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  • A Book Launch and a Special Offer

    CMCI’s Dr Jessica Rapson celebrated her new monograph Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice at a drinks reception at the international Mnemonics Postgraduate Summer School, an event co-funded by CMCI (see our previous item).… Read more

  • A Conference to Remember

    CMCI is played a leading part in the Mnemonics 2015 event here in London.   Working in collaboration with Goldsmiths and the University of Westminster, this high profile international postgraduate research conference was part of the… Read more

  • Off the Wall

    Ruth Adams was interviewed on Sky News about the new Banksy exhibition, Dismaland, which has just opened in a derelict entertainment centre in the seaside town of Weston Super Mare.  The satirical exhibition, a pastiche… Read more

  • “It Don’t Mean a Thing….”

    CMCI Senior Lecturer and cultural historian Dr Harvey G Cohen provided commentary on BBC Radio 3, celebrating the history of big band swing music during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Along with jazz critic/author and… Read more

  • Life In Squares?

    Our Reader in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Dr Richard Howells can’t find much that is nice to say about the recent BBC TV Bloomsbury Group drama “Life in Squares“, but is much more pleased… Read more

  • Gender Recalled?

    CMCI is in at the beginning of new work on themes of memory, gender, human rights and resilience in the arts. It started with a colloquium at King’s involving some twenty five artists, storytellers, theatre… Read more

  • A Critical Theory of Creativity

    Dr Richard Howells’ new book A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design has just been published (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press). It argues that a Utopian drive… Read more

  • Dr Querol’s Paper at the École Normale Superiéure

    CMCI’s Dr Nuria Querol was in Paris to give a paper gave a paper at the ARTLAS Conference: “South-South Axes of Global Art” at the prestigious École Normale Superiéure. The conference focused on South-South axes… Read more

  • The Upside of Decline and Fall

    Recently minted PhD graduate Dr Jonathan Theodore has a double cause for celebration: He has just signed a contract for the publication of a book based on his doctoral thesis. His book will investigate representations… Read more

  • Who Dunnit?

    Who invented the cinema? If you are French, you will probably say: “The Lumière Brothers”. If you are American, no doubt: “Thomas Edison”. But CMCI’s Dr Richard Howells appeared on BBC Radio 4’s flagship “Today”… Read more