Citizenship, 'Race' and Belonging research group

Launch of Culture Bars Podcast

CRaB recently launched a new podcast series – Culture Bars. Culture Bars is a collaborative project realized by international scholars, educators, artists and grassroots community
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
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

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

8th December 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events

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

Conference report: Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World

2nd November 2017 CRaB admin Uncategorised

By Isabelle Cheng (University of Portsmouth), Lara Momesso (University of Central Lancashire) and Dafydd Fell (School of Oriental and African Studies) Academics around the world are frequently reminded by their governments, funding agencies, audiences and their own community that scholarship is not only for the pursuit of knowledge but also for making a difference to human life. Claiming that organising a conference can achieve these goals is an overstatement. Yet, hoping to facilitate a close dialogue between scholarship and activism was the rationale behind the design of our recent conference, Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border, and the People

SEMINAR: CULTURE AND MOBILITY: DISPLACEMENT, ADAPTATION AND CREATIVITY

28th September 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Impact & Outreach, News, News and Events, What's On

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