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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Conference: Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World

Isabelle Cheng and Lara Momesso, CRaB members who specialise in migration in East Asia, have been awarded a total of €20,775 for organising an international conference entitled ‘Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border and People in between’ on 7-8 September 2017 at the University of Portsmouth. Attended by scholars from the UK, US, Germany, Japan, Macao, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan, this conference aims at enhancing the theorisation of transnationalism with reference to the rich experiences of Taiwan as a migration hub in East Asia. The conference will investigate transnationalism in four panels: sovereignty and

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

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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