Blog

  • Upcoming Event: Salon Public – Cultural Consumption: From Research to Reality

    We are delighted to announce an upcoming event: Salon Public on Cultural Consumption: From Research to Reality. The event will take place on Monday 24 March and is hosted by the MA Cultural and Creative Industries student… Read more

  • Translation Games: P.O.W.

    Translation Games, which is led by CMCI’s Dr Ricarda Vidal and Jenny Chamarette (Queen Mary), recently held an event which was conceived specifically for the Special Edition series at the Saison Poetry Library, Southbank Centre.… Read more

  • Upcoming symposium “1984 now”

    As the Theatre Company Headlong’s critically acclaimed adaptation of 1984 draws to a close after a national tour and successful run at the Almeida Theatre, a public symposium curated by Headlong and their King’s collaborators,… Read more

  • Our Biggest Fans

    CMCI’s “fandom/fan culture” student workshop proved a huge success, with ardent fans gathering to talk about their motivation, excitement, online activities and communities. Organised and led by fans themselves, the students discussed how the enthusiasm… Read more

  • From Buddha to Bollywood

    Bollywood came to CMCI –in the form of Professor Daya Thussu, who gave us a research seminar on ‘Bollywood and India’s Soft Power’. Professor Thussu explained that as the world’s largest film-producing nation, India had… Read more

  • Cohen expounds on 1930s Hollywood and politics on the CSPAN TV network

    This month, on American television and on the web, CMCI cultural historian Harvey G Cohen appears on the American History program on CSPAN, discussing the themes of his forthcoming book on the University of Chicago Press, The… Read more

  • “Category Error”

    CMCI academics Dr Hye-Kyung Lee and Dr Richard Howells were guests at a “provocation” event on “The Future of the Arts: Are Cuts the Greatest Threat?” held at the British Library. The keynote speaker was… Read more

  • Dr Paolo Gerbaudo speaks on ‘Anarcho-populism’

    Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, lecturer in Digital Culture and Society (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries and Department of Digital Humanities), has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Analysis, for the 3 February 2014 episode titled… Read more

  • MA CCI Graduate finds myths alive and kicking at Harrow Arts Centre

    Former student David Wilby, a graduate from the MA Cultural and Creative Industries programme, assists Harrow Arts Centre as a representative to promote upcoming activities and offer advice to the programming team as a HAC Ambassador. The… Read more

  • Uncovering Harry Belafonte’s Early Career and Political Activism

    On 20 January 2014, CMCI’s cultural historian Dr Harvey G Cohen hosted and co-produced a live event at King’s College London sponsored by the Institute of North American Studies, focusing on the forthcoming book “Becoming Belafonte:… Read more