Category Occasional events

Visual Memory and the Art of Protest: Nicaragua Centre for Memory Narrative and History, University of Brighton Exhibition: 17th– 21st of October 2022 Atrium Space Grand Parade campus Panel presentation: 16:30, October 19th 2022 Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade. The Exhibition “The… Continue Reading →

CMNH Occasional Seminar. Annemarie Majlund Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) 19th May, 6pm to 7:30pm (online) Book now The past presence – and present absence – of the British Army in Northern Ireland often reappears in accounts of the island’s transformation… Continue Reading →

9th Dec 2019 11:00am-1:00pm Dorset Place 401 Wendy Walker (County Archivist, West Sussex Record Office)  Following the Shoreham Airshow Disaster on 22 August 2015 West Sussex Record Office was asked to help with the preservation of the messages that were… Continue Reading →

11th Dec 2019 1:00pm-3:00pm Dorset Place 201 Professor Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter) Working through two spaces–the art gallery and the collection store–this paper will explore the shifting identities of a particular class of heritage objects. The commonplace industrial machinery… Continue Reading →

22nd Mar 2019 11:15am-2:30pm Checkland Building, A501, Falmer Campus Co-organised by Healthy Futures and the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories Are you interested in how health, heritage and memory intersect in research and learning both across the academy and… Continue Reading →

26th Jun 2018 9:30am-5:45pm M2 Grand Parade A day of presentations and discussion featuring researchers from The Uses of the Past Research Group at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories at the University of Brighton…. Continue Reading →

30th May 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 The Militant Antifascism in Rome during the Seventies: constructing oral sources on the narrative of political violence Jessica Matteo (University of Brighton) This contribution aims to focus on three methodological issues of oral… Continue Reading →

8th Jun 2017 9:00am – 9th Jun 2017 5:00pm Grand Parade University of Brighton Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence Research Cluster’s project on‘Contesting Britain at War’*   Workshop 8-9 June, 2016 Britain has been almost continually at war… Continue Reading →

21st Jun 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade Memory, identity and literacy. Violence and education in Mexico. Professor César Correa (University of Guadalajara) Rural normal schools established in Mexico between 1922 and 1945, have their origin in the revolutionary education policies and… Continue Reading →

3rd May 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm G4, Grand Parade Place, body and story in the divided city: Ordinary agency in the everyday. Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Visiting Scholar at Vesalius College, Brussels). This paper investigates ‘ordinary agency’… Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →