The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) supports academic dialogue and real-time action on one of the most urgent global challenges of our time: achieving meaningful, intersectional engagement with vulnerable populations. Bringing together an outstanding team from across the University of St Andrews and beyond, CMR facilitates cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary debate, and knowledge application to promote empowerment and engagement with minority issues.
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Upcoming Workshop Embodying Worldmakings: Bodies as/in migration
Join us for Embodying Worldmakings: Bodies as/in Migration, an interdisciplinary workshop hosted by the Centre for Minorities Research at the University of St Andrews. This event delves into the intersections of critical dance studies, performance studies, and anthropology to explore how bodily movement and expression can illuminate the complexities of migration. Event Details: To register and learn
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New partnership project with Really Real Resources
CMR is excited to announce a partnership project with the charity Really Real Resources, aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion within Scottish education. Working collaboratively with schools across Scotland, the project tackles the often-overlooked challenges faced by vulnerable populations—challenges that are frequently intensified by limited knowledge, awareness, and preparedness to engage with difference. Grounded in
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Season 4 / Episode 4
In this episode, Natalia Hernandez Somarriba, a second-year PhD student in Modern Languages, compares two texts by Peruvian authors that address the broad context of unequal social relations within post-colonial Peru, as well as between Peru and Europe as a former colonial power. The first is the neo-indigenista novel Los ríos profundos (1958) by José
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