by Xiao Zhao From November 15th, 2014, Qixia television station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province started to provide sign language interpreting in the weekly news programme Xiao Rui Shuo Xin Wen (Xiao Rui (name of the hearing news presenter) Presents the News). The programme received immediate applause from the deaf community all over the country and […]
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Ethnology Crossroads
Reporting back from Ethnology Crossroads Conference by Prof. Máiread Nic Craith, Anna Koryczan and Cristina Clopot Ethnology Crossroads was a two-day conference organized by the European Ethnological Research Centre in collaboration with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, held on December 5-6th in Edinburgh. The aim was to assess the current state of ethnology in Scotland but […]
Russian Old Believers in Romania – Heritage Highlights
by Cristina Clopot ‘What is the future of the past?’ asked Christina Cameron, a prominent researcher within heritage studies, and she was not the only researcher to ponder on this question. An increased awareness of the richness of past inheritance is not directly linked with recipes to take these forward to be enjoyed by the […]
New project: RADAR – Regulating Anti-discrimination and Anti-Racism
The RADAR project has officially started! Funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Justice, RADAR (RADAR – Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism – JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271) involves 9 partners including Heriot-Watt and it will be conducted over 24 months (November 2014 – October 2016). The aim is to provide law enforcement officials and legal professionals with the necessary […]
Does culture make any money?
by Ullrich Kockel “Sculpture, poetry, theatre – tell me,” says Didzis Meḷḳis, “does culture make any money?” We are sitting in an office in the Latvian Academy of Culture: the International Editor of Dienas bizness, the business section of Latvia’s leading daily broadsheet, and I, Professor of Culture and Economy at Heriot-Watt, having just delivered […]