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  • CMCI’s Professor Rosalind Gill attends the Future Sex conference

    Future Sex? CMCI’s Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis Rosalind Gill was a plenary speaker at the Future Sex conference held at UEL’s Docklands campus recently. Professor Gill spoke about her forthcoming book, co-authored by Meg Barker (Open… Read more

  • BBC Radio 2 features Cohen on jazz and film

    CMCI’s Dr Harvey G Cohen appeared this week on BBC Radio 2 as part of a new documentary entitled “Jazz at the Movies,” hosted by British jazz performer Jamie Cullum.  Drawing from material from his… Read more

  • Manifesto for the creative economy; Arts Policy rebooted

    Professor Andy Pratt attended the launch of an important report yesterday on 23 April 2013 at NESTA. The Manifesto for the creative economy seeks to re-energise what has become a rather moribund topic in UK… Read more

  • Creative Works, Knowledge and Locality

    Professor Andy Pratt recently gave a paper at a conference of the American Association of Geographers in Los Angeles. Andy was participating in a panel on knowledge exchange in the creative economy, with colleagues from… Read more

  • British Council, CMCI and the Americas

    A recent report (see  http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/Policy_Development/news/programme-refresh-americas/) from the The British Council’s Creative Economy newsletter is on the reshaping of its programme in the Americas, after delivering successful projects in the region for over a decade. Last… Read more

  • “The cultural and creative industries: new engines for the city?”

    Professor Andy Pratt has a chapter in a book to accompany a series of events at the prestigious Akademie der Kunst in Berlin. It was curated, and edited, by internationally renowned architect and architectural writer Wilfred Wang… Read more

  • Dr Ruth Adams takes part in Thinking Allowed

    Dr Ruth Adams recently appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed on Wednesday 17 April.  She was invited on to talk about her recently published paper, ‘The V&A, “The Destruction of the Country… Read more

  • Congratulations to Dr Watts

    We are delighted to report that CMCI postgraduate research student Anna Watts has now been awarded her PhD. Anna’s thesis uses a feminist discourse analytic approach to explore informal mediated sex education in Poland. Well done, Anna – your… Read more

  • CMCI made a good showing at ‘The Tablet Symposium’

    CMCI made a good showing at ‘The Tablet Symposium’, an event hosted by the Centre for Material Digital Culture at the University of Sussex on Wednesday 10 April. Dr Ruth Adams and research student Jeremy… Read more

  • Ruth Adams comments on new research on social class in Britain

    On Wednesday 3 April, Dr Ruth Adams made an appearance on the BBC Radio programme, ‘Good Evening Wales’. She was asked, alongside Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry, to comment on new research on social… Read more