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What the audience wants: Audience research, race, and screen culture in postwar Britain. Dr Christine Grandy, University of Lincoln. 3/3/17

2nd February 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, What's On

This talk examines the persistent reluctance of producers and shapers of screen culture to regulate images of ‘blackness’ for British audiences in a period of increased immigration from 1948 to 1978. Producers and regulators at a variety of organisations tasked with shaping screen culture in the period, including the BBC, ITV, the BBFC, and various film studios, were newly invested in imagining the responses of British audiences in the postwar period. These organisations, alongside NGOs such as the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, constructed audiences as impressionable and fragile when it came to sexuality, class conflict, and politics on screen, but largely unaffected by negative representations of black and

CRaB Conference: Britain in Europe, Europe in Britain.

28th November 2016 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, What's On

Britain in Europe, Europe in Britain. A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Conference. Thursday June 22nd & Friday June 23rd 2017 at the University of Portsmouth. Keynote Speaker: Prof Arthur Aughey, University of Ulster The Brexit result of June 23rd 2016 shocked Britain and Europe and has revealed a deep division within the country. In the months following the vote, the media continue to report on an almost daily basis about efforts by the ‘Remainers’ to reverse the referendum result, or on attempts by the ‘Leavers’ to speed up the triggering of Article 50. Tragically, the media also report on an almost daily basis about

Booklaunch for Lexie Scherer’s Children, Literacy and Ethnicity

11th November 2016 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, Previous Events

On 8 April 2016 one of CRaB’s members, Lexie Scherer, from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Education and Childhood Studies, launched her book Children, Literacy and Ethnicity: Children Reading the Primary School at the university’s local branch of Blackwell’s. Professor Matthew Weait, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities andSocial Sciences, spoke about the importance of books and bookshops generally, about the importance of children’s reading and literature, and about his pride in a colleague having conducted and published such important research. Lexie then introduced the book, thanking the children involved in her research – mostly ethnic minority and refugee children