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
Still time to register for Affective Atmospheres — 18–19 Feb at Civic House, Glasgow.
A free, in-person conference exploring place and atmosphere. Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
Artwork by Jinjoon Lee
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A free, in-person conference exploring place and atmosphere. Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
Artwork by Jinjoon Lee
🔗 placememory.net/affective-at...
Affective Atmospheres
Philosophical Foundations and Interdisciplinary Approaches A two-day conference examining how atmospheres shape places and experience, drawing together philosophy with anthropology, geography, art,…
placememory.net
December 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Still time to register for Affective Atmospheres — 18–19 Feb at Civic House, Glasgow.
A free, in-person conference exploring place and atmosphere. Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
Artwork by Jinjoon Lee
🔗 placememory.net/affective-at...
A free, in-person conference exploring place and atmosphere. Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
Artwork by Jinjoon Lee
🔗 placememory.net/affective-at...
From our seed funding scheme: Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
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Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
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Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
A free online workshop for game developers, writers and researchers
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December 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
From our seed funding scheme: Workshop: Dialogue and Agency in Video Games
Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-d...
Friday January 23rd, 11am-2pm GMT (online)
For more information, and to book a free place, please go to
www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-d...
"Constellations in Ruins" is a new photo-essay by our researcher Dale Leorke with Christopher Wood, examining GPS not as background tech but as a material and environmental force in our world amidst ecological crisis.
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
"Constellations in Ruins: GPS in the Anthropocene" by Dale Leorke and Christopher Wood | Published by Media+Environment
A photo essay exploring the hidden infrastructures of global navigation satellite systems and their entanglement with contemporary life.
mediaenviron.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Constellations in Ruins" is a new photo-essay by our researcher Dale Leorke with Christopher Wood, examining GPS not as background tech but as a material and environmental force in our world amidst ecological crisis.
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
mediaenviron.org/post/3608-co...
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Feed: "Progressive Geographies"
By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026
Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026 Introduction open access at this link In a world shaped by war, climate…
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December 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
By: stuartelden on Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Historical maps and sacred sites shape the Thailand–Cambodia conflict. Mapping is never neutral.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
A visual guide to the historical maps and temples at the heart of the Thailand-Cambodia conflict
Border conflict has roots in colonial maps and long-standing ‘sibling rivalry’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Historical maps and sacred sites shape the Thailand–Cambodia conflict. Mapping is never neutral.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
#PlaceAndMemory #Maps #Borders #CSPM
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Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Drawing on ancient linguistic evidence from Britain and Ireland, @aberuni.bsky.social's Dr Simon Rodway and team through a Leverhulme-funded project, will be working on the first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages.
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Drawing on ancient linguistic evidence from Britain and Ireland, @aberuni.bsky.social's Dr Simon Rodway and team through a Leverhulme-funded project, will be working on the first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages.
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Closing date for British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Researchers at Risk applications is 14 January 2026.
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
Researchers at Risk Research Support Open Grants - British Academy / Cara / Leverhulme
The Leverhulme Trust is providing funding of £1,000,000 over five years targeted at providing research support for researchers at risk. Grants are available to support research project activities for ...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Closing date for British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Researchers at Risk applications is 14 January 2026.
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2
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🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize - University of Liverpool News
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
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Very welcome news today that the UK will join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. This will enable greater opportunities for study abroad and contributions in UK universities, and is something we called for in our most recent Manifesto.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Very welcome news today that the UK will join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. This will enable greater opportunities for study abroad and contributions in UK universities, and is something we called for in our most recent Manifesto.
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In the latest episode of Radicals in Conversation, Christopher B. Zeichmann joins us to talk about the radical social experimentation of escaped slaves, pirates, and religious sects in the ancient world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5p...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
In the latest episode of Radicals in Conversation, Christopher B. Zeichmann joins us to talk about the radical social experimentation of escaped slaves, pirates, and religious sects in the ancient world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5p...
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Priestley member Dr Megan Klaar is highlighted in this @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social article discussing Yorkshire’s extreme 2025 rainfall. Klaar explains climate change’s impact on water resilience, infrastructure stress, & the need for adaptive water management strategies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What next for Yorkshire after end of hosepipe ban?
With the five-month hosepipe ban over, experts suggest what the future brings for Yorkshire's water.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Priestley member Dr Megan Klaar is highlighted in this @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social article discussing Yorkshire’s extreme 2025 rainfall. Klaar explains climate change’s impact on water resilience, infrastructure stress, & the need for adaptive water management strategies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
👉 theconversation.com/stories-from...
👉 theconversation.com/stories-from...
Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines
Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
theconversation.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
👉 theconversation.com/stories-from...
👉 theconversation.com/stories-from...
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🎉 The University of Leeds & Priestley Centre won Outstanding Innovation in Conferences for the 2025 Scenarios Forum!
🌱 The event was a Sustainable Conference Living Lab with vegetarian menus, low-carbon travel & inclusive hybrid options.
Learn more: climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/univers...
🌱 The event was a Sustainable Conference Living Lab with vegetarian menus, low-carbon travel & inclusive hybrid options.
Learn more: climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/univers...
University of Leeds wins Outstanding Innovation in Conferences at AVS Awards - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures
A conference reimagined The University of Leeds has been recognised for sector-leading innovation in conferences after winning the Outstanding Innovation in Conferences award at last week’s Academic V...
climate.leeds.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🎉 The University of Leeds & Priestley Centre won Outstanding Innovation in Conferences for the 2025 Scenarios Forum!
🌱 The event was a Sustainable Conference Living Lab with vegetarian menus, low-carbon travel & inclusive hybrid options.
Learn more: climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/univers...
🌱 The event was a Sustainable Conference Living Lab with vegetarian menus, low-carbon travel & inclusive hybrid options.
Learn more: climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/univers...
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17/12/2025 in Barcelona, Espai KU. "Historia del Agua de Mendoza" A documentary on people’s struggle to defend water. A story of how protection was lost, resistance began, and water was reclaimed in ten day. espaiku.blogspot.com/2025/12/pase...
Pase del documental: HAM - Historia del Agua de Mendoza
--Documental-- Miércoles 17.12, 19.30 h.-- 2019 : El gobierno local deroga la 7.722 que impide el uso de tóxicos en la minería. El pueblo lo...
espaiku.blogspot.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
17/12/2025 in Barcelona, Espai KU. "Historia del Agua de Mendoza" A documentary on people’s struggle to defend water. A story of how protection was lost, resistance began, and water was reclaimed in ten day. espaiku.blogspot.com/2025/12/pase...
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Science Christmas
The Upturned Microscope
The Upturned Microscope
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Science Christmas
The Upturned Microscope
The Upturned Microscope
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Aileen kicked started last week at the #Coalburn Miners’ Welfare #Lanarkshire showing project community ambassadors (aka super volunteers) how to upload their digital walking routes to #MiningLandscapes collection
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Aileen kicked started last week at the #Coalburn Miners’ Welfare #Lanarkshire showing project community ambassadors (aka super volunteers) how to upload their digital walking routes to #MiningLandscapes collection
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Hey 🏺colleagues working in SW Asia: I am searching for contacts to museums with prehistory on display in the region, and struggle to find some online.
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hey 🏺colleagues working in SW Asia: I am searching for contacts to museums with prehistory on display in the region, and struggle to find some online.
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
Who could help me with contacts to the Iraq National Museum, Lebanon National Museum, and/or National Museums in Syria?
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The Mudumal megalithic menhirs in India have been added to UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites in 2025. Mudumal’s menhirs are India's oldest menhirs, dating back 3,500–4,000 BP, and are located near the banks of the Krishna River. #StandingStoneSunday
December 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The Mudumal megalithic menhirs in India have been added to UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites in 2025. Mudumal’s menhirs are India's oldest menhirs, dating back 3,500–4,000 BP, and are located near the banks of the Krishna River. #StandingStoneSunday
Devastating Kangaroo Island 2019 bushfire reveals 150 hidden caves…
Phoenix cave 'rises from the ashes' amid discovery after KI bushfires
It was an adventure into the unknown. From the surface all that could be seen was a small opening. The ABC has been given exclusive access to newly-discovered caves on South Australia's Kangaroo Islan...
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Devastating Kangaroo Island 2019 bushfire reveals 150 hidden caves…
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Early Career Network in Philosophy conference, Physics and the Self: interdisciplinary perspectives. The conference is run by early career researchers, Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery, who received the the Early Career Network in Philosophy Innovation Award from @ip-sas.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Early Career Network in Philosophy conference, Physics and the Self: interdisciplinary perspectives. The conference is run by early career researchers, Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery, who received the the Early Career Network in Philosophy Innovation Award from @ip-sas.bsky.social
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Wonderful work by the great Craig Easton who has a superb new photobook on Orwell’s Jura … magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/12/11/p...
Photo essay: George Orwell’s late sanctuary
Craig Easton’s An Extremely Un-get-atable Place depicts the remote Scottish house where Orwell spent much of his final years
magazine.newstatesman.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Wonderful work by the great Craig Easton who has a superb new photobook on Orwell’s Jura … magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/12/11/p...
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Free to download as pdf: Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions across the World, edited by @lucaspoy.bsky.social and @hannesrolf.bsky.social and published by @uclpress.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
uclpress.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Free to download as pdf: Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions across the World, edited by @lucaspoy.bsky.social and @hannesrolf.bsky.social and published by @uclpress.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...
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🚨 new preprint alert! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
what is the architecture of an individual working memory?
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what is the architecture of an individual working memory?
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biorxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🚨 new preprint alert! biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
what is the architecture of an individual working memory?
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what is the architecture of an individual working memory?
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NEW EVENT: Unlocking Historical Archives with AI – Opportunities and Challenges
📅 20 Jan, 12.30–3.30pm
📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building
🎟️ Free: ow.ly/U83L50XFFQp
Join our research café discussing the opportunities and challenges which AI brings to the study of the past.
📅 20 Jan, 12.30–3.30pm
📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building
🎟️ Free: ow.ly/U83L50XFFQp
Join our research café discussing the opportunities and challenges which AI brings to the study of the past.
December 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM