December 2020

Launch of the ‘Postdigital Intimacies’ Network 

CPC has been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a new network exploring how digital technologies change our understanding of intimacy in the 21st Century. At a time when most relationships are facilitated through and by digital technologies, the Postdigital Intimacies network argue that society no longer sees the ‘real world’ and the ‘digital’ as separate to one another. Led by CPC’s Dr Adrienne Evans, with Jessica Ringrose at University College London, the network will bring together experts in the fields of digital culture as well as government representatives,  

artists, activists and community members to explore the impacts these technologies are having on intimacy through a number of events, conferences, publications and discussion groups. 

To find out more about the network, contact Dr Adrienne Evans.

CPC PhD Funded Studentship:

A fully-funded CPC PhD studentship under this theme is being offered on the subject of The Transnational Flows of a Postfeminist Sensibility in the Asian Wellness Industry. The application deadline is 12th March 2021. You can find  more information here.

Coventry Creates: Wake 
Project by CPC PhD candidate Sanna Wicks

Working with researcher Clifton Stewart and Coventry-based theatre group Highly Sprung, Sanna's project Wake investigates the use of remote methods of production, exploring online collaboration tools to run the production of a mini-series. Wake is one of the responses included in Coventry Creates, part of ongoing work by Coventry and Warwick universities in the lead up to Coventry City of Culture.  

coventrycreates.co.uk/project/wake/ 

Midlands4Cities Open Call:
PhD Opportunities at CPC

The Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) will fund and train the next generation of highly skilled arts and humanities researchers through PhD scholarships. M4C open call scholarships provide studentship funding for 3.5 years and enhanced support for professional development training to successful doctoral candidates. The application closing date for the open call is 13 January 2021 (12 noon) 
Apply here

Pirate Care published in Neural 

The Pirate Care project, which was initiated by CPC researchers Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, has had article published in issue 66 of Neural. Neural is a printed magazine that was established in 1993, dealing with new media art, electronic music and hacktivism.

You can find Issue 66 here.

'Anti-Bourgeois Theory' Responses published in Media Theory

Two articles responding directly to CPC Director Gary Hall's 'Anti-Bourgeois Theory' have been published in the latest issue of open access journal Media Theory:

'Pirate Traces' by Gabriela Méndez Cota

'Anti-Bourgeois For What?' by Jeremy Gilbert 

Read Gary's original piece here.

During lockdown we hosted some online conversations entitled CPC Missed Connections, to allow for more indepth conversations between members of the CPC team and some of our international project partners. In the ViRAL online conversation CPC Co-Director Dr Jacqueline Cawston and Philipp Wittwer from the Dornbirn Archive in Austria discuss how immersive technologies are being used in the project to add to collections in museums and archives. 

START IN Workshop: 
view online

Our STARTIN workshop, 'Using online tools to stimulate social entrepreneurship in the classroom' took place via Zoom on 10th November, the video of the event is now available to view online.

Moroccan social media star Ihssane Benalluch recently visited our partner Ibn Tofail University on the Erasmus + funded CPC project PACES and wrote about her experiences online. In the post she shared with her 2.4 million instagram followers she says: 

"Hello, my friends, a new video on my channel, a very, very special video, I really enjoyed recording it, we talked in this video, about how our youth manages to challenge disability, and chart a way to achieve their goals .. Their stories are very inspiring and distinctive, and their achievements are impressive! The video is really worth watching, and the trust deserves everyone to see it, whether it's frustrating or not. Let us spread more

and hope in everyone's hearts. Special thanks to everyone who participated in the video, to our inspiring youth, Umaima, Reda and Asim, and also thanks to the administration of Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra and to eune SeniorSouth for the opportunity"

Thank you Ihssane Benalluch!
 

CPC research project AI-ED:

Teachers experiences with Artificial Intelligence research funded by The British Academy/Leverhulme Trust

The British Academy/Leverhulme Research Scheme has awarded Dr Petros Lameras a grant to carry out research on teachers’ experiences of how artificial intelligence impacts teaching and learning. The study seeks to elicit school teachers’ conceptions of AI-based teaching and learning and associated ethical, pedagogical and skills-related aspects for scaling-up practice. This cross-cutting edge research will pave the way for discerning a framework for AI-based teaching and learning that would help teachers to design and orchestrate AI-based practice, whilst aiding future AI educational systems to intelligently select, process and represent pedagogically-rich learning models.