‘Screen Encounters with Britain: What do young Danes make of Britain and its digital screen culture?’ Screen Encounters with Britain, an academic research project funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, investigates the film, TV and streaming preferences of young Europeans aged 16-34. Led by Professor Jeanette Steemers, Professor Andrea Esser and Dr… Continue reading Denmark report published – ‘Screen Encounters with Britain’
King’s College London, in collaboration with the City University of London, conceived and designed the “I, Human: Becoming Visible” (IHBV) project to respond to anti-Asian racism that has seen a surge since Covid-19. In November 2022, students from KCL and City, together with the members of East Asian and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities, took part in a development workshop to form groups and to create artistic responses to anti-ESEA racism.
In partnership with Film Africa, King’s College London and Screen Worlds, featuring expert introductions and post film discussion groups, this major new season at The Garden Cinema invites audiences to experience nine masterpieces arising from postcolonial and contemporary Francophone West Africa. King’s College students will be entitled to free tickets, with an exclusive code to be requested to Dr… Continue reading CMCI partners with The Garden Cinema and Screen Worlds for the Francophone West African Cinema Season from 2 March to 8 May 2023
They will share with online audience findings from a recent project on “Future Festivals South Africa” (AHRC, grant number AH/P005950/1). The seminar will launch the final policy report of the project, with a discussion of its key findings and implications for policy. The project included extensive fieldwork and support for festival organisations during different phases… Continue reading Prof Roberta Comunian and Dr Jonathan Gross, in collaboration with international partners at Rhodes University, contribute to the programme of KCL Africa Week (6th-10th March)
Dr Serena Iervolino launched the research report entitled “Museums, Class and the Pandemic: An Investigation into the Lived Experiences of Working Class Londoners” at a hybrid panel discussion held at the Museum of London Docklands on January 11, 2023. She co-authored the publication with Dr Domenico Sergi, Senior Curator (Curating London) at the Museum of London. The report is one of the outputs of their collaborative project “Inequalities, Class and the Pandemic” (2021-2022) co-funded by the Museum of London and King’s College London, which Drs Iervolino and Sergi envisaged, developed and led in partnership.
The countdown for the CMCI Winter Festival has begun! The third-year undergraduate students of the BA in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London are delighted to host the first-ever edition of the CMCI Winter Festival. The Festival Launch will be hosted on Monday 12th December from 7 - 10 pm at the Great Hall,… Continue reading Upcoming CMCI Winter Festival
‘FLAWLESS IN DEFEAT – IN AND FOR THE MARGINS’ Wednesday 7th December at 4pm Register for online presentation and Q+A (free) Gyaku Ryona is a voyeuristic subgenre that involves the beating up of one male character by another. Several channels have emerged on YouTube and garnered respectable attention, by using fighting games as their main platform. These… Continue reading Gaspard Pelurson presents at Manchester Metropolitan Game Centre
Prof Roberta Comunian and Dr Lauren England from CMCI alongside Dr Eka Ikpe from the African Leadership Centre at King’s College will contribute to the “Africa Fashion Conference” organised by the Victoria & Albert Museum on the 18th and 19th of November and taking place alongside their celebrated “Africa Fashion” exhibition. They will present research derived from… Continue reading Roberta Comunian and Lauren England present at Africa Fashion Conference
Estrella Sendra, who recently joined the CMCI Department as Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education (Festivals & Events), has just published an article in the Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil, where she is a frequent contributor. The article is based on a video-recorded interview with Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sene Absa, who was present at the BFI London Film Festival… Continue reading Estrella Sendra publishes an article in the Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil on the world première of Xale, the latest feature-length film by Moussa Sene Absa, at the BFI London Film Festival
Erika Wang, PhD candidate at CMCI, has published an article on Chinese fandom of Squid Game in the journal of Communication, Culture and Critique. The essay discusses Chinese fan reception of Squid Game, focusing on the “fandom nationalism” phenomenon. In the post-COVID era, the attitudes of Chinese netizens towards Squid Game are related to the interactive relations… Continue reading New article published in Communication, Culture and Critique on negotiations of fandom nationalism among Chinese fans of Squid Game
On the 28th of June 2022, Dr Tamsyn Dent presented results from the DISCE project at the 20th Triple Helix conference hosted by the University of Florence in Italy. The paper, in collaboration with Dr Lauren England and Dr Roberta Comunian, explored the role of higher education institutions in shaping and developing creative ecosystem using the example of… Continue reading Dr Tamsyn Dent presents at Triple Helix conference
Richard Howells, CMCI's Emeritus Professor of Cultural Sociology, has given an invited Schering-Plough Executive Lecture to students and faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University in the United States. Howells spoke on: “The Joy of Semiotics”, illustrating communications theory with examples from branding and advertising, including the subliminal marketing of tobacco products in Formula One racing. He… Continue reading Emeritus Professor Richard Howells invited to give lecture at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Tamsyn Dent, Lecturer in Cultural Work CMCI In March 2022 members from CMCI launched the Gender and Work in the Creative Industries (GWCI) research cluster with a conference that explored current research undertaken across the department and beyond related to questions of gender and creative work. The event included a conversation between CMCI’s Kate MacMillan… Continue reading Gender and Work in the Creative Industries Seminar
On Tuesday 26th April 2022, CMCI Lecturer Clara de Massol and PhD student Anna Crisp hosted the Inhuman Memory: Race and ecology across timescales conference in the Anatomy Museum, King’s College London. The conference brought early-career and more established academics together, along with art practitioners, to discuss the connections between racism, environmental changes, climate justice, and… Continue reading Inhuman Memory: Race and Race and ecology across timescales conference
Dr Lauren England I am delighted to announce that my article “Crafting professionals: entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work” has been published in the Innovation: Organization and Management Journal and is available to download here for free (open access). The article addresses how early-career crafts graduates often face a perceived dilemma, that of… Continue reading New article published in Innovation journal – Crafting professionals: entrepreneurial strategies for making a living through passionate work
Many of us were amazed by the global success of Squid Game, the South Korean TV drama series on Netflix. And the fever continues with Hellbound, My Name, We of Us are Dead, etc. We are witnessing the growth and impact of Korean pop culture from K-pop to film and TV drama on a global… Continue reading Dr Hye-Kyung Lee awarded grant for the network project ‘Globalizing South Korean Creativity’
CMCI’s Emeritus Professor Richard Howells has appeared in a two-part French radio documentary about Louis Le Prince -the man said to have invented the cinema, but who disappeared in mysterious circumstances before he could take the credit. As Howells states in: “Il aurait pu inventer le cinéma: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince”, it is… Continue reading Emeritus Professor Richard Howells speaks about Louis Le Prince in a French radio documentary
Denderah Rickmers Photo title: SDG 11 ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’ in action; Photo by: Denderah Rickmers, artist: Debbie Ding – National Gallery Singapore, 2021 2021 marks the decade of action for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Notably, it is also the UN’s International Year of the Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. In fact, the SDGs are… Continue reading It is encouraging to see more mentions of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the creative economies, and social investment
Dr Roberta Comunian and Dr Lauren England in partnership with Dr Federica Viganò from the Faculty of Education of University of Bolzen have organised an international online workshop ‘Creative Work: Possible Futures After Covid-19’. The workshop will include 14 papers presented over two days (4th - 5th November 2021), with contributions from across Europe, the USA and South… Continue reading Creative Work: Possible Futures After Covid-19 Workshop
CMCI PhD student Taylor Annabell has been awarded the Memory Studies Association Best Paper Award 2021 for her paper entitled “Narratives of the self and digital memory work on social media platforms”. In this paper, she demonstrated how narrative approach to research on memory could be brought into the subfield of digital memory studies. … Continue reading Taylor Annabell is awarded MSA Best Paper 2021
Book launch of Ari Gautier's new short story collection and second novel’s English translation, with panel discussion and Q&A. About this event: The IATIO project (India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Decolonial Period: Archipelagic Imaginaries, 1950s-1970s), Le thinnai kreyol, and King’s India Institute launch Ari Gautier’s short story collection, Nocturne Pondichéry, and The… Continue reading Thinnai fête: book launch of Ari Gautier’s new works
Dr Roberta Comunian and Dr Lauren England are delighted to announce that the final report from the AHRC funded international research network "UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING CREATIVE ECONOMIES IN AFRICA" has now been published and is available to download for free. The report provides a summary of the research journey undertaken, including the methodology and data collected across the… Continue reading New Report on Creative Economies in Africa
Dating app users participate in ‘rituals of transition’ as they signal mutual interest and heightened intimacy by moving conversations from dating apps to social media messaging platforms such as WhatsApp. These rituals of transition occur primarily prior to, but also occasionally during, or immediately after, a date. Fabian Broeker, CMCI PhD candidate, examines this behaviour… Continue reading New research on ‘rituals of transition’ among dating app users
Two members of CMCI, Dr Natalie Wreyford and Dr Tamsyn Dent have been working on a research project for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Creative Diversity into ‘what works’ to improve diversity and inclusion in the creative and cultural sector. The Creative Diversity APPG, co-chaired by Cross bench Peer Baroness Deborah Bull and… Continue reading CMCI Researchers work on the ‘Creative Majority’ report for the APPG in Creative Diversity
Dr Roberta Comunian is involved alongside colleagues from the Faculty of Education of University of Bolzen (Dr Federica Vigano) and University of Dundee (Dr Lauren England) in the organisation of a Call for Papers and an online international Workshop (4-5 Nov, 2021) on the theme: Creative Work: Possible Futures after Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic has re-shaped the… Continue reading CREATIVE WORK: POSSIBLE FUTURES AFTER COVID-19
Cultures of Care is an ongoing research project, led by Prof Nick Wilson (CMCI) that seeks to make a positive intervention in response to the current crisis of care. The opening event - on Friday 11th June 2.00-4.30pm (BST) - focuses on care in the context of Higher Education. Amongst the questions being explored are -… Continue reading Launching Event for Cultures of Care
CMCI Emeritus Professor Richard Howells conducted an online interview with New York Times and CBS correspondent David A Andelman. It began with questions about his new book: A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars that Might Still Happen, before the conversation expanded to current events. Questions from the audience followed. The event, which… Continue reading Emeritus Professor Richard Howells conducted an interview with David A Andelman
Dr Mafalda Dâmaso co-wrote with Culture Action Europe (the main European network of cultural networks, organisations, artists, activists, academics and policymakers) a new report for the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) of the European Parliament titled “The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union”. The report’s… Continue reading New Report for the European Parliament: The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union
Dr Bridget Conor has just published a new report for UNESCO: Gender and Creativity: Progress on the precipice. The report is based on more than a year of research and collaboration with UNESCO and partners assessing our collective progress towards gender equality in cultural and media industries. It's also sounding a warning: progress is far from guaranteed,… Continue reading New UNESCO report published: Gender and Creativity: Progress on the precipice
Last year's winner of the Memory Study Association Excellent Paper Award is Clara de Massol de Rebetz, with her article 'Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Remembering and Mourning Extinction in the Anthropocene'. Clara is a PhD candidate at King’s College London in the CMCI department, supervised by Dr Jessica Rapson. Her article was published last September… Continue reading Clara de Massol: Winner of the MSA Excellent Paper Award
We are pleased to announce that Dr Ricarda Vidal (CMCI, KCL) and Dr Madeleine Campbell (Edinburgh University) have been awarded an AHRC Network grant. The network comprises academics, artists and translators from the UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, Hungary and Poland and explores translation between languages (interlingual) and between media (intersemiotic) as a method of creation and… Continue reading AHRC Award for Experiential Translation Network
We’re pleased to announce that CMCI lecturer Dr Anna Woodham’s new edited book has just been published: Exploring Emotion, Care and Enthusiasm in “Unloved” Museum Collections. Edited with Dr Rianedd Smith and Dr Alison Hess, the book focuses on the millions of items that are held in museum collections around the world but which are… Continue reading NEW BOOK by Anna Woodham on “unloved” museum collections
Richard Howells, CMCI's Professor of Cultural Sociology has a new research article published on Roger Fry, Bloomsbury, and transfer lithography. Here, he has filled a gap in the existing literature, locating Fry’s use of the medium within the context of Bloomsbury innovation before the Second World War. Special attention is then paid to the… Continue reading Roger Fry, Bloomsbury, Transfer Lithography and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection
The exam board of Britain’s royal schools of music is being urged to address the legacy of its colonial origins after research found 99% of pieces on its syllabuses were by white composers" writes the Guardian in a recent article discussing the decolonization of classical music. The articles also draws on the work by CMCI researcher and… Continue reading Decolonize classical music!
Are you a current or former museum and gallery professional working in the UK or internationally? Dr Serena Iervolino (CMCI) and Dr Stuart Dunn (DDH) are inviting colleagues in the sector to complete a survey that aims to explore the perspectives and experiences of current and former museum and gallery professionals in relation to graduate employability in… Continue reading Curating Expertise Museum Survey
We are delighted to announce that the Creative Industries Research Frontiers seminar series, which is co-organised by King’s College London and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC), has now moved fully ONLINE. There are two sessions coming up in June. Don't miss presentations by CMCI's Kate McMillan and Tamsyn Dent on 1st June. Seminar 3:… Continue reading CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RESEARCH FRONTIERS: SEMINAR SERIES – now online
CMCI student Hui Zhang is doing one Chinese folk dance a day during the pandemic. Here is a Dai ethnic dance. Follow her an instagram to see more of her choreography. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QYJJCDUL7/?igshid=102khmkzvufkz
In times of public emergency, social truths are revealed. The coronavirus crisis is one such emergency, and it reveals that the lives of the elderly appear to matter less and, in some cases, are even deemed disposable", writes CMCI PhD-student Shir Shimoni. Her chilling article "How coronavirus exposes the way we regard ageing and old… Continue reading COVID-19, Society & the Elderly – some ugly truths
At a time like this, our first thoughts are for everyone’s health and wellbeing. We are a community of students, staff and alumni drawn from many parts of the world, and our experiences of the current crisis will take many forms depending on our own circumstances and current conditions of ’social distancing’ and ‘isolation'. Nevertheless,… Continue reading Gigabitesback – CMCI community – sharing resilience
TV licence fee: What would happen to children's TV if CBeebies and CBBC are axed? Read what CMCI Professor Jeanette Steemers has to say on the matter in inews and the Times.
The Great Hall, King's College London, 12 February, 18.30-21.30 If you're wondering what we mean by ‘this thing called art’, then join us in the Great Hall on 12th February and listen to the inaugural lecture by CMCI Professor Nick Wilson. Prof. Wilson suggests there is much more at stake than the creation and enjoyment… Continue reading INAUGURAL LECTURE: This Thing Called Art – Nick Wilson, Professor of Culture & Creativity
Thursday 6th February, 6.30pm-7.45pm This event is part of the British Academy's season on Sustainable Futures Environmental racism is on the rise in the United States, with minority and impoverished communities much more likely to live near polluters and breathe polluted air. In this event, CMCI Senior Lecturer Jessica Rapson (CMCI) and co-researcher Lucy Bond… Continue reading TALK: Environmental Racism in the United States
Jazmín Ruiz Díaz I have recently had the opportunity of presenting my book chapter The Female Gaze in Times of Selfies as a member of the Feminist & Gender Research Reading Group at King’s/Queen Mary (Liss DTP). This chapter — part of the book Amalgama: Women, Identity & Diaspora— represents the culmination of what started… Continue reading #KuñaJesareko: Instagram as a place for the female gaze
Here is a view from The New Yorker on "Gogglebox" and how this has become "a chronicle of Brexit fatigue" as Brits watch other Brits watching their country self-destruct in the long drawn-out drama of Brexit. CMCI professor Richard Howells was interviewed by The New Yorker's Anna Russell for this article. Click here and enjoy… Continue reading “Gogglebox” and Brexit
Symposium: 30 Jan. 2020, 10:00 to 18:00 Deadline for Proposals of 200-300 words: 13th Dec. 2019 Exhibition: 13 Jan. - 28 Feb. 2020 Bush House Arcade, London On 30 January 2020, the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London will present a symposium organised by CMCI lecturer and artist Kate McMillan. They… Continue reading Climate Change, Feminism, Creativity & Memory – a CFP & an Exhibition
We're pleased to announce that CMCI Prof Jeanette Steemers's new book has just been published: Screen Media for Arab and European Children: Policy and Production Encounters in a Multiplatform Era addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe. Taking account of… Continue reading NEW BOOK: Screen Media for Arab and European Children
King’s is partnering with Future of Film Summit 2019 on a one-day conference designed to shape and create the future of film and storytelling. Taking place at BFI Southbank in London on 26 November, the event will feature world-class speakers behind works such as Ad Astra, Blade Runner 2049 and Black Mirror as well as hands-on sessions on the latest tech/strategies… Continue reading Future of Film Summit 2019
Raphael Sieraczek (PhD student at CMCI) together with his colleague Uwe Derksen have successfully established a radical educational project in the vibrant town of Margate (Kent) described by journalists as 'Shoreditch-on-Sea'. The Margate School (TMS) is an independent liberal art school with post-graduate provision and community outreach offering a wide range of short courses as well… Continue reading Radical Education by the Sea
4th October Ledbury Book Festival's Poetry Salon at Ledbury Books and Maps Ledbury High Street, Ledbury, 7-9pm Ricarda Vidal (an academic at CMCI) and Manuela Perteghella will be launching their poetry collection Home on the Move: Two Poems go on a Journey with an introduction, poetry readings and a roundtable discussion, followed by Q&A. The… Continue reading Poetry Book Launch: Home on the Move
On November 4, CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Harvey G Cohen will be hosting two events at the British Film Institute Southbank venue, as part of their 2-month “Musicals” film series during October and November. At one event, at 6:20PM, Cohen will sum up his new book Who’s In the Money: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s… Continue reading Cohen Returns to BFI Southbank For 2 Events on History of Musicals
CMCI's Dr Joanne Entwistle has just returned from Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she gave the opening keynote speech to the 15th Fashion Colloquium at UNISINOS. Joanne spoke about her research on Instagram style mums to a packed auditorium of more than 500 academics, students, journalists and members of the public. Follow Jo on Instagram: @jo_entwistle
Just back from Sweden is CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells, who was invited to give a lecture, workshop and a research seminar at Lund University, which was founded in 1666. His lecture and workshop were about defining and researching visual culture, while his research seminar was on his current work in progress on a famous literary… Continue reading Sixteen Sixty Six and All That
Whilst researching his next book at Indiana University, Harvey Cohen, cultural historian and senior lecturer at CMCI, was interviewed by the National Public Radio station WFIU for their weekly 'Profiles' programme. Click the image below to find out about Dr Cohen's books, his work on music and the music industry, his research and teaching philosophy,… Continue reading Interview with Harvey G. Cohen: music, academia… and life
The third edition of the CMCI research microsite is now up: eight new blog posts which explore research and thinking from staff and research students working here in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries. In our third edition, many of the contributions outline research projects that are concerned with media representation and subjectivities in particular cultural, socioeconomic… Continue reading And Then There Were Three
Professor Richard Howells is back from a conference in Tuscany, Italy, where he gave a refereed paper in which he inter-wove Harry Potter, the sorting hat, serpents, parceltongue and horcruxes, together with the “Fall”, Philip Pullman, the Republic of Heaven, Ernst Bloch, Utopia, Marxian Critical Theory, and atheistic Christianity. The conference was the 20th International… Continue reading Lumos!
Drs Red Chidgey and Serena Iervolino have been hosting a workshop and a pop-up residency as part of their Queer Museology research project. They want to explore what a queer museum would look (or feel) like and which practices would be needed to change, transform or ‘queer’ a museum space? The residency incorporated three queer… Continue reading Queer Museology
Dr Roberta Comunian and PhD student Lauren England have been presenting their research at Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of a symposium on craft, skills and making. The event brought together international researchers to discuss the frontier of craft research, taking in both traditional and contemporary practices. Lauren presented her current doctoral research… Continue reading CRAFT, SKILLS & MAKING: THE RESEARCH FRONTIER
Dr Joanne Entwistle has returned from Getaria in the Spanish Basque Country where she has been speaking on a summer course at the Christobal Balenciaga Museum. It was entitled: “Towards an ethics of fashion: challenges and advances” and investigated how fashion converges with society, culture and the economy. It questioned the relations between the whole… Continue reading The Ethics of Fashion
Dr Ruth Adams is back from Bordeaux, France, where she was invited to give a conference paper on the punk music scene in London in the 1970s. The invitation came from the research group “European Capitals and Heritage since 1945: Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris”, which is based at the Sorbonne in Paris. Ruth’s paper considered… Continue reading London Calling
Dr Ricarda Vidal is celebrating the successful launch event for her new book: Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders: Intersemiotic Journeys between Media (Palgrave 2019), co-edited with Madeleine Campbell. The well-attended event was held here at King’s. The volume draws together theoretical and creative contributions from translators, artists, performers, academics and curators who have explored “intersemiotic translation”… Continue reading Intersemiotic Journeys
Out now: the second edition of news on the CMCI Microsite. This new edition includes five new blog posts which explore the research and thinking from staff and research students working in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, here at King's College London. There are contributions from Dr Bridget Conor, Dr Roberta Comunian and Lauren England, Dr… Continue reading The Second’s Out
A team of CMCI researchers have begun work on the €2.9 project, Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies (DISCE), funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020). Building on their previous work on creative labour, creative eco-systems and cultural policy, the KCL team - Roberta Comunian, Bridget Conor, Tamsyn Dent, Jonathan Gross and Nick Wilson -… Continue reading Rolling the DISCE
CMCI’s Dr Roberta Comunian has been having her say on the recent debate about the future of creative arts education in the United Kingdom in response to the recent Augar Review. She was invited, along with Scott Brook of RMIT University in Australia, to contribute with a blog entry, hosted by the Creative Industries Policy… Continue reading The Public Value of Creative Vocations
Out this month… A special number of Fashion Theory, guest edited by CMCI’s Dr Joanne Entwistle, along with Emma McClendon of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. This special issue on “The Body: Fashion and Physique” includes an introductory letter from the guest editors, while Dr Entwistle concludes with a discussion on “Fashion… Continue reading The Body: Fashion and Physique
There’s been quite a media stir over Dr Kate McMillan’s report on the representation of female artists in the UK. Headline findings include that nearly 70 percent of artists represented by London’s top galleries are men. It’s the latest in annual series of reports commissioned by the Freelands Foundation, which aims further to understand the… Continue reading Seventy Percent of Artists….
CMCI is teaming up with University of Notre Dame (USA), The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and King’s own Film Studies department to present a three-day symposium: London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies. The event will consider London's rich history and complex future in relation to cinema and media studies. Keynote speakers include… Continue reading London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies
We are delighted to announce the launch of CMCI-kings.org, a new website for the department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries here at King’s. It is designed to showcase all the latest research, impact and thinking from our academic staff and research students. Writing in the first “edition”, Professor Jeanette Steemers explains that even though… Continue reading We Launch Our New Research Website
Professor Jeanette Steemers It’s an absolute pleasure to see the launch of the CMCI-Kings.org website today. The launch represents the culmination of efforts by CMCI staff and students together to provide an accessible and up-to-the-minute resource about what is happening in the Department, which contributes to our community. It is very definitely a collaborative effort… Continue reading Launch of CMCI-Kings.org
Friends and colleagues gathered for an event at King’s to toast the launch of CMCI’s Professor Paul McDonald’s latest book, which traces the career of actor-filmmaker George Clooney. He begins with the hit television medical drama “ER” and proceeds up to 2017’s “Suburbicon”, showing the transition from commercial successes such as Ocean’s Eleven (2001) to… Continue reading About George Clooney
The programme and final details are out for our Emerging Voices Conference 2019, under the theme “Beyond Disciplines.” The conference is organised by a team of volunteer PhD students here at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries (CMCI), led by Lauren Cantillon, Katrin Schindel, Elena Terranova, and Rebecca Young. It takes place from… Continue reading Beyond Disciplines
CMCI PhD student Lauren England in making waves in Australia, where she is presenting her research on UK craft higher education and professional practice. She’s giving seminars at a number of Australian universities, presenting her research on the educational practices associated with professional development in UK craft degree programmes. She is also discussing approaches used… Continue reading England In Australia
Congratulations to our head of Department, Dr Sarah Atkinson, who is the runner up in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies 2019 Awards for Best Monograph. Sarah has been honoured for her: From Film Practice to Data Process: Production Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in Transition, published by Edinburgh… Continue reading Book Award for Sarah Atkinson
CMCI’s Dr Harvey G Cohen has been heard on 15 National Public Radio shows across the United States celebrating jazz-master Duke Ellington’s celebrated “Black Brown and Beige” of 1943. This was the Ellington orchestra’s debut at Carnegie Hall, at which he performed an ambitious 45-minute-long musical depiction of the African-American experience called: “Black, Brown and… Continue reading “Black, Brown and Beige”.
Dr Paul Sweetman's report on Subcultures and Innovation for Knowledge Works (National Centre for Cultural Industries, Norway) has just been published. This is a report on a year-long project undertaken with Professors Atle Hauge (INN University, Norway) and Dominic Power (University of Stockholm), looking at subcultural innovation and creativity and subcultures' contribution to the cultural… Continue reading Subcultural Innovation – New Report
On 2nd April, 2019 CMCI’s Professor Jeanette Steemers gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Communications Committee on Public Service Broadcasting and Video on Demand. The Committee was calling upon academic experts as part of its inquiry investigating whether there is a future for public service broadcasting in the context of the rising popularity… Continue reading Evidencing the role of Public Service Broadcasting
On Wednesday February 13th the Creative Careers Student Committee welcomed a wonderful panel of speakers to discuss the future of diversity in the creative and cultural sector. Dr. Kate McMillan chaired the panel and lead the discussion with introductions from Saurabh Kakkar, Nadine Persaud, Hakeem Onibudo, Jodi-Alissa Bickerton, Amy Turton and Catherine Ritman-Smith. The discussion… Continue reading Diversity in the Creative and Cultural Industries
Many congratulations to Anna Lowe, graduate of CMCI’s Cultural & Creative Industries MA, who has been appointed Youth Engagement Tate Trustee by the The Board of Trustees of Tate. Anna will be bringing the views of the next generation to the highest level of Tate’s decision-making process. The appointment, which has been made by the… Continue reading Tate Appoints CMCI Graduate as Youth Engagement Trustee
Congratulations to CMCI PhD student Yana Melkumova Reynolds, who together with Dr Laini Burton from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia, has recently published an article on representations of disabled bodies in visual arts and lifestyle media in Fashion Theory journal. Focusing on three case studies – British performer Viktoria Modesta, American athlete and model… Continue reading “My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel”
Dr Roberta Comunian has secured funding for a collaborative PhD scholarship in partnership with Creative United and Dr Elsa Arcaute, based at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL. The project, entitled “Complex Cultural Ecologies: capturing value through connections between public, private and not-for-profit organisations in the creative economy”,… Continue reading Funding for Collaborative PhD at CMCI: Apply now
The CMCI PhD student community is pleased to open the call for papers for the 6th annual conference. This year’s theme is “Beyond Disciplines” and wants to celebrate new and emerging directions in the CMCI research that currently challenge how we understand and see technological, environmental, political, institutional and aesthetic developments that are shaping our cultural landscape. The two-day… Continue reading CMCI Emerging Voices
The BBC have published a commissioned article by CMCI’s Dr Christina Scharff titled: Why so many young women don’t call themselves feminist. Drawing on Christina’s research on young women in a neoliberal world, the article asks why it is that despite feminist movements attracting significant attention across Europe and North America, many young women still… Continue reading Speaking about Feminism
CMCI’s Dr Roberta Comunian and Lauren England, PhD student, have recently published an article that explores the relationship between industrial and post-industrial knowledge in glassmaking in the UK in the journal Geoforum. Following the trajectory of glassmaking in Sunderland and Stourbridge the article explores how local industrial knowledge was reorganised outside of the factory into new craft-based… Continue reading A Window on Glassmaking
Congratulations to Dr Red Chidgey whose recent talk at the Barbican Art Gallery on ‘Collaboration and Social Change’ was sold out. The talk was held in relation to the Barbican’s exhibition Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde, and aimed to throw new light on the inner workings of creative collaboration. Red guided the audience through… Continue reading Modern Couples
CMCI’s Dr Kate McMillan joined a panel of experts at Female Futures, on 18th January, 2019 at the Mall Galleries. The panel discussion invited the audience to reflect on such questions as ‘How much do you think the art world has changed since 2012, when the first Great East London Art Audit was carried out?’;… Continue reading Female Futures
Congratulations to Dr Ricarda Vidal who has published a brace of books to welcome in 2019. First is Revolve:R, the yellow edition, which (as you can tell from the accompanying image) is, indeed, an arresting yellow (third) edition of this artist book. It results from a 2-year-long correspondence between visual artists, poets, filmmakers and sound artists… Continue reading New Year: New CMCI Publications!
CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells is celebrating the New Year with the publication of the third edition of his Visual Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019). Howells contends that since the first edition came out in 2003, the importance of taking the visual seriously -and learning how to read it- has only increased. His former CMCI PhD… Continue reading Third Edition of Richard Howells’ Visual Culture
Congratulations to CMCI student Ally Faughnan, who has won a £5,000 scholarship towards the cost of her MA with us. Ally, who is a student on our MA in Arts and Cultural Management programme, won first place in the annual FindAMasters competition, for which she had submit a photograph / creative image and caption: “that… Continue reading CMCI Student Wins £5,000 Scholarship
Congratulations to CMCI Teaching Fellow Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li who has won the Outstanding Paper Award of the Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference. Her paper, “The second life of Kowloon Walled City: Crime, media and cultural memory”, co-authored with Alistair Fraser (University of Glasgow), was selected from 300 journal articles generated from the Web of… Continue reading Outstanding Paper Award for Eva Cheuk-Yin Li
Hong Kong University’s Dr Tommy Tse continued the international theme of CMCI’s research seminars with a presentation on fashion and “prosumption” in China and Korea. A specialist in East Asia’s media and cultural industries, Tommy (pictured) presented his research on the way in which production and consumption are increasingly interrelated in society, and the suggestion that this leads… Continue reading Fashion in China and Korea
CMCI has become part of a three-year research project aiming to reshape the economic and social perception of the Cultural and Creative Industries. Led by the University of Turku, Finland, it is a consortium of social and economic research institutes, cultural managers and creative workers from six European countries. Under the acronym DISCE (Developing Inclusive… Continue reading CMCI DISCES with the Cultural and Creative Industries
What don’t you normally see when you watch a reality television programme? The answer is –or should be- the “warm-up” act; the entertainers who routinely perform before and during breaks in the televised show. These professionals are an important part of the craft of making TV in front of a live audience, but are little… Continue reading Cruel Optimism
We are delighted to announce that CMCI will be hosting the international Museums in Arabia conference here at King’s in 2019. It’s part of an established series that operates as a collaborative network for exploring the theory and practice of museums and heritage in the Arabian Peninsula. The conference will be investigating how different cultural,… Continue reading Museums in Arabia Conference
CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells continues his (academic) interest in art forgery with a review of Shaun Greenhalgh’s autobiography: A Forger’s Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger in The Times Higher Education. Greenhalgh is self-taught man from Lancashire who claims to have fooled the fine art establishment with a variety of fake works of art including… Continue reading Fake?
We are delighted to Amanda Lagerkvist as Visiting Scholar a CMCI. Amanda is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies and a fellow of the Wallenberg Academy in Sweden. Describing herself as a “media phenomenologist”, Amanda (pictured) also heads the research programme “Existential Terrains: Memory and Meaning in Cultures of Connectivity” in the Department of… Continue reading Welcome New Visiting Scholar
Our Head of Department, Dr Sarah Atkinson, has been on the road and on the air talking about her research on gender and the virtual reality industry. Funded by the Canadian-backed Refiguring Innovation in Games Project, Sarah’s activities have been numerous and varied, including a two-day workshop here at KCL which brought together 20 leading… Continue reading On the Road and On the Air: A Vision for Women and Virtual Reality
CMCI’s Professor Jeanette Steemers reports two reports, wrapping up her Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project “Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue”, which has now officially reached completion. Working with Naomi Sakr and Christine Singer, the project’s consolidated report, which features recommendations, workshop briefings and a full list of… Continue reading It’s A Wrap
It’s not always obvious what CMCI people do when they are not at work. This blog does not seek to pry into their private lives…. but we can reveal that our programme administrator Rebecca Whitaker has returned from a week volunteering with Help Refugees in Calais, France. Help Refugees are a grass-roots charity created in… Continue reading “For someone who doesn’t much like camping…”
CMCI’s Dr Kate McMillan appears in a new television documentary on the Australian artist Sidney Nolan. Made by ABC in Australia, it explores and celebrates the work of one of the country’s best-known artists, proceeding from his early years to his international career and all the success -and turmoil- that came with it. Kate (pictured… Continue reading McMillan on Nolan
There cannot be too many PhD students who are combining their studies with opening their own art gallery, but step forward CMCI’s Tommaso Calabro! Tomasso (pictured) has marked the opening of his new gallery in Milan’s Piazza San Sepolcro with his inaugural exhibition: “Twombly and Tancredi: Homage to Cardazzo”. And although his premises in the… Continue reading CMCI Student Opens Art Gallery in Milan
CMCI’s Dr Ruth Adams is quoted in an i-D magazine article: “Why is Everyone Obsessed with Alien Beauty: And is it a New Kind of Subculture?” Here, journalist Clementine de Pressigny argues that: “beauty today is about shaving your head, shaving your brows, adding a third or fourth eye and bleeding black from your hyper-coloured… Continue reading Alien Beauty
We are delighted to share some pictures and a video from Dr Kate McMillan’s commissioned work for the XXIV Rohkunstbau Festival at Schloss Leiberose, Germany. Her Instructions for Another Future (my feet are ears), 2018, took the form of an HD digital film projection, 5.54, handmade airdryed clay hagstones, hagstone, spraypaint, and theatre lights. The… Continue reading “Achtung – Mind the Gap”
Congratulations to CMCI’s Dr Leung Wing-Fai on the e-publication of her new book: Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality: An East Asian Perspective. Her book is the result of qualitative research focusing on Internet start-ups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the “sharing economy”. It addresses intersections between gender, age, ethnicity and class with a focus on… Continue reading New Book from Leung Wing-Fai
A senior CMCI academic is working with one of our current PhD students to organize a workshop in Singapore. It’s a collaboration between Dr Roberta Comunian, CMCI’s Reader in Creative Economy, and PhD student Denderah Rickmers, under the title: “Social enterprise, social innovation & the creative economy: current knowledge and shared research agendas”. The… Continue reading Singapore Collaboration
CMCI’s Dr Jo Entwistle has been in Chile as part of a symposium event at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago. The theme was: ‘Cultural Mediators in the Digital Age’. This was the second leg of a symposium series, the first of which was hosted by us in CMCI last September at King’s. Jo also gave… Continue reading Jo Entwistle in Chile
CMCI’s 2018-19 research seminar series got off to an excellent start with a controversial and well-attended presentation on secrecy and historic photographs in post-Mao China. Our speaker was Margaret Hillenbrand, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Tutorial Fellow in Chinese at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Under the title “Knowing What Not… Continue reading Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China
CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Paul Sweetman is back from Norway where he gave two talks about his current research project on subcultures and innovation. On this project, Paul is working on with professors Atle Hauge (INN, Norway), and Dominic Power (Stockholm University). Paul’s first Norwegian talk was a research seminar in the Department of Tourism,… Continue reading Paul Sweetman in Norway
Nick Wilson, CMCI’s newest (“full”) Professor, is celebrating his promotion with a clutch of books and articles just launched: First is his co-edited collection The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity at Work (2018). Already nick-named “The big yellow book of creativity”, this features 30 research-based chapters from international writers and practitioners drawn from across the world.… Continue reading Non-Stop Nick
Here’s a chance to catch CMCI’s Dr Anna Woodham talking about her Heritage and Climate Change project –and getting the key points over in just one minute. It’s one of a series of mini-videos about the link between climate change, museums, collecting and discussions under their “care for the future” theme. The short videos are… Continue reading Sixty Seconds with Anna Woodham
Congratulations to Drs Harvey G Cohen and Wendy Burke on contributing to a CMCI “double whammy” in the American scholarly journal Film History. Both their recent books have been selected by the journal’s editorial staff for their contributions to new scholarship in the history of cinema. For Harvey it’s his Who’s in the Money? The… Continue reading Double Whammy
After stops at the Whitstable Biennale and the Ledbury Poetry Festival, “Home on the Move”, headed by CMCI’s Dr Ricarda Vidal, is coming to London for the summer. As we reported here in June, this exhibition of European artist films, sound art and poetry in translation is the result of a journey undertaken by two… Continue reading Home on the Move Comes to London
Utopia is always worth thinking about, and CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells has been talking and writing about it, too. He began with an invited presentation to the “Is Utopia Possible?” event, which was part of the Bonas MacFarlane extension lecture series for non-traditional university applicants, held at the London School of Economics. This is part… Continue reading Utopia Unlimited
CMCI is collaborating with colleagues in Portugal with a series of events about the archiving and preserving of audio-visual materials in the 21st century. Under the title: “Besides the Screen: Vaults, Archives, Clouds and Platforms” we are joining with the Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação and the Instituto Universitário da Maia in Porto… Continue reading Besides the Screen
The name of artist Alfred Cohen may not be on everyone’s lips at the moment, but when he died in 2001, his Guardian obituary described him as a “brilliant colourist and deft draughtsman” while the Daily Telegraph reported his friendships with Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, Kirk Douglas, Sophia Loren, and David Niven. In anticipation of the… Continue reading Arthur’s Room
What is the “Page 99 Test”? CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Harvey G Cohen knows, having twice been invited to subject his work for scrutiny. The “Page 99 Test” follows the maxim of American early 20th-century novelist Ford Madox Ford that one should: “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the… Continue reading The Page 99 Test
Richard Howells, our Professor of Cultural Sociology, is featured in the “Spotlight on…” section of publisher Palgrave Macmillan’ s “Campaign for the Humanities” website. Professor Howells was invited to write an opinion piece on the value of the humanities, which he contributed under the heading: “Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper… Continue reading Richard Howells and the Campaign for the Humanities
CMCI academic Dr Ricarda Vidal goes into curator mode for the opening of “Talking Transformations: Home on the Move”, an exhibition of artist films, sound art and poetry in translation. It’s based on two poems which themselves have “travelled” across national borders and then returned “home”: Welsh poet Deryn Rees-Jones’ poem ‘HOME’ travelled from the… Continue reading Home on the Move
Universities often turn up in fiction, and Richard Howells, our Professor of Cultural Sociology, is always interested to see how they are represented in literature and popular culture. A case in hand is Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels (originally published in 1991), set in the fictional St Angelicus College in Cambridge and nominated for the Booker Prize.… Continue reading Panis Angelicus
Our postgraduate research students extend an invitation to the King’s CMCI PhD Conference 2018. This will be the fifth year that they have staged this event. This time they are staging a one-day conference on at Bush House, former headquarters of the BBC World Service (1940-2012) and now part of King’s College London. Appropriately, this year’s theme is:… Continue reading CMCI PhD Conference 2018
The final video of the Moving Hearts project featuring CMCI’s Professor Anna Reading is now published on the Internet. People were invited to make clay models of human hearts, which were then carried in procession over the river from King’s to London’s Migration Museum at the Workshop in Lambeth. Moving Hearts (see our earlier blog… Continue reading Moving Hearts: The Video
Research by Richard Howells, our Professor of Cultural Sociology, is quoted in BBC Mundo, the Spanish language website of the BBC World Service. Under the headline: “5 mitos que el cine ha creado sobre el Titanic…”, the article explores the myths about the famous ship that have been created -or at least perpetuated- by the… Continue reading El Rey Del Mundo
Ever wanted to see your name in lights? CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Harvey G. Cohen was certainly surprised to see just that in the USA over the marquee for the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. Harvey did four events in two days at their at the Silver Spring, Maryland as part of his US… Continue reading His Name in Lights
Our Professor of Cultural Sociology, Richard Howells, gave a research paper on: “Revolt into Style” at the conference “Mai ’68 at 50: Appropriations, Translations, Legacies”, organised in collaboration with the University of Paris, the Institute Francais, the National Archives, and the French Embassy. The conference marked the 50th anniversary of the student and labour uprisings… Continue reading Revolt into Style
CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Ruth Adams is back from her fifth visit to Brazil, where she was the guest of the Culture and Media Studies Department at UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense) in Niteroi, near Rio de Janeiro. Ruth led a post-graduate seminar over three days on the topic of Youth Subcultures, Popular Music and Identity.… Continue reading Ordem e Progresso
Richard Howells, CMCI’s Professor of Cultural Sociology, is to give an Inaugural Lecture at King’s on: “What is Visual Culture –And Why Should We Care?” In his talk, Howells will define visual culture as an academic field, especially as distinguished from art history. He’ll argue that art history is a subdivision of visual culture, and… Continue reading What is Visual Culture –And Why Should We Care?
The second semester may be over, but CMCI is getting into full international research mode as we host the Media Industries Conference, 2018. Under the theme: “Current Debates and Future Directions” the three-day event provides an interdisciplinary forum for reviewing the past and present state of media industries research, together with future directions in the… Continue reading CMCI Hosts International Media Conference
Congratulations to CMCI’s Dr Ricarda Vidal, who has just received news from Arts Council England that she has won for a grant of £9,000 to support her “Talking Transformations: Home on the Move” project. The money will go towards a travelling exhibition and a programme of public workshops and talks. The exhibition of poems, literary… Continue reading ACE Award for Ricarda Vidal
CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Harvey G Cohen is off to the United States on a seven-date tour to talk about his latest book: Who’s in The Money? He kicks off at the University of Texas, history department, on April 11th; then at the Film Forum, New York City, on April 23; on to three days… Continue reading Harvey G. Cohen’s US Tour
Our 2017-18 CMCI research seminar series ended on a high note with a well-attended presentation: “Museums and Participation- Who Goes.. (and who doesn’t?).” Our guest speaker, Dr Lisanne Gibson, said that the audience for museums is overwhelmingly predicted by an individual’s level of income and education: Museum visitors are predominantly white and middle class. This… Continue reading Museums and Participation
Research that began as a collaborative dissertation project carried out by a former CMCI MA student Qiuling Liu has been featured in the Independent. Quiling’s dissertation research led to her published report “Breaking the Binary: Exploring the Role of Media Representation of Trans People in Constructing a Safer and More Inclusive Social Environment”. According to… Continue reading CMCI MA Student’s Research Featured in the Independent
How do you fancy making a human heart –out of clay of course! CMCI’s Professor Anna Reading hopes there will be 1,000 of them ready by the time the Moving Hearts Procession she is helping to organise sets off from King’s to London’s Migration Museum at the Workshop in Lambeth on March 24. Moving Hearts is a… Continue reading Moving Hearts
CMCI’s student-led Creative Careers Committee report a considerable success with their event: “Creating Exhibitions: From Ideas to Execution.” They wanted to know what were the processes and challenges behind creating an exhibition in the cultural sector- and invited leading practitioners from the creative industries to help them find out. The panel included Jill Cook, acting keeper of the Department of Britain, Europe… Continue reading Creating Exhibitions: From Ideas to Execution
We are delighted to announce the publication of Dr Harvey Cohen’s new book Who’s In The Money? The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal. Published by the Edinburgh University Press, his monograph outlines the history of the Warner Brothers musicals during 1933 and their political, historical and cultural connections -on and offscreen- with the… Continue reading Who’s In The Money?
The latest Philip Pullman novel is reviewed by Richard Howells, our Professor of Cultural Sociology, in the current (London) Times Higher Education. Fans will recognise this as La Belle Sauvage, the much-anticipated “prequel” to Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, which featured Lyra, Oxford, assorted witches, and armoured bears: A heady mixture of the familiar and… Continue reading The Book of Dust
The Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin (1969-1995) committed suicide in Paris aged twenty-six, leaving behind a handful of short stories and two full length novels, Notes of a Crocodile (1994) and Last Words from Montmartre (1996). Both novels are now recognised as part of the lesbian literary canon. Now Qiu Miaojin’s story has been taken up in an article by… Continue reading Life in Death, Life After Death: The story of Taiwan’s LGBTQ pioneer
Some sixty people were in the audience at Tate Exchange as CMCI’s Dr Red Chidgey chaired a discussion on the Productivity of Protest as part of their Time Well Spent programme. The event included a free screening of the documentary film “Generation Revolution”, which follows two Black-led grassroots groups attempting to create radical change. Included in the… Continue reading Generation Revolution
Senior Lecturer Dr Paul Sweetman has been awarded a grant of more than £20,000 to work with colleagues in Norway and Sweden on a year-long project on “subcultures and innovation”. The research is funded by Knowledge Works (www.kunskapsverket.org), a project-based knowledge centre financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. The centre aims, through the work of a… Continue reading Sweetman, Subcultures, and Scandinavia
CMCI’s Dr Ricarda Vidal will be presenting poetry, art films, literary translations and sound as she and her collaborator Manuela Perteghella present two mini exhibitions of their project: “Talking Transformations: Home on the Move” at conferences in The Hague and London. Ricarda will be at “Tuning into the Noise of Europe” at The Hague University… Continue reading Home on the Move: London and The Hague
We are delighted to announce the new website for the CMCI-led research project into “Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue”. Headed by our Professor Jeanette Steemers, the researchers are investigating ways in which European broadcasters, policy-makers, producers and children’s advocacy organisations can better understand the information and entertainment needs… Continue reading Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration
Yes: That is a Stoke City shirt. It is being proudly displayed by CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells, who was invited to speak at the launch of Henrik Linden and Sara Linden’s new book: Fans and Fan Cultures. The book is a scholarly exploration of the relationship between fandom and consumer culture, and includes chapters on… Continue reading Why, Why, Why, Delilah?
What’s the problem with creativity in media studies? That was the question posed by our guest speaker Professor David Gauntlett (University of Westminster) in the latest CMCI departmental research seminar. The idea of a creative life is very close to people’s hearts he argued, but the cynicism and economic exploitation at the heart of most major online… Continue reading What’s The Problem?
CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells has just returned from France as an invited member of the Délégation de King’s College Londres to L'université Paris Diderot (also known as Paris 7). The two days of meetings in Paris were held to consolidate research collaborations between King’s and Diderot. It was agreed that research events will be held… Continue reading The Spirit of ’68
CMCI’s Dr Nick Wilson and Dr Jonathan Gross continue to spread the word about their Towards Cultural Democracy project and report –this time with a presentation on a newly commissioned piece of research to some 150 people at London’s Barbican Centre. Commissioned by A New Direction (AND), the London creative and cultural education agency, the new… Continue reading Wilson and Gross: Live at the Barbican
CMCI’s Research Seminar series got off to a strong start with an extremely well-attended presentation on Hollywood and China. Our guest speaker, Professor Aynne Kokas (University of Virginia, USA) argued that the growth of China’s media market is transforming Hollywood “from the inside out” as the two “behemoths” veer unsteadily between collaboration and competition. Even as… Continue reading Hollywood Made in China
People seemed to be lining up in Amsterdam to laud CMCI Research Associate Dr Wendy Burke on the launch of her book: Images of Occupation in Dutch Film. This took place at the city’s EYE Film Museum and featured a Q&A session with Wendy and historian David Barnouw (pictured), together with a screening of one… Continue reading Amsterdam Book Launch for Wendy Burke
Another CMCI monograph has made it into paperback: Dr Jessica Rapson’s Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory… Continue reading Jessica Rapson in Paperback
CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells has an article in the latest Exeter College, Oxford University, magazine about their 20th century art collection. Professor Howells was a Visiting Fellow at Exeter earlier this year, and was impressed by a newly-arrived collection of paintings and prints donated by philanthropist Sir Ronald Cohen. In his article, Howells focuses on… Continue reading A Touch of Frost
Here’s more recent recognition for CMCI research: Dr Jo Entwistle’s “Configuring Light” project has been shortlisted for the Professional Lighting Design Recognition Award 2017 in the category, ‘Award for Research’. The final award will be presented during the biennial Professional Lighting Design Convention (PLDC) in Paris, in November 2017. Dr Entwistle admits that her fingers… Continue reading City of Light
Anna Reading, Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 She was part of a series called “The Choral History of Britain” which in its first episode examined “singing for solidarity”. Anna was invited to appear on the programme to talk about her published research on singing as part of… Continue reading Anna on the Air
CMCI’s Dr Ricarda Vidal will be leading a “ludic session” on language games with her collaborator Maria-José Blanco as part of “Anna Freud and Play”, a one day conference on play in the theories and practice of Anna Freud. Dr Vidal will explore how playing with words can help understand our relationship to different languages by inviting… Continue reading Ricarda’s Ludic Session
We are delighted to announce two recent CMCI academic research funding successes: Professor Jeanette Steemers has been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council follow-on funding for the project ‘Collaborative Development of Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration Flows: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue’. The award is worth over £100,000. The project involves international workshops… Continue reading On The Double!
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