Author Research Communications
23rd May 2017 10:00am-4:45pm Orpen Boardroom, Imperial War Museum. Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the aerial bombing of Barcelona, the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) together with the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia (DIPLOCAT) will held a commemorative event… Continue Reading →
6th Apr 2017 9:30am – 7th Apr 2017 4:00pm Grand Parade Keynote Speakers: Professor Catherine Hall (University College London) ‘Righting wrongs: slavery and reparatory histories’ and Professor Ben Carrington (University of Texas at Austin) ‘Show me the money!’: Freedom, Resistance and the Cultural Politics… Continue Reading →
15th Mar 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade G4 Professor Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex) In August 1945 the social investigative organisation, Mass Observation, asked its national panel to respond to a number of topical questions. They were asked for their… Continue Reading →
15th Feb 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Professor Graham Dawson (University of Brighton) Emotion, feeling, affect are central to the ways in which ‘the past’ is thought to live on after violent political conflict; permeating ‘post-conflict’ memory, reproducing antagonism and… Continue Reading →
18th Jan 2017 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Professor Joe Moran (Liverpool John Moores University) Shyness is a mundane, chronic, nebulous and hard-to-define condition. Charles Darwin called it this ‘odd state of mind’ because it seemed to have no evolutionary benefit:… Continue Reading →
18th Jan 2017 1:00pm-3:00pm Grand Parade, B56 Research Workshop with Visiting Research Fellow Charlottte Heath-Kelly In this workshop we will discuss the significance of death to human culture, especially relating to the production of cultural memory. As Zygmunt Bauman (among… Continue Reading →
14th Dec 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Dr Helen Parr (Keele University) The 1982 Falklands war was an unexpected, short, but symbolic conflict, in which 255 British servicemen were killed. In public, at the time, its grief was expressed in… Continue Reading →
9th Nov 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade 202 Self-Harming Memorial Architecture: Aesthetics of Death and Void in post-terrorist design Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick) What emotional labour is employed within the reconstruction of terrorist sites? This presentation draws from… Continue Reading →
8th Nov 2016 10:30am-12:30pm The Duke of Yorks Picturehouse, Brighton The Battle of the Somme (1916) Free Screening at The Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton. With original medley from silent film accompanist Stephen Horne This free screening at the Duke… Continue Reading →
19th Oct 2016 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, 202. Room Open 5pm In the wake of the ‘turn to affect’ compelling scholarly work has explored the vital role affect, emotion and feeling might play in catalyzing radical social and political change. Such… Continue Reading →
23rd Sep 2016 9:00am – 24th Sep 2016 6:00pm Sallis Benney Theatre and Brighton Pavilion Speakers include: Steve Bell, political cartoonist Martin Rowson, political cartoonist Prof. Ian Haywood (Roehampton) This event will also include a curatorial introduction to the caricature collection… Continue Reading →
22nd Jun 2016 10:00am-4:00pm Grand Parade 8th annual Brighton-Sussex postgraduate conference, 10am – 4pm, 22nd June 2016. University of Brighton, Grand Parade Campus, M2 Subversive Histories for Public Cultures The politics of life history research The 8th annual Brighton-Sussex postgraduate… Continue Reading →
15th Jun 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Seminar Tina van der Vlies (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) G4, Grand Parade. Next to the fact that the present affects how the past is narrated and interpreted, past events play an important role in understanding… Continue Reading →
16th Mar 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Legacy, Heritage and the Olympic Games: before the circus arrives and when it leaves town. Professor Garry Whannel (University of Bedfordshire) The Olympic Games has become a global mega events with immense reach –… Continue Reading →
17th Feb 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4. Seminar Dr Katy Shaw (Leeds Beckett University) This paper will consider how and why we continue to represent and reconsider events during and legacies of the 1984-5 UK Miners’ Strike, and how the… Continue Reading →
3rd Feb 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm M2, Grand Parade Seminar Mutating Memories and the Making of a Wartime Myth in South Africa: Remembering the SS Mendi Disaster 1917- 2007 Professor Albert Grundlingh (Stellenbosch University) The SS Mendi, carrying the last detachment of… Continue Reading →
20th Jan 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Seminar Malcolm Taylor (OBE), Steve Roud and Laura Hockenhull Sussex Traditions’ is a cultural charity which gathers and shares traditions handed down by the people of the county: arts and activities, beliefs customs… Continue Reading →
2nd Dec 2015 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Dr Thomas Carter (University of Brighton) Sussex bonfires are situated in a local historical narrative of tradition and heritage that is used to mark the distinctive nature of being a Bonfire Boy or… Continue Reading →
11th Nov 2015 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 All that jazz: heritage and diversity in the Downton years Dr Jo Littler (City University) and Dr Roshi Naidoo (Independent) This paper considers the relationship between heritage and discourses of ‘diversity’ circulating… Continue Reading →
21st Oct 2015 5:00pm-7:00pm 502 Dorset Place A Screening with Q and A Michael Wayne (Brunel University) and Deirdre O’Neill (Inside Film) Note change of venue to: 502 Dorset Place Everything changes and yet everything stays the same. 1844: Friedrich Engels… Continue Reading →
