Caroline May 25 July 2026James Ainge (Professor and Head of School of Psychology & Neuroscience) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? I am a neuroscientist interested in how the brain facilitates our memory. Most of my research concerns the memories for our everyday experience; episodic memory. My research concentrates on a … Read more
18 June 2026Zeke Ward (MLitt Student in Theology and the Arts) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My research is focused on the interdisciplinary field of Theology and the Arts with an emphasis on theatricality, narrative, and aesthetics. I am particularly interested in the modern philosophical concept of the … Read more
Online Symposium | 29 May 2026 On 29 May 2026, the Institute for Cultural Identity and Memory Studies at the University of St Andrews and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt jointly hosted the online postgraduate symposium “Memory as a Future Practice”. The symposium brought together 15 speakers from five countries: the UK, … Read more
On May 13, 2026, Professor Virginia Jewiss from Johns Hopkins University gave a talk on “Four Plaques and a Column: Rethinking Resistance.” The lecture invited us to think differently about monuments, memory, and the ways in which historical resistance is made visible in public space. While recent debates in memory studies have often focused on … Read more
12 May 2026Dr Kieran McConaghy (Lecturer in Terrorism and Political Violence at the School of International Relations) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? My research focuses on the history of political violence in Ireland. I have conducted research projects in the past which have analysed British security policy in … Read more
01 April 2026, 16.00-17.00, BUC:216 Kevin SimpsonFootball under the Swastika: Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust Sport in the Nazi concentration camps and ghettos defies the modern imagination. Relying on long-forgotten memoirs and testimonies, Football under the Swastika reveals the surprisingly powerful role that the most popular wartime sport of football played during World War II. From … Read more
27 March 2026, 16.00-17.00, ARB: 317 – ARTS SEMINAR 7 Paul LeworthyScreening and Intervening: Documenting and Doing Memory Work in Das deutsche Volk Das deutsche Volk (2025) is a stripped-back, black-and-white, observational documentary directed by Marcin Wierzchowski that screens the events and above all the aftermath of the shootings in Hanau, Germany, in 2020, in which a … Read more
20 March 2026Prof Carlos Machado (Professor of Ancient History at the School of Classics) Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies? Much of my research is concerned with the city of Rome at the end of Antiquity, a time of great social, political, and cultural change. In late antique Rome, … Read more
16 March 2026, 16.00-17.00, UCO: School II Kateřina KrálováHomecoming: Identities and Memory of the Holocaust Survivors and Greece In her guest lecture, historian Kateřina Králová examined the complex meanings of “homecoming” for Jewish Holocaust survivors from Greece. Tracing a continuum from wartime survival and displacement through liberation and the immediate postwar years, she argued that … Read more
The Directors of the Centre for Memory Studies, IITM, and the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute, University of St Andrews, welcome the creation of a joint seed funding programme between our two institutions. “The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and the University of St Andrews (St Andrews) have identified each other as … Read more
