June | 2017 | CCCI@City

Going global: 360 media event

Andy gave a presentation based on a report that he wrote for the British Council on Creative Hubs. The event took place at the Queen Elizabeth II centre near Parliament. This report is being used as a reference document for the British Council advising cities and national governments on setting up and managing creative hubs….

The politics of an urban age: who governs the future of cities?

Andy Pratt spoke on a panel concerned with addressing the challenges of city-governments in finding urban solutions to global problems raises various questions in relation to the changing politics of the ‘urban age’, and the governance challenges posed by the apprehension of global and trans sectorial issues through an urban lens. The event took places…

Dark Chapter

We were honoured to have researcher, film-maker, activist and and writer Winnie M Li with us to talk about her extraordinary debut novel Dark Chapter. The novel tells in fictional form a story based on Winnie’s violent rape , and its aftermath. Published earlier this month, it has been shortlisted for many prizes and has…

Cosmetic procedures: the big questions

CCI’s Rosalind Gill was at the launch of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’s new report on cosmetic procedures last week. The culmination of several years work it ranges over topics as diverse as the grade of silicon used in implants to the increasing pressures on people to undertake a variety of surgical and non-surgical procedures,…

Gender, Sexuality and Digital Culture

The Gender and Sexualities Research Forum held a sizzling event on Tuesday June 22nd! As London’s temperature reached more than 34 degrees outside, our symposium was the hottest ticket in town- in a room with faulty air-conditioning and the kind of glass ceiling we would all have loved dearly to smash! Depite this, we had…

Jo at Barry Amiel and Normal Melburn Trust event

Jo Littler from CCI and Sociology was a speaker and participant at the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Summer School on ‘Culture and Politics’ in Eastborne this weekend. The participants were a mix of NGO workers, campaigners, media journalists, political activists, journalists and academics. There was a wide range of topical discussion, including discussion of…

Victoria, Creative City – Arterial African Creative Cities Programme in Seychelles

On June 16th, the launch of the continental pilot programme ‘Arterial African Creative Cities’ (AACC) took place in Mahe, Victoria (Seychelles) at the Cafe and Art Gallery, Kaz Zanana owned by the artist and vice-president of Arterial Network Steering Committee, George Camille. The event welcomed three speakers: Mamou Daffe who, as the chairman of Arterial…

Launch of second issue of ‘Making Trouble’

Lynne Segal’s frank, funny and inspiring political memoir Making Trouble: Life and Politics has been reissued with a new introduction by Verso. Jo Littler from CCI was very happy to be at the relaunch at Birkbeck last week on the day of the General Election results; and to talk, together with Lynne Segal Catherine Rottenberg,…

gender, sexuality + digital culture event: 20 June 2pm

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND DIGITAL CULTURE A half day symposium at City, University of London, University Building B200 June 20th 2.00-7.30pm //// Wine reception @7.30PM Keynotes: Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis New and established scholars and activists reflect on old questions and new challenges. Please join us for an afternoon of talks and discussion at…

Another successful launch of Arterial Network’s African Creative Cities Programme – Jenny in Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo)

Another launch of the Arterial Network’s African Creative Cities pilot programme took place on June 2nd in Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo), in the framework of the International Festival of Musics and Arts N’sangu N’dji N’dji organised by the Cultural Space Yaro. This launch follows a previous one that took place in May in one…