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 organizations that intends to explore the benefits of Hip-Hop-Based-Education as an inclusive school and community practice. Each episode explores the possibilities and benefits of introducing Hip-Hop-Based-Education, already a successful educational practice in the US, in the UK. Hip-Hop-Based-Education has proved to be successful in helping students with content acquisition, wellbeing and critical thinking, and it has showed advantages for school administrators, teachers, students and their families. Each episode will involve a different theme introduced through

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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 March 2020, 2- 3.30 pm, University of Portsmouth – Denis Sciama Building, Room 2.14. Tickets free, but please do register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/steam-education-a-global-hiphop-perspective-tickets-93305141189 Description: Featuring two prominent American scholars and community activists in the fields of Arts and Science education, this workshop explores how HipHop can reconfigure educational practices. Taking an artistic approach to educational and social reforms, participants will reflect and analyse issues that arise in particular areas of contemporary culture: race, gender, class, entrenched inequities

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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 Confirmed keynote speakers: Gurminder Bhambra, Jon Fox, Shruti Kapila, Siniša Malešević, Henning Melber, Sivamohan Valluvan Call: On 4th July we will hold the first in a planned series of international workshops at the University of Portsmouth. We invite contributions from scholars in all branches of the humanities and social sciences interested in developing new angles of research on the logics of citizenship. The topic of this first workshop addresses nationhood as a component of the

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