SIGN UP: CIMS PG Symposium, ‘Memory, Habitat, and the Anthropocene’
This year’s CIMS Postgraduate Symposium, ‘Memory, Habitat, and the Anthropocene’, will bring together postgraduate students with interest in memory, the natural world, and the Anthropocene. Here we present an opportunity for interdisciplinary thinking and discussion, where academia and art can be explored in a lively and interactive forum. This year’s symposium will involve a keynote speech by Prof Kirsty Robertson entitled “Shadow Collection: Chemical Intimacies and Plastic Memory in the Museum”, a series of flashtalks, a PG panel discussion, and a hands-on artistic workshop with Melody Bellefeuille-Frost. The Symposium will take place from 10am-4:30pm, Friday 16 May 2025.
The event is hosted by the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) with financial support from the St Leonard’s Postgraduate College Community Fund.
We are opening the event to our University-wide postgraduate community and academic staff. If you would like to attend, please book a ticket via this event page as numbers are limited: https://memos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-admin/post.php?post=40033&action=edit. We will take your booking as confirmation that you are able to attend the full day’s events (10am-4:30pm), starting from registration to the artist’s workshop. Should you not be able to attend a portion of the day, please reach out to us as soon as possible and we will see whether we can make alternative accommodations.
Provisional Timetable:
10am — Registration/Tea & Coffee
10:30-11:30am — Keynote Lecture by Dr Kirsty Robertson, “Shadow Collection: Chemical Intimacies and Plastic Memory in the Museum”
11:30am-12:20pm — Flashtalk Panels
12:20-1:20pm — Lunch
1:20-2:45pm — Postgraduate Panel
2:45-3pm — Tea/Coffee
3-4pm — Artist Workshop with Melody Bellefeuille-Frost, “Layered Materials, Layered Memories: A Visual Reflection on the Symposium”