Author: Jessica Moody

SYMPOSIUM: News practices and media law in Africa: Developing a research agenda.

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Date: 1 June 2017 Venue: University of Portsmouth  Park Building, Room 2.07 Information: https://www.dropbox.com/home/Public?preview=News+Practices+%26+media+law+in+Africa.pdf Event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/news-practices-media-law-in-africa-developing-a-research-agenda-tickets-34797501263 Description: This symposium will examine the changes and tendencies of news practices, media freedom and media law in Africa. This meeting aims at further developing a research agenda to explore political and cultural influences and post-colonial and post-conflict legacies on the development of journalism practices and media law and regulation in Africa.   Elements to be discussed (but not limited to): Empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of news practices in African contexts, including news values, editorial lines, journalism ethics and media

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Racism on Display: what should we do with racist material culture?

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If you walk around the delightful ‘Shambles’ of the historic city of York, through the small cobbled street of timber-framed buildings huddled together, you’ll find more than over-priced cupcakes and novelty-sized Yorkshire Tea teapots. The Shambles was once known as The Great Flesh Shambles, having served as the butcher’s street – and meat hooks still survive where animal carcasses would have once hung. If you peer into the tiny touristy gift shops here you will see other bodies hanging; the small ‘kitsch’ outlines of golliwog dolls hanging lifelessly from display hooks in shopfront windows, like so many lynchings. This ‘taste’

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“Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth” – Public Lecture by Dr Ryan Hanley

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As part of Black History Month 2016, the Citizenship ‘Race’ and Belonging Research Network hosted a public lecture on the history of Portsmouth’s black presence in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The talk, Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth by Dr Ryan Hanley, a Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford and was based in part on Ryan’s PhD research as well as new research using local archives and national databases such as the Legacies of British Slave Ownership database (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/). Ryan and I joined Mason Jordan on Express FM’s ‘Portsmouth Breakfast’ show on Monday morning to

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