Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory
@memoryplace.bsky.social
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
Presented to Hasmik Knyazyan for “Digital Homelands: Facebook as a Grassroots Community Archive in Response to Political Erasure in Artsakh.”
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January 15, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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?
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Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Collective Memory?
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@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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
Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Collective Memory?
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@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
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January 14, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
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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…
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This was a toe in the water years ago…
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M is for… Mundane | BPS
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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...
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
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Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
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January 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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
Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q
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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
January 13, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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
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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
January 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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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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.
January 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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
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Dubuque Rendezvous! is calling for installation, narrative, and performance proposals.
Website: climaterendezvous.org/open-call/
Photo: Wes Heitzman
#mississippiriver #dubuque #artstudio #photography #riverphotography #art #fineart #performanceart #installationart #interdisciplinaryart
Website: climaterendezvous.org/open-call/
Photo: Wes Heitzman
#mississippiriver #dubuque #artstudio #photography #riverphotography #art #fineart #performanceart #installationart #interdisciplinaryart
January 5, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Dubuque Rendezvous! is calling for installation, narrative, and performance proposals.
Website: climaterendezvous.org/open-call/
Photo: Wes Heitzman
#mississippiriver #dubuque #artstudio #photography #riverphotography #art #fineart #performanceart #installationart #interdisciplinaryart
Website: climaterendezvous.org/open-call/
Photo: Wes Heitzman
#mississippiriver #dubuque #artstudio #photography #riverphotography #art #fineart #performanceart #installationart #interdisciplinaryart
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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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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...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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 👇👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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1935, Quai d’Auteuil by Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) - Excavated Beaker pits in the snow by Cambridge Archaeological Unit (2026)
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
1935, Quai d’Auteuil by Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) - Excavated Beaker pits in the snow by Cambridge Archaeological Unit (2026)
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‘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:
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T.J. Clark:
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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...
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January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
‘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...
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).
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REMINDER: Patrick Errington, 'Reading Wor(l)ds', NEXT WEEK - Friday, Jan 16 (3.30–5.30 pm)
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January 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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).
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Our researcher Paul Morin was live this morningon France Culture to talk about a memory law Algeria just passed on colonisation.
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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...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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...
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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
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A free, in-person conference exploring place and atmosphere. Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
Artwork by Jinjoon Lee
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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,…
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December 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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...
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
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Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
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Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
A free online workshop for game developers, writers and researchers
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December 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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...
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...
"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.
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"Constellations in Ruins: GPS in the Anthropocene" by Dale Leorke and Christopher Wood | Published by Media+Environment
A photo essay exploring the hidden infrastructures of global navigation satellite systems and their entanglement with contemporary life.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"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...
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
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Feed: "Progressive Geographies"
By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026
Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026 Introduction open access at this link In a world shaped by war, climate…
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December 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Historical maps and sacred sites shape the Thailand–Cambodia conflict. Mapping is never neutral.
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#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
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#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
A visual guide to the historical maps and temples at the heart of the Thailand-Cambodia conflict
Border conflict has roots in colonial maps and long-standing ‘sibling rivalry’
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December 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Historical maps and sacred sites shape the Thailand–Cambodia conflict. Mapping is never neutral.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
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Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Drawing on ancient linguistic evidence from Britain and Ireland, @aberuni.bsky.social's Dr Simon Rodway and team through a Leverhulme-funded project, will be working on the first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages.
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
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December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Drawing on ancient linguistic evidence from Britain and Ireland, @aberuni.bsky.social's Dr Simon Rodway and team through a Leverhulme-funded project, will be working on the first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages.
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Closing date for British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Researchers at Risk applications is 14 January 2026.
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
Researchers at Risk Research Support Open Grants - British Academy / Cara / Leverhulme
The Leverhulme Trust is providing funding of £1,000,000 over five years targeted at providing research support for researchers at risk. Grants are available to support research project activities for ...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Closing date for British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Researchers at Risk applications is 14 January 2026.
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
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🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize - University of Liverpool News
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
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December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
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Very welcome news today that the UK will join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. This will enable greater opportunities for study abroad and contributions in UK universities, and is something we called for in our most recent Manifesto.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Very welcome news today that the UK will join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. This will enable greater opportunities for study abroad and contributions in UK universities, and is something we called for in our most recent Manifesto.