Our fieldwork takes us to remarkable places. Researcher @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is in Lismore today with Dr Liz Robson, exploring the memories, embodied experiences, heritage, and values that communities associate with Lismore’s lochs.
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Many of our events are recorded including this one - it will be uploaded to our YouTube channel
Centre fellow @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is heading to Lismore for fieldwork this week with Dr Elizabeth Hobson a recipient of Centre seed funding for researchers at the University of Stirling
Monnaies anciennes, fossiles… Comment les fouilles archéologiques clandestines font « disparaître l’histoire »
Event recap 'Boston and the Making of a Global City': Professor Michael Hoyler @lborouniversity.bsky.social in discussion with @bostonu.bsky.social urbanist Jim O'Connell and Boston University Initiative on Cities Director @lorettaclees.bsky.social ⬇️
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How can games carry cultural knowledge?
This Wed, Dr Aramiha Harwood reflects on being Māori and a gamer, and on designing games grounded in Indigenous values.
Hybrid event, 16:00–17:30 (UK), University of Stirling. Join in person or online.
Register here
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How do violence, colonialism and displacement reshape lived time?
Distemporalities is this Fri at the University of Stirling: a one-day symposium on temporal disruption, memory and possible futures. In-person only.
Registration still open: placememory.net/distemporalities
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.
Job advert now available for 3yr post doc on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘the Horror of Place-based Harms’. Please share with your networks!
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TEN post-doc openings at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Yes, you read that right. TEN.
Interested in spending 3-12 months with us in Oxford as a senior visiting academic? The Leverhulme Trust has a scheme to help. Get in touch with an Oxford colleague soon, as the internal deadline for interest is on Apr 17. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...
"The ships, the trucks, the loading docks: these are containers of immiserated labor, and so they are also containers of revolutionary potential," writes @charmainechua.bsky.social, for "An Unfinished Atlas."
Chua's latest is a call to "jam up" and "break apart" the disappearing machine.
In 2003, the first ever conference session on space archaeology was held at the World Archaeological Congress in Washington DC. This is the abstract.
Both archaeologists and space people thought I was mad in those days. 🧪 🏺
On 24 April, Distemporalities brings together scholars working on temporal disruption, violence, colonialism and displacement at the University of Stirling. In person only.
Symposium + evening book launch.
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New issue Memory Studies Review
Climate Witnessing, edited by Stef Craps, Rick Crownshaw and Rebecca Dolgoy
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Please visit the journal site here www.brill.com/MESR
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@easlce.bsky.social @thewha.bsky.social
@themhra.bsky.social
@asanews.bsky.social
🎤We are pleased to announce the launch of the Visual Memory in Media and Digital Cultures Working Group within the Memory Studies Association.
Join us in building a vibrant community exploring the role of visual media in memory and society.
🔗 www.memorystudiesassociation.org/new-msas-wor...
Dear MSA Community,
We are pleased to announce that registration for the MSA 2026 conference is open until April 5th, 2026!
🔷For more information and to register, visit: msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com
Today at 4:30pm: Centre researcher Kialy Tihngang on Icyyy Grip at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, part of the public programme for TOOLs.
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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
Only one week left to submit your abstract for this upcoming conference on music from the (sub-)Arctic. All music genres welcome, practitioners are also warmly encouraged to submit! Contact me for any queries. @leverhulme.ac.uk www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-09-...
welcomed back from my maternity leave by my article appearing in advanced access for HWJ! open access an’ all. it’s about what we learn about the early modern state if we think about arrests as a performance, and draws on four years’ worth of practice-as-research.
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @curwen01.bsky.social’s project @durham.ac.uk challenges and expands current models of music cognition and explores how music and synaesthesia shape our imagination and creativity.
Exciting news from @rightslab.bsky.social with @katarinaschwarz.bsky.social's appointment to UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery & Trafficking in Persons! Congratulations Katarina!
We are lucky to count Katarina as one of our centre co-leads!
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/expert-...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Deadline: 3 June 2026 Independent Scholars Deadline: 27 May 2026
The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl
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
Join us for the launch of Trans Femme Futures by Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift at Trans Cosmologies 2
Part of our two-day programme in Stirling, includes reflections from Phil Crockett Thomas, Jacky Collins & Safet HadžiMuhamedović
30 April · 17:00–18:30
Pathfoot Building
Register bit.ly/4ctinss
How do trans communities carry memory and knowledge through systems built to erase them?
Trans Cosmologies 2
30 April–1 May · University of Stirling
Panels, lectures, performance, book launch.
Register: forms.gle/AnbWHG1SiHbn...
Join us! Algorithmic predictions are making decisions about you right now. And no one is notifying you. We will talk about what we can learn about the history of prediction, the philosophy of prediction (what are predictions in the first place?!), and how to build the future we want to inhabit.