub featuring a line-up of Goldsmiths experts who will reflect on the strange, dark time that has been 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>6:30pm &#8211; 9:30pm Thursday 3 November 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a36\/\u00a35 + booking fee. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegottickets.com\/event\/375981\">Buy online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2016 we entered the Darkest Timeline: Brexit, Bowie\u2026 Trump? Join us at the Amersham Arms on 3 November &#8211; days before the most powerful nation on earth shows us how broken democracy really is &#8211; to hear Goldsmiths, University of London academics take you on a high-speed dash through their chosen subject.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the algorithms of online dating, hidden satanic messages, cats and class war. Expect laughs, facts that sound totally made up but aren&#8217;t, and loads of terrible PowerPoints.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian and compere Steve Cross will once again keep everyone to time.<\/p>\n<p>The line-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drkatedevlin.co.uk\">Kate Devlin<\/a> (Computing) on the algorithms of online dating: a scientific and a personal perspective<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panxueni.com\">Sylvia Pan<\/a> (Computing) \u2013 What can virtual humans do for us?<\/li>\n<li>Rob Cenci (Media &amp; Communications) on the Call of Insecurity &#8211; the first-person shooter<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/swiseman.co.uk\">Sarah Wiseman<\/a> (Computing) on the weird and wonderful world of the Quantified Self<\/li>\n<li>Chris French (Psychology) on hidden satanic messages &#8211; find out if you can hear them<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/deeharding\">Dee Harding<\/a> (Computing) &#8211; Tired of Experts<\/li>\n<li>John Price (History) &#8211; No Hard Felines: Class War&#8230; with cats<\/li>\n<li>Dominique Santos (Anthropology) on the Anthropology of NOT climbing trees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>6:30pm &#8211; 9:30pm Thursday 3 November 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a36\/\u00a35 + booking fee.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegottickets.com\/event\/375981\">Buy online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from ticket sales will go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therunningcharity.org\">The Running Charity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens if you fill a pub with clever and lovely people then invite loads of amazing Goldsmiths academics to entertain them? Join us for a chaotic cabaret in the pub featuring a line-up of Goldsmiths experts who will reflect on the strange, dark time that has been 2016. When:\u00a06:30pm &#8211; 9:30pm Thursday 3 November &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goldsmiths Showoff: STRANGE DAYS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105,107,74],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}