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  • Utopia Unlimited

    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… Read more

  • Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: heritage in times of accelerated climate change

    The winter storms of 2013-2014 set new precedents of coastal damage in the UK, forcing government, heritage bodies and local communities to seriously reconsider the future management of coastal heritage. Relevant organisations were seemingly unprepared… Read more

  • Besides the Screen

    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”… Read more

  • Arthur’s Room

    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… Read more

  • The Page 99 Test

    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… Read more

  • Richard Howells and the Campaign for the Humanities

    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… Read more

  • Home on the Move

    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… Read more

  • Panis Angelicus

    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… Read more

  • CMCI PhD Conference 2018

    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… Read more

  • Moving Hearts: The Video

    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… Read more