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  • Can Computers Be Creative?

    Pulitzer Prize nominee Professor Arthur I Miller will be speaking at CMCI: He claims that there is a revolution going on in the world of art, a new avant-garde pushing the boundaries farther than ever… Read more

  • CMCI Asian Cultural and Creative Industries Research Society Event

    Our departmental Asian Cultural and Creative Industries Research Society have been in action again, this year determined to involve more PhD students in addition to the strong MA student membership. So recently they held a… Read more

  • Anna Reading and the “New East”

    CMCI’s Professor Anna Reading has been invited to join the Expert Committee for the Calvert 22 Foundation, which is addressing ways of developing a strategic approach to the Cultural and Creative Industries in Russia and… Read more

  • Dressed for Success?

    Creative workers: How important is your appearance, and does it matter at work? The Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries’ Drs Jo Entwistle and Paul Sweetman are inviting creative workers to participate in a focus group,… Read more

  • Dr Entwistle’s Shanghai Fashion Keynote

    CMCI Reader Dr Jo Entwistle was one of the keynote speakers at the 3rd Fashion Communication International Forum: “Internet + Fashion: City, Life, Happiness” at Dounghau University, Shanghai China. Her paper “Fashion communication in the… Read more

  • This is Tomorrow?

    The show may be over, but there’s now a video online of CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells discussing “In Our Hands”: the installation and exhibition based on his research and monograph A Critical Theory of Creativity:… Read more

  • The Hipster Handbook

    CMCI subcultures specialist Dr Ruth Adams is a contributor to the BBC Four television documentary:  ‘Peter York’s Hipster Handbook’. In the programme, social commentator Peter York seeks to understand what he sees as the modern… Read more

  • Dr Adams in Colombia

    Dr Ruth Adams is back from Bogota, Colombia, where she was speaking at MICSUR, a pan-South American creative industries convention. The event was quite the CMCI reunion.  Ruth’s invitation to speak came from an MA… Read more

  • Dr Conor in St Petersburg

    Continuing our updates on CMCI tutors and their international speaking appearances: Dr Bridget Conor has been in St Petersburg, Russia, as an invited speaker for the two-day workshop ‘Creative Labour Revisited’. This event was held at… Read more

  • Professor Reading in China

    Professor Anna Reading has been in China, presenting new work and building links with Chinese academics. At Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University (SJTU) she presented new work building on her recent book Gender and Memory in the Globital Age. The… Read more