CCCI@City

Art and utopia in a Brazilian favela

As part of the Creative Lab arts residency in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cecilia Dinardi was one of the curators of the collective video-art installation Micro-utopias: Inventive Practices and Imagined Futures which featured the work of filmmakers Michele Cinque and Evangelia Kraniotti at the Galpao Bela Mare, an arts venue located in Rio de Janeiro’s largest…

Ban sexist advertising?

In June 2016 London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his intention to ban ‘body shaming’ adverts from all Transport for London sites. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36516378 The proposal came in the wake of the protests last year over Protein World’s campaign: “Are you beach body ready?” Khan said: “Nobody should feel pressurised, while they travel on the Tube or…

And “up north” ( yes, it’s raining there too)

Ros went back to her Northern roots this week when she was an invited speaker at the ESRC seminar series on ‘Challenging Gendered Media Mis(s)Representations of Women Professionals and Leaders’ http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/business/research/misrepresentations/ Breaking with established leadership and management paradigms, Ros challenged the individualism and implicit woman-blaming of many attempts to ‘empower’ women in the workplace and…

28 Bedford Square (again)

In the last few months Ros has taken part in two events co-organized by the Nuffield Council for Bioethics and funded by AHRC. Both centred around ‘beauty demands’ and the globalization of beauty norms http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/beauty/about/index.aspx Kate Harvey, Senior Research Officer at the Nuffield, was so struck by Ros’s work – with Ana Sofia Elias from…

Social Politics: Having an impact

Ros Gill has been commended by the editors of the journal Social Politics for her contribution to significantly increasing the impact factor of the journal. Rosalind’s paper ‘Unspeakable Inequalities: Postfeminism and entrepreneurial subjectivity among cultural workers’ is the top cited article in the journal from 2014. http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/socpol/top_cited_papers.html

Kate Mattocks in Edinburgh

On Friday 10 June department PhD researcher Kate Mattocks participated in a summit on Women in Political Studies, which was held at the University of Edinburgh and organised by the Political Studies Association’s Women and Politics specialist group. Kate spoke on the panel Moving Through the Profession: Pipelines, Parenthood & Participation and co-presented findings from a research project on equality and diversity…

CCI at 40!

The Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries celebrated its 40th birthday – which falls this year – with an alumni event last week. A party was held and more than 70 people were able to attend, we had representatives of most previous years! The party took place at the wonderful Jerwood Space (behind Tate…

“From Produsers to Shareaholics”: New publication by Laura García-Favaro

PhD Student Laura García-Favaro has had a paper published titled “From Produsers to Shareaholics: Changing Models of Reader Interaction in Women’s Online Magazines” in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. The paper can be accessed here Abstract Women’s online magazines have been constantly proliferating and increasingly supplanting…

IPR and music: Andy’s new publication

Andy Pratt has a new publication “ Music rights: towards a material geography of musical practices in the ‘Digital Age’.” In B. Haracs, M. Seman & T. Virani (Eds.), The Production and Consumption of Music in the Digital Age (pp. 206-219). London: Routledge. The book has a twitter account<https://twitter.com/musicdigitalage> which you can follow. Abstract This…

Creative precariousness, urban discontent and cultural networks

Following last year’s public lecture at City University London by eminent Professor Néstor García Canclini (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Mexico), Cecilia Dinardi has organised the publication of his presentation in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, where she also wrote the introductory paper. The articles discuss the interface between creativity, urban transformation, precariousness and social networking. Cecilia’s paper places…