Last Few Days! CKC 2019 Early Bird Registration Closes August 4th! CKC 2019: Rethinking, Resisting and Reimagining the Creative City explores the contradictions at the heart of relationships between universities, cities and the creative sector. September 12-13, 2019 | Bristol UK Held at Watershed, the Southwest's leading film and digital media centre, the conference provides an opportunity to engage in critical dialogue with leading researchers, policymakers and practitioners while experiencing one of Bristol's vibrant cultural scenes. Panel, roundtable, and workshop themes include: Historicising Creative Policy and Practice Local Cultures of Resilience Precarity and Possibility of Creative Work Commoning the Creative City Creative Activism for Alternative Futures Universities and the Creative City Keynote speakers and panellists include: Ayona Datta, Reader in Urban Futures in King’s College London Teresa Dillon, Professor of Urban Futures, University of the West of England Kirsten Forkert, Associate Director, Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University Helen Manchester, Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures, University of Bristol Erik Uitenbogaard, Head of Diverse Economies at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, The Netherlands Visit the conference website at https://ckc-conf.co.uk to view the full programme and register. Rethinking, Resisting and Reimagining the Creative City is organised by the Creative Economy Unit, part of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol. Questions? Please contact [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------