'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...

'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...

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...

Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown

@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

@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!

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

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

Leverhulme International Professor Emma Waterton examines the small, often overlooked material traces of belonging itself. Join us 21 Oct, 16:00–17:30 for an afternoon seminar followed by drinks in Crush Hall. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How we teach the past shapes the future. Centre researcher Paul Max Morin’s article on Algerian independence and historical memory has been chosen for France’s national history-teacher training curriculum — 125,000 copies across 3,700 high schools. #ResearchImpact link.camscanner.com/a4OMrL5Mgo

Meet our people @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is an archaeologist specialising in material culture, urban marginality, and the intersections of place and memory, community archaeology, waste and urban ecologies, the archaeology of abandonment, and non-human interactions in urban and non-urban spaces.

Welcome to Rob Wilson... please join us!

Join us today for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari Wed 1 Oct 2025 16:00–17:30 (stream opens 14:50) D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online join online: placememory.net/events-2/#Um...

Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...

Set in the post-war, post-Independence moment, this talk blends memoir and historical geography - join us!

Fantastic resource - podcast about dementia-related memory loss - from Professor Catherine Loveday - how to have tricky conversations, how to improve sleep and how to scaffold memory mempathy.podbean.com

Join us for Day 2 of Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver - starts 09:30 BST stir.ac.uk (Scion House + online) Speakers: Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Rathbone, Louis Renoult, Catherine Loveday and Shayna Rosenbaum placememory.net/amnesia-and-...

Join us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days

👉 Register: forms.gle/kPVR35xfKB22... Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification - with Professor Rob Wilson 📅 Wed 8 Oct 2025 | 🕒 16:00–17:30 UK 📍 University of Stirling (Room D1) + online Hybrid talk on how eugenification shapes human individuality.

The full schedule is now online for Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver (24–25 Sept, University of Stirling + online). Sessions feature Shayna Rosenbaum, Michael Kopelman, Clare Rathbone, Rachael Elward, Catherine Loveday and more. 🔗 placememory.net/amnesia-and-...

Today 15:00–16:30 (UK). Stream opens 14:50 Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo

Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Great work Sara Kim Hjortborg and @gregdowney.bsky.social!! Our new paper in Journal of Sports Sciences homes in on micromoments of skillful coaching interactions during and between rounds in a novice Muay Thai bout - thread below!

Amnesia and Identity workshop at @memoryplace.bsky.social, Stirling Uni, Scotland Sept 24-25. Themes from forthcoming Oxford UP book Living without Memory: amnesia and the lives of persons, by Carl Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum. Register here to attend in person or online forms.gle/B2mLpgjJhNUR...

'Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance': @memoryplace.bsky.social talk at 4pm Weds Sept 10, Professor Tracy Ireland (Univ of Canberra), register here to attend in person at Stirling or online: forms.gle/6HuBWRecb3ri...

Yes to Orpheus and Eurydice glorious movement, aching power, vast sound, yay for Patrick Nolan and Opera Queensland/ Circa!!! www.eif.co.uk/events/orphe...

Join us to explore themes in the forthcoming OUP book Living without Memory: Amnesia and the Lives of Persons by Carl Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum. Full details, including in-person and online registration links, will be shared soon. #Amnesia #Identity #MemoryStudies #PlaceAndMemory

From the Topographies of Violence conference in Mostar to the Youth and Heritage summer school in Stolac, Bosnia, the Centre researchers Safet HadžiMuhamedović and Sofya Shahab explored what it means to protect, rebuild, and reimagine heritage after violence.

Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social

just submitted another journal paper review, my 235th (excluding editorial comments): but, pause, it's the 100th distinct journal I've reviewed for, whew, ton up, wipe the sweat, settle in for the next century, and ask @neillevy.bsky.social how way far ahead towards the double hundred are you?

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Traditional indigenous Marshall Islands navigators join cognitive neuroscientists in cutting-edge research on the vast Pacific Ocean: our @memoryplace.bsky.social colleague @pfvelasco.bsky.social studying dynamic intelligence in action www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Tomorrow! two-hour online workshop on distributed creativity and cognition in film-making with my fab friend and collaborator Karen Pearlman (www.karenpearlman.net), 11am-1pm Thursday UK time, highly recommended physicaltv.com.au/distributed-...

Final reminder: @memoryplace.bsky.social workshop Cognitive Aesthetics of Place, Monday 9 June, 3-5.45 Edinburgh, in-person and remote - keynote Karin Kukkonen on beach reading; Marco Bernini on places permeated by fictions; Mike Wheeler on street art and authenticity: mailchi.mp/stir/cogniti...

Fiona Macpherson and Neil McDonnell in full flight today at the extraordinary 20th anniversary gig of Glasgow's Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience: rich mix of philosophy, cog science, the senses, illusions, XR, and great folk, what a history, what achievements, onwards!

Associate Professor Celia Harris presents Memory Scaffolding: from theory to practice tomorrow - join in person or online - Celia discusses how social & material environments support memory as we age, drawing on both lab-based and field-based research.

Two June workshops (one online, one in-person in Glasgow) on place and memory methodologies: #1 on disorientations and absences, #2 on materiality and embodiment, with our researchers from placememory.net

Cognitive Aesthetics of Place: workshop Monday 9 June, 3-5.30 UK time, co-hosted with Edinburgh, in-person or remote: keynote from Karin Kukkonen on beach reading; Marco Bernini on places permeated by fictions; Mike Wheeler on street art and authenticity: mailchi.mp/stir/cogniti...

Quick reminder Donna Addis's talk The past and future of the imaginative brain is online/in person 🗓️ Thursday 15 May 🕒 3:00–4:30pm (BST) 📍 Psychology Common Room (C3A94), Cottrell Building, University of Stirling or 💻 Online MS Teams: tinyurl.com/DonnaRoseAddis

'Archives in Place' is a terrific 9-minute film on profusion and transformation in heritage from my Stirling colleague Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social & Nadia Bartolini: I found it in prep for last week's great Glasgow workshop 'Storage and Retrieval: the brain & the archive' vimeo.com/223623288

Join us online or in person for two talks exploring ‘curated decay’ and the ‘modern ruin’. tinyurl.com/modernruins Tuesday 10 June, 4:00 - 5:30pm, all welcome - with Dr Pablo Arboleda and Centre Research Fellow Dr Ruth Olden

Catch Centre Director John Sutton tomorrow at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow www.eventbrite.com/e/memory-sto...

Centre Research Fellow Pablo Fernandez Velasco is co-running a creative ecological grief workshop with artist Anya Gleizer and Teyah Payne in London, Fri 10 May www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tamesis-un... output will be added to a monumental piece of communally textile art: the Tamesis Robe...

Two great memory summer talks at @SciPlaceMemory - imaginative brains, constructive episodic simulation, memory scaffolding, aged care environments. May 15 & June 5 - register for in-person or online participation at placememory.net/events-2/

Two excellent days done at 'Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory' at Copenhagen's Centre for Subjectivity Research, with Marta Caravà, Francesca Righetti, Axel Seemann and more terrific philosophers cfs.ku.dk/calendar-mai...

Is France still a colonial country? Centre Research Fellow Dr Paul Max Morin addresses the question in this weeks le1hebdo... le1hebdo.fr/journal/la-f...

Last days to apply for a PhD on place and/ or memory with our new Centre at Stirling - closing 22 April. Please pass this link to anyone looking for a PhD: placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

Two spring talks next week @memoryplace.bsky.social: join us at Stirling or on zoom with leading writers on place & memory, language & loss. Tues April 15 4.15pm: Nick Evans (ANU) 'Growing from stems: planting memory in Bimadbn' external memory in Papua New Guinea. Register placememory.net/events-2/