Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories

16th Oct 2019 5:30pm-7:00pm G4, Grand Parade Erica Masserano (University of East London) London and many other communities across the UK and the world are undergoing fast-paced bouts of gentrification, with few residents actually being able to participate in the… Continue Reading →

13th Mar 2019 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Dr Laura McAtackney (Associate Professor in Archaeology & Heritage at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Docent in Contemporary Archaeology at Oulu University, Finland) This paper will present some of the results and discussion points… Continue Reading →

6th Feb 2019 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4   Utopian Memories: the Hawthorn Archive Professor Avery F. Gordon (University of California, Santa Barbara and Birkbeck School of Law University of London) The Hawthorn Archive has long welcomed the participants in the… Continue Reading →

23rd Jan 2019 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4   The evidence of afterlives: descendant histories of the Great War Professor Michael Roper (University of Essex) All welcome from inside and outside the university, no need to book. Drinks at 5pm for… Continue Reading →

5th Dec 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4.   Dr Kylie Thomas (Visiting Fellow, University of Brighton) Image: Poster drawing attention to the detention, poisoning and disappearance of Siphiwo Mtimkulu: Student Leader Detained. Poisoned. Missing, 1982   Drinks from 5pm, starts at 5:30…. Continue Reading →

14th Nov 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, G4 Anniversary Fever and Anniversary Fatigue: Cultural Violence or Familiar Silence? Dr Natalie L. Jones (University of Warwick) What does it mean to have ‘anniversary fever’, and how critical is this contemporary malady? Does… Continue Reading →

17th Oct 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Grand Parade, Room G4   Dr Tania McIntosh (University of Brighton)   Nearly everyone born in the UK has had contact with a midwife at some point in their lives. Midwives are present at all births,… Continue Reading →

14th Mar 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102   Professor Julie Doyle (University of Brighton) Existing research indicates that many young people have negative feelings about dealing with global climate change, and that this pessimism and helplessness increases with age (Hicks… Continue Reading →

7th Feb 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Dr Hester Barron(University of Sussex) This paper is based on work that Claire Langhamer (Sussex) and I have done on 269 essays written in 1937 by Middlesbrough schoolboys aged 12-16 on the topic… Continue Reading →

17th Jan 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Professor Iwan Rhys Morus ( Aberystwyth University) In a short story published in the Century Magazine in 1898 Mark Twain entertained his readers with a glimpse of the near future. “From the London… Continue Reading →

6th Dec 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102 Dr Sarah May (University College London) What do nuclear waste disposal, built heritage conservation, endangered language preservation, museum collecting and the curation of family heirlooms have in common? How is the desire to… Continue Reading →

22nd Nov 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street 102   Dr Patricia Prieto-Blanco (University of Brighton)   Focusing on a friendship book from a female concentration camp in Ravensbrück, belonging to Slovenian prisoner Viktorija, this paper conceptualises the friendship book as an… Continue Reading →

25th Oct 2017 5:30pm-7:00pm Edward Street, 102   Dr Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University) Unsettling Scientific Stories (Expertise, Narrative and Future Histories) is an AHRC-funded project exploring how people have envisioned their futures over the long technological twentieth-century. It foregrounds the… 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 →

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 →

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 →