Storied Walks and Deep Mapping
ALICE-ANNE PSALTIS
An invitation to excavate a place and its memories without digging, deep mapping as a research practice means observing, noticing and connecting with a place.
Of Media, Multiplicities and Monsters
UTA STAIGER
What is the city and how do we map it? Its multiplicities, polyphony and chaos? A critical and playful attempt to map an answer to these questions.
The First Pages on Political Culture in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds
MARIO GRAÑA TABORELLI, ADRIAN MASTER
In their books, Jurisdictional Battlefields and We, the King, both authors examine the political culture in the Iberian Empire and reveal the existence of dialogue where we least expect it.
Echoes
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI, VIRGINIA VECCHIOLI
A personal literary essay about a research trip to Buenos Aires and Misiones, and the astonishing connections to Mariana Enriquez’s novel Our Share of Night.
The First Page: Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp
MELISSA GATTER
Challenging the perceptions of Azraq as the ‘ideal’ refugee camp, where mundane bureaucratic procedures create a power system that surpresses instead of aiding refugees.
A Delhi Hip-Hop Odyssey
SAROJINI SAPRU
What does it mean if your fieldwork takes place in the comfort of your hometown and to work on a subject like music that is oblivious to ‘professional’ and ‘private’ spheres?
The First Page: Medieval Twitter
ALICIA SPENCER-HALL
This monograph offers a provocative medieval(ist) reading of Twitter’s premature demise, and Elon Musk’s medievalism.
Rethinking the ‘War Frontier’ Label
MARIO GRAÑA TABORELLI
What if a ‘war frontier’ was not only a place of violence and conflict but one of exchange and conversation? Not an impermeable border but an open space?
Buried in Plain Sight
MARGARET COMER
What do we look at when we look at old monuments, like churches? What if we tried to look beyond that is visible, opened ourselves to the unknown? Chances are that we see much more than meets the eye.
The First Page: To See In The Dark
NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF
An analysis of how the videos and photos, shared on social media by young people in Gaza, enabled a profound switch in public opinion.
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.
Memory Multiplied
FUHITO ENDO
Walking the streets of London, Fuhito Endo is reflecting on the complexity of memory and place, and he is pondering these questions, how could it be otherwise, by way of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
Felling for Freedom
SOPHIE CHAUHAN
A reflection on the place-making of colonial statues and, especially, their felling to imagine a future when the colony will have fallen.
The First Page: Practices, Education and Technology in Audiovisual Translation
ALEJANDRO BOLAÑOS GARCÍA-ESCRIBANO
What is the future of audiovisual translation and how do digital technologies shape the intersection of education and technology?
The First Page: Song in the Novel
JENNIFER RUSHWORTH, HANNAH SCOTT, BARRY IFE
Investigating the variety of types of songs present in novels. What are their function, and what makes them important for plot, character and setting?