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
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.
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...
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
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...
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
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...
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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.
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.
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...
Details and link: placememory.net/events-2/#Wi...
October 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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...
Details and link: placememory.net/events-2/#Wi...
Tomorrow: Norming Human Individuality with Professor Rob Wilson (16:00–17:30 BST, D1 Pathfoot & online).
Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory
Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Tomorrow: Norming Human Individuality with Professor Rob Wilson (16:00–17:30 BST, D1 Pathfoot & online).
Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory
Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory
Reminder – register now – Professor Rob Wilson – Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification
Wed 8 Oct, 16:00–17:30 BST | D1, Pathfoot Building, @stir.ac.uk + online
👉 Register here: forms.gle/TotVHDoBHibn...
#PlaceMemory #Philosophy #Eugenification
Wed 8 Oct, 16:00–17:30 BST | D1, Pathfoot Building, @stir.ac.uk + online
👉 Register here: forms.gle/TotVHDoBHibn...
#PlaceMemory #Philosophy #Eugenification
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reminder – register now – Professor Rob Wilson – Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification
Wed 8 Oct, 16:00–17:30 BST | D1, Pathfoot Building, @stir.ac.uk + online
👉 Register here: forms.gle/TotVHDoBHibn...
#PlaceMemory #Philosophy #Eugenification
Wed 8 Oct, 16:00–17:30 BST | D1, Pathfoot Building, @stir.ac.uk + online
👉 Register here: forms.gle/TotVHDoBHibn...
#PlaceMemory #Philosophy #Eugenification
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...
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...
October 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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...
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...
How does heritage-making intersect with homemaking? Join Professor Emma Waterton, Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How does heritage-making intersect with homemaking? Join Professor Emma Waterton, Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
September 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity - starts today 14:00 BST
@stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online)
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–17:20 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
@stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online)
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–17:20 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity - starts today 14:00 BST
@stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online)
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–17:20 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
@stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online)
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–17:20 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity workshop is tomorrow (24 Sept) at @stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online).
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity workshop is tomorrow (24 Sept) at @stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online).
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
👉 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.
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.
September 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
👉 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.
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.
Centre researcher Tania Casimiro is speaking on Invisible Architectures Women, Domesticity, and the Gendered Use of Space in Illegal Homes online at 11:45 today as part of the Women, Housing and Place symposium hosted by the University of Stirling - join online tinyurl.com/TaniaCasimiro
September 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Centre researcher Tania Casimiro is speaking on Invisible Architectures Women, Domesticity, and the Gendered Use of Space in Illegal Homes online at 11:45 today as part of the Women, Housing and Place symposium hosted by the University of Stirling - join online tinyurl.com/TaniaCasimiro
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
Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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
Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo
Today 16:00–17:30 (UK). Stream opens 15:50
Professor Tracy Ireland on Everyday Aesthetics in Place & Memory - Join us online placememory.net/events-2/#Tr...
Professor Tracy Ireland on Everyday Aesthetics in Place & Memory - Join us online placememory.net/events-2/#Tr...
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Today 16:00–17:30 (UK). Stream opens 15:50
Professor Tracy Ireland on Everyday Aesthetics in Place & Memory - Join us online placememory.net/events-2/#Tr...
Professor Tracy Ireland on Everyday Aesthetics in Place & Memory - Join us online placememory.net/events-2/#Tr...
Meet our people: Safet HadžiMuhamedović is an anthropologist of politics and religion, exploring memory, place and belonging in contexts shaped by nationalist violence, forced displacement and environmental change.
September 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Meet our people: Safet HadžiMuhamedović is an anthropologist of politics and religion, exploring memory, place and belonging in contexts shaped by nationalist violence, forced displacement and environmental change.
Register now for our Autumn seminars, starting 10 September with Tracy Ireland then Hugo Spiers, Carl Craver and Uma Kothari. More to come: placememory.net/events-2/
September 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Register now for our Autumn seminars, starting 10 September with Tracy Ireland then Hugo Spiers, Carl Craver and Uma Kothari. More to come: placememory.net/events-2/
SAVE THE DATE
Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the colonial memories. Professor Uma Kothari will talk about "Confronting colonial imaginaries: Stories of a Postcolonial road trip".
Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the colonial memories. Professor Uma Kothari will talk about "Confronting colonial imaginaries: Stories of a Postcolonial road trip".
September 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
SAVE THE DATE
Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the colonial memories. Professor Uma Kothari will talk about "Confronting colonial imaginaries: Stories of a Postcolonial road trip".
Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the colonial memories. Professor Uma Kothari will talk about "Confronting colonial imaginaries: Stories of a Postcolonial road trip".