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Joanne Garde-Hansen to run Beyond the Digital Workshop in Brazil

Joanne Garde-Hansen will be running a British Council/FAPESP funded workshop at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 23rd-24th April. This unique collaboration between Joanne, Prof Gilson Schwartz (USP), Prof Anna Reading (KCL), Prof Michael Pickering (Loughborough), Paulo Nassar (Aberje, Brazil) and Prof Lucia Santaella (PUCSP) tackles the theme of Beyond the Digital - Collective Memory and Social Networks in Emerging Global Conflicts. The methodology of the workshop is a combination of keynotes, discussion activities, presentations, visits, group work and hands-on guidance. The aim is to engage 10 UK Early Career Researchers with 10 Brazilian Early Career Researchers in cross-culturally developing and designing one or more international research proposals with potential to be submitted for funding. The workshop will cover the following:

1) The exploration of innovative areas of media, culture, arts and technology research in the context of global innovation and change

2) The role of memory, heritage, culture, archives and history to an emerging global democracy

3) The debate around the role of economics in cultural exchange from an international perspective

4) To be engaged, generate ideas, communicate and be committed to the workshop

5) To be exposed to new cross-disciplinary, cross-sector and cross-cultural ideas and opportunities

6) To share knowledge for trans-cultural research with a view to tackling future research issues and pathways

Joanne has said: "The workshop presents not only a first for the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, collaboration with Brazilian researchers, it also lays the foundations for extending the reach of the Centre's influence into Brazil, a key area in our exploration for recruiting the brightest global citizens to our well established postgraduate media, arts, creativity and cultural management programmes."

Tue 08 Apr 2014, 13:45 | Tags: Events, News, International, Research news

Warwick Creative Exchange - Time to Connect!

Warwick Creative Exchange is a network of Warwick University researchers, cultural practitioners and producers looking for new ways to collaborate. The Warwick Creative Exchange website went live on 6^th December. And on 5^th February the Exchange will be running a Building Partnerships Workshop in which participants will identify and work with partners from academia and the arts to create viable collaborative projects (development funding will be offered to the most promising projects). See more...

Tue 10 Dec 2013, 16:57 | Tags: Events, Research news

The Cultural Currency of a Good Sense of Humour

On Wednesday 20th November, the Centre will be hosting the second of this term's research seminars. Dr. Sam Friedman of City University will be talking about his forthcoming book Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour (Routledge, 2014).

The seminar will be at 5.30-7pm in G50, Millburn House. Refreshments will be provided. Please e-mail Paula Watkins on p.watkins@warwick.ac.uk if you wish to attend.

Abstract:

Traditionally considered lowbrow art par excellence, British comedy has grown steadily in legitimacy since the ‘Alternative Comedy Movement’ of the early 1980s. Yet while there might be evidence of a transformation in British comic production, there is little understanding of how this has been reflected in patterns of consumption. Indeed, there is a remarkable absence of studies probing comedy taste in British cultural sociology, most notably in Bennett et al’s (2009) recent and otherwise exhaustive mapping of cultural taste and participation. This paper aims to plug this gap in the literature by examining contemporary comedy taste cultures in Britain. Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews carried out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, it argues that comedy now represents an emerging field for the culturally privileged to activate their cultural capital resources. However, unlike previous studies on cultural capital and taste, this research finds that field-specific ‘comic cultural capital’ is mobilised less through taste for certain legitimate ‘objects’ of comedy and more through the expression of rarefied and somewhat ‘disinterested’ styles of comic appreciation. In short, it is ‘embodied’ rather than ‘objectified’ forms of cultural capital that largely distinguish the privileged in the field of comedy.

Bio:

Sam Friedman is lecturer in Sociology at City University London. He has published widely on class, culture, elites and social mobility, and is the author of Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a ‘Good’ Sense of Humour(Routledge, 2014). He is also a comedy critic and the publisher of Fest, the largest magazine covering the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Thu 07 Nov 2013, 17:10 | Tags: Research Seminars, Events, Research news

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The Cultural Currency of a Good Sense of Humour