Our institute welcomes leading scholars in the field of Memory Studies for guest lectures every year.
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Semester 2 2025 Seminar Series.
Island thinking 2 – ‘Pacific imaginations’ Discussion panel
Following the successful ‘Island Thinking 1’ panel last semester, as part of the second visit by Senior Global Fellow Prof Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin), we will be holding another discussion with Michael who will be joined by Professor Uma Kothari, from Manchester University and Prof Emma Sutton and Dr Tony Crook from St Andrews.
Date: Friday May 30
Time: 11am – 12:50pm
Place: Forbes Room, Irvine Building
Uma is a leading postcolonial development thinker in geography, and a current Leverhulme Major Research Fellow https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/uma.kothari she will reflect on her climate change work in the Maldives with a presentation entitled: Becoming an island: Imaginary geographies.
Anthropologist Tony Crook is Director of the Pacific Studies Centre at St Andrews and with wide-ranging interests in field based work in Papua New Guinea https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/tc23/
Emma Sutton from English will be starting a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her work on music’s role in colonisation and indigenous resistance to it across the Pacific https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/leverhulme-fellowship-for-professor-emma-sutton/
Michael’s Senior Global Fellowship is sponsored at St Andrews by the School of Modern Languages and the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, in particular the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) in the SoML and St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities (StACCS) in the SGSD. This event also links to the St Andrews Environmental Humanities network and the Centre for Pacific Studies
> You can find details about our earlier past events here.
