Global Cultures Institute

Global Cultures MA

Our online Global Cultures Master’s, Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate…

An evening with Tan Twan Eng

Discover a new perspective on Penang, Malaysia - 27 Sep

We Were Here screening and Q&A

With director David Weissman - 26 Sept

Preserving cultural archives during the Sudan war

Activating the Exile: digitising the films of Hussein Shariffe

New book examines smartphones and cultures of intimacy

Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis

Talking beyond boundaries

At a time when the notion of 'culture' has become the site of so much polarising debate and contestation, which stokes so much harmful division, how to we keep communicating about, through and across cultures?

Whether as lines on the map, or hostile attitudes to racial, sexual, national, and other forms of difference, cultural boundaries can form ramparts that divide ‘us’ from ‘them’.

To address these better, we need critically to understand their origin and development. The Institute exists to promote this understanding through research, education, and public and community engagement. It exists, in short, to talk beyond boundaries.