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  • ‘Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020’

    The Soca News has reported on the recent ‘Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020’ event run by Nicole Ferdinand, PhD Student in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. “A new initiative,… Read more

  • Dr Btihaj Ajana collaborating with the theatre company Headlong on their new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984

    The “Digital Double app”, the first fruit of current collaboration between Btihaj Ajana and Headlong Theatre on their new adaptation of Orwell’s ‘1984’, is now up and running. This free-to-use app enables audiences to explore… Read more

  • Grant Success for CMCI’s Dr Joanne Entwistle: Configuring Light

    We are pleased to congratulate Dr Joanne Entwistle on the news that she is part of a project that has just been successfully awarded a prestigious network grant from the ESRC. Principal investigator Dr Don… Read more

  • Professor Anna Reading gives keynote lecture entitled ‘Restitution is impossible’

    Restitution is impossible’ was the provocative title of a recent keynote  lecture by Professor Anna Reading at an international conference on Memory and Restitution at the University of Westminster in July 2013.  The lecture addressed the different… Read more

  • Dr Ruth Adams attends conference on ‘Whiteness: Exploring Critical Issues’

    Last week Dr Ruth Adams travelled to Oxford to attend a conference entitled ‘Whiteness: Exploring Critical Issues’, which was organised by Inter-Disciplinary.Net and held at Harris Manchester College from 22-24 July 2013. Since the publication… Read more

  • Hooray for Henrik

    Congratulations to CMCI’s Henrik Lindén, who while still a PhD student with us has been given a permanent post and promoted to Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University. At King’s, Henrik is researching the art… Read more

  • Congratulations to Dr Kozic

    We are delighted to report that CMCI postgraduate research student Milena Kozic was recntly awarded her PhD with no corrections. Milena was supervised by Professor Rosalind Gill and Dr Louise Lee now at Roehampton University.… Read more

  • News from Nowhere

    CMCI’s Dr Richard Howells has given a research paper at the 14th international conference of the Utopian Studies Society. Howells spoke on “Discord in Harmonie: George Rapp’s Ideal Communities in the United States, 1805-1905”. He… Read more

  • Ruth Adams: English national identity expressed through popular music

    Ruth Adams recently gave two quite contrasting conference papers, which both focused on how English national identity is expressed through popular music. The first paper was called  ‘“God Save the Queen” – The Sex Pistols:… Read more

  • Henrik in Budapest

    CMCI PhD student Henrik Lindén has given a research paper at The Eighth International Conference on the Arts in Society, held at the Eötvös Lorànd University in Budapest. His paper was: titled “Analysing Newspaper Art… Read more