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  1. 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...

  2. CIMS Reading Group: Translation and Activism

    CIMS Reading Group: Translation and Activism

    Our next interdisciplinary reading group will focus on translation and activism. We welcome participation from staff, postgraduate students, and Honours...

  3. CIMS Institute Lecture Series: Professor Mihaela Mihai

    CIMS Institute Lecture Series: Professor Mihaela Mihai

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

  4. Island thinking 2 --- 'Pacific imaginations' Discussion panel

    Island thinking 2 --- 'Pacific imaginations' Discussion panel

    Date: Friday May 30 Time: 11am -- 12:50pm Place: Forbes Room, Irvine Building Following the successful 'Island Thinking 1' panel last semester,...

  5. PGR Symposium: Memory, Crisis and Estrangement

    PGR Symposium: Memory, Crisis and Estrangement

    Join us for a highly stimulating day of ideas, discussions, and even short films touching on the themes of memory, crisis and estrangement. We are very excited...

  6. St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire (CIMS Brown Bag Talk)

    St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire (CIMS Brown Bag Talk)

    Paying particular attention to the colonial legacies present in the Museums of the University of St Andrews, this talk will offer a glimpse into the hidden...

  7. Guest Lecture: Football under the Swastika

    Guest Lecture: Football under the Swastika

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

  8. Memory, Narrative and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Memory, Narrative and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Dr Avishek Parui (IIT Madras) on 'Memory, Narrative,...

  9. Brown Bag Talk: Lucy Szemetova

    Brown Bag Talk: Lucy Szemetova

    Organised as part of the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute's Brown Bag sessions, the talk will explore Gabor Zsigmond Papp's The Life...

  10. Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Insititute welcomes everyone to join this seminar by Professor Timothy C Baker (Aberdeen) on 'Gleaning, Fragmentation,...

  11. Prof. Gregory Lee: "Don't tell!" Silenced Voices, Hidden Memories in Chinese Migrant Communities.

    Prof. Gregory Lee: "Don't tell!" Silenced Voices, Hidden Memories in Chinese Migrant Communities.

    In this free lunchtime lecture organised by the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS), Prof. Gregory Lee will speak about the silenced voices...

  12. St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire (CIMS Brown Bag Talk)

    St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire (CIMS Brown Bag Talk)

    Paying particular attention to the colonial legacies present in the Museums of the University of St Andrews, this talk will offer a glimpse into the hidden...

  13. CIMS Brown Bag Talk: Unremembering the Loss of the Dutch East Indies, 1945-1995

    CIMS Brown Bag Talk: Unremembering the Loss of the Dutch East Indies, 1945-1995

    This talk will touch on key themes of Dr Paul Doolan's recently published 'Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies. Unremembering...

  14. The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya

    The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College) on 'The...

  15. CIMS Brown Bag Talks: Adolescence, Identity Formation and Dislocation in Relation to Literary Texts

    CIMS Brown Bag Talks: Adolescence, Identity Formation and Dislocation in Relation to Literary Texts

    Our Brown Bag research talks and discussions are, as the name suggests, lunchtime sessions. While current regulations don't yet admit the bringing of food...

  16. CISI Postgraduate Symposium: Moving Memories

    CISI Postgraduate Symposium: Moving Memories

    The Moving Memories postgraduate symposium organised by the Cultural Identity Studies Institute (CISI) provides an opportunity to discuss how the lens of...

  17. Seminar Series: Dr Craig Lamont on Memory Studies

    Seminar Series: Dr Craig Lamont on Memory Studies

    Dr Craig Lamont from the University of Glasgow was invited by the Institute for Cultural Identity and Memory Studies to talk about the centrality of memory...

  18. CIMS Seminar: Fabulation and Forgetting in Literature and Memory Studies

    CIMS Seminar: Fabulation and Forgetting in Literature and Memory Studies

    This talk will engage with the experiential entanglements of fabulation and forgetting as represented in literature and memory studies. Drawing on psychological...

  19. CIMS PG Training Session in the Environmental Humanities

    CIMS PG Training Session in the Environmental Humanities

    All postgraduate research and postgraduate taught students are invited to attend the CIMS PG Training Session in Environmental Humanities with Professor Michele...

  20. Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA):  'Oenothea's Gaze: Donyale Luna in Fellini-Satyricon (1969)'

    Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA): 'Oenothea's Gaze: Donyale Luna in Fellini-Satyricon (1969)'

    As part of its Seminar Series, the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute welcomes Professor Shelleen Greene, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media...

  21. Online CIMS Seminar: Astrid Erll, 'Collective Memory Reloaded'

    Online CIMS Seminar: Astrid Erll, 'Collective Memory Reloaded'

    An exciting combination of psychology, sociology, and history was at the very beginning of memory studies --- think of Maurice Halbwachs, Aby Warburg,...

  22. CIMS Seminar: Gavan Titley, 'The Strange Life of Free Speech Today'

    CIMS Seminar: Gavan Titley, 'The Strange Life of Free Speech Today'

    In this public seminar, Dr. Gavan Titley draws on his recent book 'Is Free Speech Racist?' (Polity 2020) to consider why racism has become...

  23. 'Tell 'em about the men': the Fractured Politics of Heritage in Postindustrial Museums

    'Tell 'em about the men': the Fractured Politics of Heritage in Postindustrial Museums

    The Cultural Identity & Memory Studies (CIMS) Brown Bags are, as the name suggests, lunchtime sessions (you bring your own lunch in a brown bag) and provide...

  24. CIMS PG Symposium: 'Memory, Habitat, and the Anthropocene'

    CIMS PG Symposium: 'Memory, Habitat, and the Anthropocene'

    This year's postgraduate symposium is hosted by the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) with financial support from the St...

  25. Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body

    Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Institute (CIMS) welcomes everyone to join the research seminar by Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA) on...

  26. Attending to the local in a global emergency: translation as a lens on climate crisis

    Attending to the local in a global emergency: translation as a lens on climate crisis

    As one of the most global conversations in history, climate crisis discourse is intrinsically dependent on and intertwined with 'translation': from...

  27. The performative actualisation of memory and trauma in modern Ukrainian culture

    The performative actualisation of memory and trauma in modern Ukrainian culture

    As part of the UK-Ukraine Twinning Initiative, the National University of Ostroh Academy and the University of St Andrews have partnered to share support,...

  28. Professor Bhakti Shringarpure: 'Reframing African Literary Futures'

    Professor Bhakti Shringarpure: 'Reframing African Literary Futures'

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute welcomes Professor Bhakti Shringarpure from the University of Connecticut's Department of English and...

  29. Professor Nina Parish 'Diasporic memory practice on the Internet: Remembering lost homelands'

    Professor Nina Parish 'Diasporic memory practice on the Internet: Remembering lost homelands'

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute welcomes Professor Nina Parish from the University of Stirling's Division of Literature & Languages...

  30. Queer Epistemicides: Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities

    Queer Epistemicides: Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities

    In 2020, queer theory celebrates its thirtieth birthday. This contentious and contested body of thought has come a long way since Italian feminist theorist...

  31. Contentious Commemoration: Between Memory and Activism

    Contentious Commemoration: Between Memory and Activism

    Ann Rigney holds the chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and of the...