September | 2016 | CCCI@City

Andy addresses Mexican Senators

Andy Pratt gave a keynote lecture at Mexico City’s first major conference on Creative Cities (Sept 23-4). Mexico has established a Creative City Strategy called Laboratory for the City, Mexico City’s Government Experimental Office. They hosted the event, PODER HACER (a play of words meaning “the power to do / what we’re able to do”) to…

Well done Dr Toby Bennett!

Andy was very pleased to congratulate Toby Bennett on gaining his PhD today (with no corrections). Andy has been supervising Toby remotely at KCL (where he was first registered when Andy taught at KCL). Toby’s thesis was on ‘Non-cultural work in the cultural industries’ and comprised of an in depth exploration of workers in the…

Andy talks to Nordic urban planners on the creative city

CCI acted as host for the Nordic City Network for the afternoon of their study visit of London. Senior planners and architects from Nordic region cities were visiting London to understand the sharing economy and London’s Creative Businesses. It natural that they contacted CCI who has a global reputation in this field. Andy was able…

Cultural policy-makers and creative workers publicly present their Report for 2005 UNESCO Convention

On Sept. 8th, public officials, artists and creative workers gathered in Kigali (Rwanda) to finalise the selection of cultural policies and measures showcased in the first Quadriennale Periodic Report to be submitted by Rwandan authorities, as signatory party to the UNESCO Convention 2005 (On the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions). Jenny…

Congratulations Dr Mattocks

Andy Pratt was very pleased to congratulate Kate Mattocks on being awarded her PhD on Set 14th. The title was “Intergovernmental cultural policy coordination in the European Union: the Open Method of Coordination and the 2011-2014 Work Plan for Culture’. Kate was examined by Prof Philip Schlesinger (Glasgow) and Prof Alison Harcourt (Exeter). Kate will be teaching…

Collectivities in Consumption Ethics

Jo Littler together with Michele Micheletti and Frank Trentman gave talks for the ‘Collectivities in Consumption Ethics’ seminar in Glasgow on Monday, a transdisciplinary event hosted by the ESRC. During the day discussion ranged from the Cesar Chavez grape boycott through the relationship between the fair trade movement and the welfare state to the potential…

Marisol receives British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant

Marisol Sandoval has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant for her project Mapping Cultural Co-operatives. The project will investigate how worker co-ops operate in the UK cultural industries and whether they can contribute to improving work in the sector. To map cultural co-ops in the UK, Marisol will on the one hand conduct an online…

Discussing Media, Power and Capitalism in Lisbon

Last week Marisol was in Lisbon to participate in this year’s mid term conference of the European Sociological Association’s Communications and Media Research Network (RN 18). Marisol was one of the co-organisers of the conference, which brought together over 80 international scholars to discuss the conference theme Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism. Critical Perspectives on Media,…

Congratulations Dr Kesimoglu!

CCCI is very pleased to congratulate Aysegul Kesimoglu on passing her PhD viva, subject to minor corrections. Her thesis was entitled ‘Modernization and Taste: A study of food, culture and identity in Istanbul’ and was examined by Prof Alan Warde of Manchester University, and our own Prof Chris Rojek. Aysegul is going to be busy…

Janet gave paper and organized two panels at RGS in London

At this year Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society’s (with IBG) Janet presented a paper and organized two panels. The conference ran from Wednesday 31 August to Friday 2 September, 2016 at the Royal Geographical Society, London and was attended by more than 900 scholars. Together with Vasilis Avdikos (Panteion University, Greece), she…