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
Save the date: 18–19 Feb 2026, Civic House, Glasgow.
Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon.
Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025
Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon.
Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Save the date: 18–19 Feb 2026, Civic House, Glasgow.
Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon.
Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025
Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the @triphilosophy.bsky.social
Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon.
Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025
Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Paula Reavey are in London (E1,2,3) studying toilet graffiti. Sometimes our research projects get us to unconventional places
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Paula Reavey are in London (E1,2,3) studying toilet graffiti. Sometimes our research projects get us to unconventional places
The project about how indigenous navigators find their way across the Pacific Ocean, in which our researcher @pfvelasco.bsky.social participates, is in the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The project about how indigenous navigators find their way across the Pacific Ocean, in which our researcher @pfvelasco.bsky.social participates, is in the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
A few days ago was the tenth anniversary of the November 13, 2015, Paris terrorist attacks.
We remember with compassion all those who lost their lives and those who continue to live with the impact of that day.
We invite our community to (re)discover Memory on My Doorstep by Sarah Gensburger
We remember with compassion all those who lost their lives and those who continue to live with the impact of that day.
We invite our community to (re)discover Memory on My Doorstep by Sarah Gensburger
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A few days ago was the tenth anniversary of the November 13, 2015, Paris terrorist attacks.
We remember with compassion all those who lost their lives and those who continue to live with the impact of that day.
We invite our community to (re)discover Memory on My Doorstep by Sarah Gensburger
We remember with compassion all those who lost their lives and those who continue to live with the impact of that day.
We invite our community to (re)discover Memory on My Doorstep by Sarah Gensburger
Our researcher @tmcasimiro.bsky.social just co-authored a paper on women's emotions in industrial places. Take a look
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Capturing emotions in the factory: an archaeological analysis of women’s lives through industrial photographs in Portugal
Studying emotions in archaeology poses significant challenges, particularly in varying chronologies and contexts. The emotions of women working in industrial sites, often overlooked and disregarded...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Our researcher @tmcasimiro.bsky.social just co-authored a paper on women's emotions in industrial places. Take a look
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Join our researcher @pfvelasco.bsky.social in discussing trauma and earth systems change
Are you working on collective trauma and earth systems change? Join us on Nov 13th for a webinar to learn more about the special issue we are co-editing on the topic!
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Join our researcher @pfvelasco.bsky.social in discussing trauma and earth systems change
Work in Lismore continues with our researchers, Ruth Olden and @tmcasimiro.bsky.social sharing these amazing images
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Work in Lismore continues with our researchers, Ruth Olden and @tmcasimiro.bsky.social sharing these amazing images
Our researcher, Sofya Shahab, is currently in Iraq working on her project "Reconfiguring Heritage: Present Engagements with Communities' Pasts for Resilient Futures", unravelling the ways in which heritage is being reconfigured by young people in the Middle East.
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Our researcher, Sofya Shahab, is currently in Iraq working on her project "Reconfiguring Heritage: Present Engagements with Communities' Pasts for Resilient Futures", unravelling the ways in which heritage is being reconfigured by young people in the Middle East.
Meet our People. Pablo Fernandez Velasco works on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. For him, philosophy is both a way of advancing interdisciplinary work through the development of solid theoretical foundations and a way of connecting scientific advances to pressing social issues.
Dr Pablo Fernandez Velasco
Research Fellow I work on philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and a big aspect of my research lies in interdisciplinary collaboration. I see philosophy both as a way of advancing interdiscipl…
placememory.net
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Meet our People. Pablo Fernandez Velasco works on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. For him, philosophy is both a way of advancing interdisciplinary work through the development of solid theoretical foundations and a way of connecting scientific advances to pressing social issues.
TODAY- Emily Keightley on Migrant Memory and Postcolonial Imagination. 16:00 UK, join in-person (Pathfoot D1) or online. Join us! mailchi.mp/stir/migrant...
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
TODAY- Emily Keightley on Migrant Memory and Postcolonial Imagination. 16:00 UK, join in-person (Pathfoot D1) or online. Join us! mailchi.mp/stir/migrant...
Shout out to Creative Ruins - we love creative approaches to research and creative outputs www.yout
Dr Rose Ferraby: Archaeology, Art, and Creativity #shorts
YouTube video by Career in Ruins
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October 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Shout out to Creative Ruins - we love creative approaches to research and creative outputs www.yout
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...
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...
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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...
Find out more about our research collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Robson exploring the place knowledge of Loch Baile a’ Ghobhainn (or Balnagown), on the isle of Lismore wrestlingsocialvalue.org/lochs-of-lis...
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…
wrestlingsocialvalue.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Find out more about our research collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Robson exploring the place knowledge of Loch Baile a’ Ghobhainn (or Balnagown), on the isle of Lismore wrestlingsocialvalue.org/lochs-of-lis...
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It's a rare marl lake wrestlingsocialvalue.org/lochs-of-lis...
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…
wrestlingsocialvalue.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It's a rare marl lake wrestlingsocialvalue.org/lochs-of-lis...
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⚡️Lighting history round⚡️5 historians and their projects in 5 minutes each. Clare Sandell, PHA (Vic and Tas), talks how historians need to get involved with communities AND promote public space for volunteers, while acknowledging they are politically charged.
#history #volunteers #community
#history #volunteers #community
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
⚡️Lighting history round⚡️5 historians and their projects in 5 minutes each. Clare Sandell, PHA (Vic and Tas), talks how historians need to get involved with communities AND promote public space for volunteers, while acknowledging they are politically charged.
#history #volunteers #community
#history #volunteers #community
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We are delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”
🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)
👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)
👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture 2025: Kader Attia
UCL History of Art is delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”
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October 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We are delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”
🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)
👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)
👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown
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@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
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
@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
@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!
October 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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
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📢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...
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...
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 ...
climate.leeds.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📢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...
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
📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST)
Join us in person or online 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/EmilyKeightley
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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
📅 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...
📍 Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
🔗 Join via Teams: bit.ly/EmmaWaterton...
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🗣 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...
📍 Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
🔗 Join via Teams: bit.ly/EmmaWaterton...
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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
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...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
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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!
Looking forward to discussing three years of research on memory (at @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social and @ruhr-uni-bochum.de) with such a fantastic committee!
October 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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!
Looking forward to discussing three years of research on memory (at @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social and @ruhr-uni-bochum.de) with such a fantastic committee!
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
#ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory
October 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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
#ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory