Our Brown Bag research talks and discussions are, as the name suggests, 60 minutes lunchtime sessions. The ongoing research work showcased in these sessions will give students and staff plenty of food for thought to munch on and discuss in a friendly, informal and cross-disciplinary environment. Come along and join in the discussion!
If you are interested in presenting your own work, please get in touch with us via email: [email protected].
Lydia Maria Roth“We created a new memory culture”: Remembering the victims of right-wing terror in Hanau 11 March 2026, 14.00-15.00, UCO: 30 Lydia Maria Roth discussed how remembrance practices surrounding the 2020 right-wing terrorist attack in Hanau have changed in the years since the event. Referring to a statement by survivor Said Etris Hashemi from … Read more
Kamila OlesMemory Crafted in Glass and Stone: The Polish Soldiers’ Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective and Mediated Memory 18 February 2026, 13.00-14.00, UCO: 30 The “Scotland’s Future – Collective Memories in Fostering Unity” project traces shared Scottish–Polish heritage. This lecture, by examining the mosaic as both an artwork and a … Read more
Abigail Karas“It’s more like a village here”: Rural identities in contemporary Chișinău and the limits of urban transformation 5 November 2025, 13.00-14.00, Buchanan 215 Dr. Abigail Karas is an anthropologist and historian of the built environment, with a particular focus on (post-)Soviet cityscapes. Her work moves seamlessly across disciplines, drawing on anthropology, urban history, heritage, and … Read more
Kristen TreenU.S. Civil War Monuments: Forms, Feelings, Futures 8 October 2025, 13.00-14.00, Buchanan 215 This talk will introduce the rationale behind Commemorative Cultures: The U.S. Civil War Monuments Project, a collaborative digital heritage project I run from within the School of English, via a discussion of literary responses to some of the Civil War’s (1861-1865) first … Read more
2 Nov, 1pm: Lucy Szemetová (Film Studies), ‘Excavating “Invisible” Histories – (Dis)Remembering Socialist Secret Police Through Documentary Film?’ Location: Buchanan 305 Abstract: The talk will explore Gábor Zsigmond Papp’s The Life of an Agent (2004), a compilation of state security training films from Hungary’s (socialist) Kádár era (1956-1988). This documentary film is produced through … Read more
Wednesday 26 January, 1 to 2pm . Location: ARB:321 – Arts Seminar 9. Dr. Huw Halstead (School of History): “A homeland in two countries”: Performing everyday citizenship with the expatriated Greeks of Turkey. Wednesday 2 February, 2 to 3pm. Online via Teams. Dr Paul Doolan (International School Zurich), Collective Memory and Dutch Decolonization. Wednesday 30 March, 1 to 2pm . Location: ARB: … 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.
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.
Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri (Senior Lecturer in the School of English): ‘Tell ‘em about the men’: The Fractured Politics of Heritage in Postindustrial Museums’ Meeting Link In this paper, I will look at a selection of industrial museums (spaces that were once factories or mines, and are now museums) to critically explore the narratives that they are … 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
