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  • Conference Prize for CMCI Doctoral Student

    Congratulations to current CMCI doctoral student Roger Hallam, who has been awarded the prize for the best PhD paper at the MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) conference. Roger’s paper reported on a randomised,… Read more

  • Richard Howells Adresses World Leaders Programme

    CMCI cultural sociologist Dr Richard Howells was invited by the British Government Foreign and Commonwealth Office to address their International Leaders Programme, held in central London. Dr Howells spoke to delegates from around the world… Read more

  • Fashion Victims –and Men with Beards

    CMCI senior lecturer Dr Jo Entwistle appeared on BBC Radio 4s “Thinking Aloud” programme to talk about how we make sense of fashions. First, she discussed fashions that cause harm or even kill (for example,… Read more

  • Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky

    CMCI teaching fellow and popular music specialist Dr Kevin Milburn writes: “I’ve seen London in shock (Diana), angry and defiant (7/7), and disbelieving and delirious (winning the Olympic bid), but, until today, I’ve never seen… Read more

  • A Hamster Called Lolita

    How much do you know about CMCI academics and their memories of Christmas past? For example: Whose family played out the Cold War over the turkey dinner? Who was once a department store Santa? And… Read more

  • Palinopsia

    CMCI Teaching Fellow Dr Kate McMillan has received a substantial grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to produce a new film-based work commissioned by ‘Momentum: Global Platform for Time Based Art’ in Berlin… Read more

  • The Pedagogy of Ambiguity

    CMCI’s Dr Nick Wilson hosted a one-day conference on The Pedagogy of Ambiguity at the King’s College London Strand campus. Delegates attended from across the UK to share thinking on creative practice arts-based approaches to… Read more

  • Entwistle at the Speed of Light

    From Sweden to the Netherlands to Whitehall… it’s hard to keep track of Senior Lecturer Dr Joanne Entwistle’s research travels this winter, but the CMCI blog is doing its best to keep up. First stop… Read more

  • Tate and Empire

      CMCI’s Dr Nuria Querol presented a paper at the conference “Artist and Empire: Curating in a Transnational Context” at Tate Modern in London. Nuria presented her exhibition “The presence of sound”, that she curated… Read more

  • Loving the Unloved

    They may be unloved by many, but CMCI’s Dr Anna Woodham has been doing her bit for those overlooked museum collections that can still have an emotional appeal. For example, she took part in the… Read more