Today's keynote speaker to highlight is Prof Dorthe Bernsten! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

We've now highlighted all our amazing confirmed keynote speakers! Please sign up to our email list as this will be the main way we will communicate. Stay tuned for news about submissions, registration, and lots more! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

Great first session at today's workshop on statues, politics, planning, memory.

How do we carry loss — and can art help us find our way back? Join us for Art in Grief, a 30-minute film by Geerteke van Lierop on bereavement, tsunami survivors in Japan, and giving grief form. 📅 Thu 21 May, 14:00–15:30 📍 Pathfoot, Stirling In person Free — register: forms.gle/jtMBF7znnt3E...

What if preserving heritage means cutting it open? Philosopher Erik Rietveld presents RAAAF’s "hardcore heritage” approach — physically slicing through monuments to expose hidden layers of history Wed 20 May 2026 14:00–15:30 University of Stirling In person Register forms.gle/KUC3tkztMbcp...

@felipedebrigard.bsky.social is both philosopher and neuroscientist, and AFAIK the 1st philosopher keynote at ICOM. As well as his work on memory traces, episodic counterfactuals, cognitive ontology, I'm hoping we'll get great new studies on memory and forgiveness for past wrongdoings in eg Colombia

For the next few days we'll be focussing on our amazing keynote speakers! First up, we have Prof Sue Gathercole. This is particularly fitting as Sue was one of the co-founders of ICOM. icom-memory.org

Come to Glasgow for ICOM-7, the 7th International Conference on Memory, July 2027! Details below. It'll be my 5th ICOM and my 2nd on organizing committee, and we're fixing a brilliant event, keen to expand the range beyond our core psych/ neuro/ cognitive topics so do sign up and please circulate!

A column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social is sceptical of Pablo Fernandez Velasco’s work on ecological grief. It is not about over-dramatising climate change. It is taking seriously what people lose when places sustaining lives and memories are damaged. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2607...

What do we lose when climate change transforms the places that make life meaningful? New research from Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco and Virginia De Biasio links ecological grief to climate justice. Read more in The Herald: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2606447...

Our fieldwork takes us to remarkable places. Centre researchers visited Loch Tay today, exploring how heritage, landscape and conservation meet. How do places hold, protect and pass on their histories? youtu.be/z0paC7rtCQQ

What is the relationship between memory and place? Centre Director @suttonprofessor.bsky.social reflects on our work: how memory is shaped by place, why interdisciplinary collaboration matters, and how research grounded in local environments can speak to wider global questions. youtu.be/N3ce_7IP-aI

In two days: Distemporalities. A one-day interdisciplinary symposium on disrupted temporal lifeworlds, from colonialism & displacement to environmental destruction & fractured relations to past & future. Fri 24 Apr 2026 Pathfoot Lecture Theatre, Stirling In person placememory.net/distemporalities

What can art reveal about place, memory and contested history? Centre PhD researcher Kialy Tihngang is featured on Fane’, discussing work across film, sculpture, textiles & performance, and exploring Blackness, queerness, Britishness, & Cameroonian culture & politics. www.fane.co.uk/kialy-tihngang

Centre guest speaker Dr Aramiha Harwood reflects on growing up Māori in Australia alongside a world of tabletop gaming. He explores the intersections of gaming, identity, and cultural inheritance, and considers how Indigenous game design can open space for Māori knowledge and connection.

Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.

Sometimes we need some fresh air to get writing done. PMM on a writing Residency in Chazelet (French Alps) for Son of a Punk.

research at its best yesterday: XScape @xscape-project.bsky.social Material Minds workshop Varieties of Externalism, showcasing fab new work from Andy Clark & team across philosophy, archaeology, & computational cognitive science, + visitors Lucy Osler & Rob Clowes on AI, me wrapping up intense day

Registration is now open for Trans Cosmologies 2. 30 April–1 May 2026 University of Stirling A two-day in-person multimedia event exploring trans cosmologies, memory, ethics and artistic practice. Register forms.gle/tQHj6QNuzFYP...

Games do not only model conflict. They can also carry stories, identity, and cultural knowledge. Thinking with Play is an in-person workshop with Dr Aramiha Harwood at Creative Stirling, featuring live play and kōrero around TRIBAL. Thu 23 Apr, 11:00–12:30 Register: bit.ly/4tzwUJ3

‘Being Where? Putting memory, technology, and wayfinding together again’: new open-access paper, led by Mac Mingon with @ajgillett.bsky.social We set ‘techno-gloom’ about GPS degrading basic human navigation skills against historical shifts in ‘wayfinding ecologies’ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can games become a way of remembering? Dr Aramiha Harwood (Ngāpuhi) explores how tabletop game design grounded in Māori values can transmit knowledge, identity and storytelling. 📅 Wed 22 Apr · 16:00–17:30 📍 University of Stirling + online Register here forms.gle/vKYdq9kGEmLJ...

Have you ever listened to a river? Centre associate Lizzie Robertson is the subject of a short film by Chris Leslie. Using a hydrophone, she explores sound, memory and urban ecology in a landscape shaped by industrial pasts and environmental change. www.chrisleslie.com/portfoli.../...

In person only @ University of Stirling next Wednesday

Looking forward to this unique opportunity to tale a walk around Pathfoot looking at site specific works - also online - please come.

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. ▶️ www.youtube.com/shorts/R5lt0...

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. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please feel free to share with artists and community networks who may be interested. 🌈😍

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: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artist-tal...

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? doi.org/10.1080/0307...

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. Register forms.gle/5rSrXr1TyDW8...

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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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 forms.gle/tyVmtEJgLrSY...

In-person only. Add yourself to the waitlist and we’ll try to make space.