Join Samantha Allen for a body positive talk that reclaims our narrative on ageing. Understand why that opposition exists and why we need to create better, less invisible futures for ourselves as women.
Project Category: Identity Events
Female Beauty Standards in China: a Brief Review of the History
Beauty has been a central theme in Chinese poetry and literature for centuries, with many artists expressing their perceptions of beauty through their works. This 1h online talk takes a historical view of Chinese perception of female beauty and its representation in Chinese poems and paintings.
Reclaiming the Female Body in Art
In this session we will focus on artists such as Louise Bourgeois, The Gorilla Girls and Jenny Saville - all of whom have created depictions of the female body from the perspective of women, for an audience of both women and men.
Restricted Imaginary for Restricted Border Regimes: images of migration shaping migratory policies
This talk will address Western collective imagination of migration by revealing its imprint in various visual fields (e.g. cartography, contemporary art, fashion) and by seeking ways to diversify its expression.
Trailblazers
Join Samantha Allen for a journey through history to uncover great inventions and explore ideologies created by Black men and women that have shifted, disrupted and challenged how we see and experience the world today.
Memory and Learner Identity
In this talk, we look at different learner types so that you can explore and understand your own learning styles. Combining the latest neuroscience and the speaker's years of teaching practice, this lecture aims to offer some basics of how we learn, remember and some key strategies for enhancing one's learning and memory.
Sex in the City: Jeanne Mammen and Otto Dix’s 1920s Berlin
This lecture looks at the work of two artists who explored these 'new' sexual expressions, Jeanne Mammen and Otto Dix, alongside the work of sociologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the Institute of Sexology.
Ancestral Trauma in Caribbean Culture
Join Samantha Allen to understand what ancestral trauma means for the British Caribbean community and how we can help to create spaces of safety and liberation in the workplace.
Documents of Memory: South African photography in the 1980s
This talk will consider the formal qualities of photographs produced during the apartheid era in South Africa and the impact of such images in post-1994 museums, physical landscapes and public consciousness.
Collective Memory: honouring deceased in Japan
Every summer Japan celebrates a festival, Obon, to commemorate ancestors, whose spirits are believed to return to this world in order to visit their relatives. It is believed that memorial ceremonies not only help people to pay their respect to spirits of deceased relatives but also serve as healing rituals helping families and communities to process their grief and disturbing memories.