CCCI@City

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…

British Psychological Society

It has been a busy time for Ros. Last Thursday she gave a keynote at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference, looking at The Cult of Confidence and questioning the rise of positive psychology . Relaxing at the conference dinner after the keynote (photo: Celia Kitzinger)

Feminism co-opted?

On Tuesday (9 May) Ros was out and about at Goldsmiths chairing a session at the Feminism Co-opted? Event with Catherine Rottenberg, Angela McRobbie, Sara Farris, Elizabeth Evans and Kalpana Wilson

Ros delivers Rosemary Crompton memorial keynote

Wednesday (may 10th) it was time for the Rosemary Crompton memorial lecture, in which Ros honoured the sadly-missed leading sociologist of class, work and gender, with a whirlwind tour of new forms of precarious work from academia to Uber. Ros themed her talk around the legendary collegiality of Rosemary Crompton, and drew on research from…