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Conference: Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World

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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.

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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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The dangers of British fundamentalism

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By Terese Jonsson Do you know your ‘fundamental British values’? According to the UK government, these are ‘democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs’. Since 2014, the Department for Education advises all schools to ‘actively promote’ fundamental British values, and any school wishing to be graded as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted must demonstrate that this promotion lies ‘at the heart’ of its work. Since the passing of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act in 2015, school teachers, university lecturers and administrators, local authority workers, doctors, nurses, prison, probation and police officers must

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