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Fun, Feisty, Feminist: WTF?* 
* We’re Talking Feminism

Dr. Susan Knabe, Women's Studies & Feminist Research
Thursday, January 31 at 7 p.m.

How do we a find and forge feminist practice in the age of sound-bites, social media and sexualisation? In this talk, we will consider how we might be able to draw on historical and contemporary examples of feminist interventions, from the early Suffragettes to the Slutwalk phenomenon, to imagine a different kind of approach to understanding feminist education and practice that speaks to feminists and non-feminists of all ages.

Tempus Fugit: Keeping Time in Antiquity

Dr. Alexander Meyer, Classical Studies
Wednesday, March 27 at 7 p.m.

The manner in which we keep time is integral to our culture.  Clocks and calendars provide the framework around which daily and seasonal life is structured.  Ancient culture was no different and, as in the modern world, there was more than one calendar and system of time-keeping being used.  Dr. Meyer will examine the various means by which inhabitants of the Roman world tracked time and discuss how calendars and clocks affect our understanding of practical life and cultural interaction in the Roman world.

Sites of Spectrality: Remembering and forgetting RMS Titanic

Dr. Chris Gittings, Film Studies
Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m.

Apparitions of Titanic are frequently generated in the name of preserving or even restoring cultural memory whilst simultaneously causing its disappearance. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s concept of spectrality, the essay analyses the spectral return of Titanic, its haunting of cultural memory through various sites in popular culture such as tabloid journalism, the publicly traded RMS Titanic Inc, artifact exhibitions, board and computer games, a watch manufactured from the ship’s wreckage, and a centenary memorial cruise. The lecture argues that the various myths of Titanic that come back to us as specters work to de-form the ship and the tragic events of April 14 1912 into cultural memories that take commodity form. To generate a ghost of Titanic for purchasing remembrance, a return to an abstracted commodified body is necessary. Dr. Gittings' analysis of this return explores the workings of cultural memory and the market around spectral bodies of Titanic.

All lectures are held at the Central Library, Stevenson & Hunt Room (first level)
Two hours free validated parking. Free to the public, everyone welcome!

international Film Series

Join us for FREE screenings of popular and award-wining international films. All films have English subtitles.

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