CA Day 15th December 2025 Celebrating its 18th year, CA (Conversation Analysis) Day was––as ever––a celebration of the global appeal of conversation analytic research. With a full programme of talks, including keynotes by Chase Wesley Raymond and Deborah Chinn, and the ever popular CAkeOff competition – delegates were certainly provided with plenty of sustenance for […]
Read moreCRCC member Arianna Maiorani has been invited for a residency at Texas Tech University, USA, jointly funded by the College of Media and Communication and the College of Visual and Performing Arts and hosted by Professor Erik Bucy. Lectures During one week 1(8th-25th October), she lectured on her various research strands and projects to UG […]
Read moreThe CRCC will be hosting a book launch event on Wednesday 3rd December for member Alena Pfoser‘s recent publication: Tourism as Memory-Making: Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire. Event details: When: Wednesday December 3rd, 16.00-17.00Where: U005 Brockington, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Epinal Way LE11 3TU and on Teams using the link below This will be […]
Read moreKing’s College London | 27th February 2026Deadline for abstracts: Friday 21st November 2025Keynote SpeakerNatalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of LondonNB: This is an in-person event to be held in London. Due to the sensitivity of the topics discussed, the symposium will not be recorded. Symposium details: The Counter-Research Symposium is a one-day event […]
Read moreThe CRCC will be hosting a book launch event on Wednesday 26th November for member Taeyoung Kim‘s recent publication: Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave: The South Korean Government’s Instrumentalisation of Popular Culture. Event details: When: Wednesday November 26th, 16.00-17.30Where: U005 Brockington, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Epinal Way LE11 3TU and on Teams […]
Read moreThe Centre for Research in Communication hosted the international, two-day symposium ‘Reactionary politics, women, and feminist critique’ on May 21 and 22. It was co-organized with the Department for Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and sponsored by the European Journal of Cultural Studies. The event focused on forms of media […]
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CRCC member Alena Pfoser has recently published a book entitled “Tourism as Memory-Making: Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire” in Palgrave Macmillan’s Memory Studies Series. This Open Access book provides the first investigation of the cultural politics of Russian tourism to cities that used to be part of the Soviet Union and the Russian […]
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In Re-Defining Terrorism: Imaginaries of Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation, CRCC member Itoiz Rodrigo Jusué delivers a timely and thought-provoking exploration of how counter-radicalisation has emerged as a powerful force shaping contemporary political and cultural life. The book breaks new ground in the study of counter-radicalisation and extremism prevention strategies – an area that remains relatively new […]
Read moreDr Vaclav Stetka – CRCC’s member and Reader in Comparative Political Communication –presented the key findings of the 2025 Media Freedom Poll on 12 May in Bratislava (Slovakia), at an event featuring representatives of several news organizations from Central Europe. First launched in 2022 by the Committee for Editorial Independence, of which Vaclav Stetka is […]
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The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the Successful Transitions Under Environmental Change research theme will be hosting a research seminar on Political Communication and Environmental Challenges. The event will take place on May 14th from 10-11:30 in D201. The research seminar will be centred around empirical studies at the intersection between politics, communication, environment/geography, and sociology – with four […]
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