John Sutton

Affective Atmospheres, a two-day in-person event in Glasgow — supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
All welcome.
18–19 Feb 2026
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Art by Jinjoon Lee: Jinjoon Lee, On Some Faraway Shore – Nine Reincarnations Series, 2025.

Research isn’t always in a lab or a library. Our researchers Tania Casimiro and Paula Reavey were in London (E1, E2, E3) last week studying toilet graffiti.

Research isn't always in a lab or library...

It has been a big first year - and will be bigger - and wilder - in 2026 now we have all 7 Research Fellows and 8 PhD Researchers on board. Well done!

Register now - two-day in-person interdisciplinary - in Glasgow - not hybrid!

New preprint alert!

Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations

#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

Our researchers in the deep wilds of London toilet graffiti...

Our research in the NYT... bravo Pablo!

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Racial Fictions Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized acr...

and Carby has a new book out in a few weeks www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Imperial Intimacies ‘Where are you from?’ was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post–World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mot...

'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Celebrating the ‘Women, Housing & Place’ Symposium at the University of Stirling The University of Stirling welcomed researchers, practitioners, and campaigners to campus for a one-day symposium on Women, Housing & Place.

'Women, Housing, and Place' at Stirling: Mhairi-Jean Ross reports on a great symposium co-sponsored by @memoryplace.bsky.social, & eg @tmcasimiro.bsky.social on women's spatial, material, architectural strategies in 'illegal' Lisbon neighbourhoods www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/cel...

Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang... Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...

Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...

Lochs of Lismore Exploring the place knowledge and social values of Loch Baile a’ Ghobhainn Three researchers from the University of Stirling – Ruth Olden, Tânia Manuel Casimiro and Elizabeth Robson – a…

It's a rare marl lake wrestlingsocialvalue.org/lochs-of-lis...

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

@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

@reaveyp.bsky.social @pfvelasco.bsky.social @tmcasimiro.bsky.social

@memoryplace.bsky.social hosted Sarah Gensburger, sociologist of memory extraordinaire from Sciences Po - from our amazing Advisory Board - for two intensive workshops with our new PhDs, brilliant fun – and, wandering Stirling Uni's twisty corridors, we found these strange apt memory cushions!

Professor Emily Keightley — Migrant Heritage and Postcolonial Imagination
📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST)
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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

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...

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

Meet our people @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is an archaeologist specialising in material culture, urban marginality, and the intersections of place and memory, community archaeology, waste and urban ecologies, the archaeology of abandonment, and non-human interactions in urban and non-urban spaces.

Welcome to Rob Wilson... please join us!

Join us today for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari
Wed 1 Oct 2025
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 14:50)
D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
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Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...

Set in the post-war, post-Independence moment, this talk blends memoir and historical geography - join us!

Fantastic resource - podcast about dementia-related memory loss - from Professor Catherine Loveday - how to have tricky conversations, how to improve sleep and how to scaffold memory
mempathy.podbean.com

Amnesia and Identity Workshop Schedule 24 & 25 September 2025 Day 1 — Wednesday 24 September Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling (Room C22) what3words: ///mascot.wedding.daunted Join online (stream opens 10 minutes be…

Join us for Day 2 of Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver - starts 09:30 BST stir.ac.uk (Scion House + online)
Speakers: Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Rathbone, Louis Renoult, Catherine Loveday and Shayna Rosenbaum
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