Friday 7 May 2021, 16:00-19:30 (GMT)
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) welcomes staff and students to this online interdisciplinary symposium which draws on the work of PGRs, independent researchers and staff at St Andrews to explore timely discussions about representations of history and memory in monuments and public spaces.
Organisers: Giulia Borrini (Italian, School of Modern Languages) and Jorge Sarasola (Spanish, School of Modern Languages)
To register for this event, please email [email protected]
Brought to you with financial support from the St Leonard’s Doctoral and Postgraduate College Community Fund
CIMS 2021 SYMPOSIUM – Programme in full
16:00-16:05. Welcome
16:05-16:55. 20-minute presentations and 10-minute discussion
- Clare Fisher (PhD candidate in Art History): ‘Monument to…? Commemorative Entanglements and Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus (2019)’
- James J. Fortuna (PhD candidate in History): ‘Identity and Infrastructure in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the New Deal USA’
16:55-17:00. Break
17:00-17:50. 20-minute presentations and 10-minute discussion
- Dr Brigid Lynch (PhD graduate in Spanish, Modern Languages): ‘Paratexts, postmemory and ruination in Nae Pasaran (2018)’
- Dr Tilman Schwarze (PhD graduate in International Relations): ‘Monumental space and discourse of hope: critical reflections on the Obama Presidential Center and its visions for urban space on Chicago’s Southeast Side’
17:50-18:00. Break
18:00-18:30. Discussion about embodied forms of research
Dr Victoria Donovan (Senior Lecturer in Russian, Modern Languages) and Darya Tsymbalyuk (PhD candidate in Modern Languages & International Relations) will lead a discussion around their collaborative paper, ‘From “ruin porn” to the zabroshka erotic’, and explorations of derelict sites/ruins anyone is willing to undertake and share. Participants are encouraged to read the paper and instructions before the event.
18:30-19:15. Keynote lecture: Prof Silvia Federici (Hofstra University)
19:15-19:30: Q&A and Closing Remarks
