CCCI@City

BACK TO THE FUTURE III

On Friday, Janet was part of a panel debate on the past, present, and future of independent arts and cultural spaces in Berlin Mitte – Berlin’s central inner-city district that is mainly characterized by high arts cultural infrastructure investments from national and regional cultural policies and subject to successive rounds of redevelopment and waves of…

MA student Phil Levine in ‘Being a Man’ at the Royal Festival Hall

Phil Levine, an artist who uses his head as a canvas, and an MA CPM student, is participating in the ‘Being a Man’ day at the Southbank Centre on 23rd November: Headspace: Men, Hair and Self Esteem 3pm – 4pm, Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall This discussion takes an innovative look at…

Jenny chairs Sembene! screening and Q&A with co-director Jason Silverman

Last Sunday, Jenny Mbaye was invited at the fully independent single screen community picturehouse in East Finchley, Phoenix Cinema, to chair a screening and a Q&A of the new and highly acclaimed documentary film Sembène! (Cannes, Sundance, BFI London, Telluride film festivals) with co-director, co-producer and co-writer, Jason Silverman. This event was part of a series…

Congratulations Penelope!

Many congratulations to Penelope Plaza Azuaje for successfully passing her PhD viva today, subject to minor corrections. Here she is with her examiners Dr Phil Jones from the University of Birmingham and Dr Janet Merkel from CCI. Congratulations Dr Plaza!

Three stages in the life of the creative economy

John Newbigin has just revised and updated his Guide to the Creative Economy booklet for the British Council; Prof Andy Pratt is one of the international experts who contributed to this document. It’s an update of a booklet that John wrote for the British Council 5 years ago which has been translated into half a dozen…

Jenny contributes to Arterial Network’s African Creative Cities Programme

Jenny Mbaye has been invited to participate in the General Council of Arterial Network held on October 28th and 29th, in Harare (Zimbabwe) in order to accompany as well as provide advices on the project, African Creative Cities Network (ACCN). Drawing on the pilot experience of “Ségou Creative City” in Mali, and conceived over a two-years…

‘Spectacular Environmentalisms’ issue of Environmental Communication co-edited by Jo now published

A special issue of the journal Environmental Communication, ‘Spectacular Environmentalisms: Media, Knowledge and the Framing of Ecological Politics’ guest edited by Jo Littler together with Michael K. Goodman, Dan Brockington and Maxwell Boykoff has just been published. The issue was an outcome of an AHRC Research Network Award that Jo, Michael and Dan collaborated on…

Marisol interviewed for Whatif.coop

Marisol Sandoval was interviewed for Whatif.coop, a blog dedicated to exploring the full potential of co-operatives today. Insights from Whatis.coop will be fed back to the national UK Congress and to Co-ops UK. Marisol spoke about her research on worker co-operatives in the cultural sector and why co-ops offer an inspiring alternative to precarious and…

Jo appointed as an Editor of European Journal of Cultural Studies

Jo Littler has been appointed as one of the new editors of The European Journal of Cultural Studies. EJCS, published by Sage, is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that promotes a broad-ranging conception of cultural studies rooted in lived experience. The journal is an interdisciplinary platform for charting new questions and new research, publishing articles…

Black Artists and Modernism

Diana Yeh has been invited as a key participant in running a study day on the artist Li Yuan-chia at the Stuart Hall Library, London in November, as a part of the AHRC-funded Black Artists & Modernism (BAM) project. The three-year research project is a collaboration between University of the Arts London and Middlesex University and addresses…