CCCI@City

International Asian Art in London event and documentary film

Diana Yeh will be participating in the international Asian Art in London event in November by giving a lecture on the translocal art of Li Yuan-chia at the Richard Saltoun Gallery. The talk will accompany the first Li Yuan-chia retrospective in the UK in fifteen years, which Diana curated, and which will be showing until…

Diana contributes to Footprints television documentary series

Diana Yeh was interviewed for Footprints, a television documentary series, for Los Angeles based Phoenix Television, about her book The Happy Hsiungs: Performing China and the Struggle for Modernity (Hong Kong University Press 2014). This was the first book to bring to light the forgotten histories of Shih-I Hsiung, who shot to worldwide fame in…

Andy talks to India’s future leaders

Andy gave a presentation to Chevening Gurukul Leadership Programme fellows visiting from India, the event was organised by KCL’s India Institute. The fellows are all mid-career professionals from India. They are all invited as India’s future leaders, who are invited to learn from cutting edge practice in the field. Andy and co-panelists Rachel Harris (Director Festivals,…

Andy’s Impact with the British Council on Creative Hubs

Andy Pratt has been working on issues associated with ‘creative hubs’ and the cultural economy for some time. Several of the case studies for the AHRC Creative Works London project touched on this issue. Andy has joined with with Jon Dovey , Director of the REACT creative hub, and colleagues -Tarek Virani (CWL), Janet Merkel…

Ros: more advice on neoliberalism

Professor Rosalind Gill is on the Advisory Board for a conference on Neoliberalism in the Anglophone World that will take place in Montpelier, France in march 2017. Working with Simon Dawes, Nicholas Gane, Srila Roy and others she is currently reviewing the large number of abstracts submitted. Ros will be giving a plenary talk at…

Ros invited to speak ICA San Diego

Ros has been invited to speak on media and neoliberalism at the International Communications Association’s annual conference in San Diego next May. Her talk will put the case for understanding the cultures of neoliberalism and also its psychic life. There will be a publication in a volume of the same name edited by Marian Meyers…

George Morgan: academic visitor

George Morgan has returned for his second year of a visiting fellowship at CCI and we are delighted to welcome him back. George is based at the University of Western Sydney and is author of many books and articles on urban cultures, aboriginal politics and young people in the cultural and creative industries. He also…

The Dynamics of Virtual Work

The new book series, The Dynamics of Virtual Work, which CCI’s Rosalind Gill co-edits for Palgrave, is going from strength to strength both in terms of sales and interest from authors in publishing in the series. The editors at Palgrave said last week that it is one of the most vibrant and successful series they…

Farewell EU Cost

Our 4 year EU COST award came to an end in September 2016 with a final conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Action, concerned with how work is changing in the digital age, has comprised more than 25 meetings, workshops and summer schools across and beyond Europe. For the closing meeting Ros organised a panel on…

Ros gives keynote at Cambridge University

CCI’s Rosalind Gill gave the closing keynote at the Politics of Beauty conference at the University of Cambridge on September 3rd, focussing on her work on mobile phone apps concerned with monitoring, improving and surveilling appearance. The keynote closed an excellent – and truly transnational and interdisciplinary – event in which other speakers includedMimi Nguyen,…