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  • Richard Howells’ TEDx Talk Goes Live on the Internet

    Why do we bother about beauty? Where does creativity come from? And what can aesthetics tell us about the path to Utopia? These are some of the questions posed by CMCI’s Dr Richard Howells in… Read more

  • Btihaj Ajana Speaks at the United Nations

    CMCI Senior Lecture Dr Btihaj Ajana has been speaking at the United Nations in New York. The event was the ID2020 summit at the UN headquarters in Manhattan, and Btihaj was speaking on the topic… Read more

  • Teaching Awards for CMCI Staff

    Congratulations to Dr Melissa Nisbett and Dr Jessica Rapson who have both received Teaching Excellence Awards for their outstanding teaching particularly in terms of student experience and support. CMCI had a total eleven staff nominated… Read more

  • Ruth in Rio

    CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Ruth Adams is back from Rio de Janeiro, where she gave a keynote address at ProPesq PP, the seventh annual conference of the Brazilian national association of advertising and marketing researchers,… Read more

  • CMCI Students Win European Advertising Competition

    Congratulations to the CMCI student team on winning the pan-European, 2016 AD VENTURE student advertising competition, held in Zagreb. The four students that participated are all enrolled on the MA Cultural and Creative Industries programme and worked… Read more

  • Re-Hanging “Hangmen”

    In the build-up to the CMCI Live Cinema conference and event at King’s on Friday (May 27th), student Emily Brown has been reflecting on her work as a researcher on the project. As part of… Read more

  • The Inequality of Light

    Light is a powerful material that is it is fundamental to our lives, but not all of us benefit from it equally.  That is one of the conclusions of the final report of The Configuring… Read more

  • Art and Translation

    CMCI teaching fellow Dr Ricarda Vidal will be taking part in a roundtable discussion on art and translation at the Birmingham Library on 17th May. She will discuss her project Translation Games (www.translationgames.net) with artists, curators,… Read more

  • Gender, Diversity and the Media

    CMCI academics Dr Red Chidgey and Dr Christina Scharff have been exploring international collaborative ideas about gender, diversity and the media. They recently met with Milica Pesic, Executive Director of the Media Diversity Institute (MDI),… Read more

  • New Date for London-Rio Event

    There’s a new date for the London-Rio event previously announced on the CMCI Blog. This will now take place one day later than originally planned: It will now happen on Friday 27 May. This is… Read more