March 8: Online Premier “Please Hold,” featuring writers from “AIDS and the Distribution of Crises”

This event will be a Zoom webinar, Saturday March 8, 3-5 pm EST. Sign up is here. If you can’t make this screening and conversation, or the in person premier at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side on March 2, not to worry! Invitation from Alexandra Juhasz, creator of Please Hold: Please join editors and writers … Read more

Spotlight on: Dr Gönül Bozoğlu

14 February 2025Dr Gönül Bozoğlu (she/her). Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies, School of Art History.  Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? Memory, politics, and identity are strongly linked in museum and heritage studies. How are the past and historical memory experienced, used, represented, diminished, erased, forgotten, and why, … Read more

Spotlight on: Zehra Kazmi

6 February 2025. Zehra Kazmi, School of English Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? I have recently submitted my thesis titled, “Indo-Muslim Nostalgia: Memory, Modernity and the Nation”. It examines historical memory and nostalgia in South Asian Muslim writing within the context of sectarian violence and cultural disintegration following … Read more