CCPS is very pleased to welcome Professor Matt Hills of the University of Aberystwyth to give our first research seminar of this term, at 5pm in G50 of Millburn House on Tuesday 27th October.

The paper is entitled 'Sherlock, Adaptation and Fan Fiction: Dialogic TV or New Discourses of Fidelity?'

All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Please contact Paula Watkins on p.watkins@warwick.ac.uk if you plan to attend.

CCPS in colloboration with a range of departments (Theatre Studies, Film&TV, Hispanic Studies, WISC, CIM, WBS and the Connecting Cultures GRP) is delighted to be welcoming two visiting scholars from Brazil as part of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) Visiting Fellows Scheme. These international visiting fellows will be joining us for a three week visit from the 18th May-8th June 2015. For the first of those weeks we will welcome Dr Carlos Falci (University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte), in the middle week he will be joined by Prof Gilson Schwartz (University of Sao Paulo) and in the final week Prof Schwartz will be with us. For a schedule of activities please click here.

The Centre for Cultural Policy Studies will be home to the University of Warwick's first Popathon as part of The Mediasmith Project led by Ruth Leary. Popathon is an international series of hackathon events which bring digital storytellers, technologists and designers together to prototype the future of web-native storytelling. Participants will collaborate in a 24 hour 'sprint' to create an interactive story experience.