Alejandro Adame Basilio Thursday 2 December 2021, 12:30 to 2pm (Online via Teams): On Astrid Erll’s Memory Worlds in Times of Corona. Online via Teams. We are delighted to announce that the reading group on this date will be run jointly with the Centre for Memory Studies of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Key reading: Astrid Erll, “Afterword: Memory Worlds in … Read more
Wednesday, 24 November, from 1 to 2pm. Online via Teams Kate Mackenzie (French Studies), Adolescence, Identity Formation and Dislocation in Relation to Literary Texts.
Monday 8 November, 1pm. Online via Teams. Fabulation and Forgetting in Literature and Memory Studies (See it on YouTube) Speakers: Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj (Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras) This talk will engage with the experiential entanglements of fabulation and forgetting as represented in literature and memory studies. Drawing on psychological as … Read more
Wednesday 13 October 2021, from 1 to 2pm at ARB 115: Arts Seminar 1 James Gregg (Russian Studies): Anxiety and Ethics in Ukrainian Archival Research.
Thursday 30 September 2021, 16:00-17:30. Location: United College. Lower College Hall (click to see map). Reading group theme: Glissant on Identity, Relation and Opacity Ten years after his death, the ideas of the Martinique-born poet, novelist and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) are gradually acquiring a notable place in anglophone discussions on cultural identity and memory. … Read more
