Runyuan Bai ‘Island Thinking‘ panel discussion, featuring Senior Global Fellow, Professor Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin), Professor Karen Brown (Art History), Dr Niall Sreenan (Comp. Lit) and Professor Dan Clayton (Geography and Sustainable Development). What is ‘island thinking’? and why does it matter in light of climate change? How can we learn from interdisciplinary conversations about the … Read more
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute hosted its annual postgraduate symposium, ‘Cultural Memory, Identity and Images’, on Monday 13 May. The event aims to showcase the diversity of postgraduate research across the University about memory, identity, and images. Programme 11:30 – 12:40 Postgraduate Presentation 1By Benjamin Ong (School of School of Geography & Sustainable … Read more
CIMS PG Reading Group Special Session This special session, co-hosted by the CIMS PG Reading Group and the Gardening Reading Group, (https://gardening.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk), blossomed into an hour-long journey of discovery and exchange. Held on the 9th of May at 3:00 PM in the Boswell Room of the Old Union Building, the gathering became a vibrant hub … Read more
On Monday, March 18th, CIMS hosted an enlightening PG training session in the Environmental Humanities, from 1 pm to 3 pm in the Stewart Room, Younger Hall. Led by Professor Monserrati, the session offered an immersive dive into the methodology in environmental humanities research. PG students across all departments of the school were encouraged to … Read more
The CIMS PG Reading Group launched its academic year with an engaging session focused on “Methodologies in the Environmental Humanities.” This meet-up took place on a warm Friday afternoon, at 4 pm, March 15th, in Room 13 of United Colleges, serving as a prelude to a subsequent PG training session in the Environmental Humanities scheduled … Read more
27 February, 1pm (Room TBC) : ‘Translation, ecology, and deep time’ by Michael Cronin Our next interdisciplinary reading group will focus on the chapter ‘Translation, ecology, and deep time’ by Michael Cronin, published in 2022 the volume Time, space, matter in translation edited by Pamela Beattie, Simona Bertacco, and Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe. As always, students and … Read more
