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  • Modern Couples

    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… Read more

  • Female Futures

    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… Read more

  • New Year: New CMCI Publications!

    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… Read more

  • Third Edition of Richard Howells’ Visual Culture

    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,… Read more

  • CMCI Student Wins £5,000 Scholarship

    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… Read more

  • Outstanding Paper Award for Eva Cheuk-Yin Li

    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… Read more

  • Fashion in China and Korea

    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… Read more

  • CMCI DISCES with the Cultural and Creative Industries

    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… Read more

  • Cruel Optimism

    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… Read more

  • Museums in Arabia Conference

    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… Read more