Seminar series Semester 2, 2022-23

***CANCELLED*** 7 March, 4:15pm: Professor Alison Landsberg (George Mason University) & Professor Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo) ‘Metamodern Memory: On Blade Runner, Then and Now’ ***CANCELLED*** Alison Landsberg is Professor of History and Cultural Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and will be visiting St Andrews on 5-10 March as part of a … Read more

Seminar Series 2022-2023, Semester 1

3 October, 5pm: Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA), ‘Oenothea’s Gaze: Donyale Luna in Fellini-Satyricon (1969)’. Co-hosted with the Italian Department. Location: UCO 31 This presentation examines African American model and actress Donyale Luna, who performed the role of Oneathea in Fellini-Satyricon (1969). I argue that similar to many black women artists working in Italy during the 1960s … Read more

Seminar Series 2021-2022, Semester 2

Thursday 3 March, 4 to 6pm. Location: UCO: School 1. Seminar: Dr Gavan Titley (Maynooth University): The Strange Life of Free Speech Today Wednesday 16 March, 6:30 to 8pm. Location: Lower Parliament Hall.  This event was coordinated by the School of Art History, Museum & Gallery Studies in collaboration with CIMS. Seminar: Prof. Eudine Barriteau (University of the West Indies … Read more

Monday 8 November, 2021. Fabulation and Forgetting in Literature and Memory Studies by Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj.

Monday 8 November, 1pm. Online via Teams. Fabulation and Forgetting in Literature and Memory Studies (See it on YouTube) Speakers: Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj (Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras) This talk will engage with the experiential entanglements of fabulation and forgetting as represented in literature and memory studies. Drawing on psychological as … Read more

Webinar: ‘Brexit means ? for Identity’

Wednesday 24th March 2021, 16:00-17:00 Meeting link Following our Brexit means ? series in 2017, we return to the theme at the end of the transition period. As we come to terms with what this means, there is an opportunity to draw on the local expertise at the University to engage in a productive discussion of the … Read more

Webinar: Brexit means ? for the Arts

Following our Brexit means ? series in 2017, we return to the theme at the end of the transition period. As we come to terms with what this means, there is an opportunity to draw on the local expertise at the University to engage in a productive discussion of the issues involved. Our first webinar this semester … Read more

Public Lecture. Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj (Memory Studies Research Network, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras): ‘Encoding, Effacing, and the Phenomenon of Forgetting’

Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj (Memory Studies Research Network, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras): ‘Encoding, Effacing, and the Phenomenon of Forgetting’ The talk will examine the neural and narrative mechanisms of memory in terms of examining it as an enactive process which incorporates encoding as well as effacement, sometimes simultaneously. It will … Read more

Public Lecure. Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick):‘Tactile Translations: Re-Locating the Disappeared’

Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick):‘Tactile Translations: Re-Locating the Disappeared’ This paper examines the manner in which the term ‘the disappeared’ now circulates globally, by considering the case of the disappeared of the Northern Irish conflict. The paper examines visual art’s role as the bearer of memories of the illegally detained, forcibly migrated, and improperly buried, and draws on … Read more

Public Lecture. Dr Stef Craps (University of Ghent): ‘Transformations of Trauma in the Age of Climate Change’

Stef Craps poster Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, Belgium, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism and environmental humanities. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, … Read more

Public Lecture. Professor Ann Rigney (University of Utrecht): Contentious Commemoration: Between Memory and Activism

 Ann Rigney holds the chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht and is a member of the Royal Dutch Academic of Sciences (KNAW) and of the Academia Europea. Her research interests lie in the intersections between narrative, collective identity, and contestations of the past. She has published widely in the field of modern memory cultures, … Read more