Author: Charles Leddy-Owen

Blueberry Soup: How Iceland changed how we think about the world

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What if a country rewrote its constitution using ordinary citizens and social media? That’s exactly what happened in Iceland. Blueberry Soup is an extraordinary documentary at the epicentre of one of this century’s most exciting movements: “The Icelandic People’s Movement”. The film is a deeply touching account of an empowered nation re-envisioning democracy through the drafting of its constitution. If given a second chance, how does a nation rebuild? CRaB will be hosting the film’s director Eileen Jerrett for a screening of Blueberry Soup and a discussion of it. This event is free to attend. It will take place on

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SEMINAR: CULTURE AND MOBILITY: DISPLACEMENT, ADAPTATION AND CREATIVITY

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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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Ahead of the Curve: The Contemporary Relevance of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity

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A blog post by Ben Garner, Senior Lecturer in in International Development Studies, School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth Earlier this summer I attended a 2 day workshop in Berlin that was organised to generate international responses to contemporary debates around cultural diversity and multiculturalism.  There was a particular focus on the relevance today of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.   This blog post is a reflection on some of the issues that were addressed in Berlin and some of the lines of research that came out of

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