John Sutton

Wonderful to have @cperistianis.bsky.social at the Centre @memoryplace.bsky.social for the month of March!

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:
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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...

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?

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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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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

Great new work by @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and colleagues: contemporary archaeology of a densely reworked palimpsest of graffiti and other marks made in the 70s & 80s on a surveilled military boundary wall, analysis layered with testimony from locals who were young then @stir.ac.uk @leverhulme.ac.uk

Nice to see this RR out

Thank you Paul Max Morin for making these short videos - great introduction to visiting researchers @memoryplace.bsky.social

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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Pleased to welcome @cperistianis.bsky.social as a visiting researcher

Fabric of memory: the artists turning secondhand clothes into monumental art Yin Xiuzhen builds cities from donated clothing while Chiharu Shiota weaves found objects into vast webs of thread. Now the two are exhibiting their massive, moving installations in two parallel exhib...

If memory is embedded in material — in cloth, in thread, in the things we touch every day — what happens when those materials are discarded, sealed away, or transformed?

Do objects remember us? Or do we remember through them?

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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.

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.

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?

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.

the Centre debuted our hi-viz gear last night - to help attendees find us more easily at our events - luminous assistance from the team...

It takes a village to host a conference - proud of the Centre team and the great folk at Civic House

No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976-84 In this talk, Professor Matthew Worley examines the ways in which British punk claimed a relevance to the time and space in which it emerged. The talk considers punk’s continued presence in popular m...

Today — Winter 2026 Seminar

No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84
Prof. Matthew Worley + reading by Paul Max Morin

Tue 17 Feb
17:30 refreshments | 18:00 start
Collective Architecture, Glasgow
Hybrid — in person & online

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In-person only. Add yourself to the waitlist and we’ll try to make space.

Anger is an energy...

No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976-84 In this talk, Professor Matthew Worley examines the ways in which British punk claimed a relevance to the time and space in which it emerged. The talk considers punk’s continued presence in popular m...

Two weeks to go — free register now!
No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84
Matthew Worley examines how British punk forged structures of feeling that still shape popular memory.

📅 Tue 17 Feb 2026
⏰ 18:00 (arrival 17:30)
📍 Collective Architecture, Glasgow
💻 Hybrid — stream opens 17:50

No Future: Punk in the UK, 1976–84
Professor Matthew Worley on British punk, popular memory and structures of feeling — from SEX to the 1980s and beyond.
Tue 17 Feb · 18:00(UK)
Collective Architecture, Glasgow
Hybrid event
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What can waste tell us about how we live now? Dr Leila Papoli-Yazdi examines garbology as an archaeological method under political constraint and limited funding.
Thu 12 Feb | 16:00–17:30 (UK) | Online
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No Figure in the Landscape: Remorse, closure and the law In this talk, hosted in association with the University of Stirling’s Philosophy Division, Associate Professor Kate Rossmanith focuses on emotion in legal settings, examining the high-stakes roles pla...

Thu 29 Jan | 15:15–17:00 (UK)
No Figure in the Landscape: Remorse, closure and the law

Hybrid seminar with Associate Professor Kate Rossmanith (University of Stirling).

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Rethinking psychological measurement: Validity potential versus realised validity We propose a concept of validity with a novel feature that we argue can facilitate improved measurement validation practices in the psychological scie…

Thrilled to share our new paper introducing “validity potential” versus “realised validity” as a key distinction for psychological measurement, with @davidmkaplanx.bsky.social, Alexander Gillett, @suttonprofessor.bsky.social, and @robert-m-ross.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Many thanks to Professor Michael Given for opening the Centre’s 2026 seminar programme, exploring place-making as a convivial, lived process shaped by people, animals, soils and everyday practices.

Thanks also to Research Fellow Paul Max Morin, who coordinates our events.

We’re co-hosting with the Centre for Policy, Conflict and Co-operation Research: A Personal Account of Transforming Conflict, with Andrei Gómez-Suárez, Delegate of the Colombian government to negotiations with Comuneros del Sur.
📍 Cottrell Lecture Theatre A3
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Blue and grey text on white background. Early Career Fellowships. Three images and current project titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL media.leverhulme.ac.uk/features.

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
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