2024-2025
18 September 2024 – The Seven Sages of Scotland Jane Bonsall What might we learn from medieval narratives about violence, gender, and truth-telling? This adaptation of the 15th-century Older Scots story collection The…
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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 2 2020-21
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 1 2020-21
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 2 2019-20
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 1 2019-20
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 2 2018-19
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 1 2018-19
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 2 2017-18
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 1 2017-18
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…