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Stephen Felmingham delves into Cold War Bunkers for doctorate talk

The Programme Leader for our BA (Hons) in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking course gave a paper at the The Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference on his recently-completed doctoral research on Cold War Bunkers.
<p>Academics often use the summer as a chance to re-charge their batteries, rest, and maybe even squeeze in a holiday before teaching for the forthcoming year ahead. Stephen Felmingham had slightly busier plans...</p> <p>Stephen, Programme Leader for our Painting, Drawing and Printmaking BA (Hons) degree, instead used the time to gave a paper at the The Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference on his recently-completed doctoral research – as supported by Plymouth College of Art Research.</p> <p>Hosted at Imperial College, London, Stephen's talk 'Peripheral artefacts: drawing [out] the Cold War' was attended by an international cross-disciplinary group of writers, academics and artists.<br /></p>
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<p>Attendees were those who had all previously explored the histories, meanings, materialities and fates of Cold War Bunkers across a range of scales – from individual human encounters to their role as semi-secret nodes and exceptional spaces in global geo-political systems.</p> <p>His paper is then due to be published in a forthcoming book next year 'Approaching the Ruins: Atmospheres, Bodies and Materiality in Cold War Bunkers' as part of the Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds series co-edited by Dr Ian Klinke, University of Oxford and Luke Bennett from Sheffield Hallam University.</p> <p>Stephen's interest in Cold War Bunkers is no secret to the college and our students, with the artist also creating an exhibition solely focussed on them.</p> <p>'The Violet Club' was exhibited in the Gallery at the college earlier this year and investigated the trauma of the generation that lived through this most dangerous period in history.</p>