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New book series launched to cold (!) reception

Ros Gill and around 100 colleagues braved January’s Big Chill on Thursday night to celebrate the launch of the book series The Dynamics of Virtual Work. The series is co-edited by Ros and Ursula Huws, and is an outcome of the successful EU COST Action of the same name which has been ongoing for 3.5…

Well done Rachel!

Congratulations to Dr Rachel O’Neill who was awarded her PhD without corrections on Friday January 22nd. Rachel’s thesis looks critically at the London seduction community, seeing it as a site of mediated intimacy deeply shaped by neoliberal and postfeminist values. Rachel’s examiners were Professor Andrea Cornwall and Professor Diane Negra, and they commended the thesis…

Inventing the future with Alex Williams

CCI is very pleased to note that Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek have a new book out. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Alex is teaching on the BACCI Intellectual property module, and MA CPM digital cultures module this term. Alex is channelling some of the material from the book into the…

Cecilia Dinardi in a Creative Lab on Social Change in Brazil

Dr Cecilia Dinardi was recently selected to participate of an AHRC/Newton Fund Creative Lab programme during 10 days in Rio de Janeiro. Together with 19 talented participants – artists, researchers, activists and creative practitioners – she attended mentoring sessions and pitched collaborative ideas. Eight innovative projects were submitted for follow on funding awards, proposing creative…

Jo Littler gives keynote at ACS Institute, South Africa

Jo Littler was a participant and keynote speaker at the Association of Cultural Studies 2015 Institute in Bloemfontein, South Africa last week. Over 5 days a range of international staff and students gathered together to discuss issues connected to this year’s theme, ‘Precarious Futures’. It was an extremely rewarding and intellectually generous event and Jo…

Jenny Mbaye at UNESCO International Conference on Culture for Sustainable cities

Jenny Mbaye recently participated in the UNESCO International Conference on Culture for Sustainable Cities organised in Hangzhou (People’s Republic of China) from 10 to 12 December 2015; an event that was able to bring together some 250 participants from all regions of the world, and with a diversity of backgrounds and expertise in terms of…

Charlotte Bonham-Carter publishes in Cultural Trends

CCI is happy to note that Charlotte Bonham-Carter, who is a part -time PhD student supervised by Andy Pratt, has just published an article in Cultural Trends, it is a discussion review of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s view on Arts Policy. Charlotte has recently taken up a new job working as a lecturer at Central…

Andy Pratt in Mexico

At the beginning of December – on his birthday – Andy was guest of the University of Guadalajara in Mexico at the prestigious book festival; a packed audience listened to Andy, and Graham Sheffield the Head of Arts at the British Council discuss the cultural economy and cultural policy. Andy also participated in another panel…

Artists and gentrification in South Korea

Andy Pratt was the guest of Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture where he gave a keynote presentation to a conference on Artists, Gentrification and Urban Regeneration. The event was held at the spectacular new Town Hall building in Seoul. The question of gentrification is a ‘hot topic’ in Seoul right now; the 300 tickets…

REACT: Cultural economy hub

Andy Pratt is Deputy Director of the AHRC funded Creative Works London (CWL) project on knowledge exchange and the cultural economy. AHRC funded 4 hubs in the UK at £4m each for 4 years, and they are now reporting results. Andy spoke on two panels at the wrap up of the Bristol hub REACT in…