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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Centre researchers from around the world at work with Jeff Malpas today, exploring place and memory. Join us online tomorrow for Jeff’s keynote and Interdisciplinary approaches to space and place, 10.15am–6pm. Register: placememory.net/interdiscipl...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Holding Place: Dundee, Otherwise, showing at Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, 17 Aug–20 Nov 2026. Output of the Misfiring Places project (Dr John Post & Dr Neil Crawford), seed funded by the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Explores a changing city through Polaroid photography.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fieldwork on 'People in Place' - Centre researcher Phil Gould at Inverewe up in Wester Ross, collecting data for an archaeological study of land use change, culture, and conservation in the Scottish Highlands

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As summer unfolds, our researchers are scattered around the world. Sofya Sahab organised an exhibition in Aleppo exploring how social relationships in the neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh have changed as a result of the conflict

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

New paper from Centre researcher Dale Leorke asks how location-based games might cultivate care for more-than-human worlds—without reproducing extractive logics. “The Forest as Playground”, published open access in Media+Environment: doi.org/10.1525/001c...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fieldwork season is starting, and our researcher @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and a team of Portuguese archaeologists are continuing their research on the Archaeology of Elderly Isolation.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Academics in the wild. Our first Centre retreat took us to Glencoe and beyond: a chance to spend time together, reflect on the Centre’s research, and think about the work ahead. Next stop: Cove Park in 2027.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our afternoon was a voyage to the 17th century with archaeologists Michael Given and Lizzie Robertson both from Glasgow Uni, telling us the stories of people who lived at Glencoe during the 1692 Glencoe massacre

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today, the team was guided by archaeologist Lizzie Robertson from Glasgow Uni, paleoenvironmentalist Eileen Tisdal from Stirling Uni and our own PhD researcher Phil Gould in recording Glencoe soundscapes

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our team is at Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, exploring historical landscapes and having fun as only such a diverse group could.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What can a shipwreck reveal about how routes, coastlines and material remains carry histories of place? Centre researcher Dr Tânia Casimiro co-authored a paper on the Ngomeni shipwreck off the coast of Kenya examining a rare early sixteenth-century Portuguese wreck. placememory.net/wp-content/u...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at Stirling: Dr Kirstin Anderson explores The Key, the prisoner-made magazine of the Barlinnie Special Unit, and what it reveals about institutional harm in Scottish prisons. 📅 Tue 19 May, 12–1pm 📍 H3, Pathfoot Building, Stirling 💻 Join online via Teams

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Our work takes us to amazing places. Our team was at Aoineadh Mor today working on the project "How people shape the Landscape"

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Our fieldwork takes us to remarkable places. Centre researcher @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is in Cape Verde researching the first C16 colonial Atlantic occupations. This work explores colonial relations and connects questions of place, memory and Atlantic history.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What happens when a videogame’s version of a place meets the place itself? 15 May 14:00 Join Centre researcher Dr Dale Leorke for Ludic Pilgrimages, a seminar on how videogames remake heritage tourism through sites linked to Black Myth: Wukong and Ghost of Yotei. Register forms.gle/SWQ1o1X8TiAG...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Vanja Hamzić @soasuni.bsky.social reflects on Distemporalities, developed with Centre researcher Safet HadžiMuhamedović since 2018. He examines how imperial and colonial time erased other temporalities — how colonial law forced gender-variant people into binary categories.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Centre researcher Safet HadžiMuhamedović explains distemporalities — how violence, displacement and environmental destruction can fracture not only places, but people’s relations to past, present and future.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Last week’s Trans Cosmologies 2, led by Centre researcher Safet HadžiMuhamedović, brought speakers and artists together in Stirling for two days of talks, performance and creative practice.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Join Centre researcher Safet HadžiMuhamedović tonight as Trans Cosmologies 2 moves to The Smith for Culture Night Stirling: Carnival of the Wolf. Details www.smithmuseum.scot/events/cultu...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Grafting Place is an in-person workshop on growing community in the Pathfoot Orchard at the University of Stirling. Fri 22 May 9.30–16.30 Room D1 & nearby orchard, Pathfoot Supported by Centre seed funding. Register to attend bit.ly/4vUaog5

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Centre researcher Safet HadžiMuhamedović opened Distemporalities symposium by introducing our research workstreams. Our work connects memory, place, wayfinding, disorientation, technologies of navigation, and the cognitive ecologies of the city. Find out more: placememory.net/our-workstre...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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. Find out more wrestlingsocialvalue.org/lochs-of-lis...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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. bit.ly/47YtirF Register

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When history breaks, what happens to time? Distemporalities A one-day symposium on rupture, memory and imagined futures. 📅 24 April · University of Stirling Evening conversation with Rahul Rao Register → placememory.net/distemporalities

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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.../...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Maria Fusco’s experimental opera-film History of the Present explores how built environments shape voice, movement and lived experience in Belfast. Screening and discussion Wed 25 March · 11:00–12:20 Pathfoot Lecture Theatre (PLT), @stir.ac.uk In-person event · no registration required

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Call for expressions of interest — Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory - 30 Apr–1 May 2026 Artists, researchers & activists from across Scotland are invited to contribute to this two-day multimedia gathering exploring memory, ritual, cosmology and resistance. Contact Safet safet.hm@stir.ac.uk

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

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.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A new paper on a carved cement wall at Ponta dos Corvos, Portugal — co-authored by @tmcasimiro.bsky.social — reads 60 years of names, dates and symbols as contemporary rock art and a layered record of collective memory. How should we study — and preserve — sites like this? bit.ly/4rcWQsw

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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?

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thanks to all who took part in No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976-84 last night at Collective Architecture in Glasgow - we look forward to seeing some of the same faces at our reception for Affective Atmospheres at Civic House in Glasgow tonight - pix Rhona NicDhùghaill placememory.net/affective-at...

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It takes a village to host a conference… what a great team at Civic House for Affective Atmospheres!

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Thank you to Matthew Worley and Paul Max Morin for looking at history through a Punk lens!!!

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