John Sutton

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).

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Rethinking psychological measurement: Validity potential versus realised validity We propose a concept of validity with a novel feature that we argue can facilitate improved measurement validation practices in the psychological scie…

Thrilled to share our new paper introducing “validity potential” versus “realised validity” as a key distinction for psychological measurement, with @davidmkaplanx.bsky.social, Alexander Gillett, @suttonprofessor.bsky.social, and @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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-...

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

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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?

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with @aldersonday.bsky.social @nboyce.bsky.social @esolomonova.bsky.social @jarnotuominen.bsky.social and many more great folk, across English, medical humanities, psychiatry, psychology, religious studies, bioscience, and neurophilosophy, along with my home at @memoryplace.bsky.social

and mine is up if anyone's interested in pre-print version via johnsutton.net/book-chapters/

some of the chapters will be online after formal publication, see global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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

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...

"Constellations in Ruins" is a new photo-essay by our researcher Dale Leorke with Christopher Wood, examining GPS not as background tech but as a material and environmental force in our world amidst ecological crisis.
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...

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...

Five voices on the future of human intelligence How can we all stay smart in a changing world? We asked the experts

Is the over use of SatNavs causing potential future problems for the population. I discuss with writer Moheb Costandi in his section of this article on

Five voices on the future of human intelligence:

newhumanist.org.uk/articles/648...

Affective Atmospheres, a two-day in-person event in Glasgow — supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
All welcome.
18–19 Feb 2026
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
Info placememory.net/affective-at...
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!

Registration coming soon...

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...