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Our thanks to Dr Manus McGrogan, VRF, for giving such an interesting talk about French radical posters in 1968 and their influence over many other movements since. It was particularly good to see so many attending with G4 fairly full… Continue Reading →

CMNH is delighted to welcome as one of its VRFs this semester, Professor Darko R. Suvin, scholar, critic and poet. Born in 1930 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Suvin is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of The Royal Society of… Continue Reading →

CMNH is really pleased to welcome Associate Professor, Andrea Průchová Hrůzová, as one of our VRFs this semester. Andrea Pruchova Hruzova Ph.D. is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate… Continue Reading →

  Techne Conflux: Rethinking Archival Research, Methods and Practice Techne Conflux: Animating the Archive: Co-Constructing Counter-Memories in Landscapes   Professor Christiane Carri (HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland and VRF, University of Brighton).  Monday 30 January, 11.00-1.00pm (G4, City Campus, Brighton and online)… Continue Reading →

‘You’re Dead to Me’: Three of our PhD students take Radio 4 research placements CMNH PhD students at the University of Brighton took three highly competitive placements for research roles on the popular Radio 4 show. 9 January 2023 CMNH… Continue Reading →

1968 and after: French radical posters and press at the crossroads of new left and ‘counterculture’ . Manus McGrogan, IS History Group. Independent Scholar. Wednesday 18th January 2023, 5:30 to 7pm. G4, Grand Parade, City Campus. CMNH Seminar Series: Visual culture,… Continue Reading →

Call for Papers – In the Shadow of ‘Eugenic Thinking’: Legacies of Eugenics in the UK   A Joint CAPPE and CMNH one-day Symposium   Now rescheduled for Thursday 13 July 2023 Online   Online and in-person   This symposium… Continue Reading →

CMNH is delighted to announce that Ailsa Grant Ferguson will be co-leading the Centre with Deborah Madden. Ailsa’s post as co-lead will take place from 3 January 2023. Dr Ailsa Grant Ferguson is a Principal Lecturer in Literature at University… Continue Reading →

The Politics of Hope and Indignation – Two Case Studies  Professor Darko Suvin, McGill University Wednesday February 8th, 2.00-4.00pm (Online)   CMNH is delighted to welcome Visiting Research Fellow, Professor Darko Suvin, who will be giving a public lecture and… Continue Reading →

Techne Conflux: Rethinking Archival Research, Methods and Practice Learning from the Black People’s Alliance Professor Kirsten Forkert, Birmingham Institute of Media and English (BCU) Thursday 12th January, 10.00-12.00 (G4, City Campus, Brighton and online)   This Techne session welcomes CMNH… Continue Reading →

Techne Conflux: Rethinking Archival Research, Methods and Practice   Reading Anticolonial Sources in the Colonial Archive: The Many Migrations of Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi Raza Naeem, University of Central Punjab   Wednesday 7th December, 11.00-13.00 (M2 Grand Parade and online)  … Continue Reading →

We’re delighted in being able to congratulate Judith Ricketts on her excellent news of being a successful recipient of ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) via Co-Lab at the University of Sussex. Working as PI and creative artist in residence, Judith… Continue Reading →

Wellcome Collection Stories: Sorry To Keep You Waiting by Dr Ian Williams I was recently commissioned to draw twelve comic strips for the Wellcome Collection, as part of the Stories series on their website. I called the series Sorry To… Continue Reading →

CMNH is really pleased to welcome Professor Ahmet Atay as one of our VRFs this academic year. Ahmet Atay (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is Professor of Global Media and Communication Studies at the College of Wooster. His research falls… Continue Reading →

Oral History and Activism Workshop: Activists of the ‘Long Sixties’ and the politics of memory   Dr Manus McGrogan, Visiting Research Fellow Monday 23 January, 1.00pm, Grand Parade, G4, City Campus  Attendance also Online Please not the date change of… Continue Reading →

Co-constructing Memory in our Landscapes: Technologies Thursday 8 December 14:00 – 17:00 Room M2 (Boardroom), Grand Parade, University of Brighton, BN2 0JY   In association with the following University of Brighton CORES: Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories Centre for… Continue Reading →

Techne Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC) Open Call This University of Brighton open call for AHRC-funded Techne studentships for October 2023 is accepting applications until 03 January 2023.  We are looking for motivated and engaged individuals to study across our thematic… Continue Reading →