CIMS annually organizes a day-long Symposium showcasing postgraduate research from across our faculties.
The CIMS Postgraduate Symposium welcomes our postgraduate community to submit an abstract for this year’s theme, ‘Memory, Habitat, and the Anthropocene’. The annual CIMS PG Symposium brings together postgraduate students with interest in the intersections between memory studies and other disciplines, this year’s focus being memory, habitat, and the Anthropocene. Here we present an opportunity for interdisciplinary thinking and discussion, where academia, art, and science can be explored in a lively and interactive forum. This year’s symposium will involve a keynote speech by Prof Kirsty Robertson entitled “Shadow Collection: Chemical Intimacies and Plastic Memory in the Museum”, a series of flashtalks, a PG panel discussion, and a hands-on artistic workshop. The Symposium will take place on Friday 16th May 2025.
We invite submissions from the postgraduate community for either a 15-minute paper in relation to the theme for the postgraduate panel discussion, or a 5-minute flashtalk for a series of informal presentations by postgraduate students on their research’s relationship to the chosen theme. The deadline for submission is 18th April 2025.
Abstracts are to be submitted to [email protected] and [email protected] and must be submitted by Friday 18th April 2025.
Guidelines for Submission:
15-minute Paper: Please send a proposal of 250 words along with a short biography to Rhiannon Morton (School of Geography), [email protected] and Gabriela Milkova Robins (School of English/Modern Languages), [email protected]
5-minute Flashtalk: Please send a proposal of 50 words to Rhiannon Morton, [email protected] and Gabriela Milkova Robins, [email protected]
We particularly welcome abstracts that engage with any of the following concepts:
- Environmental memory
- Habitat, place, and identity
- Temporality and deep time
- Maps and Memory
- Toxicity, pollution, and chemical memory
- Speculative ecologies and future habitats
- The Anthropocene
- Cultural memory
- Material culture
- Ecological imaginaries
- Memory in the museum
- Archival practices
- Land, sea, and the politics of dwelling
- Indigenous knowledge systems and environmental change
- Archiving Extinction and Lost Places
- Memory and Geology
- Commemorative Practices
- Memoryscapes and environmental storytelling
- Ruins, remnants, and traces
- Urban ecologies
Abstract Submission and Workshop Fee: Free to all participants.
If you have any questions related to abstract submission or the ‘Memory, Habitat, and the Anthropocene’ symposium, please email Rhiannon Morton, [email protected].
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In 2022, we organised our first joint PGR Symposium with our Going Global partner, the Centre for Memory Studies at IIT Madras (Chennai, India) entitled ‘Memory, Crisis and Estrangement’. This event was sponsored by the British Council and the St Leonard’s Postgraduate College Community Fund.
You can find details about all our past symposiums via this link.