Week 2    Thoughts On Aesthetics and Politics 🐦Reflections following the lecture and the exhibition This week’s lecture on aesthetics and politics remind me of an exhibition I visited recently, Resistance, at Modern Two in Edinburgh. The exhibition focus on “How protest shaped Britain and photography shaped protest”. It brought together works by thousands of […]

Claude and I have been working together to do more stuff since my first blog post about Claude. We’ve added a whole lot of new things to our prototype Survey of Scottish Witchcraft site including a chatbot to ask questions about the data (a challenge received by Lesley Greer), ‘stories’ …

In light of the reflective time of the awards season for film, Yasmeena Sulaiman looks at how even though the BAFTA awards have not always been an indicator of how the Oscars will go, the 2023 Academy Awards is different. Mar 19, 2023

1.Introduction: From Looking to Perceiving At the beginning of this semester, my understanding of the countermeasure exhibition is mainly at the level of visual arrangement: selecting works, placing them in space, and creating meaning through sorting. This assumption began to shift during a visit to the SSA 127th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, where […]

Marcella Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology – The Caminata Continues International Conference in Honor of Marcella Althaus-Reid’s 75th Birthday   DATE:            15th to 17th April 2027 VENUE:         School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh In May 2027, the pioneering and provocative theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid would have turned 75. Her work continues to inspire critical conversations and transformative […]

Introduction This reflection critically examines the development of my Speculative Individual Curatorial Project (SICP), focusing on how conceptual, practical, and collaborative processes shaped its final form. The project explores diaspora as an ongoing process of cultural translation, using participatory and relational strategies to transform personal experiences into an evolving archive. Therefore, this reflection is structured […]