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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 3h

Developed with students from Sciences Po Menton, the project reconnects Marseille’s commercial spaces with their imperial histories.
Supported by the @UniStir it’s a model for public history that makes traces of empire visible in everyday life.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Environmental Justice Research Cluster@Stirling Uni @envjusticeresstir.bsky.social · 16d

In autumn 2026 we'll start our MSc Global Environmental Sustainability. Together with our colleagues in natural science we created an interdisciplinary programme in sustainability and Environmental Justice higher education. www.stir.ac.uk/courses/pg-t... #EcoLeadership #EnvironmentalJustice

MSc Global Environmental Sustainability https://www.stir.ac.uk/courses/pg-taught/global-environmental-sustainability/

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like it’s been a while since I put my workplace here. This is Skara Brae right now 🏺🧪🌊

Grass of various lengths around and over a 5000 year old stone village. The houses are beside a rocky coast, and the North Atlantic is off to the far right, with ominous rain clouds.

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 7h

Today on the #projectEPIC blog Aneela Khan addresses the issue of #EpistemicInjustice for people who have unusual experiences and beliefs epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/stig... #philsky #philpsy

Stigma, Diagnosis, and Identity

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 1d

The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies (CMDS) at SOAS is organising a two-day workshop on the themes of return, repatriation and deportation, 17-18 October.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Return Workshop: An idea, practice, and contested horizon

CMDS invites you to a two-day workshop centred on the concept of return, understood as an idea, practice, and contested horizon.

www.soas.ac.uk

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 2d

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 2d

1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j

Figure 2 from the recommended article: Topics generated in the OST session on 14th November 2023 and their assignment to six umbrella topics for further discussion by the workshop participants (Figure by Kathrin Nägele).

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 12d

It's the most wonderful time of the year... #31DaysofGraves !!
Created by the wonderful @annaandthedead.bsky.social, I will be playing only with photos already on my phone from the last year! Lets go!!

31 days of Graves text! It details all the themes that I don't have room to type out, and is overtoo of a photo of new england gravestones on green grass

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Infrastructural Geographies @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social · 1d

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"Is that a map you drew of me? OMG, I do not look like that. Why’d you draw me so small and Italy so big? I’m literally ten times bigger. Is this your way of trying to make yourself relevant? That’s honestly so insecure of you."

Are You Christopher Columbus? I’m India, and I Heard You’re, Like, Obsessed with Me

Sorry, new kid, we’re already sitting here. Hang on, are you Christopher Columbus? I’m India. People keep saying you can’t stop talking about me. T...

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 1d

Forvtheircweek on heritage and place, I took the MA Heritage students to 'Hear Us', the graffiti-style installation at Canterbury Cathedral. They were both receptive and critical. We had a great discussion of intention, inclusion/exclusion, theology of questions etc. 1/

Green Street art-style vinyl on the wall of Canterbury cathedral's ambulatory that reads 'What is the architecture of heaven?'

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

Accept our king, our god − or else:

What colonizers presented to #IndigenousPeoples as a choice was no choice at all. The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on deeper ideas and laws the Spanish used to take over the New World.

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#IndigenousPeoplesDay #history

Accept our king, our god − or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas

The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 1d

“Brian Goldstone calls the displaced people he writes about ‘the working homeless,’” Jay Neugeboren writes. His book “reveals an America few of us know.”

The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren

As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 1d

What counts as heritage in a multicultural society? 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...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison - @uclpress.bsky.social, October 2025 (print and open access)
uclpress.co.uk/book/space-a...

Space, Affect, Memory

Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, thi...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 2d

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

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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 6d

Our Dr Iain Robertson & Dr @juliettedesportes.bsky.social are both delivering papers at Scottish Local History Forum's conference, ‘Popular Protest in a Scottish Local History Context’, in Paisley on Saturday 25 October! To view the full programme and to book your place, visit bit.ly/4fxbKp5

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 6d

Join us for a special event on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation.

📍 Conway Hall, London
📅 Monday 17 November, 2025

Buy your 🎟️ here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-lever... @expeditions.bsky.social @ucl-sbb.bsky.social

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 6d

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!

We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!

[Please PM us for a plain text termcard]

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 6d

India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world, a trailblazer of ideas along a Golden Road from the Red Sea to the Pacific.

Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize, The Golden Road by @willdalrymple.bsky.social is a culmination of a lifetime's work.

Learn more now https://bit.ly/3WsTunW

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 7d

Join us online at 16:00 BST for Professor Rob Wilson’s talk, “Norming Human Individuality,” part of the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory Autumn 2025 seminar series.
Details and link: placememory.net/events-2/#Wi...

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 13d

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts | EPSSE

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 8d

Tomorrow: Norming Human Individuality with Professor Rob Wilson (16:00–17:30 BST, D1 Pathfoot & online).
Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7...

#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory

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