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  • The City & The City reading discussion

    Macrobert 223 Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

    This is the first seminar of a new series on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the City. It is a reading group discussion of the multi-award winning novel The City & The City (2009) by China Miéville. The discussion will be led by PhD student Sam McReavy, who is writing on the novel as part of his … Continue reading The City & The City reading discussion

  • Decolonial approaches to gender studies and secularism

    Edward Wright F61 Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

    Professor Nadia Kiwan, LLMVC In this paper, Professor Kiwan will consider the theoretical contributions that a decolonial studies paradigm might bring to the study of gender. She argues that a decolonial conceptual framework can generate critical discussions of key political concepts such as equality, secularism and universalism and the ways in which such concepts have, … Continue reading Decolonial approaches to gender studies and secularism

  • City of God – death and burial

    An interdisciplinary discussion about the origins of western views of burial. Co-hosted with the Death Studies Network. The sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 shocked the Roman world by revealing the weakness of the Western Roman Empire. Only two years later, St. Augustine wrote the first book of his influential City of God … Continue reading City of God – death and burial