The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute hosted its annual postgraduate symposium, ‘Cultural Memory, Identity and Images’, on Monday 13 May. The event aims to showcase the diversity of postgraduate research across the University about memory, identity, and images.
Programme
11:30 – 12:40 Postgraduate Presentation 1
By Benjamin Ong (School of School of Geography & Sustainable Development): ‘Extra)ordinary natures: More-than-human encounters in the urban interstices’ ([email protected])
Mathilde Lyons (School of Modern Languages),
Dong Xia(School of English): ‘informational imaging’ in Zadie Smith and Virginia Woolf ([email protected])
12: 40- 1:40 Lunch
1:40 – 3:00 Postgraduate Presentation- Online Panel
Anna Coopey (University of Oxford): ‘ The Ghosts of Greece’s Past: Thanos Anastopoulos’ Φαντάσματατης Επανάστασης, Alternative Ghosts and Selective Commemoration in Greece’ ([email protected])
Wambua Muindi (The University of Nairobi ): ‘I photographed the dead and dying. I helped kill the innocent”: Photography and Cultural Memory in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King’ ([email protected])
Maksym Rutkovsky (Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University)
3:00-3:10 Coffee Break
3:10 — 4:30 Postgraduate Presentation 2
Aswin Sasi (School of Physics and Astronomy): ‘Effect of an optical lightguide on the growth of Arthrospira platensis ‘ ( [email protected])
Aimee Capraro (School of Modern Languages): ‘Irish Cultural Memory’ ([email protected])
Runyuan Bai(School of Modern Languages): ‘Runyuan Bai-Bring the Background Drawing into the Spotlight: Images and the Collective Memory in Translation’ ([email protected])
Kateryna Volochniuk (School of Art History): ‘Family Photo Archive and Collective Memory ( [email protected] )
4:30 — 4:40 Coffee Break
4:40 — 6:00 Workshop — “From Cinegraphic Poetics to Poetic Cinema: Serhii Paradzhanov’s Interpretation of ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors’ by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky”, lead by Dr Nadiia Akulova.