John Sutton
@suttonprofessor.bsky.social
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Imperial Intimacies
‘Where are you from?’ was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post–World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mot...
www.versobooks.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
'Women, Housing, and Place' at Stirling: Mhairi-Jean Ross reports on a great symposium co-sponsored by @memoryplace.bsky.social, & eg @tmcasimiro.bsky.social on women's spatial, material, architectural strategies in 'illegal' Lisbon neighbourhoods www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/cel...
Celebrating the ‘Women, Housing & Place’ Symposium at the University of Stirling
The University of Stirling welcomed researchers, practitioners, and campaigners to campus for a one-day symposium on Women, Housing & Place.
www.housing-studies-association.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
'Women, Housing, and Place' at Stirling: Mhairi-Jean Ross reports on a great symposium co-sponsored by @memoryplace.bsky.social, & eg @tmcasimiro.bsky.social on women's spatial, material, architectural strategies in 'illegal' Lisbon neighbourhoods www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/cel...
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Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
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Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our researchers @tmcasimiro.bsky.social and Ruth Olsen are in Lismore doing fieldwork about the social memory of Loch Belnagown
@memoryplace.bsky.social we’re hosting Tia Neha from Aotearoa New Zealand, sharing her striking research in developmental psychology of autobiographical memory, and for powerful discussions on ‘Ethical Memory: a kaupapa Māori philosophical backfill’, and on multiculturalism and indigenous community
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
@memoryplace.bsky.social we’re hosting Tia Neha from Aotearoa New Zealand, sharing her striking research in developmental psychology of autobiographical memory, and for powerful discussions on ‘Ethical Memory: a kaupapa Māori philosophical backfill’, and on multiculturalism and indigenous community
@memoryplace.bsky.social hosted Sarah Gensburger, sociologist of memory extraordinaire from Sciences Po - from our amazing Advisory Board - for two intensive workshops with our new PhDs, brilliant fun – and, wandering Stirling Uni's twisty corridors, we found these strange apt memory cushions!
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@memoryplace.bsky.social hosted Sarah Gensburger, sociologist of memory extraordinaire from Sciences Po - from our amazing Advisory Board - for two intensive workshops with our new PhDs, brilliant fun – and, wandering Stirling Uni's twisty corridors, we found these strange apt memory cushions!
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Professor Emily Keightley — Migrant Heritage and Postcolonial Imagination
📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST)
Join us in person or online 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/EmilyKeightley
📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST)
Join us in person or online 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/EmilyKeightley
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Professor Emily Keightley — Migrant Heritage and Postcolonial Imagination
📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST)
Join us in person or online 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/EmilyKeightley
📅 29 Oct 2025 • 4 pm (BST)
Join us in person or online 🔗 Register now tinyurl.com/EmilyKeightley
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Last night in Marseille, Centre researcher Paul Max Morin helped launch Le Coffre-Fort de l’Empire — an information plaque inside UNIQLO revealing the building’s colonial past as a former bank funding the conquest of Algeria.
#ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory
#ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory
October 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Last night in Marseille, Centre researcher Paul Max Morin helped launch Le Coffre-Fort de l’Empire — an information plaque inside UNIQLO revealing the building’s colonial past as a former bank funding the conquest of Algeria.
#ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory
#ColonialLegacies #PlaceAndMemory
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Leverhulme International Professor Emma Waterton examines the small, often overlooked material traces of belonging itself. Join us 21 Oct, 16:00–17:30 for an afternoon seminar followed by drinks in Crush Hall. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Leverhulme International Professor Emma Waterton examines the small, often overlooked material traces of belonging itself. Join us 21 Oct, 16:00–17:30 for an afternoon seminar followed by drinks in Crush Hall. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How we teach the past shapes the future. Centre researcher Paul Max Morin’s article on Algerian independence and historical memory has been chosen for France’s national history-teacher training curriculum — 125,000 copies across 3,700 high schools. #ResearchImpact link.camscanner.com/a4OMrL5Mgo
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
How we teach the past shapes the future. Centre researcher Paul Max Morin’s article on Algerian independence and historical memory has been chosen for France’s national history-teacher training curriculum — 125,000 copies across 3,700 high schools. #ResearchImpact link.camscanner.com/a4OMrL5Mgo
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Meet our people @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is an archaeologist specialising in material culture, urban marginality, and the intersections of place and memory, community archaeology, waste and urban ecologies, the archaeology of abandonment, and non-human interactions in urban and non-urban spaces.
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Meet our people @tmcasimiro.bsky.social is an archaeologist specialising in material culture, urban marginality, and the intersections of place and memory, community archaeology, waste and urban ecologies, the archaeology of abandonment, and non-human interactions in urban and non-urban spaces.
Welcome to Rob Wilson... please join us!
Tomorrow: Norming Human Individuality with Professor Rob Wilson (16:00–17:30 BST, D1 Pathfoot & online).
Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory
Register now → forms.gle/kfZ5W4SZr5L7...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PlaceMemory
October 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Welcome to Rob Wilson... please join us!
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Join us today for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari
Wed 1 Oct 2025
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 14:50)
D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
join online: placememory.net/events-2/#Um...
Wed 1 Oct 2025
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 14:50)
D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
join online: placememory.net/events-2/#Um...
October 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Join us today for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari
Wed 1 Oct 2025
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 14:50)
D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
join online: placememory.net/events-2/#Um...
Wed 1 Oct 2025
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 14:50)
D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling + online
join online: placememory.net/events-2/#Um...
Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...
How does heritage-making intersect with homemaking? Join Professor Emma Waterton, Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
Tuesday 21 October
16:00–17:30 (stream opens 15:50)
in Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling + online
Register here: forms.gle/Guv9U9vJTvV7...
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looking forward to hosting fellow Leverhulme International Professor, Emma Waterton! Join us...
Set in the post-war, post-Independence moment, this talk blends memoir and historical geography - join us!
Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Set in the post-war, post-Independence moment, this talk blends memoir and historical geography - join us!
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Fantastic resource - podcast about dementia-related memory loss - from Professor Catherine Loveday - how to have tricky conversations, how to improve sleep and how to scaffold memory
mempathy.podbean.com
mempathy.podbean.com
Mempathy | Mempathy
Mempathy is a podcast about dementia-related memory loss, hosted by Professor Catherine Loveday, a memory expert who has spent the last 12 years putting her research into practice to support her own m...
mempathy.podbean.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Fantastic resource - podcast about dementia-related memory loss - from Professor Catherine Loveday - how to have tricky conversations, how to improve sleep and how to scaffold memory
mempathy.podbean.com
mempathy.podbean.com
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Join us for Day 2 of Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver - starts 09:30 BST stir.ac.uk (Scion House + online)
Speakers: Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Rathbone, Louis Renoult, Catherine Loveday and Shayna Rosenbaum
placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Speakers: Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Rathbone, Louis Renoult, Catherine Loveday and Shayna Rosenbaum
placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Amnesia and Identity Workshop
Schedule 24 & 25 September 2025 Day 1 — Wednesday 24 September Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling (Room C22) what3words: ///mascot.wedding.daunted Join online (stream opens 10 minutes be…
placememory.net
September 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Join us for Day 2 of Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver - starts 09:30 BST stir.ac.uk (Scion House + online)
Speakers: Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Rathbone, Louis Renoult, Catherine Loveday and Shayna Rosenbaum
placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Speakers: Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Rathbone, Louis Renoult, Catherine Loveday and Shayna Rosenbaum
placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Join us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days
Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity workshop is tomorrow (24 Sept) at @stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online).
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Join us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days
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👉 Register: forms.gle/kPVR35xfKB22...
Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification - with Professor Rob Wilson
📅 Wed 8 Oct 2025 | 🕒 16:00–17:30 UK
📍 University of Stirling (Room D1) + online
Hybrid talk on how eugenification shapes human individuality.
Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification - with Professor Rob Wilson
📅 Wed 8 Oct 2025 | 🕒 16:00–17:30 UK
📍 University of Stirling (Room D1) + online
Hybrid talk on how eugenification shapes human individuality.
September 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
👉 Register: forms.gle/kPVR35xfKB22...
Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification - with Professor Rob Wilson
📅 Wed 8 Oct 2025 | 🕒 16:00–17:30 UK
📍 University of Stirling (Room D1) + online
Hybrid talk on how eugenification shapes human individuality.
Norming Human Individuality – the significance of eugenification - with Professor Rob Wilson
📅 Wed 8 Oct 2025 | 🕒 16:00–17:30 UK
📍 University of Stirling (Room D1) + online
Hybrid talk on how eugenification shapes human individuality.
Reposted by John Sutton
The full schedule is now online for Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver (24–25 Sept, University of Stirling + online).
Sessions feature Shayna Rosenbaum, Michael Kopelman, Clare Rathbone, Rachael Elward, Catherine Loveday and more.
🔗 placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Sessions feature Shayna Rosenbaum, Michael Kopelman, Clare Rathbone, Rachael Elward, Catherine Loveday and more.
🔗 placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Amnesia and Identity Workshop
Schedule 24 & 25 September 2025 Day 1 — Wednesday 24 September Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling (Room C22) what3words: ///mascot.wedding.daunted Join online (stream opens 10 minutes be…
placememory.net
September 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The full schedule is now online for Amnesia and Identity with Carl Craver (24–25 Sept, University of Stirling + online).
Sessions feature Shayna Rosenbaum, Michael Kopelman, Clare Rathbone, Rachael Elward, Catherine Loveday and more.
🔗 placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
Sessions feature Shayna Rosenbaum, Michael Kopelman, Clare Rathbone, Rachael Elward, Catherine Loveday and more.
🔗 placememory.net/amnesia-and-...
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Today 15:00–16:30 (UK). Stream opens 14:50
Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo
Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Today 15:00–16:30 (UK). Stream opens 14:50
Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo
Professor Hugo Spiers–Studying Navigation in Cities & on the Ocean. Join online placememory.net/events-2/#Hugo
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Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma.
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | Advancing Conservation Science at the Interface of Collective Human Trauma and Earth Systems Change
Trauma is an increasingly common feature of the collective human experience, yet science-based discourse on the relationship between collective human trauma,...
www.frontiersin.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma.
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Great work Sara Kim Hjortborg and @gregdowney.bsky.social!! Our new paper in Journal of Sports Sciences homes in on micromoments of skillful coaching interactions during and between rounds in a novice Muay Thai bout - thread below!
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Great work Sara Kim Hjortborg and @gregdowney.bsky.social!! Our new paper in Journal of Sports Sciences homes in on micromoments of skillful coaching interactions during and between rounds in a novice Muay Thai bout - thread below!