(ALC) Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages

Creative Practice, Politics, and (Post)Colonialism: Roundtable Discussion

15:00 - 16:30 12 May 2025
This roundtable discussion will focus on some of the challenges and insights of using creative practices when addressing issues related to politics, colonialism, and postcolonialism.…

Biodiplomatic and Biocolonial Fictions: Speculations on Immunity, Debility, and Humanity

16:00 - 18:00 15 May 2025
The fictions, theories, and practices of diplomacy exceed statecraft and the geopolitical imagination. They are often predicated on culture-specific forms of ‘mancraft’, handicraft,…

Desi Queers: Exploring Intergenerationality in LGBTQ South Asian Cultures in Britain

18:30 28 May 2025
How do ideas, cultures and ways of living ‘move’ across generations in queer contexts? How do queer people’s positions outside of mainstream forms of biological (nuclear family) and…

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

18:00 - 20:30 6 June 2025
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world…

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