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Gender & Sexualities Research Forum event with Carolina Matos and Simidele Dosekun

The last Gender & Sexualities Research Forum event this academic year will be taking place on Monday, 16th June at 5 pm in room D427 (4th floor, Social Sciences building: http://www.city.ac.uk/visit#9601=1). We are delighted to have two great speakers: DR CAROLINA MATOS (City University London): Globalization, gender politics and the media SIMIDELE DOSEKUN (King’s College London): ‘Girly-girls’ of the global…

Jo gives talk on celebrity in Denmark

Dr Jo Littler was recently an invited participant in a symposium on the Celebrity-Business-Development nexus at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Jo gave a paper on celebrity and meritocracy, was a discussant for Professor Dan Brockington’s keynote, and was part of a final roundtable discussion with Uma Kothari, Stefano Ponte, Mark Wheeler Mike Goodman and Robert van Krieken. She has also…

Articles by Ros Gill and Jo Littler in Routledge’s ‘Highly cited in media and cultural studies’ collection

Work by Professor Ros Gill and Dr Jo Littler from CCI has been included in Routledge’s ‘Highly cited in media and cultural studies’ online collection of selected free-to-view articles. Ros’s article ‘Sexism re-loaded: or, it’s time to get angry again!’ was originally printed in Feminist Media Studies and Jo’s article ‘I feel your pain: cosmopolitan…

Newspapers’ EU election coverage misses the mark

Kate Mattocks, a PhD candidate at CCI, has written for The Conversation considering how press coverage of the European elections has not seen critical discussion about important issues facing Europe in the 21st century. Read it here

PUBLIC LECTURE: 4/6/2014 6pm, City University London Dr Constance DeVereaux, Colorado State University, ‘Once Upon an Arts Policy’

On 4th June 2014 Dr Constance DeVereaux, from Colorado State University will present a lecture titled ‘Once upon an arts policy’: The use of narrative analysis in policy science gained popularity in the 1990s but has been largely rejected by mainstream policy researchers working in a positivist vein. Narrative methods have been criticized for lack…

Cultural value, measurement and policy making

Dr Dave O’Brien has recently published an article in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education exploring the deabte over cultural value and its relationship to public policy. The article is available here and the abstract is below: No matter what the national context, the question of how to understand the impact of government programmes, particularly…

Professor Gill is in the House

Rosalind Gill gave a speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday April 28th, drawing on her expertise about gender and the media. Invited by Stella Creasy MP, and the National Association of Women’s Organisations, Ros’s talk was concerned with young women and the media. She highlighted the continued problem of sexism in the media…

Launch event: Gender & Sexualities Research Forum: May 15th, 5pm. Prof. Beverley Skeggs

Launch event: Gender & Sexualities Research Forum TALK followed by DISCUSSION and WINE RECEPTION, 5pm, Thursday 15th May B307B/C (third floor) University Building, City University London* Guest speaker: Prof. Beverley Skeggs “Figures of Fun, Subjects of Judgment in the Making of Proper Persons” Since Francis Bacon’s sixteenth century ‘theory of monstrosity’ those with power have developed numerous symbolic…

Surveying Manga Research

Dr Casey Brienza’s newest peer-reviewed journal article, ‘Sociological Perspectives on Japanese Manga in America,’ has been published this month in the latest issue of Sociology Compass. Abstract: Japanese popular culture has, according to journalist Roland Kelts, “invaded” the United States in the 21st century, and in particular Japanese comics, known as manga, have successfully “conquered…

Creative students: the evidence

Clue:Cold is an exhibition of forensic photographs, from the early 20th Century, printed by Stefano Amoretti and Mino Tristovskij – from original photographic plates – using the traditional/alternative emulsion technique. Decontextualized circumstantial evidences lead the visitor to investigate into a conceivable crime scenario. 28th April- 23rd May At the Camera Club, Gallery 1885, 16 Bowden…