The CMR Seminar Series is our annual flagship event. Each year, guest convenors bring together scholars from across disciplines and around the world to explore a pressing theme in minority research. Sessions are held online and are open to all.
The first Seminar Series Minorities in Times of Scarcity and Conflict has been published into an edited volume Routledge, Routledge Advances in Minority Studies.
Coming next 2027: Historical Perspectives on Minority Languages and Empire
Convenor: Brigid Ehrmantraut (University of St Andrews)
2026: Bodies. Borders. Becomings
How do borders mark, discipline and transform bodies, and how do bodies push back? This edition looked at geopolitical, digital and affective borders, from Cuban diasporas and Roma women’s journeys to biometric surveillance and the Palestinian body.
Convenors: Ruxandra Ana (University of Łódź) and Elise Hjalmarson (University of California, Berkeley)
2025: Reconciliation in a Fragmented World: Rethinking Justice, Accountability, and Inclusion
How reconciliation is understood and practised, from truth commissions to Land Back, with a strong focus on Indigenous peoples in the Nordic countries and the wider Arctic.
Convenors: Rory Cassie, Connor Eckersall (University of St Andrews) and Astri Dankertsen (Nord University)
2024: Living Heritage: Challenges in the Politics of Ownership and Belonging
How heritage frameworks, from UNESCO conventions to local practices, constrain or empower minorities and Indigenous communities. Speakers came from a network of UNESCO Chairs.
Convenors: Kristin Kuutma and Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu)
2023: Transformative Embodiments: Disruption, Affect and Empathy in Minority Lives
Minority experience through the body: dance, music, sport, disability, the senses and legal proceedings as sites of exclusion, participation and political claims.
Convenors: Mimina Pateraki (University of the Aegean) and Ruxandra Ana (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
2022: Minorities in Times of Scarcity and Conflict
Our first edition rethought scarcity, real or imagined, as a site of conflict and negotiation in minority governance in a post-pandemic world.
Convenors: Antonio Montañés Jiménez, Camila Ferreira Marinelli and Stavroula Pipyrou (University of St Andrews)