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  • Btihaj Ajana Awarded Marie Curie Fellowship

    Congratulations to CMCI lecturer Dr Btihaj Ajana who has been awarded a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship. Dr Ajana will be working on the project ‘The Over-examined Life: Ontologies of the Quantified Self, researching the social… Read more

  • ‘The cloud is not green, cheap or safe’

    Professor Anna Reading, head of CMCI, brought ‘the cloud’ back to earth with a keynote address to 200 people at the Public Concert Hall in Norkopping, Sweden. Her talk: ‘Cloud Memories: The Material Fabrication, Frictions… Read more

  • Fan Translators Keynote From Dr Lee

    CMCI lecturer Dr Hye-Kyung Lee gave a keynote speech at the ARTIS Conference: Advancing Research in Translation & Interpreting Studies held at University College, London. The conference focused on multidimensional methodologies for collaboration and networking… Read more

  • Last Call for a Translation Game

    Here’s a last call for entries to an unusual poetry/translation competition as part of the Translation Games project, run by CMCI’s Dr Ricarda Vidal and colleague Maria-Jose Blanco. What you have to do is translate… Read more

  • “Our name is humankind, not humancruel”

    Our head of department Professor Anna Reading has a new book out this month. Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times is co-edited with her friend and colleague Tamar Katriel, who is currently Visiting Professor… Read more

  • Pitch Perfect

    Cultural and Creative Industries MA student Olivia Harrison has won the prize for best overall pitch at the King’s Cultural Challenge 2015 final. Olivia’s presentation “Make It” responded to the question “How can cultural organisations… Read more

  • lastminute.opening

    Sometimes things happen at the last minute as CMCI visual culture specialist Dr Richard Howells found out when he was asked to step in and open an art exhibition. The scheduled speaker (a senior fellow… Read more

  • CMCI Party Afloat

    CMCI students marked the end of term in London style with a ship-board party as they made their way by night along the River Thames. Guests arriving on the 100 year old “Viscountess” were welcomed… Read more

  • Gender and Creative Labour

    CMCI’s Dr Bridget Conor is the lead editor of the latest, special issue of the The Sociological Review, dedicated to gender and creative labour. Along with her fellow editors, she argues that international research in… Read more

  • Ethical Storytelling

    Our Professor and head of CMCI Anna Reading is in Finland this week giving an international keynote lecture on “The Art of Ethical Storytelling”. Here, she is using examples of plays and her own work… Read more