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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

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.

Christakis Peristianis — Memory and the Cyprus Buffer Zone | Visiting Researcher | CSPM YouTube video by Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

Curious about the researchers we host at the Centre?

@cperistianis.bsky.social Dr Christakis Peristianis (University of Cyprus) reflects on Cyprus’s contested past — and the questions shaping his research on memory, oral history, and farming in the Buffer Zone.
youtu.be/vzMbdC2aoLg?...

Post provides teaching cover for Prof David Wengrow for the period when he will be on leave as a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. The postholder will act as Degree Coordinator & Tutor for the BA Arch & Anth.

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#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology #LocalAndGlobal

The We Society with Will Hutton podcast cover; Academy of Social Sciences.

The We Society podcast is brought to you by the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social in association with the @nuffieldfoundation.org and the Leverhulme Trust.

🔗 Listen, subscribe & find out more: podfollow.com/the-we-socie...

Artist Talk with Toby Paterson RSA Join the Art Collection and the Centre for the Sciences of Memory and Place for an artist talk with renowned artist Toby Paterson RSA.

Join us & the @stir.ac.uk Art Collection Artist talk with Toby Paterson RSA

How do artists think about architecture and the experience of place?

27 March 2026
13:00–14:00
Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling

Free event. In person and online.

Register:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artist-tal...

What are your research interests and how does it connect with other things? Hear from Cardiff University’s April-Louise Pennant, a recent Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, on carving your own journey in academia.

Watch episode four of #ConfessionsOfAnECR🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP6F...

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, Logos: The British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust.

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a podcast by ECRs, for ECRs. Brought to you by @britishacademy.bsky.social and the Leverhulme Trust.

Visit the 🎙️ hub for more information:
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Women as agents and recipients of medical translations in early modern France In a wide-ranging study, Valerie Worth-Stylianou looks beyond women as translators and commissioners of translations to identify their roles as dedicatees and readers of translations on reproductive h...

Specialising in early modern French and translation, Professor Valerie Worth-Stylianou’s Leverhulme-funded study @ox.ac.uk looks beyond women as translators to identify their roles as dedicatees and readers of translations on reproductive health. #InternationalWomensDay

❗Upcoming application deadline: 6th March
🎓 Leverhulme Programme for Doctoral Training in Ecological Data Science
🏦5 fully funded 4-year PhDs, and a 5-year MSc + PhD option
❓Machine learning, statistical modelling, spatial analysis
🌏University of Glasgow
➡️ ecological-data-science.github.io

Tues March 10 online panel: memory, writing, & reading. Is remembering distributed across books, screens, characters, fictional places, traditions, drafts, notes, fellow readers.? I'm in with a short provocation, with colleagues from Norway & Denmark, 3-5pm UK, 4-6pm CET: mailchi.mp/57f930178c24...

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.
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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...

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

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

👀 VACANCY: Nature in Sacred Spaces Project Manager @naturalengland.bsky.social

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In Episode 4 of Edges of Extinction, Seb Stroud, @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social and @jdroberts.bsky.social talk to Andrea Boom about language, plants, culture and frankincense in Oman #environmentalhumanities #socialsci #linguistics #extinctionstudies extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...

🏺Time Team, then DFB showed how much appetite there is for solid, fieldwork-founded, object-exploring & narrative archaeological public communication.
People want to understand time and their place in it as individuals, communities & a species, and effects of this have a unique power for cohesion.

Farming the Cyprus Buffer Zone: Navigating a contested terrain In this talk, Christakis Peristianis (University of Cyprus) examines the sustained efforts of Greek Cypriot farmers to continue cultivating land within the Cyprus Buffer Zone from 1974 to the present ...

What is it like to farm inside a UN buffer zone?
Christakis Peristianis explores the everyday micro-politics of a frozen conflict. Wed 4 Mar • 16:00–17:30 (UK) - Register Now - Stirling and Online
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Keith Allen — Visiting Speaker Introduction | CSPMKeith YouTube video by Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

Curious about the researchers we host at the Centre?

Keith Allen (University of York) reflects on philosophy of colour and perception — and the questions shaping his work on seeing and experiencing atmospheres.

Affective Atmospheres, Civic House (Feb 2026)
youtu.be/vdLjTPnID6w?...

History: who the fuck?

Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?

At LaDIS, physicists, biologists, engineers and space scientists work side by side to turn answers into real-world impact.

➡️ ladis.uva.es

#scienceimpact #ladis #uva #disruptivescience #interdisciplinaryscience #universityofvalladolid #nasa #scienceforimpact #science

With Season 10 of The We Society 🎙️ set to launch next week, here are ten favourite episodes from some of the team behind the podcast. 👇

Which one is your favourite?

Brought to you by @acadsocsciences.bsky.social, in association with the @nuffieldfoundation.org and the Leverhulme Trust.

The mental aspects of urban justice

Read here for a summary of the project published in the EPIC project blog ⬇️

Visiting Speakers — In Brief - YouTube Place and Memory. In these brief recordings, speakers outline who they are, the questions that guide their work, and how they approach them.

Curious about the researchers we host at the Centre?

Visiting Speakers — In Brief brings together short introductions where speakers outline who they are, the questions guiding their work, and how they approach it.

Have a look:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Voices of ’68 and ’74: Oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland In this talk, Professor Chris Reynolds (Nottingham Trent University) explores how oral history can help people engage with Northern Ireland’s difficult past without forcing agreement or closure. He ar...

REGISTER NOW How can we engage contested pasts without forcing agreement? SEMINAR - Voices of ’68 and ’74: Oral history and agonistic memory in Northern Ireland 11 March | 16:00–17:30 (UK) University of Stirling | Hybrid
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Analogue expression in a digital society: China’s open-air galleries Chinese cities exhibit a kaleidoscope of artworks across the urban landscape; Gerda Wielander explores the significance of these visuals in contemporary society

Chinese cities exhibit a kaleidoscope of artworks across the urban landscape; @gerdawielander.bsky.social @wminhumanities.bsky.social explores the significance of these visuals in contemporary society. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/gwie...

Nordic Noir Mathelinda Nabugodi’s groundbreaking project examines how the three-hundred-year history of involvement in the Black Atlantic world has shaped contemporary Scandinavia

Philip Leverhulme Prize winner, Mathelinda Nabugodi’s groundbreaking project @ucl.ac.uk examines how the three-hundred-year history of involvement in the Black Atlantic world has shaped contemporary Scandinavia. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/nord...