CICCUP Launch Event

The International Centre for Creative Industries and Critical Cultural Practices (CICCUP) will hold its launch event on the 5th of December 2024, from 13:00-17:00.

Professor Caroline Bassett, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, will deliver the Keynote Speech, 'Always Already After: Arts, Humanities and AI'.

Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities, a Member of the Faculty of English at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She researches digital technologies and cultural change focussing on critical theory, gender and technology, digital justice, AI and generative writing. Key monographs include Anti-Computing (MUP, 2022), Furious (Pluto, 2019), and The Arc and the Machine (MUP, 2014). She publishes widely in multiple formats ranging from academic journals to arts writing. Current projects focus on digital humanities and AI, artificial creativity, Science Fiction, the aesthetics of refusal, and digital media arts. As the first director of Cambridge Digital Humanities she has led in establishing, expanding, and making sustainable, research, research learning, labs, and data school programmes at CDH, and has inaugurated the MPHIL in Digital Humanities (launched in 2022), and the doctoral programme in Digital Humanities (launched October 2024).

Venue: Room SPB110, University of Wolverhampton, Springfield Campus, Wolverhampton, WV10 0JR.

Host or Publisher Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Science (FABSS)