Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Professor Laura Murphy, an expert in human rights and contemporary slavery, who has lived in Xinjiang, spoke to the BBC about how forced labour in the region is a deliberate attempt to undo Uighur culture and diminish its population. Her interview was used by BBC 5 Live, on Radio New Zealand and BBC World Service.
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This week Maria Hanson, ADRC’s Reader in Jewellery and Metalwork is undertaking a research trip to Yunnan in China with Chris Knight, silversmith, researcher and senior lecturer in Jewellery and Metalwork. Maria was invited to curate an exhibition of contemporary jewellery and metalwork objects for the BR Gallery in the newly built Dali Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum. Sally Li, co-founder […]
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Title: The Development and Challenge of the Traditional XiJin crafts in Contemporary China Speaker: Kai Ren (Visiting scholar at the Sheffield Institute of Arts, Jewellery & Metalwork) Abstract In the past 40 years, China’s economy has developed rapidly, but at the same time, it has imperceptibly formed some bad social characteristics – pursuing efficiency, speed and quantity in everything. And […]
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Paul Chamberlain, Mark Phillips and Ian Gwilt recently attended the launch of the China Health Collaboration in Hangzhou. The collaboration brings together designers, researchers and students from Lab4Living and the China Academy of Arts with the express purpose of sharing knowledge, testing methodologies, undertaking research and proposing and developing solutions across the following themes: Healthy ageing Promoting independence Enabling environments […]
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