The 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 […]
King’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 […]
The 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr 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 […]
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 […]
The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture participated in several events on May 9th as part of a campus visit by Cllr. Naomi Bottomley, Dr. Jeevun Sandher, MP, and Cllr. Margaret Smidowicz. Schedule Highlights: All events were hosted by Anthony Kevins, CRCC Political Communication Theme Lead.
The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture was very happy to host a talk by Dr Timothy Neff (University of Leicester) this week on How Media Ownership Matters. The event was held at Loughborough University (Brockington Building, B111) on Wednesday 5 February 2025. At the talk, Dr Neff gave an overview of his co-authored book […]
