Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

Big moment for us last week in Prague, we hosted our first international panel, ‘Places of trouble, division, ethics and creativity: towards a situated and distributed approach to place memory’, at the Memory Studies Association conference in Prague.

Traditional indigenous Marshall Islands navigators join cognitive neuroscientists in cutting-edge research on the vast Pacific Ocean: our @SciPlaceMemory colleague Pablo Fernandez Velasco studying dynamic intelligence in action stir.ac.uk/news/2025/july…

Tomorrow! two-hour online workshop on distributed creativity and cognition in film-making with my fab friend and collaborator Karen Pearlman (karenpearlman.net), 11am-1pm Thursday UK time, highly recommended physicaltv.com.au/distributed-cr…

Fiona Macpherson and Neil McDonnell in full flight today at the extraordinary 20th anniversary gig of Glasgow's Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience: rich mix of philosophy, cog science, the senses, illusions, XR, & great folk, what a history, what achievements, onwards!

Ass. Prof. Celia Harris presents Memory Scaffolding: from theory to practice tomorrow - join in person or online - Celia discusses how social & material environments support memory as we age, drawing on both lab-based and field-based research mailchi.mp/stir/spring-se…]

Final call for registrations - Glasgow in person only - featuring Prof Jack Lyons 'Are Cognitive Maps Really Maps?, Dr Andrea Blomkvist 'Memory images: what we can learn from aphantasia' & Prof Neil McDonnell 'Virtual Reality: Theory and Practice eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-t…

Unfortunately I won't join, but if you're available you should!

Sign up now for Scottish Graduate Summer School workshops with Centre Fellows on Place and Memory Methodologies - online and in-person - June 19 & 24 Glasgow ARC padlet.com/sgsah/sgsah-su…

Commémorations du 8-Mai : le déplacement de parlementaires français en Algérie ne fait pas l'unanimité dans la classe politique l.francetvinfo.fr/xI8

Sébastien Ledoux et moi publions aujourd'hui : "L'Algérie de Macron : les impasses d'une politique mémorielle" aux @editions_PUF. Une analyse de la politique mémorielle d'@EmmanuelMacron sur la guerre d'Algérie. Nous en tirons les conclusions suivantes : 1/6

Sarah Gensburger dans Le Monde : « Ce ne sont pas les politiques mémorielles qui façonnent les valeurs politiques mais les valeurs politiques qui façonnent l’attitude envers les politiques mémorielles. » lemonde.fr/societe/articl…

Cognitive Aesthetics of Place: workshop Monday 9 June, 3-5.30 UK time, co-hosted with Edinburgh, in-person or remote: keynote from Karin Kukkonen on beach reading; Marco Bernini on places permeated by fictions; Mike Wheeler on street art and authenticity: mailchi.mp/stir/cognitive…

Register now for Cognitive Aesthetics of Place: a workshop on how literature, philosophy & cognitive science shape our sense of place. Speakers: Karin Kukkonen (Oslo), Marco Bernini (Durham) & Michael Wheeler (Stirling) 🗓️ June 9 | Edinburgh + online mailchi.mp/stir/cognitive…

Register now for Cognitive Aesthetics of Place -interdisciplinary workshop exploring how literature, philosophy, and cognitive science shape understanding of place with Karin Kukkonen, Marco Bernini, & Michael Wheeler - June 9 Edinburgh & online mailchi.mp/stir/cognitive…

Quick reminder! Donna Addis's talk The past and future of the imaginative brain is online/in person 🗓️ Thursday 15 May 🕒 3:00–4:30pm (BST) 📍 Psychology Common Room (C3A94), Cottrell Building, University of Stirling or 💻 Online MS Teams: tinyurl.com/DonnaRoseAddis

with accompanying research paper here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'Archives in Place' is a terrific 9-minute film on profusion & transformation in heritage from my Stirling colleague Jennie Morgan & Nadia Bartolini: I found it in prep for last week's great Glasgow workshop 'Storage and Retrieval: the brain & the archive' vimeo.com/223623288