Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown

Ngā mihi nui mō tō wairua me tō mātauranga - Many thanks for your spirit and wisdom Tia Neha!

@memoryplace.bsky.social we’re hosting Tia Neha from Aotearoa New Zealand, sharing her striking research in developmental psychology of autobiographical memory, and for powerful discussions on ‘Ethical Memory: a kaupapa Māori philosophical backfill’, and on multiculturalism and indigenous community

Bravo Professor Sarah Gensburger - a valued member of our advisory board - this week she ran two amazing intensives for our team @ the University of Stirling

The Earthshot Prize - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures The University of Leeds is an Official Nominator for the Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize that aims to help scale solutions to repair our planet.  We’re looking for solutions to nominate ...

📢Do you or your team have an ambitious solution to tackle the climate emergency or help repair our planet?

The Uni of Leeds is an Official Nominator for the #EarthshotPrize - a global environmental award that offers 5 £1 million grants. Submit your solution now climate.leeds.ac.uk/our-work/the...

Professor Emily Keightley — Migrant Heritage and Postcolonial Imagination
📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST)
Join us in person or online 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/EmilyKeightley

🗣 Today 4 pm BST — hybrid talk Professor Emma Waterton — Migrant Heritage-Making in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia
📍 Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
🔗 Join via Teams: bit.ly/EmmaWaterton...

Ethos | AAA Sociocultural Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper examines the methodological and ethical challenges of conducting remote research on child-animal relationships across thirty communities in 17 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. It cr...

Check out Thajib et al.'s "Combining remote and collaborative research: A critical reflection on large-scale, comparative, and #interdisciplinary research in times of a global #crisis" at

I’m glad to share that this Friday I’ll be defending my dissertation at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory in lovely Grenoble.
Looking forward to discussing three years of research on memory (at @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social and @ruhr-uni-bochum.de) with such a fantastic committee!

Developed with students from Sciences Po Menton, the project reconnects Marseille’s commercial spaces with their imperial histories.
Supported by the @UniStir it’s a model for public history that makes traces of empire visible in everyday life.

Last night in Marseille, Centre researcher Paul Max Morin helped launch Le Coffre-Fort de l’Empire — an information plaque inside UNIQLO revealing the building’s colonial past as a former bank funding the conquest of Algeria.
#ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory

MSc Global Environmental Sustainability https://www.stir.ac.uk/courses/pg-taught/global-environmental-sustainability/

In autumn 2026 we'll start our MSc Global Environmental Sustainability. Together with our colleagues in natural science we created an interdisciplinary programme in sustainability and Environmental Justice higher education. www.stir.ac.uk/courses/pg-t... #EcoLeadership #EnvironmentalJustice

Grass of various lengths around and over a 5000 year old stone village. The houses are beside a rocky coast, and the North Atlantic is off to the far right, with ominous rain clouds.

Feels like it’s been a while since I put my workplace here. This is Skara Brae right now 🏺🧪🌊

Stigma, Diagnosis, and Identity

Today on the #projectEPIC blog Aneela Khan addresses the issue of #EpistemicInjustice for people who have unusual experiences and beliefs epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/stig... #philsky #philpsy

The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies (CMDS) at SOAS is organising a two-day workshop on the themes of return, repatriation and deportation, 17-18 October.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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31 days of Graves text! It details all the themes that I don't have room to type out, and is overtoo of a photo of new england gravestones on green grass

It's the most wonderful time of the year... #31DaysofGraves !!
Created by the wonderful @annaandthedead.bsky.social, I will be playing only with photos already on my phone from the last year! Lets go!!

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Are You Christopher Columbus? I’m India, and I Heard You’re, Like, Obsessed with Me Sorry, new kid, we’re already sitting here. Hang on, are you Christopher Columbus? I’m India. People keep saying you can’t stop talking about me. T...

"Is that a map you drew of me? OMG, I do not look like that. Why’d you draw me so small and Italy so big? I’m literally ten times bigger. Is this your way of trying to make yourself relevant? That’s honestly so insecure of you."

Green Street art-style vinyl on the wall of Canterbury cathedral's ambulatory that reads 'What is the architecture of heaven?'

Forvtheircweek on heritage and place, I took the MA Heritage students to 'Hear Us', the graffiti-style installation at Canterbury Cathedral. They were both receptive and critical. We had a great discussion of intention, inclusion/exclusion, theology of questions etc. 1/

Accept our king, our god − or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.

Accept our king, our god − or else:

What colonizers presented to #IndigenousPeoples as a choice was no choice at all. The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on deeper ideas and laws the Spanish used to take over the New World.

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#IndigenousPeoplesDay #history

The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.

“Brian Goldstone calls the displaced people he writes about ‘the working homeless,’” Jay Neugeboren writes. His book “reveals an America few of us know.”

Leverhulme International Professor Emma Waterton examines the small, often overlooked material traces of belonging itself. Join us 21 Oct, 16:00–17:30 for an afternoon seminar followed by drinks in Crush Hall. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What counts as heritage in a multicultural society? Leverhulme International Professor Emma Waterton examines the small, often overlooked material traces of belonging itself. Join us 21 Oct, 16:00–17:30 for an afternoon seminar followed by drinks in Crush Hall.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Space, Affect, Memory Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, thi...

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison - @uclpress.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...

How we teach the past shapes the future. Centre researcher Paul Max Morin’s article on Algerian independence and historical memory has been chosen for France’s national history-teacher training curriculum — 125,000 copies across 3,700 high schools. #ResearchImpact link.camscanner.com/a4OMrL5Mgo

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Our Dr Iain Robertson & Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social are both delivering papers at Scottish Local History Forum's conference, ‘Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context’, in Paisley on Saturday 25 October! To view the full programme and to book your place, visit bit.ly/4fxbKp5

Join us for a special event on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation.

📍 Conway Hall, London
📅 Monday 17 November, 2025

Buy your 🎟️ here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-lever... @expeditions.bsky.social @ucl-sbb.bsky.social

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!

We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!

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India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world, a trailblazer of ideas along a Golden Road from the Red Sea to the Pacific.

Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize, The Golden Road by @willdalrymple.bsky.social is a culmination of a lifetime's work.

Learn more now https://bit.ly/3WsTunW