@suttonprofessor.bsky.social
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
How can oral history engage with Northern Ireland’s difficult past without forcing agreement? Historian Chris Reynolds reflects on agonistic memory and the value of keeping contested perspectives in dialogue - bridging the gap between the academy and public impact.
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online roundtable tomorrow, Tues 3pm UK, 4pm CET, embodied and distributed remembering in writing and reading, memory and literature! - me with some fab literary/ cultural/ cognitive scholars, plus open discussion
This Wednesday, 16:00 — Chris Reynolds (Nottingham Trent).
Voices of ’68 and ’74: oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland.
Hybrid seminar (Stirling + online). Register now.
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Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory
30 Apr–1 May · University of Stirling
A two-day gathering of trans, gender-nonconforming and queer artists and thinkers exploring memory, ritual and cosmology through performance, scholarship and dialogue.
More details and registration soon.
Wonderful to have @cperistianis.bsky.social at the Centre @memoryplace.bsky.social for the month of March!
Join us & the @stir.ac.uk Art Collection Artist talk with Toby Paterson RSA
How do artists think about architecture and the experience of place?
27 March 2026
13:00–14:00
Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling
Free event. In person and online.
Register:
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Tues March 10 online panel: memory, writing, & reading. Is remembering distributed across books, screens, characters, fictional places, traditions, drafts, notes, fellow readers.? I'm in with a short provocation, with colleagues from Norway & Denmark, 3-5pm UK, 4-6pm CET: mailchi.mp/57f930178c24...
A new paper co-authored by Centre researcher Dale Leorke rethinks the university library beyond the repository.
If the library is still the “heart of the campus”, what does it now embody?
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This Wednesday, 16:00 — @cperistianis.bsky.social
How do you farm land patrolled by soldiers?
Since 1974, Greek Cypriot farmers have cultivated fields inside the Buffer Zone — alongside military forces and UN peacekeepers.
In person & online.
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Place is not passive—Memory is not settled
We work across cognitive science, social science & the arts to examine how people find their way. In contested pasts & rapidly changing environments, understanding place and memory underpins how we locate ourselves—intellectually, socially and historically
Great new work by @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and colleagues: contemporary archaeology of a densely reworked palimpsest of graffiti and other marks made in the 70s & 80s on a surveilled military boundary wall, analysis layered with testimony from locals who were young then @stir.ac.uk @leverhulme.ac.uk
Nice to see this RR out
Thank you Paul Max Morin for making these short videos - great introduction to visiting researchers @memoryplace.bsky.social
REGISTER NOW How can we engage contested pasts without forcing agreement? SEMINAR - Voices of ’68 and ’74: Oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland 11 March | 16:00–17:30 (UK) University of Stirling | Hybrid
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Pleased to welcome @cperistianis.bsky.social as a visiting researcher
If memory is embedded in material — in cloth, in thread, in the things we touch every day — what happens when those materials are discarded, sealed away, or transformed?
Do objects remember us? Or do we remember through them?
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Affective Atmospheres is drawing to a close.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, contributed, presented, volunteered and stayed in the room for the conversations.
We’re especially grateful to the Royal Institute of Philosophy for supporting the conference.
On Tuesday we hosted No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84 with Prof. Matthew Worley.
Here, he explains his research on British punk, politics and popular memory.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, and to Collective Architecture for hosting.
Day 2 of Affective Atmospheres began with a panel on Atmospheres & Decay.
Slides from Ruth Olden’s presentation — Everyday atmospheric encounters with the remnants of the 1938 Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.
How do the traces of past spectacles linger in everyday life?
Can a living room - or a kitchen - be political? Slides from Tania Manuel Casimiro’s presentation— Atmospheres of Fear: Domesticity and State Control in the Portuguese Estado Novo.
the Centre debuted our hi-viz gear last night - to help attendees find us more easily at our events - luminous assistance from the team...
It takes a village to host a conference - proud of the Centre team and the great folk at Civic House
Today — Winter 2026 Seminar
No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84
Prof. Matthew Worley + reading by Paul Max Morin
Tue 17 Feb
17:30 refreshments | 18:00 start
Collective Architecture, Glasgow
Hybrid — in person & online
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In-person only. Add yourself to the waitlist and we’ll try to make space.
Anger is an energy...
Two weeks to go — free register now!
No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84
Matthew Worley examines how British punk forged structures of feeling that still shape popular memory.
📅 Tue 17 Feb 2026
⏰ 18:00 (arrival 17:30)
📍 Collective Architecture, Glasgow
💻 Hybrid — stream opens 17:50
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
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