Reflections on January’s screening of Blueberry Soup

CRaB postgraduate researcher Carlus Hudson has written the following reflections on the screening of Blueberry Soup which was hosted by CRaB earlier this year. Blueberry Soup: How Iceland changed the way we think about the world On 10th January, CRaB was joined by documentary-maker Eileen Jerrett for a screening of her film Blueberry Soup. Blueberry Soup follows the stories of Icelandic people who have taken their country’s future into their own hands and sought to rewrite the constitution. Iceland was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis: its economy shrunk by 10% and unemployment tripled. The largest protests in Iceland’s

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Conference on Englishness at University of Winchester, 28 March

One of our members, Charlie Leddy-Owen, is co-organising a conference on qualitative approaches to the study of English identities with John Denham from the University of Winchester’s Centre for English Identity and Politics. Charlie will be speaking at the event along with David McCrone, Anoop Nayak, Katharine Tyler, Lisa McKenzie, Sivamohan Valluvan, Robin Mann and others. The event will be held at Winchester Cathedral on 28 March. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stories-of-england-tickets-43440799601

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SEMINAR: CULTURE AND MOBILITY: DISPLACEMENT, ADAPTATION AND CREATIVITY

The Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries and CRaB are delighted to host an academic seminar on Friday 20th October with an exciting line up of academic panellists and practitioners. The seminar is in support of Journeys Festival International (JFI) Portsmouth and specifically responding to newly commissioned dance performance #Jesuis. Join us at the University of Portsmouth to explore issues of displacement, adaptation and culture at this seminar. It is human nature to travel, migrate and move. These movements can be viewed as voluntary or forced, economic or political, desirable or reprehensible. Regardless of how it is categorized, mobility is often an opportunity for learning. Many of us

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