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  1. Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone

    Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone

    The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective and Mediated Memory

    Kamila Oles Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone: The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective and Mediated Memory The...

  2. Brown Bag Talk: We created a new memory culture

    Brown Bag Talk: We created a new memory culture

    Remembering the victims of right-wing terror in Hanau

    Following the right-wing terror attack in Hanau on the 19th of February 2020, one of the survivors, Said Etris Hashemi, asserted in 2025 that "In Hanau,...

  3. Guest Lecture: Homecoming

    Guest Lecture: Homecoming

    Identities and Memory of the Holocaust Survivors and Greece

    This talk examines the complex and layered meanings of "homecoming" for Jews from Greece by tracing a continuum from wartime survival and...

  4. Guest Lecture: Screening and Intervening

    Guest Lecture: Screening and Intervening

    Documenting and Doing Memory Work in Das deutsche Volk

    Das deutsche Volk (2025) is a stripped-back, black-and-white, observational documentary directed by Marcin Wierzchowski that screens the events and above all...

  5. Guest Lecture: Football under the Swastika

    Guest Lecture: Football under the Swastika

    Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust

    Sport in the Nazi concentration camps and ghettos defies the modern imagination. Relying on long-forgotten memoirs and testimonies, Football under the Swastika...

  6. Film screening: Petit Mal
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    Film screening: Petit Mal

    Part of the Reenacting Women's Lives series

    Showcasing women's diversity with the screening of Petit Mal (Ruth Caudeli, 2022) and Q&A with actor and co-producer of the film, Silvia Santamaría....

  7. Guest lecture: Accents that disappear, accents that stick

    Guest lecture: Accents that disappear, accents that stick

    Indexicality and Minority Speech in Taiwan

    This talk will be delivered by Dr Tsung-Lun Alan Wan, Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang...

  8. Guest lecture: Rethinking resistance

    Guest lecture: Rethinking resistance

    Virginia Jewiss: Four plaques and a column

    In recent years, the field of memory studies has largely centered on what have come to be known as contested monuments: the many Confederate, colonial and...

  9. Making Waves Lecture Series: Dr Niall Sreenan

    Making Waves Lecture Series: Dr Niall Sreenan

    Abnormal families: a new literary history of child adoption

    As part of the Making Waves Lecture Series, the Development team invites you to our next event with Dr Niall Sreenan from the School of Modern Languages. Dr...