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  1. 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...

  2. QueerTales: women's lives reenacted

    QueerTales: women's lives reenacted

    Inspired by feminist and queer efforts, Queer Tales will showcase stories that interrogate dominant narratives on women and their diversity. In these complex...

  3. 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...

  4. Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide
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    Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

    What makes life feel worth living, especially when it feels impossible to go on? Recent research into suicide prevention suggests that media reports about...

  5. 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....

  6. The olive and the oak: a meeting of east and west through stories, dance and music

    The olive and the oak: a meeting of east and west through stories, dance and music

    Join Byre World on a moving and joyful journey across the Middle East through stories, poetry, music and dance. Featuring contributions from students and...

  7. Summoning The Spirits: Séances and Creative Practice in Britain, France and Beyond

    Summoning The Spirits: Séances and Creative Practice in Britain, France and Beyond

    In 1848, Maggie and Kate Fox, two teenage sisters from Hydesville, NY, played a prank on their parents which quickly sparked an international phenomenon. The...

  8. Translating Mothersland: Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language

    Translating Mothersland: Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language

    Shahzoda Samarqandi's novel Mothersland is rooted in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan. Written in Tajik, translated into Russian, and from there into...