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Call for Submissions Are Now Open for the School of Arts Audiovisual Awards
The School of Arts is delighted to announce the 2022 dates for our annual Audiovisual Awards Competition and Ceremony. This is designed to encourage creativity, community building, and critical thinking among SOAS students, as well as engagement with extra-curricular artistic activities. Who is eligible to submit? All current SOAS students. When is the deadline? The…
Discussing Lucie Emch’s published audiovisual essay: ‘The Representation of Rape On Screen: How the Gaze Influences our (Mis)Conceptions of Sexual Assaults’
Earlier this year, MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries student Lucie Emch published her audiovisual essay ‘The Representation of Rape On Screen: How the Gaze Influences our (Mis)Conceptions of Sexual Assaults’ in Tecmerin Journal of Audiovisual Essays. I was very lucky to have the chance to chat with her about her essay, the process she…
Online Course: Curating Arts and Culture in a Digital Age
The SOAS School of Arts has organised a fascinating and timely online course which will be running this summer. It is made up of a series of five expert panel discussions, followed by active Q&A sessions with participants. Taking place every Thursday from 17 June to 15 July 2021, at 5-7pm UK time, the course…
The School of Arts Audiovisual Awards – A great year for student audiovisual work
The SOAS School of Arts Audiovisual Awards were held on Wednesday 16 June in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre. It was a great chance for the award winners, judges and students from School of Arts programmes to get together, get to know each other, and see previews of some fantastic creative work by SOAS students. The…
Discussing “Mapping UK Jazz” with Dr Caspar Melville
Caspar Melville is a senior lecturer at the School of Arts at SOAS, where he runs the Global Creative and Cultural Industries MA. His research focuses on Black British music. His most recent book It’s A London Thing is a social history of club culture in the capital, from rare groove to jungle – and…
Revisiting past CCIMSS events through recordings
As a student, I am not always able to attend the live events hosted by CCIMSS on Zoom, particularly at times when I have class deadlines approaching or other events on my timetable. However, I really enjoy having access to the CCIMSS YouTube channel, where recordings of the Zoom meetings are posted in the days…
Book Launch: The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures
This is a fascinating online book launch, which invites us to consider what we already know about communist cultures, and how we can expand our knowledge and understanding in this respect. In a discussion chaired by Professor Masha Salazkina, the volume’s co-editors, Aga Skrodzka, Xiaoning Lu and Katarzyna Marciniak, and contributing authors Lindiwe Dovey and…
Deadline Extended to 24 May for Submissions to School of Arts Audiovisual Awards
The School of Arts is delighted to host its annual Audiovisual Awards Competition. This is designed to encourage creativity among SOAS students and to engage with extra-curricular activities. In times where classrooms have become creative sites of interaction, community building and critical thinking, it seems as pertinent as ever to get involved. The deadline for…
Consuming the “West”: Film and Fashion in Japan 1923-39 with Dr Lois Barnett
In this online seminar Dr Lois Barnett explores the making of fashion trends in early 20th century Japan, through the lens of cinema. She discusses some key factors that impacted the formation of people’s fashion choices in this context. In the early 20th century, film was becoming a transnational medium and gaining cultural power. Film…
The University of Southampton will be hosting the BAFTSS Annual Conference from 7 to 9 April 2021
Time and the Body in Film, TV and Screen Studies The University of Southampton is delighted to be hosting the 9th British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Conference, whose theme is Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies. In focusing on time and the body, the conference seeks to…
Discussing Passages with Professor Lúcia Nagib
At CCIMSS there are often Watch Parties with filmmakers from all over the world. These are followed by a live discussion on the film. On this occasion, Professor Lúcia Nagib engages us in an exploration of her 2019 documentary film Passages, written and directed in collaboration with Samuel Paiva. This documentary tells the story of…
“Media, ‘Diversity’ and Racial Capitalism” – Dr Anamik Saha
In this seminar, Dr Anamik Saha, lecturer of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, opens an important discussion about diversity in publishing. He presents some key findings from the 2020 report, Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing, based on research conducted by himself and Dr Sandra van Lente, in partnership with Spread the Word. This…
“For A Collective Common Creativity” – Dr Oli Mould
In this thought-provoking seminar, Dr Oli Mould discusses the meanings and applications of ethical mutualism, a framework of thought and behaviour that prioritises the wellbeing of the whole community. Dr Mould explores how such a framework could be used to build strong and deeply connected societies, based on the principles of empathy and solidarity. Dr…
Welcoming Bloggers and Contributing Writers
The public events and seminars organised by CCIMSS are a fantastic space for us to share our thoughts and raise questions. They are an insightful, dialogical space where we can work together to unpack a range of themes within the creative, cultural and screen media industries, learning from each other’s perspectives and experiences. At CCIMSS,…
Call for Submissions are Now Open for the School of Arts Audiovisual Awards
The School of Arts is delighted to host its annual Audiovisual Awards Competition. This is designed to encourage creativity among SOAS students and to engage with extra-curricular activities. In times where classrooms have become creative sites of interaction, community building and critical thinking, it seems as pertinent as ever to get involved. The deadline for…
Welcome to the CCIMSS blog
CCIMSS is an interdisciplinary research and teaching centre co-chaired by Prof Lindiwe Dovey and Dr Caspar Melville that focuses on exploring the dynamic relationships among cultural production, aesthetics, ethics and cultural economies in local and global contexts, with a particular focus on film and screen cultures, as well as music. It is the home of…
CCIMSS Prize Winners
Last year we were so impressed by the quality of the submitted coursework that we decided to set up an annual CCIMSS Prize for two categories, the best audiovisual essay, and the best podcast. CCIMSS Best Audiovisual Essay The award winner was Donovan Mathews, for his audiovisual essay on Reassemblage and Gentrification in South London.…
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