Camila Ferreira Marinelli Join us for the “Borderworlds” roundtable this Monday 24th at the Hebdomadar’s Room, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews, from 10pm to 1pm. This roundtable discussion is part of the broader “Borderworlds” project in collaboration with Charles University. This roundtable will be followed by a Conference in Prague in June 6th to 9th . Both events … Read more
We are thrilled to invite you to the launch of “Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela,” a book by Moisés Lino e Silva (Universidade Federal da Bahia). The book examines the lives of residents in a favela in Brazil and their encounters with the state and law, and how minoritarian liberalism plays a role … Read more
You are welcome to attend the latest CMR seminar series. The event will bring together scholars working across disciplines on migration, colonialism, othering, diversity, and indigeneity beyond conventional text-centred interpretations, to explore the social, experiential, affective and relational dimensions of performative approaches. Focusing on the senses, new technologies, disability, dance, music, theatre, martial arts, sports … Read more
We are very happy to share a new series “Routledge Advances in Minority Studies” which Stavroula Pypirou is co-editing with Kyriaki Topidi of the European Centre for Minority Issues. The series will be home to interdisciplinary approaches to intersectional understandings of minorities.
The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) is pleased to announce the first Centre-led online course. A 2-week intensive and bespoke professional development course on Humanitarian Intervention and Displacement, delivered by an interdisciplinary network of leading University of St Andrews experts. For more information about the course
Minority Languages and their Reception in Germany Aimée Capraro, an undergraduate student of German, discusses the place of minority languages in Germany with a special focus on the linguistic varieties spoken by people of Turkish descent in urban areas in Germany and social attitudes towards them. In this episode, she breaks these varieties down from … Read more
Reconnecting Heritage: Repatriation and Museums This CMR episode is in collaboration with Two Friends Talk History podcast, hosted and produced by Zofia Guertin, a PhD Candidate in the School of Classics. In this episode Zofia interviews Dr Barbara Winter to discuss how indigenous artefacts have traditionally been collected and displayed in western Canada. This discussion touches on the … Read more
Diversity in Green Film: A conversation with the Green Film Festival In this episode, Erica Ostlander, an undergraduate in Film Studies and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, discusses the importance of upholding diversity in Hollywood, particularly in the realm of environmental cinema. Working as Co-director of the Green Film Festival alongside Tristan Sharman, … Read more
In this episode, listen to St. Andrews History PhD student, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart, as they tell the forgotten life story of the Greatest Man from the Smallest County in all of England, Jeffrey Hudson. As a young boy of only 1 1/2 foot tall, at the age of 7 his life changed forever when Charles I … Read more
In this episode, Anisha Minocha and Nishita Koushik, both undergraduates in English at the University of St Andrews, will be discussing their own experiences and challenges with the structure of higher education. Stressing the importance of diversifying and decolonising the curriculum, and what steps are being done by students to improve this. Listen Here Podcast … Read more