CCCI@City

Beyond resilience

Andy Pratt has a new article (Beyond Resilience: Learning from the cultural economy) published in the latest issue of European Planning Studies. The aim of this paper has been to address the apparent paradox that culture has been the high-profile victim of funding cuts in the period of austerity; at the same time culture has…

Queering postfeminism

Ros will be attending the Lesbian Lives conference in Brighton later this month, presenting a paper with Roisin Ryan Flood on the extent to which postfeminism remains a deeply heteronormative concept. Drawing on analyses of the commercial queer public sphere, including dating and night-time economy, the paper will argue that postfeminist themes, terms and iconography…

Gender and the media: now in Chinese, German and Indian translations!

Ros Gill’s acclaimed book, Gender and the Media, came out in a Chinese translation this week. It has also come out in German and Indian versions.

Symposium: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism 16th February 2017; 4.00 PM

Symposium: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism 16th February 2017; 4.00 PM Room A130, City University of London, College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4BP The event is free but booking is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-rethinking-beauty-politics-in-neoliberalism-tickets-31687880303 Questions of beauty and visual appearing have long been central to feminist debate across a wide range of disciplines from art history to…

New book for Ros and colleagues: Aesthetic Labour

Congratulations to CCI’s Ros Gill and to Ana Elias and Christina Scharff from King’s whose joint book was published this week.

Visiting down under

Ros was in Australia earlier this month and had discussions with colleagues from several Universities in New South Wales and Tasmania, including Western Sydney, Macquarie, UNSW and the University of Tasmania. Ros also fitted in a dinner with Australian Feminist Studies editors Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever. Ros also discussed research plans with her long…

Jenny participates in UNESCO meeting on Urban Network on Culture

On January 12th and 13th 2017, UNESCO held an expert meeting in Paris dedicated to the definition and implementation strategy of HABITAT III orientations on Culture and Urban Heritage. The two-days seminar gathered eigtheen (18) urban and heritage experts – from UK, Italy, South Africa, USA, Chile, France, China and Turkey – as well as…

Jenny features on the UNESCO Convention 2005’s new promotional video

During UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention 2005 on December 15th 2016, the Section on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions presented a recently produced short film on the SIDA funded project “Enhancing fundamental freedoms through the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions”, delivered in 12 countries (Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Morocco, Senegal,…

Janet presented at 1st International RGCS Symposium in Paris

Last week, Janet took part in the 1st International RGCS Symposium “Work and Workplace Transformations: Between Communities, Doing, and Entrepreneurship” in Paris. She presented a paper on Co-working: Between an emancipatory practice for precarious freelance labour and the commercialization of collaborative work communities and chaired a paper session. RGCS (research group on collaborative work spaces)…

Yvonne Ehrstein’s report on feminist film & Q&A

CCI PhD candidate Yvonne Ehrstein has written a report about the screening at City of the film She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry and the lively Q&A after it. Read her report here