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Feminism, Anti-Feminism and Postfeminism: new article in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschchte

Ros has a new article in German in the cultural journal Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. Part of an issue dedicated to exploring anti-feminism, her article explores the co-existence of a renewed interest in feminism, with virulent misogyny and the persistence of neoliberalism and postfeminism. https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/267949/anti-feminismus

Ros at the UN

On March 19th 2018, CCI’s Professor Rosalind Gill addressed the United Nations 62nd Commission on the Status of Women in New York. The Commission was established the year after the end of the second world war and is the principal global intergovernmental body dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Professor Gill spoke…

Jenny Mbaye at the LSE Africa Summit 2018

On April 21st, Dr Jenny Mbaye was invited to moderate a panel on ‘Creative Industries’ at the Africa Summit 2018 taking place at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Directly following the opening keynote of H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, the interactive panel welcomed contributions from pioneer entrepreneurs…

CCCI at AAG New Orleans

On April 10th-14th, two CCCI representatives, Prof Andy Pratt and Dr Jenny Mbaye, co-organised with ex-CCCI colleague now based at Goldsmith University, Dr Cecilia Dinardi, an interactive panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) taking place in New Orleans. As part of of the series ‘Public Engagement in Geography’, the…

Andy advises the Kazakstan city mayors on cultural employment mapping

Prof Andy Pratt returned to Astana this week to brief local academics on a creative economy mapping exercise. This is using the methodology that Andy developed both for DCMS and UNESCO to measure cultural employment. The request was supported by the British Council who are advising the Kazak mayors on this issue. Andy visited Astana…

Andy Pratt briefs European MPs on culture and regeneration

Prof Andy Pratt has been asked to draft a report on Culture, Heritage and Economic development for the Council of Europe. The initiative was prompted by Lord Dundee, the rapporteur for the CoE on the Culture, Science and Education Committee, on the Culture, Diversity and Heritage sub-committee. Andy began this process 6 months ago with…

Andy in the media

Andy was interviewed as part of a package that The Observer ran (a half-page spread, 25 Feb) on training in the creative industries. Focusing on music it featured interviews with colleagues and students in the Music Department at City; Andy’s comments related to the implications for social representation of workers in the music industry as…

Laura Thompson on the Future of Dating

Last Friday saw Laura Thompson in a packed auditorium at the V&A Museum for a Friday Late event on ‘The Future of Dating’. She spoke on the panel titled ‘The Male Gaze Reimagined’. Her talk argued the market optics and logic of dating apps place women’s bodies under intensified scrutiny, which can manifest in misogynistic…

New (old) book for Andy

In a ‘blast from the past’ Routledge have decided to reprint a book that Andy edited 23 years ago! In a world where many academic books don’t survive 5 years in print, or are pulped, this is a surprise! The book, first published in 1994, was a collection that Andy edited with Rick Ball (now,…

Gender and Education, Post-Truth and Populism

CCI’s Rosalind Gill is on the organising committee of the 2018 International Gender and Education conference, to be held in Newcastle, New South Wales in December this year. The theme of the conference is ‘Gender, Post-Truth Populism and Pedagogies: Challenges and Strategies in a Shifting Political Landscape’. Keynote speakers include Raewynn Connell and Sondra Hales.