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 4
CMR’s fourth episode of season 3 is out! In this podcast, we have Yichi Zhang, a PhD student in Social Anthropology, talk to her research interlocutor, Shannon Chen-See Nehemiah. They talk about Shannon’s life experiences growing up as a fourth-generation Chinese Jamaican and an active poet and artist. They ruminate upon the commonality of minority experiences, which relates…
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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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