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The abstracts of the postgraduate talks:

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Join us for our final event of the academic year!

June 4. 5PM at SR24, Faculty of English.

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Please join us for a talk on the “The Tricontinental Cold War” by Prof. Neelam Srivastava on 29 May at SR24, Faculty of English.

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Today at SR24 - 5PM!

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Our third event of the term is happening on Monday, the 18th of May. Dr Eunsong Kim will speak on “The Technology and Aesthetics of Decontextualisation: Cybernetics, Interpretation and Archived Expirements”. Please join us at SR24, Faculty of English.

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Our third event of the term is happening on Monday, the 18th of May. Dr Eunsong Kim will speak on “The Technology and Aesthetics of Decontextualisation: Cybernetics, Interpretation and Archived Expirements”. Please join us at SR24, Faculty of English.

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The English faculty EDI programme is hosting this exciting symposium on May 21 from 10:00 to 15:30 at the Faculty of English GR06/07. Please register to attend using the QR code.

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Join us on May 14th for a screening of the cult classic film My Beautiful Laundrette. GR04 at the Faculty of English, 5PM!

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For our first seminar this term Dr Henry Dee will deliver a talk on “Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa” on 30th of April, 5-7PM. Please join us!

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Our term card for Easter is here! Join us on the indicated dates from 5-7PM!

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For our fifth and last seminar this term, Dr Nada Ali will be joining us to deliver a talk titled “On Being Sudanese: Identity, Belonging and the Politics of Conflict”. The seminar will take place on Thursday, 19 March in SR24, Faculty of English, at 5.00 pm.

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Join us for our fourth event of the term. Dr Christina Moreno-Almeida will deliver a talk on “Dis-meme-bering the nation: Memes, Monstrosity and Dismembering of Nationalist Fantasies”.

On Thursday, 5th March at 5PM. At SR 24, Faculty of English.

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Venue change: this event will be held in GR05, ground floor of the English faculty now.

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Please join us for our third seminar of the term. Prof Miles will deliver a talk titled “Who was Granville? Questions from the archive of the 1831-32 uprising in Jamaica”. 

See you on Thursday, 12th February in SR24, @englishunicam at 5.00 pm!

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Join us for our second seminar of the term at SR24 @englishunicam on 5th of February by Prof Miriyam Aouragh. The talk will be followed by a discussion led by Dr Hana Morgenstern, Associate professor of Middle Eastern and Palestinian Studies at the Faculty of English.

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So excited for this talk! Tariq Jazeel on the Asian underground music scene. Please join us at the Small Lecture Theatre, Dept of Geography on Jan 27th (Tuesday).

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The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz (@UCLgeography)

Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

In collaboration with @CambridgePoco @vitalgeogs

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The first session will take place at Small Lecture Theatre, @CamUniGeography (Downing site) . While the others will be held at SR24, @englishunicam (Sidgwick site).

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We are excited to share our term card for Lent 2026. We have four sessions planned under the theme political uprisings. We are also co-organising our first session with the incredible Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series (@urbanmulti) on Jan 27!

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Join us for our last session of the term on 4th December where Dr Andrew J Green will deliver a talk on “Rock Censorship in Mexico: on stories, ideologies, affordances”.

5-7PM, SR24, Faculty of English building.

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Join us for the fourth seminar of the term where Dr Goh will talk on the question of form in Patricia J Williams’ founding contribution to critical race theory, The Alchemy of Race and Rights.
The talk is entitled “Alchemical Realism in Patricia J Williams’ Jurisliterature”.

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Join us for our third seminar of the term where Dr Melissa Carlson will discuss painting practices during socialist era in Burma. It will take place at SR24, Faculty of English on 20 Nov 2025 at 5PM.