On Friday 19th July, researchers from the University of Portsmouth’s Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) will be presenting their work at Visualising the Past, a daylong symposium devoted to historical representation across a [… read more ]
What do we really know about our elected representatives in Portsmouth? What are their interests, activities, attitudes and intentions? How are they accountable to voters? What connections do they have to external organisations? What connections [… read more ]
On Friday 19th July, the University of Portsmouth’s Conflict and Culture Research Group presents Visualising the Past, a symposium devoted to historical representation across a range of visual media. Featuring presentations from historians, artists and [… read more ]
The expertise of experienced burglars puts them streets ahead of householders, and even well ahead of other criminals, according to a new study. Dr Claire Nee, of the University of Portsmouth, leading a team of [… read more ]
In advance of his lecture at the University of Portsmouth’s Global Week on 19th March at 5pm at the Eldon Building, Filipino poet, journalist and activist Gene Alcantara discusses the unprecedented crisis engulfing his home [… read more ]
Writer and Daily Mail journalist Peter Hitchens has struck back today at Portsmouth University’s Students’ Union following the recent controversy over the decision to delay a planned event at which he was to speak. Sarah [… read more ]
The Conflict and Culture research group at the University of Portsmouth’s Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries will be holding a topical and satirical multimedia event on 26th April 2018. Since Brexit and the election [… read more ]
Portsmouth-based author, publisher and S&C regular, Matt Wingett, argues that last week’s closure of Blackwell’s bookshop bears the mark of a wider malady: the corporatisation of art, culture and higher education in our time. Sadly, [… read more ]
In association with Star & Crescent and the University of Portsmouth’s Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, Portsmouth Bookfest 2018 will be holding a fascinating and informative Publishing Weekend on 17-18th February for local writers [… read more ]
Last year a YouGov poll commissioned by the End Violence Against Women coalition found that 64% of all women surveyed experienced unwanted sexual attention in public spaces. Rates for younger women were even higher. University [… read more ]
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