Semester 1 2021-22
Semester One 15th September 2021 – Children’s Rights The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely supported international human rights treaty. Kate Mackenzie (Department of…
Semester One 15th September 2021 – Children’s Rights The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely supported international human rights treaty. Kate Mackenzie (Department of…
Semester Two 27 January 2021 – Writing Chinese History with Images Images constitute a valuable means of compensating for official erasure of history whether political, cultural or social. But how should images be…
Semester One 30 September 2020 – Creative Writing in Russia Today Maya Kucherskaya is a best-selling author, critic, academic, and founder of the leading creative writing school in Russia. In conversation with…
Semester Two 29 January 2020 – Gundermann (Film Screening) Gundermann tells the story of Gerhard “Gundi” Gundermann, one of East Germany’s most significant music artists. A digger driver who writes songs, Gundermann is…
Semester One 25 September 2019 – Rosa Luxembourg (Film Screening and Discussion) Charting the life of one of the 20th century’s most iconic political figures, this biopic is a key work in the oeuvre of feminist…
Semester Two 30th January – Donbass Odyssey (Art Exhibition 30th January – 13th February) Donbass Odyssey is an art project which tells stories of cities and towns in the Donbas region of Ukraine. Since 2015 Donbass…
Semester One 3rd October – Beyond the Bards: Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Brittany, Scotland, Ireland and Wales What role can literature play in creating a sense of identity among writers from Celtic lands? This…
Semester Two 31st January – The Faces We Lost (dir. Piotr Cieplak, 2017) The 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed almost a million lives in just 100 days. The world stood by as men, women and children were being hacked to…
Semester One 4th October – Casting Race on Stage and Screen This event led by Dr Julia Prest (University of St Andrews) explores casting in relation to race and ethnicity, the opportunities and challenges…
Semester Two 28 January 2017 – Soccer my Saviour: screening and Q&A A screening of the documentary film ‘Soccer My Saviour’ is taking place at the Byre theatre on 28 January. The film tells the story of former…