The CIMS PG Reading Group took place on Thursday 24th April, 1-2pm where we explored our experience of memory by the sea. We discussed Transoceanic Memory (Studies): Oceans as Mode, Method and Material Hanna Teichler, as well as reading and discussing a poem on the theme. In anticipation of our CIMS PG Symposium in May, … Read more
CIMS Postgraduate Symposium 2025‘Memory, Habitat, and the Anthropocene’ Date: Friday, 16 May 2025Venue: Old Burgh School, St Leonard’s Postgraduate CollegeSupported by: St Leonard’s Postgraduate College Community FundHosted by: Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) Organisers: Gabriela Milkova Robins (CIMS Research Assistant/School of English) and Rhiannon Morton (Visiting Doctoral Researcher/School of Geography) Overview The 2025 … Read more
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute’s 2023 postgraduate symposium, entitled ‘Memory, Materiality and Touch’, took place on Tuesday 16 May. The event aimed to showcase the diversity of postgraduate research across the University in relation to memory, identity, and materiality. Organisers: Clara Défachel (School of Modern Languages) and Gabriela Milkova Robins (School of English) This event was … Read more
CIMS Seminar, “Synthetic Memory: AI and the end of the human past” given by Professor Andrew Hoskins, University of Edinburgh (personal chair in AI, Memory and War) Date: Thursday 1 May 2025 Time: 5pm Location: Arts Lecture Theatre This talk explored how Generative AI is ushering in a new paradigm of synthetic memory through three key interrelated forces, … Read more
