This May and June Cornerstone Heritage, the University of Plymouth’s heritage research group, presents three weeks of (almost) daily talks by leading experts on the history and heritage of the historic built environment hosted by the Earl of Devon at Powderham Castle. ‘Cornerstone at Powderham’ is part of the University of Plymouth’s wider on-site investigation… Continue reading Cornerstone Heritage at Powderham Castle-Summer Lectures
Category: Public Events – All welcome
These are events and workshops run by the Arts Institute, its partners and its membership. If you are unsure whether you’d be welcome, or would like to find out more, please email theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk. You may have to pay to attend some of them.
25th May 2017: Soil Erosion Challenges in East Africa- an interdisciplinary approach
6pm | Stonehouse Lecture Theatre The Jali Ardhi project aims to evaluate the impact of soil erosion on both the environme ntal and social resilience of communities in East Africa. With growing land-use pressures and consequent severe soil erosion, many East African socio-ecological systems are at a tipping point. Field-based research is being undertaken in… Continue reading 25th May 2017: Soil Erosion Challenges in East Africa- an interdisciplinary approach
22nd June 2017: Territories
22nd and 23rd June 2017 | Plymouth University This two-day symposium will offer an insight into artistic practices that engage with concepts of territories within contemporary culture. Possession is a necessary condition when space is framed as ‘territory’, whereas landscape may be considered in purely aesthetic terms. When landscape is territory, we can think of… Continue reading 22nd June 2017: Territories
18th May 2017: Photographies
18 May & 19 May, 2017 309 Regent St, University of Westminster, London UK To celebrate their tenth anniversary, photographies journal is holding a two-day conference. Bringing together a range of international speakers, it promises to be a defining event engaging and interrogating the contemporary condition and currency of the photographic image. Talks will address… Continue reading 18th May 2017: Photographies
Registration now open: On the Moors Postgraduate Research Conference
On The Moors: Performance.Experience.Presence Postgraduate Research Conference 10-11 June 2017 on Dartmoor Keynotes by Roberta Mock, Phil Smith and Claudia Zeiske Registration now open! The University of Plymouth annual transdisciplinary practice-research postgraduate conference this year takes place in Dartmoor National Park over the weekend of 10-11 June 2017, and is now open for booking. Following the… Continue reading Registration now open: On the Moors Postgraduate Research Conference
Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century: early bird extended
22nd and 23rd June | Plymouth University The first international conference hosted by Plymouth Nineteenth Century Studies (PUNCS) began on the day of the Brexit referendum, and commentators have seen that event in the context of other signs of anti-globalisation and in a landscape of violent disintegrations or forcible integrations in the Twenty-first century. This… Continue reading Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century: early bird extended
4th May 2017: Histories of the Unexpected Live
7.30pm | The House | Plymouth University As a curtain raiser for Plymouth History Month, BBC’s Sam Willis and Plymouth University’s James Daybell present Histories of the Unexpected Live, the chart-topping, history podcast that features on Dan Snow’s History Hit Network, Histories of the Unexpected Live. There is a new buzz about history – the new rock… Continue reading 4th May 2017: Histories of the Unexpected Live
27th April 2017: Ecologies
3pm-3pm Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building ‘The interconnected networks existing at the scales of mind, society and the environment’ (Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies, 1989) The School of Art, Design & Architecture Postgraduate Research Expo ’17 is an afternoon exhibition of work, networking and research exchange, being the first showcase of its kind for masters students,… Continue reading 27th April 2017: Ecologies
3rd May 2017: Plymouth Festival of Words
Building on the success of the Plymouth International Book Festival, Plymouth Festival of Words celebrates words in all their forms including literature, poetry, theatre and more. Launching Plymouth History Month, it showcases an eclectic blend of nationally and internationally renowned writers and artists, alongside a rich community programme coordinated by WonderZoo, involving literary groups from… Continue reading 3rd May 2017: Plymouth Festival of Words
20th April 2017: Out of Order Film Screening
6pm, Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building. Plymouth University Plymouth University in partnership with the University’s LGBT Forum will be showing the documentary Out of Order, followed by light refreshments and a Q&A session with Director/Producer Amanda Bluglass. Out of Order (2016) is a ground-breaking feature documentary directed by Plymouth University Associate Lecturer in Media… Continue reading 20th April 2017: Out of Order Film Screening