July | 2015 | CCCI@City

New Director of Tate Britain is a CCI alumnus

CCI wants to congratulate Alex Farquharson on being appointed Director of Tate Britain. Alex is an alumna of City, and what is now the MA Culture, Policy and Management degree. Alex studied for an MA in Arts Criticism at City in 1992. Alex was previously head of Nottingham Contemporary, whom Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota said had…

Congratulations Dr Gaio!!

Congratulations to our colleague Ana Gaio who, in her ‘spare time’ whilst she has been running the MA in CPM, has been toiling away in the Brussels archives researching her PhD thesis. On Friday 17th July she successfully defended her thesis, entitled “Policy formation in the European Community – the case of culture”. The examiners…

Kate Mattocks in Milan: Focus on cultural policy

Over four extremely hot days in the beginning of July, department PhD student Kate Mattocks attended the 2nd International Conference on Public Policy. The conference, in its second year, attracted 1200 scholars from around the world for several days of debate and discussion on public policy. Along with Lisa Marx, from the University of Geneva,…

Andy appears on BBC Newsnight

Professor Andy Pratt appeared on the BBC flagship news programme on Friday July 10th. A link to the programme is is here (valid until early August). The programme was a special live broadcast from Manchester Intrenational Festival (of arts). Andy was discussing the challenges of cultural policy and access to arts and culture for all; especially…

Publishing Research Quarterly Editorial Board

Casey Brienza has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Publishing Research Quarterly, an academic journal published by Springer currently in its 31st year. She is the first and to date only board member based in the UK. Publishing Research Quarterly is an international forum for the publication of original peer-reviewed papers offering significant…

Post-communist creative work

Ros Gill and Andy Pratt have been involved in a research mentoring project on “Post-communist creative work” in a project co-ordinated by Dr Ana Alacovska based at Copenhagen Business School. The main aim of the project is to investigate the subjective experiences of and the emotional responses to creative work in the post-communist Balkans, namely…

‘Placing’ culture in urban China

Andy Pratt took part in a post-graduate seminar on July 2nd with Hyun Bang Shin, Andy Pratt, Chris Berry, and Maurizio Marinelli on the relationship between culture and cities in China. The objective was to exchange research insights and to promote and explore transdisciplinary exchange. The seminar was arranged by Murray McKenzie and Yixiang Sun…

First Five at New Criticals

What are the first five websites you check each morning? See Casey Brienza’s answer this week at New Criticals. First Five is an ongoing project curated by Tamsyn Gilbert (The New School). Other contributors invited to participate include danah boyd, Alonda Nelson, Jussi Parikka, Saskia Sassen, Theda Skocpol, Richard Stallman, Aaron Swartz, Loic Wacquant and…

Congratulations to Dr Feyza Akinerdem!

Warm congratulations to Feyza Akinerdem who passed her PhD on Friday. Feyza conducted an ethnography of a Turkish reality TV show in which people solicit and meet potential marriage partners. The show is one of the longest running and most popular on Turkish TV and Feyza spent many months on the set in Istanbul, interviewing…

Public Lecture Announcement: Homeland Tourism on July 20

Dr Jillian Powers (Brandeis University) will be in London on July 20 to give a lecture on “The Baggage of Tourism: Collecting Memories and Navigating Kinship on “Diaspora Homeland Tours.” All welcome! Date and Time: July 20, 5 pm Location: Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE Abstract: Diasporic…