Institute for Media and Creative Industries Speaker Series
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London brings together researchers from a wide range of interdisciplinary fields to address critical questions confronting the media and creative industries.
Gestation and Storytelling
16 May 2024, 10 am – 12 pm
Speakers: Nompumelelo ‘Mpume’ Gumede, Lindsay Barnes, and Åsa Virdi Kroik.
Making and unmaking with metaphors: a reflection on creative methods in Un/Making CSC
February 14, 2 PM to 3.30 PM
Speaker: Dr Jessica Noske-Turner, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London.
Valuing the visual in the Mashishing Marking Memories heritage project methodologies
March 20, 11 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Lauren Dyll , Associate Professor, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS), the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
Alternative media and media literacy: state of the art, challenges and research possibilities
13 December, 2023, 1.30pm -2.30pm
Speaker: Ángel Barbas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain.
The online culture wars: a global perspective
7 November, 2023, 1.15pm -2.15pm
Speaker: John Postill, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University Melbourne.
New Thinking in Urban Creative Industry Research: Social Justice Urban Space and Cultural Production
June 29, 2023, 1pm - 6pm
Speakers: Prof Martina Loew (Technische Universitat Berlin); Prof Mark Banks (Glasgow University); Dr Joy White (University of Bedfordshire); Prof Andrew Chitty and Prof Graham Hitchens (Loughborough University London).
10 years of the June 2013 protests in Brazil: From democratic dreams to authoritarian nightmares
June 6, 2023
Speakers: César Jiménez-Martínez (Cardiff University, UK); Danilo Rothberg (Universidade do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil); Fanny Vrydagh (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Kelly Prudêncio (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil); Letícia Birchal Domingues (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil); Nina Santos (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil); Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Summer Harlow (University of Houston, USA).
Unmaking to Remake: A conversation on the place of care in communication for social change
June 13, 2023, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan
May 10, 2023, 2.30pm - 4pm
Speaker: Professor McRobbie