Blog

  • Researching Media, Gender, and Sexuality in East Asia

    Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li Broadly speaking, my academic and teaching interests focus on two inter-related areas. Firstly, East Asian media and culture. Secondly, gender and sexuality through the lens of the multi-directional flows of transnational… Read more

  • Museums in Arabia Conference: An Intercultural Dialogue through Museum Practice

    Miruna Mirica-Damian At the end of June, King’s College London hosted the Museums in Arabia conference, a thought-provoking event that united scholars and practitioners interested in the development of the cultural sector in the Arabic… Read more

  • Un-Governing the Neoliberal Subject: Humanities in the Service of Cultural Criticism

    Jessica Davis Under the influence of neoliberal tendencies, knowledge generation within academia is increasingly focused on heightened productivity, metric performance, and enhanced competitiveness. Within this context, the university has been characterized by its recalibration through… Read more

  • Trans-Disciplinary Fieldwork and Post-Fieldwork at CMCI

    Camilo Sol Inti Soler Caicedo When I mention that I do research on dance, I am always pleased to see faces of interest, curiosity and intrigue. What is even more enthralling for me, and seemingly… Read more

  • Lumos!

    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… Read more

  • Queer Museology

    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)… Read more

  • CRAFT, SKILLS & MAKING: THE RESEARCH FRONTIER

    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… Read more

  • The Ethics of Fashion

    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… Read more

  • London Calling

    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… Read more

  • Intersemiotic Journeys

    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… Read more