{"id":83,"date":"2025-02-13T11:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T11:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:03:50","slug":"residential-weekends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/?page_id=83","title":{"rendered":"Residential Weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Voices from the Residential\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DzRMgJjxmt4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The core of the project comprised a three day residential in which 15-20 participant teachers worked closely with experts in Caribbean slavery and its legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the course of its three iterations, the residential has included workshops from 13 different academic historians and guest lectures by playwright May Sumbwanyambe and journalist Alex Renton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-1980x2640.jpeg 1980w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each residential has included a workshop by Dr Peggy Brunache in which participants relate to the past through foodways, tasting and helping to prepare slave cuisine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through these consumption-based learning activities, Brunache critiques and challenges historical studies\u2019 narrow lens of the slavery archives through interdisciplinary and experiential practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The act of \u2018consuming history\u2019 fosters an alternative narrative of Atlantic enslaved communities and a deeper understanding of daily slave experiences that emphasizes Black agency and joy, community building, and particularly Black women\u2019s roles within slave subsistence practices as culinary resistance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-1980x2640.jpeg 1980w, https:\/\/tss.stir.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The core of the project comprised a three day residential in which 15-20 participant teachers worked closely with experts in Caribbean slavery and its legacy. 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