The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) is a timely initiative that brings together interdisciplinary expertise from an outstanding pool of staff from across six Schools at the University of St Andrews. CMR explores the complexities, challenges and opportunities, continuities and discontinuities, unity and ruptures of the ‘everyday lives’ of minorities.
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Season 3 / Episode 3
In our third episode of season 3, Tilly Lyons, a PhD student in Italian and History, briefly overviews the history of Africans in Italy between 1922 and 1945. In this episode, she contextualises the discursive landscape in which they found themselves in a colonial time where anti-Black propaganda was rife and discusses two case studies…
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Erasures in Iraq Event (15th April)
Join us at our latest CMR event!It will be a one-day event that brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss and raise awareness on erasures. The focus will be specifically on Iraqi/Kurdish social groups and themes that deserve attention but remain neglected. Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) have remained in the public…
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Living Heritage: Challenges in the politics of ownership and belonging
Join us on the latest CMR seminar series. The event will bring together scholars working with the concept and context of living heritage that either constrains or enhances diversity, minority positions and dimensions of indigeneity. The proposed approach will consider the relevant framework spelt out by international UN agencies like UNESCO and their legal instruments…
Centre for Minorities Research, University of St Andrews