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  • Royal Standard

    CMCI’s Dr Richard Howells was an invited participant in an overnight consultation meeting at Windsor Castle, an official residence of Her Majesty the Queen. The event was set up to discuss “The Value of Culture… Read more

  • The Queen on the Big Screen(s) – Outdoor Screens and Public Congregations

    On Saturday 24 November 2012, Dr Ruth Adams presented a paper at the British Monarchy on Screen conference, held at Senate House, University of London.  Ruth’s paper was entitled ‘The Queen on the Big Screen(s)… Read more

  • Dr Bridget Conor podcast on screenwriting, creativity and gender

    Dr Bridget Conor was interviewed recently by Professor Toby Miller from City University London for Toby’s Cultural Studies podcast. The podcasts involve discussions with cultural studies researchers, artists and activists about culture and the media.… Read more

  • Carnival comes to CMCI: Entrepreneurial legacies of the Notting Carnival symposium

    Nicole Ferdinand, PhD Candidate in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries recently hosted a one-day symposium on the Entrepreneurial Legacies of the Notting Carnival on 25 October 2012. The day included a key… Read more

  • New staff publication: “Fashioning Models: Image, Text, Industry”

    The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries’ Dr Joanne Entwistle has just published a new book. Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry edited by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger (Berg, Oxford). The fashion model’s… Read more

  • More recession, more culture

    Professor Andy Pratt has just finished acting as guest editor of a special issue of the international journal Cities. The special issue is about creative cities, and how they have fared in the recent recession.… Read more

  • City as Loft

    Professor Andy Pratt has a new publication out today entitled  “Factory, Studio, Loft: there goes the neighbourhood?” Pp. 25-31 in City as loft: Adaptive reuse as a resource for sustainable development, edited by M. Baum… Read more

  • Culture and recession

    Andy Pratt gave a keynote paper at the Regional Studies Association international winter conference in London on Nov 23rd. The theme was Territorial Development Strategies in the Age of Austerity. Read more

  • Two Cambridges and a Titanic

    CMCI’s Dr Richard Howells was the invited guest lecturer at the Annual General Meeting of the Emmanuel College Society at Cambridge University at the weekend. The attendees also included representatives of the Harvard Club of… Read more

  • The Titanic on Hampstead Heath

    CMCI’s Dr Richard Howells was a guest lecturer last weekend (November 18th) at Kenwood House, the neo-Classical Hampstead mansion that is home to the Iveagh Bequest including a very famous self-portrait by Rembrandt. Other artists… Read more