Dr Shanti Sumartojo
From: 12 Dec 2017, 1 p.m.Dr Shanti Sumartojo (School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia)
1pm-2.30pm, Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Faraday 314
Dr Shanti Sumartojo is Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). Her research investigates how people experience their spatial surroundings, including both material and immaterial aspects, using ethnographic and practice-led methodologies. With a particular focus on the built environment and urban public space, this includes ongoing work on memorials and commemorative sites. She is author of Trafalgar Square and the Narration of Britishness (2013), and co-editor of Nation, Memory, and Great War Commemoration (2014) and Commemorating Race and Empire in the Great War Centenary (2017).
Contact: Angharad Closs Stephens (Email: a.c.stephens@swansea.ac.uk)