May | 2015 | CCCI@City

World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) – Culture and ICTs in sustainable development

Dr Jenny Mbaye participated in a panel on ‘Culture and ICTs as drivers of sustainable development’ organised by UNESCO on May 28th at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva. The objectives of this panel were to demonstrate how with the active participation of government, academic and civil society partners, as well as…

Casey and Jo at the ICA

Casey Brienza and Jo Littler are just back from participating in the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ICA ‘is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. ICA began more than 50 years ago as a small…

Methodological proposal for comics research

Dr Casey Brienza’s 2010 article for Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, titled ‘Producing Comics Culture: A Sociological Approach to the Study of Comics,’ has been featured in Routledge’s open access Comic Book & Graphic Novel Collection. The article is free to read online and download through the end of August. Since 2011, Dr Brienza’s…

LSE Gender, Inequality and Power Commission

Dr Jo Littler was an invited speaker at the LSE Gender, Inequality and Power Commission’s fourth session on Media/Culture on 28th April. The Commission ‘is designed to draw on LSE research and external experts to provide theoretical and empirical knowledge to inform public and policy debates in the UK concerned with understanding and addressing the…

Online Misogyny and Sexual Harassment

Gender & Sexualities Research Forum (GSRF) at City University London Wednesday 17 June 5-7pm Rooms A107 and A108, College Building St John Street London EC1V 4PB Online spaces such as blogs, forums and Twitter are invaluable resources for feminist communities. However, due to its nature, the Internet also expands the space available for misogynistic discourses to…

UNESCO/Sida Expert Facility for the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

Dr Jenny Mbaye was recently selected to be part of the UNESCO Expert Facility (2015-2017), which aims at supporting capacity development initiatives for the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. She thus participated in an exchange meeting, which took place from May 17th to 20th…

Austerity and beyond, Greece and the cultural sector

Andy Pratt gave a lecture at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT, held in Athens, Greece at the Acropolis Museum, May 15th. Andy’s presentation was entitled ‘The cultural economy: from austerity to resilience’. The presentation is based upon a paper recently published in City, Culture and Society: “ Resilience, locality and the cultural…

‘A reconceptualization of gastronomy as relational and reflexive’ by Aysegul Kesimoglu in Hospitality & Society

CCI PhD student, Aysegul has an article in Hospitality & Society, in its first issue of this year. In her article, which is titled “A reconceptualization of gastronomy as relational and reflexive”, she explores the ways in which gastronomy has been conceptualized so far, in particular within the wider literature on tourism and management, and proposes an alternate way of thinking about it….

Culture and Informality in the City Studio

‘A Culture of Informality for City Leadership’ studio on 11th May brought together experts from various universities – UCL, Oxford, SOAS, LSE, University of Sheffield, Goldsmiths, University of Brighton, Colegio de Mexico – at City University to foster a critical debate about the encounter of informality with urban governance from a multidisciplinary perspective, questioning how…

Néstor García Canclini delivers public lecture at City University London

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Dr Néstor García Canclini (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City) delivered a keynote address on ‘Urban Spaces and Networks: Young People’s Creativity’ on 12th May at the Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre. Offering two perspectives on knowledge and the city – the creative industries and entrepreneurial strategies of artists and young communicators…