20 November 2025, 3:00–4:00 pm in Student Union, Seminar Room 101. At our recent postgraduate reading group, we discussed chapters three and four of François Jullien’s “There Is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity,” focusing on his distinction between “difference” and “divide” (écart) and on the conceptual importance of the interspace that opens between cultures. The discussion began … Read more
The CIMS PG Reading Group took place on Thursday 24th April, 1-2pm where we explored our experience of memory by the sea. We discussed Transoceanic Memory (Studies): Oceans as Mode, Method and Material Hanna Teichler, as well as reading and discussing a poem on the theme. In anticipation of our CIMS PG Symposium in May, … 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
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
Wednesday 16 November, 1-2 pm, HYBRID (Buchanan 216, online on Microsoft Teams) Our next interdisciplinary reading group will focus on translation and activism. We warmly welcome participation from staff, postgraduate students, and Honours students interested in these topics from any disciplinary background. We will be reading the introduction to Maria Tymoczko’s influential edited volume Translation, … Read more
Wednesday 23 March, 5-6.30pm: On Svetlana Boym’s article Nostalgia and its Discontents (from The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2007), a piece that summarises the key points of her book The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001)—with a special focus on her distinction between “restorative” and “reflective” nostalgias. The article is available via this link. … Read more
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
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
• 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
