Category: misc
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Andy’s new publication
Andy has another new publication out today, a book chapter in the second, and expanded, edition of Key thinkers on space and place. It now runs to 528 pages! This is an encyclopaedia style book organised by author – 65 key thinkers on space and place. Unique in its concept, the book is a comprehensive…
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New Journal, new paper
Andy is pleased to announce the publication of a new article, in a new journal: City, Culture and Society. Copies can be downloaded from this web site. The article is entitled “Creative cities: Tensions within and between social, cultural and economic development. A critical reading of the UK experience.” City, Culture and Society 1:13-20. The…
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Andy lectures at the Institute for Urban Design
Andy visited Zurich, this week (Nov. 4th) to give a lecture to architects at the Institute for Urban Design , at Switzerland’s top university, ETH “The creative city?”, Institute for Urban Design. His talk was based upon a critique of creative cities that he published in Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography 90B:107-117. entitled “Creative cities:…
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Andy in Donostia, Gipuzkoa
Andy gave a paper at the World Urban Development Congress INTA 34 held in Oct 25-26 in San Sebastián, the Basque Country, Spain (or as the Basque locals call it Donostia, Gipuzkoa). The conference took place at the Kursaal Palace, one of the architectural highlights of the Basque country (aside from Bilbao). His paper was…
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Toussaint Optimism
Lost in CCI bloggers are proud to welcome back Toussaint Nothias from presenting a paper at the International Conference on Media and Sport in Portugal. Toussaint based the paper on his MA CCI dissertation on afro-pessimism in French and UK newspapers during the 2010 South African World Cup. Encouraged by his MA supervisor, Dr Hatty…
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Young women’s negotiations of heterosexual conventions: Theorizing Sexuality in Constructions of ‘the Feminist’
Christina Scharff has a new publication is Sociology 44(5): 827-842. The article draws on her Ph.D. research and explores young women’s constructions of ‘the feminist’. Amongst other things, the article is about haunting and sticky stereotypes. Read the abstract if you’d like to find out more: ABSTRACT Even though the normativity of heterosexuality has come…
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New Reviews for “Duke Ellington’s America”
Several reviews have come in recently for CMCI Lecturer Dr. Harvey G. Cohen‘s new book Duke Ellington’s America (University of Chicago Press). In their 28 October issue, the New York Review of Books devoted 4,000 words to the book, including: “Of many artists it can be said that deep cultural currents can be read through…
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Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway Autumn Events in Los Angeles and London
CMCI Lecturer Harvey G. Cohen will be appearing at several public events in the next month. On Wednesday 10 November, he will be offering a multi-media presentation entitled “Duke Ellington in his Own Words” at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The event is hosted by jazz guitar legend Kenny Burrell, director of…
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Recent MA CCI Student Ichtertz Scores Gig With Sundance Film Festival
Katie Ichtertz, who just finished the MA CCI programme last month, has passed on the word to Lost In CCI that she has been hired to work from November to February as the coordinator of the World Documentary and New Frontier categories for the world-famous Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in the United…
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Andy Pratt has a new publication in Italian:
Andy Pratt has a new publication in Italian: ‘La cultura e le politiche basate sulle industrie creative : connettere produzione e consumo’ in F. Angeli (ed), Nuovi scenari per l’attrattività delle città e dei territori: dibattiti, progetti e strategie in contesti metropolitani mondiali. Details of the book can be accessed here. For those who do…
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A busy time for Dr. Ruth Adams…
Dr Ruth Adams has had a busy couple of weeks, squeezing in a conference paper and two publications either side of the start of the academic year. On 10 September 2010 she gave a presentation at the 9th International Colloquium on Arts, Heritage, Nonprofit and Social Marketing, which was organized by colleagues in the Department…
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UN/SIDA ‘Expert brainstorm’
In mid September, CMCI’s Professor Rosalind Gill took part in a prestigious United Nations/Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency ‘expert brainstorm’ to reflect on why there has been a lack of progress in achieving gender equality, fifteen years after the UN’s famous Beijing meeting, which felt so hopeful to many at the time. The focus of…
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“Duke Ellington’s America” Heads to the London Jazz Festival and Guildhall School
Duke Ellington’s America, CMCI Lecturer Dr. Harvey G. Cohen’s new book, now in its 2nd printing from the University of Chicago Press, will be the focus of two major free events in the next two months. First, on 27 October 2010 at 7:00PM, Cohen will be featured with the Guildhall Jazz Band and their leader/conductor…
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Reputation
Andy presented a paper at the Work employment and society conference, Brighton, 7-8th September. The paper was entitled ‘Reputation work/the work of reputation’ and was part of a whole day ‘strand’ to the conference on cultural work. The paper argues that this provides us with a way to discuss the diverse ‘values’ of work that…
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Cultural economy and development
Andy gave a series of lectures for ILO/UNESCO/University of Torino on the creative economy and policy for MA in “World Heritage at Work”/”Cultural Projects for Development” 13-14th September. Andy is a visiting professor on this programme which attracts international students engaged in policy and practice work for conservation bodies, especially the World Heritage Organisation. The…
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London Fashion week
If you are wondering what is going on at Somerset House next to Kings, it is London Fashion Week. No doubt you will see plenty of references to the stars, models and fashions in the popular press. However, there is a significant Cultural Industries agenda here. First, London Fashion Week, like other fashion weeks around…
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“Duke Ellington’s America” Airs Across America
CMCI Lecturer Dr. Harvey G. Cohen‘s new book Duke Ellington’s America (University of Chicago Press), currently in its second printing, has been receiving attention lately on the airwaves in the United States, from coast to coast. This Friday, 20 August 2010, at 6PM London time, Cohen will be interviewed about his book on “Metro Connection,”…
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Prof.Dr. Leilei Li
The Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries has been hosting the research visit of Prof.Dr. Leilei Li, College of Mass Communication, Shenzhen University (December 2009-July 2010). Sadly she has now returned to Shenzhen. Prof. Li has been working with Andy Pratt developing ideas about researching and teaching the cultural and creative industries. Amongst other…