Reading Group

Thursday, 14 November, 4pm – 5:30pm (UCO: Room 36) Our second meeting considers Alison Landsberg’s work on Race, Memory and Film. Prof. Landsberg is a University of St Andrews Global Fellow in Semster 2. Readings: • Landsberg, ‘Chapter 3. Remembering Slavery: Childhood, Desire, and the Interpellative Power of the Past’, in Prosthetic Memory. The Transformation … Read more

Wednesday, 16 October, 4pm – 5:30pm (UCO: Room 36) Our first meeting this semester focuses on the work of Ann Rigney on the Transnational Turn in Memory Studies. Prof. Ann Rigney, who will deliver a CIMS public lecture on 31 October. Her new ERC-funded research project, (REACT), seeks to connect practices of memory to hope … Read more