On 9 July, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam declared that a widely unpopular extradition bill, which had already been suspended by the Hong Kong government, was ‘dead’ – albeit not formally withdrawn, as most [… read more ]
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 ]
Amanda Garrie, Poet in Residence at Portsmouth City Council Thinking ‘I must go down to the sea again,’ I did. I found the front -including the promenade, castle and common grounds – entirely closed off [… read more ]
Over the next few weeks, the University of Portsmouth’s School of Media and Performing Arts is hosting a series of intriguing talks that are free and open to the public. Deborah Shaw, SMPA’s Reader in Film [… 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 ]
Contrary to the dominant view, Johann Hari’s important new book Lost Connections argues that depression is caused largely by social factors. University of Portsmouth Senior Lecturer and author of Madness, Power and the Media, Dr [… read more ]
Dr Stephen Harper of Portsmouth University is impressed by some aspects of the new cinematic telling of history’s largest military evacuation – but what about the film’s politics? According to my late mother, my grandad was [… read more ]
Portsmouth University media lecturer Dr Stephen Harper critiques Western reporting on the Syria conflict, which is worryingly reminiscent of the biased coverage of the Bosnian war in the 1990s. At the end of last year, [… read more ]
As everyone returns to the office in various states of unwillingness, this week we cling desperately to 2015 a little longer and revisit some of our favourite articles from our first year. First up – some of [… read more ]
Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is dividing Portsmouth Labour Party – many welcome the return to socialism, others are resigning in disgust. Taking a more nuanced view, Portsmouth University lecturer Stephen Harper wonders whether one man – however progressive [… read more ]
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