15th March 2018: Cornish Mining- UNESCO World Heritage Site talk

Join us at 5pm on Thursday 15 March for drinks and a talk by Deborah Boden, Director of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. Deborah will talk about the aims and operations of the WHS including its huge success attracting external funding and running projects with a diversity of partners from archaeologists to installation artists The… Continue reading 15th March 2018: Cornish Mining- UNESCO World Heritage Site talk

Arts and Humanities research events this March

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 6th March 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Dr Marcelo Gimenes: Experiments in Machine Learning of Musical Style 6th March 2018, 2pm, Rolle 015 Music- Nic Pillai (BCU) “I… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this March

Podcasting Session for Staff – Thursday 22 February

This session will be run by the BBC’s Dr Sam Willis (Castles; The Silk Road; Britain’s Armed History; Britain’s Outlaws, History of Invasions) and Professor James Daybell, Director of the Arts Institute. The two co-write and co-present the chart-topping podcast Histories of the Unexpected, which is hosted by Dan Snow’s History Hit Network. James and… Continue reading Podcasting Session for Staff – Thursday 22 February

Arts and Humanities research events this February

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 13th February 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Mr Jared Drayton- An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Singing Synthesis 14th February 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Roland Levinsky, Room 303 Performance.… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this February

20th March 2018: Audiences for Tate Research: Exhibitions, Archives and Publication

Rolle 211 | 3pm – 5pm Over the last decade the role of the national museums as centres for organised research has been transformed out of all recognition.  The exploitation of new technologies and access to new streams of funding have encouraged these changes as has new thinking about the role of museums and of… Continue reading 20th March 2018: Audiences for Tate Research: Exhibitions, Archives and Publication

Arts and Humanities Research events this January

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 3rd January 2018, 10am – 1pm, Roland Levinsky Design Lab Message, Design Knowledge and i-DAT- Design Research Seminar 3 16th January 2018, 4.30pm – 6pm, Scott, Room 105 ICCMR- Dr Alexis… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research events this January

Arts and Humanities research events this December

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 6th December 2017, 4.30pm – 6pm, Roland Levinksy, Room 303 Performance. Experience. Presence.- Chris Green & Katheryn Owens: “Performing the Millennial: Precarity and the Domestic” Jonathan Cripps: “Pedagogy of Presence: Examining… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this December

5th December 2017: Speaking Research- approaches to contemporary research in and out of evaluation structures.

10am-1pm | Rolle 116 Professor Irit Rogoff will talk about her experience of REF and the founding of the new European Forum for Advanced Practices.  Irit Rogoff is a writer, educator, curator and organisor.  She is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2002.Rogoff works at the meeting… Continue reading 5th December 2017: Speaking Research- approaches to contemporary research in and out of evaluation structures.

22nd November 2017: PEP Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning

Treaty Canoe installation at York University, Alex McKay

5pm – 7pm, Roland Levinsky Building Room 306 For 2017’s US Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning, the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at the University of Plymouth invites arts researchers to look towards Plymouth’s commemorations of the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth, UK to Massachusetts, USA. Plymouth, along with 10 other UK towns,… Continue reading 22nd November 2017: PEP Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning

Mayflower400- The Wallflower Project

The Wallflower Project has been launched in the lead up to Mayflower400. The Project will engage local communities in the design and production of outdoor public murals across the city centre. Overseen by the University of Plymouth’s public art specialist Dr Jody Patterson in collaboration with a collective of local artists under the guidance of… Continue reading Mayflower400- The Wallflower Project