Jorge Sarasola Friday 7 May 2021, 16:00-19:30 (GMT) The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) welcomes staff and students to this online interdisciplinary symposium which draws on the work of PGRs, independent researchers and staff at St Andrews to explore timely discussions about representations of history and memory in monuments and public spaces. Organisers: Giulia Borrini … Read more
Thursday 11th February 2021, 13:00-14:30 (GMT) Poster ‘Caribbean migration to Britain’ CIMS The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) presents this webinar on ‘Caribbean migration to Britain’ via Zoom. Professor Catherine O’Leary, Director of CIMS and from the School of Modern Languages, will chair the webinar, supported by Professor Huon Wardle, Department of Social … Read more
Monday 9th December, 2019. Lecture Room II (St Mary’s Quad, South Street) A one-day symposium bringing together researchers from different fields and disciplines who work on the Americas through the lens of Memory or Identity studies. Co-sponsored by the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CISI/CIMS) and the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and … Read more
In August 2019, Karunika Kardak and Juan Mosquera (PhD students in the Spanish Department at the time) led a discussion with playwright, actor, theatre director and teacher, Raquel Diana (born in Montevideo, 1960). Her plays have received different prizes in Uruguay, including: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay (Premio Nacional de Literatura six times), … Read more
CISI Postgraduate Symposium, 6 September 2019 (UCO Room 31) Organisers: Karunika Kardak & Ellie Crabtree 09.30 – 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 10.15 Introductions 10.15 – 11.00 Darya Tsymbalyuk (Modern Languages and IR), ‘The sun rises differently in Kyiv: Mental mapping and memories of the displaced’ 11.00 – 12.30 PGR Panel Sohni Chakrabarti (English): ‘Belonging … Read more
We wanted to take this opportunity to announce two new series we are thrilled about: Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies In 2021 we have started working on the first volume in this series: Memory Studies in Southeast Asia: A Handbook, and will soon expand to cover more regions to offer a comparative insight in … Read more
• Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2017) [ebook in library] • Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change, Columbia University Press, 1999 [ebook in library] The following are available via the university library ejournals: Ater, Renée, ‘Slavery and Its … Read more
Brown Bag 1. Wednesday, 28 October, from 12-1pm (on Teams): Antonio Montañés Jiménez (Social Anthropology): Christianity and memory: The emergence of Gitano ethnoreligious consciousness
September 25: Darya Tsymbalyuk (2nd year PhD student Russian & IR): ‘Memory of coal: from the Carboniferous Period to industrialisation’ (13:00, UCO Room 30) October 30:Mikhail Vodopyanov (Lector in Russian), ‘Construction of Memory of Soviet Past in Contemporary Russian Nonfiction.’ (UCO – Quad Room 32 12pm). November 27: Dr Isabel Segui Fuentes (Film Studies), ‘Popular … Read more
10 April 2019, 13.00, B305 Nicôle Meehan (Museum and Gallery Studies), “Digital objects: The Museum and Transcultural Memory after the Postdigital Turn” 24 April 2019, 13.00, B216 Dr Iryna Sklokina (Research Fellow at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine) & Dmytro Chepurnyi (Cultural Manager and Curator of the Donbas Studies Research Project at IZOLYATSIA. … Read more
