The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. i-DAT+ Creative School + Tate Exchange: Creative Data Lab#1. 17th-21st October 2016 at Plymouth School of Creative Arts History Lecture with Peninsula Arts: Dr Jo Esra (University of Exeter): ‘Remembering and Memorializing… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
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Dr Anya Lewin awarded Arts Council grant
Plymouth University researcher Dr Anya Lewin has been awarded an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for her latest project, Fez:The Royal Scent. Fez: The Royal Scent will complete her trilogy of moving image installations inspired by family photographs and public archives, which are used to open up questions about historical context, narrative and… Continue reading Dr Anya Lewin awarded Arts Council grant
Lucy Durneen’s creative non-fiction on BBC Radio 4
A creative non-fiction piece written and performed by Lucy Durneen, Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, alongside Dr Adnan Mahmutović from Stockholm University, has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Comics, War & Ordinary Miracles was specially commissioned for the BBC, and explores the two academics’ very different lives in 1992 and their connection through… Continue reading Lucy Durneen’s creative non-fiction on BBC Radio 4
Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. ICCMR Seminar: Aurelien Antoine – ‘Designing a Sound Classification System’. 3.30pm on 11th October 2016 in Scott Building 105 Artist Talk: Tony Godfrey – ‘Painting in the age of Installation’. 4pm on… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
Feature: “Perspectives on the 1620 Mayflower voyage”
BY KATHRYN N. GRAY In 1622, Mourt’s Relation, a narrative report on the Mayflower voyage and settlement in Plymouth, was published anonymously in London. In contrast to William Bradford’s more famous account of this colonial settlement, Of Plimouth Plantation, which he began in the 1630s in the form of a personal journal, Mourt’s Relation is… Continue reading Feature: “Perspectives on the 1620 Mayflower voyage”
Plymouth University Researcher awarded international book prize
Professor Daniel Maudlin, in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Plymouth University, has been awarded a prestigious prize by the International Society for Landscape, Place and Material Culture. Known as the Allen G. Noble Book Award, the prize is given for the best edited book on material culture in North America. Professor Maudlin… Continue reading Plymouth University Researcher awarded international book prize
4th October 2016: British Culture and The Cold War 1947-65
As part of the Peninsula Arts lecture series Plymouth University researcher Dr Nicholas Barnett explores the impact of the Cold War years on British Culture. Dr Barnett is an expert on Britain and the Cold War period and lecturer in Twentieth Century History, this lecture covers the topic of his first book: Britain’s Cold War: Culture, Modernity… Continue reading 4th October 2016: British Culture and The Cold War 1947-65
Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. History Lecture with Peninsula Arts: Dr Nicholas Barnett on ‘British Culture and the Cold War, 1947–65’. 7pm on 4th October 2016, RLB LT2 (Roland Levinsky Building, Lecture Theatre… Continue reading Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University
Music in mind
Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) has been working on pioneering brain-computer music interfacing, BCMI for short (or as the ICCMR director of research Professor Eduardo Miranda sometimes calls it, ‘Music Neurotechnology’), for over a decade. This work has been used, amongst other things, to give disabled patients access to music making. A… Continue reading Music in mind
Unlocking the history of the unexpected
A major new series of podcasts that aim to unlock history is being launched this week. Created by James Daybell, Professor of Early Modern History, and Honorary Research Fellow Dr Sam Willis, Histories of the Unexpected will demonstrate that anything can have a fascinating history and that everything links together in unexpected ways. The first… Continue reading Unlocking the history of the unexpected