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As part of the Census 21 project, MA student, Lucy Daish, has been running a series of community workshops inviting participants to research the history of their own house and family. Taking place in the Electric Palace, Hastings, the sessions… Continue Reading →
Image courtesy of Royal Pavilion & Museum Trust, Brighton & Hove Forum and panel debate exploring disability and heritage over the past 100 years. This event, which takes places during Disability Pride month, brings together a range of speakers looking… Continue Reading →
New Critical Directions in Memory Studies Symposium M2 Boardroom, Grand Parade (or online) 10th June, 2022 9.00am-5.30pm A Collaborative and Celebratory Symposium hosted by the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton. In the last decade,… Continue Reading →
Dr Diana Wilkins will be introducing a new series of free online webinars via Strike a Light – Arts & Heritage (in partnership with CMNH) to explore aspects of 1921 Census and Sussex. Please circulate Upcoming Free Webinars. These are… Continue Reading →
Call for Contributions What’s happening to cultural studies? Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories (CMNH) – University of Brighton 14-16th September, 2022 This conference intends to promote a conversation about cultural studies: its current shape, the forces that have shaped… 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 →
Please note revised dates, which are highlighted in red. Two-Day Oral History Workshops Friday 27 May and Friday 17 June 1pm-3pm Please register in advance on Ticketsource here Join here for workshops on Teams CMNH is pleased to… Continue Reading →
Deadline extended to 17 June! The Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories (CMNH) at the University of Brighton invites applications for Visiting Research Fellows (VRF) to spend time at the Centre in the autumn semester (September-January 2022-23) OR the spring semester (February-June… Continue Reading →
Joint book launch, talks and discussion with Dr Julia Winckler and Dr Annebella Pollen Thursday 12 May 2022, 17:30-19:00, Room M2, Mezzanine floor, Grand Parade Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by… Continue Reading →
Deborah Madden has been awarded £10,000 from the University’s Research Culture funding on diversity and inclusion, which will help to further build on her successful AHRC project that made use of historical census data to highlight changing patterns in health,… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to our associate member Dr. Andrea García González who has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project ‘Memory Reimagined: Gender and Intersectionality in Participatory Memory Configuration’. The interdisciplinarity of the project and its contribution to future… Continue Reading →
CMNH and PPA Seminar: Owning My Ancestors: The Slave-owning History of the Dawkins Family, 1664-1833
Dr James Dawkins, Lancaster University Owning My Ancestors: The Slave-owning History of the Dawkins Family, 1664-1833 Thursday February 17th, 6pm-7.30pm. Online. Book here Co-hosted by the Centre for memory, Narrative and Histories and the Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics Seminar Series…. Continue Reading →
Feminist Creative Processes in Transnational Kurdish Communities Dr Ceren Ozpinar (University of Brighton) 5:30 to 7pm, Wednesday 16th March 2022 (online) Book here Dispossessed and dispersed across the world the unsettling histories and experiences of transnational communities are often transmitted… Continue Reading →
From the French Foreign Legion to Nazi brutality: narratives of internment, commemorative scripts and the history of the Gurs camp. Dr Scott Soo (University of Southampton) Wednesday 25th May 2022. Details about joining this online seminar will be emailed out… Continue Reading →
Memory, migration and conflict – Journeys from the north of Ireland to Britain during the Troubles. Dr Fearghus Roulston and Professor Graham Dawson (University of Brighton) 5:30 to 7pm, Wednesday 16th February 2022 (online) Details about joining this online seminar… Continue Reading →
Refugee Histories, Representation and Records: Counter-Narratives of the Refugee Archive and Empowered Collaboration – a Case Study of the Living Refugee Archive. Paul Dudman (University of East London Archives) Cancelled due to illness. Details about joining this online seminar will… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 20th October 2021, 5:30 to 7pm. Online. Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck College, University of London) (B)ordering Britain: Law, race and empire In this seminar Dr Nadine El-Elany will be discussing her book (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire… Continue Reading →
15th June 2021, 2pm to 4:30pm. Invitations to join this event online will be shared a couple of days before to those who have registered. Book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/correspondences-a-conversation-about-art-memory-and-heritage-tickets-153624921275 Please note: we will be recording the Panel presentations but… Continue Reading →
Call for Papers. The Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories at the University of Brighton, in cooperation with the Transitional Justice Institute/INCORE at Ulster University, is inviting paper proposals for the PGR/ECR conference on transgenerational memory. The conference will take place… Continue Reading →
Dr Sara Salem (London School of Economics). Online Seminar. This talk focuses the powerful project created in the aftermath of Egypt’s decolonisation in the 1950s and 1960s, led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Through an imagined conversation between Antonio Gramsci and… Continue Reading →
