CCCI@City

Andy’s summer travels

Andy Pratt had a busy time over the summer. First he visited Osaka (July 22-24) attending the Association of Urban Creativity(AUC) 3rd Annual conference. Andy is Deputy Director of the AUC and organised the 2nd meeting in London last year. The AUC is the conference arm of the journal City, Culture and Society (CCS), which…

Cecilia’s new publication: Assembling the Past, Performing the Nation

A chapter by Cecilia Dinardi, titled ‘Assembling the Past, Performing the Nation: The Argentine Bicentenary and Regaining of Public Space in the Aftermath of the 2001 Crisis’, has just appeared in the book Argentina since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering the Past, Reclaiming the Future, edited by Cara Levey, Daniel Ozarow & Christopher Wylde and published…

Jo talks on meritocracy at Crossroads

Jo Littler recently gave a paper entitled ‘Meritocracy and the ordinary plutocrat’ at the 2014 Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference in Tampere, Finland. The biennial Crossroads conferences are organised by the Association for Cultural Studies and are the largest cultural studies conferences in the world. http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/?page_id=16

Birmingham CCCS conference

Jo Littler was recently a speaker at the fabulous ‘CCCS conference: Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 50 years on’. Marking the launch of an archive of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, this conference reflected on the influence and legacies of the CCCS, both inside the academy and beyond….

#CulturalValue: A Twitter experiment

Dr Dave O’Brien will be running a twitter experiment about cultural value on 18th and 19th of July. Cultural Value has become an important but contested term for academics, organisations and funders working in the area of arts and culture. Cultural Value is part of a large scale AHRC project, a university commission and is…

CCI graduate features in the City Alumni Magazine

Andy Pratt took the opportunity to explore the contribution of cultural management and policy education at City with Shireen Jungalwala owner and director of Chemould Prescott Road, Bombay, and City University Alumni. The gallery has just celebrated its 50th birthday. Download the magazine here and read the article http://www.city.ac.uk/alumni/benefits-and-services/city-magazine

Cecilia presents on grassroots arts factories and the city

On 5/07/14 Cecilia delivered a presentation at the international conference ‘Lisbon Street Art and Urban Creativity’ that took place at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal. The event brought together artists, sociologists, urban planners, art historians and anthropologists to discuss the role of culture in urban transformation and place-making, tactical urbanism in…

Organising knowledge in Culture and Creativity

Andy Pratt gave a lecture on Knowledge Transfer and the Creative Economy on a visit to the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Department of Management, as part of the Chair for Interfirm Cooperation programme hosted by Prof Jorg Sydow on June 24th. The following day Andy discussed research proposals for major research project on “organising for creativity”…

Andy discusses culture, the city and Milan Expo 2015

Andy Pratt gave a lecture in Milan on June 18th. The lecture was entitled ‘Whose culture for the creative city?’. The lecture was introduced by the Milan City Councillor responsible for Culture, and there were two respondent papers. The event took place at the magnificent Triennale Design Museum (http://www.triennale.it/it/ ) . The event was organised…

Once upon an arts policy: lecture audio

Last week our visiting scholar Dr Constance DeVereaux gave a public lecture on her latest book ‘Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy‘ The audio of her lecture, covering the narrative approach to policy analysis alongside a diverse range of examples from the USA and an international comparison of the idea of ‘excellence’…