Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

YouTube video by upsettherhythm Quinie - 'Forefowk, Mind Me' [film]

We’re delighted Quinie will perform at our Affective Atmospheres conference on 18 Feb at Civic House.

Her work — rooted in landscape, memory and voice — feels like a perfect match.

The conference is now fully booked, with registration open via a waitlist.

🎶 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLd...

Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory This channel shares recorded talks, seminars and events hosted by the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory at the University of Stirling, a Leverhulme Trust–funded research centre, alongside se...

We’re now on YouTube.

Recorded seminars and events from the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, plus selected talks by our researchers and recommended recordings.
www.youtube.com/channel/UCxZ...

A tale of three cities: tracing the hidden regimes of homelessness Will Haynes’s research explores the complex but often-hidden ways that homeless people experience the daily disjunctions and disorientations of their lives

Giving voice to those often overlooked and ignored in research, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Will Haynes @lancasteruni.bsky.social, explores the complex but often-hidden ways that homeless people experience the daily disjunctions and disorientations of their lives.

Funded PhD opportunities - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life

The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February

Leverhulme Trust Research grants

Leverhulme Trust Research grants

Leverhulme Trust Research grants

📢PIs looking for an R&D boost—The @leverhulme.ac.uk offers up to £500K for research projects
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No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84
Professor Matthew Worley on British punk, popular memory and structures of feeling — from SEX to the 1980s and beyond.
Tue 17 Feb · 18:00(UK)
Collective Architecture, Glasgow
Hybrid event
👉 Register now forms.gle/fHHborG35KCZ...

What can waste tell us about how we live now? Dr Leila Papoli-Yazdi examines garbology as an archaeological method under political constraint and limited funding.
Thu 12 Feb | 16:00–17:30 (UK) | Online
Register: forms.gle/WD5pM6w3xg3S...

Coloured flyer promoting the call for papers for the 26th Annual Cambridge Heritage Symposium. The top of the flyer is filled by an image of a silver globe shot through with gold resting in a silver bowl and held by a pair of hands. The text below describes the theme, key dates and location of the symposium plus the organising and sponsoring institutions.

CfP: 26th Annual Cambridge Heritage Symposium.

Theme: The Role of Heritage in Shaping Ontological Security in the Contemporary World.

Submissions Deadline: 15 February 2026.

Full details: www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk/files/media/...

The Newberry is noncirculating. BUT we have plenty of inspiration... americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

Very much looking forward to sharing more about my new @wellcometrust.bsky.social project 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World' next Thursday!!

No Figure in the Landscape: Remorse, closure and the law In this talk, hosted in association with the University of Stirling’s Philosophy Division, Associate Professor Kate Rossmanith focuses on emotion in legal settings, examining the high-stakes roles pla...

Thu 29 Jan | 15:15–17:00 (UK)
No Figure in the Landscape: Remorse, closure and the law

Hybrid seminar with Associate Professor Kate Rossmanith (University of Stirling).

👉 Register now: forms.gle/sypMhxqbW9T8...

Many thanks to Professor Michael Given for opening the Centre’s 2026 seminar programme, exploring place-making as a convivial, lived process shaped by people, animals, soils and everyday practices.

Thanks also to Research Fellow Paul Max Morin, who coordinates our events.

We’re co-hosting with the Centre for Policy, Conflict and Co-operation Research: A Personal Account of Transforming Conflict, with Andrei Gómez-Suárez, Delegate of the Colombian government to negotiations with Comuneros del Sur.
📍 Cottrell Lecture Theatre A3
🔗 www.stir.ac.uk/events/2025-...

Presented to Hasmik Knyazyan for “Digital Homelands: Facebook as a Grassroots Community Archive in Response to Political Erasure in Artsakh.”
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Top 2 Most downloaded article in 2025 Memory Studies Review – your interest got piqued by:

Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Collective Memory?

brill.com/view/journal...

@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q

M is for… Mundane | BPS The Psychologist A to Z continues.

Friday is National Nothing Day… I'm still rather keen to pull together a collection of pieces from Psychologists who consider 'nothing' in their research or practice. Absence, gaps, silence, the banal, mundane, etc etc.
This was a toe in the water years ago…
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

A hybrid talk on emotion in law and the high-stakes roles of memory and place. Drawing on 15 years of ethnographic research: what happens when there is no figure in the landscape? How do courts read remorse?

Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q

The site of the former Woodhall #Coal Mine #Braidwood South #Lanarkshire Short lived drift mine (2 adits) operated under #NCB licence from early 1950s to late 1960s #MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage

Blue and grey text on white background. Early Career Fellowships. Three images and current project titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL media.leverhulme.ac.uk/features.

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

Lovely new volume from Marco Bernini & Ben Alderson-Day's 'Threshold Worlds' project. In permeable and immersive dreams, what narrative genres sculpt dream experiences and reports? My chapter shifts from my own survey response to plasticity and anachronism in the sciences and history of dreams.

What makes a place convivial? Join Professor Michael Given for a seminar on soil, herd, and home in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from the 17th to 19th centuries - 22 January 2026 - 16:00–17:30 (UK) - Hybrid - Register now bit.ly/3Z4NDGJ

Dubuque Rendezvous! is calling for installation, narrative, and performance proposals.

Website: climaterendezvous.org/open-call/

Photo: Wes Heitzman

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Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...

Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #ShareWidely 👇👇
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1935, Quai d’Auteuil by Ben Nicholson - white carved painting: three circles and two rectilinear shapes inside a white frame.

Snow covered archaeological excavation - fully and partially excavated pits and perpendicular baulks

1935, Quai d’Auteuil by Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) - Excavated Beaker pits in the snow by Cambridge Archaeological Unit (2026)

T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met It is one of the wonders of the world. You round a corner from the Met’s entrance hall and see the sculpture deep in a...

‘The best Egyptian sculptors strike a unique balance between composure – art historians used to call it “arrest”, but we might prefer “respect for a stone replica’s essential stillness, its stopping of the flow of time” – and intimation of movement.’

T.J. Clark:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Workshop with Patrick Errington (University of Edinburgh) on “Reading Words and Worlds” next week - Friday, January 16, 3.30–5.30 pm (online and in person).
mailchi.mp/3df8a3b70fbc...

Pourquoi l’Algérie criminalise-t-elle la colonisation française maintenant ? Le Parlement algérien a adopté mercredi 24 décembre à l'unanimité une loi criminalisant la colonisation française. Cette loi réclame aussi des "excuses officielles" à la France. Pourquoi cette loi int...

Our researcher Paul Morin was live this morningon France Culture to talk about a memory law Algeria just passed on colonisation.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Affective Atmospheres Philosophical Foundations and Interdisciplinary Approaches A two-day conference examining how atmospheres shape places and experience, drawing together philosophy with anthropology, geography, art,…

Still time to register for Affective Atmospheres — 18–19 Feb at Civic House, Glasgow.
A free, in-person conference exploring place and atmosphere. Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
Artwork by Jinjoon Lee
🔗 placememory.net/affective-at...

From our seed funding scheme: Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)

For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-d...