STEAM Education: A Global HipHop Perspective

This workshop explores how HipHop can reconfigure educational practices by taking an artistic approach to educational and social reforms. Time & Location: Tuesday 10th of March 2020, 2- 3.30 pm, University of Portsmouth – Denis Sciama Building, Room 2.14. Tickets free, but please do register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/steam-education-a-global-hiphop-perspective-tickets-93305141189 Description: Featuring two prominent American scholars and community activists in the fields of Arts and Science education, this workshop explores how HipHop can reconfigure educational practices. Taking an artistic approach to educational and social reforms, participants will reflect and analyse issues that arise in particular areas of contemporary culture: race, gender, class, entrenched inequities

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Call for Papers: Exploring the Edges of Citizenship, Workshop 1: Nationhood and Nationalism

Call for Papers: Exploring the Edges of Citizenship, Workshop 1: Nationhood and Nationalism International Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Portsmouth on 4th July 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Gurminder Bhambra, Jon Fox, Shruti Kapila, Siniša Malešević, Henning Melber, Sivamohan Valluvan Call: On 4th July we will hold the first in a planned series of international workshops at the University of Portsmouth. We invite contributions from scholars in all branches of the humanities and social sciences interested in developing new angles of research on the logics of citizenship. The topic of this first workshop addresses nationhood as a component of the

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Memory and Emotion: Refugee Week event with artist Hong Dam.

The second of JFI and CRaB’s ‘Coffeee Shop Conversations’ will be taking place on Thursday 21st June from 12.30 in Guildhall Cafe. To mark Refugee Week 2018 we welcome Hong Dam. Hong is a Brighton-based Vietnamese artist whose work deals with memory, loss and displacement in the context of her experiences of becoming a refugee as a child. She will read a short extract from her debut novel Sympathy for the Dandelion after which there will be audience discussion about the work and themes arising. Please come along – there will, as with all of these events, be free tea, coffee and cake!

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