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  • Going “Globital”: Beyond Digital Memory in Brazil

    Five researchers from CMCI have just returned from Brazil after playing a leading role in a British Council funded Researcher Links initiative between six UK academic institutions and the University of Sao Paulo. The fully-funded… Read more

  • Debating the issue of local authority art collections

    Dr Ruth Adams appeared on Sky News on Sunday 20 April 2014, to debate the issue of local authority art collections, and what should be done with them. A Sky News investigation had found that… Read more

  • A Strange and Ancient Reminder

    A Strange and Ancient Reminder for Tuesday April 29: The Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries has pleasure in inviting you to join us for THE ART OF RE-ENCHANTMENT: MAKING EARLY MUSIC IN THE MODERN… Read more

  • Successful event on Cultural Consumption: From Research to Reality

    The recent event: “Salon Public on Cultural Consumption: From Research to Reality” took place on Monday 24 March and was hosted by the MA Cultural and Creative Industries student research group ‘Culture, Governance and Cities’.… Read more

  • New Book from CMCI’s Dr Bridget Conor

    Congratulations to CMCI’s Dr Bridget Conor on the publication of her new book Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice (Routledge 2014). The book analyzes the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the… Read more

  • New Book from CMCI’s Jessica Rapson

    Congratulations to CMCI’s Dr Jessica Rapson on the publication of her edited volume The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders. This new book, co-edited with Lucy Bond, is in the interdisciplinary field of… Read more

  • Special surprise industry guests drop in on the Music Business seminar

    Readings in the Music Business, the new MA CCI module led by CMCI cultural historian Dr Harvey G Cohen, just finished its inaugural run this week. Over the 10-week semester, students read some of the… Read more

  • Cohen and Marghitu double-billed at SCMS Seattle Conference

    If a certain pair of CMCI denizens look a little more haggard than usual, it’s because they are currently recovering from jet-lag incurred while presenting papers at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference,… Read more

  • Youth subcultures: what are they now?

    Dr Ruth Adams contributes to Guardian article on the fate of youth subcultures in the 21st century. CMCI’s D Ruth Adams was invited to contribute to the article by Alexis Petridis which was the G2… Read more

  • Dr Burke Lectures at Holocaust Awareness Event

    CMCI’s Dr Wendy Burke is giving a lecture as part of Holocaust Awareness Week for the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. It is titled: ‘In the shadow… Read more