Our dual concern at the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) is to explore cultural identity and cultural memory: that is, the investigation of the diverse textual constructs and creations (e.g. traditions, myths, literary canons, and political institutions) by which national and other cultural groups represent, criticise, renew and repurpose their sense of identity and memory.
Upcoming events
CIMS PG Reading Group Special Session
This special session is co-hosted by the CIMS PG Reading Group and the Gardening Reading Group (https://gardening.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk).
This meeting will take place on 9th May at 15:00 at Old Union Building: Boswell Room. The session should run for approximately an hour. For this exciting collaborative session, we are directing our attention towards gardening practices from a transcultural perspective. We will be reading:
- Vanni, Ilaria. ‘Misplaced Plants: Migrant Gardens and Transculturation.’ In Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation, edited by Charles Burdett, Loredana Polezzi and Barbara Spadaro, 253-274. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
- Two poems from L.(Lisa) Kiew, More Than Weeds.
For PDF versions of the readings, please contact Runyuan Bai ([email protected]).
We look forward to seeing and speaking to you then!
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We warmly welcome staff and students from any discipline who would like to get involved.
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