The Displacement Studies Research Network and Cornerstone Heritage based at the Arts Institute, are hosting the film screening of The Destruction of Memory which will be followed by Q&A session with the writer, director and producer of the film, Tim Slade. About the film (extract from the film’s website) THE WAR AGAINST CULTURE, AND THE BATTLE TO SAVE IT. Over the past… Continue reading 16th April 2018: Film – The Destruction of Memory | A documentary on the destruction of world heritage sites
Tag: Memory
From digital to post-digital memory
On The Arts Institute Digital Memory Symposium: Monday, 16th January 2017 By Hannah Drayson and James Sweeting The University of Plymouth’s Art Institute’s first one-day research symposium brought together researchers from across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities to respond to the theme of Digital Memory. It aimed to explore how the ‘turn to the material’ across… Continue reading From digital to post-digital memory
Call for Papers: “Beyond Words”, an arts, education & health conference (March 2017)
Beyond Words: Privileging the Unspoken in Arts and Communities in a Posthuman World 14th March 2017 Plymouth University, UK A posthuman world opens up the possibilities of being and belonging. This exciting international, multi-disciplinary conference focuses on how communication happens beyond words, how the arts use the unspoken, and how those who face problems communicating… Continue reading Call for Papers: “Beyond Words”, an arts, education & health conference (March 2017)
28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
Thursday 28 April 2016, 6-8 pm. at the Plymouth School of Creative Arts, 22 Millbay Road Millbay, Plymouth PL1 3EG FREE – all welcome. Book your place via the Eventbrite webpage. This lecture by Professor Bob Brown is last in the ‘Remember This?’ public lecture series from The Arts Institute at Plymouth University. The series, by members of the Arts and… Continue reading 28 April 2016: BODY, SPACE, MEMORY (& A LITTLE BIT OF SUSHI) – a public lecture
Feature: “The Poems of Ossian and early Geomorphology: the start of an interdisciplinary conversation?”
BY DAFYDD MOORE James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian (1761-3) present themselves as the poetic remains of the third-century Celtic prince and bard Ossian (in fact they were inspired, as we might say, by the Gaelic heroic verse Macpherson collected in the Highlands of Scotland but were for the most part more down to him than… Continue reading Feature: “The Poems of Ossian and early Geomorphology: the start of an interdisciplinary conversation?”