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  1. GloPost community workshop with Linda Kaljundi

    GloPost community workshop with Linda Kaljundi

    A GloPost community workshop with Linda Kaljundi in which we will read and respond to some of her recent work on Estonian entanglements with colonialism. In...

  2. Climate Fiction Session

    Climate Fiction Session

    What is climate fiction? Why does it matter? Come along to our taster climate fiction reading session where we will discuss climate fiction and look at the...

  3. Island thinking

    Island thinking

    An interdisciplinary panel discussion

    Join colleagues from the Schools of Geography and Sustainable Development, Modern Languages, and Art History and guests for this interdisciplinary panel...

  4. 'Où es-tu ma voix lointaine?: The Anxiety of Translating Andrée Chedid'

    'Où es-tu ma voix lointaine?: The Anxiety of Translating Andrée Chedid'

    Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh (University College Cork)

    Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish at University College Cork, and an award-winning poet from Ireland who writes...

  5. Wood for the trees: Decision-making in poetry translation
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    Wood for the trees: Decision-making in poetry translation

    Translation workshop hosted by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

    This multi-lingual workshop is open to all. It will consist of two parts: the first will involve an exploration of the work of Andrée Chedid, a writer and poet...

  6. Rutger Emmelkamp: Ways In, Ways Out: Exploring Emic and Etic Perspectives Through Experimental Film

    Rutger Emmelkamp: Ways In, Ways Out: Exploring Emic and Etic Perspectives Through Experimental Film

    Rutger Emmelkamp will explore the concepts of emic and etic perspectives---the insider's and outsider's viewpoints---through two short...

  7. of sea and sod: a generative writing workshop arising from the Arandora Star
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    of sea and sod: a generative writing workshop arising from the Arandora Star

    3 hour multilingual workshop in residence with Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Miek Zwamborn.

    This workshop will use a variety of tools and exercises inspired by the Arandora Star, an ocean liner that was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland in 1940....

  8. Progress or Return? Capitalism and Eternal Recurrence in the Anthropocene

    Progress or Return? Capitalism and Eternal Recurrence in the Anthropocene

    A talk from Miguel Vatter who is a Professor of Politics at Deakin University and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Lancaster University.

    The Anthropocene is not simply a new geological age: it signifies the entrance of the 'deep history' of the cosmos and of our planet into our late...

  9. CIMS Institute Lecture Series: Professor Mihaela Mihai

    CIMS Institute Lecture Series: Professor Mihaela Mihai

    'Resonant Eco-grief and the Challenge of "Staying with the Trouble"'

    Professor Mihaela Mihai (Chair of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh) will talk to us about 'Resonant Eco-grief and the Challenge of "Staying...

  10. Byre World 24/25: The Mothers of the Belgian Empire's Stolen Children

    Byre World 24/25: The Mothers of the Belgian Empire's Stolen Children

    During Belgium's colonisation of what are now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, mixed-'race' children born from relations...