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  • Moving Hearts

    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… Read more

  • Creating Exhibitions: From Ideas to Execution

    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… Read more

  • Who’s In The Money?

    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… Read more

  • The Book of Dust

    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… Read more

  • Life in Death, Life After Death: The story of Taiwan’s LGBTQ pioneer

    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… Read more

  • Generation Revolution

    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… Read more

  • Sweetman, Subcultures, and Scandinavia

    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… Read more

  • Home on the Move: London and The Hague

    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… Read more

  • Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration

    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… Read more

  • Why, Why, Why, Delilah?

    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… Read more