The current pandemic has rapidly come to dominate politics and society the world over. In the EU, national border controls, travel restrictions and lockdowns have suspended everyday life as we know it. Over and above the need to control the virus, the longer-term implications of these measures have already become key topics in the debate over our present and future. Overcrowded refugee camps have posed a health hazard even before Covid-19 struck. With the European response focused on nation states and citizens, stateless refugees are left without any means of self-preservation.

The School of Advanced Study (SAS) invites applications for the full-time post of Director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

The IMLR is seeking a full-time Early Career Researcher, on a fixed-term basis for two calendar years, to be responsible for fulfilling the Institute’s national mission to promote and facilitate research and public engagement in the field of Modern Languages (primarily Italian and/or Spanish) with Digital Humanities.

In the postcolonial reassessment of history, the themes of colonialism, decolonisation and individual and collective memory have always been intertwined, but it is only recently that the transcultural turn in memory studies has enabled proper dialogue between memory studies and postcolonial studies. This volume explores the synergies and tensions between these areas of study across literatures and media from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and intersections with Asia.