Blog

  • Creative Industries and Policy in Florence, Italy

    Professor Andy Pratt had a busy three days in Florence recently (9-11 November 2012). First he gave a seminar in the Postgraduate programme in economics and management of cultural goods and museums at the University of… Read more

  • Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

    Professor Andy Pratt was very pleased to attend a recent lecture at the LSE on 24 October 2012, given by one of his former PhD students: Christian Parenti. Andy supervised Christian’s PhD on crime control and urban… Read more

  • Professor Andy Pratt attends Montreal Summit on Innovation

    Professor Andy Pratt was an invited panellist at a high-level summit on  “Innovative Districts” the event was a unique initiative of McGill University and École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), in partnership with the City of… Read more

  • CMCI staff attend Cultural Evidence Seminar

    The Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries’ Dr Roberta Comunian and Professor Andy Pratt recently took part in a seminar on Cultural Evidence at London Metropolitan University’s Cities Institute on 7 November. They discussed,… Read more

  • Recommended: Henri Cartier-Bresson at Somerset House

    “Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour” is a highly recommended current exhibition next door to King’s at Somerset House. It takes some rarely exhibited black and white prints from the celebrated photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and… Read more

  • Outrage: The Podcast

    CMCI’s Dr Richard Howells talks about his latest publication: Outrage: Art ,Controversy and Society on a podcast organised by the King’s College London Press and PR department. It’s at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/Podcasts.aspx The full details of the… Read more

  • Staff appearance at ‘Theatre Plays on British Television’ conference

    On 19 October 2012, Dr Ruth Adams gave a paper at a conference entitled ‘Theatre Plays on British Television’ at the University of Westminster.  The conference was organised by the AHRC-funded project Screen Plays, and tackled… Read more

  • “Duke Ellington’s America” in “American Music”

    Reviews from academic publications are still coming in for CMCI’s own Dr Harvey G. Cohen for his book Duke Ellington’s America (University of Chicago Press, 2010), already named one of the best books of the year… Read more

  • Creative Works London

    Professors Ros Gill and Andy Pratt recently attended the formal launch of Creative Works London (CWL), the AHRC funded creative economy hub. In a major initiative AHRC is funding four hubs in the UK to… Read more

  • Authors’ rights in South America

    Professor Andy Pratt has been commissioned by the Caribbean and Latin American Authors’ Rights Society (CERLALC) to write a series of articles about the cultural and creative industries. The series of six papers, which are… Read more