News archive 2009
Print versionDecember
On 7 December 2009, entertainment lawyer, record company owner and music publisher Steven Machat discussed his extraordinary career and offered insights into the music business.
On 3 December 2009, in a talk entitled Cookbooks, Restaurants, Marketing and the Ethnicization of Food in Britain, Dr Harvey Cohen of CMCI spoke with food historian Panikos Panayi.
November
Centre Director Dr Richard Howells was an invited speaker at a UK Film Council event to launch their latest report: “Stories We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves: The Cultural Impact of UK Film 1946-2006.”
CMCI welcomes two new academic staff this month, Hatty Oliver (pictured) and Tracey Jensen, joining King's from Goldsmiths and the London School of Economics (LSE) respectively.
Professor Rosalind Gill of CMCI has chaired a guest lecture on “Creativity in Fashion: Fashion Design in the Cultural Economy” from Dr Amanda Bill, from Massey University, New Zealand.
On 5 November 2009, in the Czech Republic, CMCI Lecturer Dr. Harvey G. Cohen delivered a lecture entitled “Duke Ellington In His Own Words,” which previewed the main themes from his forthcoming book: Duke Ellington’s America (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
CMCI played host to two of the pioneers in arts-based interventions in business, at a workshop organised by Dr Nick Wilson. Alastair Creamer and Ollie Lloyd, having set up creative consultancy ‘Creamer and Lloyd’ in 2006, now act as ‘navigators’ and ‘translators’ between the worlds of business and the arts.
Following her presentation at the recent CMCI animation symposium, Dr Hye-Kyung gave a talk at the Cultural Technology symposium in Seoul on 3 November 2009. The symposium was organised by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institution of Science and Technology) and the theme was Internet, Society and Humanity.
CMCI’s Professor Andy Pratt has edited a highly topical special issue titled 'Copyright, and the Production of Music’ of the journal Information, Communication and Society (Vol 12.2) with Martin Kretschmer.
CMCI’s new professor Andy Pratt is certainly keeping both busy and productive: he reports two more publications and a keynote conference paper. The publications are: “Cultural Economy” and “Critical Realism/Critical Realist Geographies,” both in the International Encylopedia of Human Geography. As for the conference, Andy gave a keynote paper in Leipzig at an International Conference on “Creative Industries – Governance der Metropolregion” im Rathaus der Stadt Leipzig.
CMCI’s Professor Andy Pratt is recently back from Geneva, where he was attending an expert meeting on “Developing guidelines to assess the economic, social and cultural impact of intellectual property in the creative industries” at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (an agency of the United Nations).
A team of 13 Chinese students of MA Cultural & Creative Industries has won a quiz organised by the BBC's Chinese service, beating teams from City University, Imperial College, University of Westminster and Cass Business School.
October
Professor Rosalind Gill's latest book, published by Taylor and Francis on 23 October, is Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process.
CMCI is supporting this year's MediaFest at the National Media Museum. Professor Rosalind Gill of CMCI is a speaker at the event.
From 8 to 15 October current MA CCI student Alexia Achilleos is exhibiting at an exhibition called Fragile, the central theme of which is the humble cardboard box. Fragile takes place at the Post Gallery.
The symposium 'Animation Industry in the UK & Japan: Creativity, Identity and the Global Marketplace' organised by Dr Hye-Kyung Lee took place on Friday 30th October.
September
Mehita Iqani and Frédérik Lesage have joined CMCI as Teaching Fellows, having both recently completed Doctorates at the London School of Economics, where they also won teaching awards.
Dr Ruth Adams was filmed by KBS, the leading public broadcast company in Korea, for a programme about public service broadcasting in the UK. Ruth was asked questions specifically about Doctor Who.
July
King's College London has appointed four new academic and administrative staff to join CMCI in 2009-10, including Andy Pratt as Professor of Culture, Media and Economy, and Rosalind Gill as Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis.
May
CMCI director Dr Richard Howells's latest book, co-edited with Professor Robert Matson of the University of Pittsburgh, is a collection of essays encompassing painting, cartoons, photography, photography, television, film and advertising.
Dr Hye-Kyung Lee is the author of a KOCCA report on cultural industries policies in the UK, France and Germany, focusing on policies on audiovisual and comic book industries.