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The First Page: Out of Gaza
KATHARINA GALOR
The story of a friendship between the author, an Israeli Jewish scholar, and Dima Mansour, a young Palestinian held in a Belgian detention centre.
The First Page: Critical Games
TIM BEASLEY-MURRAY
An exploration of the games we play (whether we know it or not), the ways we play them (for fun, but also to win, and to gain approval from others), and what happens when they get out of hand.
The First Page: Pioneering Women Archivists
ELIZABETH SHEPHERD
The story of four remarkable women who laid the foundations of English local archives in the early twentieth century: Ethel Stokes, Lilian Redstone, Catherine Jamison and Joan Wake.
NEW JOURNAL ISSUE
Blood Cells in Crosstalk
MALLIKA SEKHAR
What language do the red and white blood cells in our bodies speak? The manga turned anime, Cells at Work! and Cells at Work! Code Black, features anthropomorphised cells of the human body and might give us a clue.
Language that Diminishes the Future
JINZHAO KAN
What does language convey, and what does it accomplish? An analysis of the clinical dialogue in Sarah Kane’s play 4.48 Psychosis and the reversal of its language between psychiatrist and patient.
When the Footnote Fails
ISHAN TRIPATHI
Can we imagine scholarly discourse without the footnote? Maybe not. But what if the footnote as a language has failed and in its place appears… the internet meme?
ESSAYS
Esporas
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
Una reflexión poética sobre la migración y la diáspora latinoamericana en Londres, que entrelaza el viaje personal, los sueños y el trabajo de archivo de la autora.
Spores
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
A poetic reflection on migration and the Latin American diaspora in London that interweaves the author’s personal journey, dreams, and archival work.
Concrete Memories
SABA ZAVAREI
What does exile do to your memories of home? And what happens to these memories when your home is attacked? Do they persist or do they turn into rubble?
CONVERSATIONS
Shocking the System
ROZANA HIMAZ, JOHN MARTIN
This conversation explores how a shock can affect people across their lifetime, across future generations, even across millions of years?
The Sun, the River and the Spirits
MAJA & REUBEN FOWKES, SAODAT ISMAILOVA
An interview with Uzbek filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova about her work and her time as IAS/SAVA Creative Fellow.
Class, Memory, and the Narrative of Enlightenment
STEPHANIE BIRD, MARY FULBROOK ET AL
Members of the UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies reflect on the reminiscences of a former member of the Nazi League of German Girls.
THE FIRST PAGE
The First Pages: Galaxies
RICHARD ELLIS, OR GRAUR
Two first pages by two renowned astrophysicists. The one, a semi-autobiographical account of a career studying distant galaxies. The other, an overview of the history and physics of galaxies.
The First Page: Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States
EMILE BADARIN
Using Palastine as a case study, this book examines how recognition politics operate to legitimise long-standing colonial power structures.
The First Page: And Salt the Earth Behind
SOUL MILES
How can we identify Eugenics in its contemporary guises and disguises? A critical look at Eugenics as a ‘design project’.
REVIEWS
Astonishing Things at the Royal Academy of Arts
PATRICK BRAY
The towering figure of intellectual and political life in much of nineteenth century France, Victor Hugo, had yet another, lesser known talent: drawing.
Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa at Kettle’s Yard
MARTHE LISSON
Zvakazarurwa means ‘revelations,’ a word whose meaning offers a prism of associations and connections within Portia Zvavahera’s work and practice.
The Imaginary Institution of India at the Barbican
JAGJEET LALLY
From a state of Emergency to the first nuclear tests, 1975 to 1998 marked a period of significant change in India that is presented through the lens of modern and contemporary Indian artists.
PODCASTS
Episode 6 : The Feminism of Fools: When Real Feminists Do Fascism
Episode 5: The Lives of Statues: Adored, Ignored, Abhorred?
Episode 4: Books on Indigenous Ecologies: Crooked Cats