the UCL IAS Review
PHOEBE BRAITHWAITE
The second instalment of this mini series celebrating Paul Gilroy’s seminal book, explores the enduring tension in his work between music and the written word, and how this generates a planetary version of human life.
PUSHPA ARABINDOO
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. Third: Zero Waste.
TATIANA THIEME
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. Second: Yawning and Yearning.
AMIT CHAUDHURI, MARTHE LISSON
What is the raga? A seemingly simple question that is not easy to answer. IAS Creative Fellow Amit Chaudhuri shares what he has found out over the years.
HUDA TAYOB
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. First up: Xenophobia as waste.
LARA CHOKSEY
The Black Atlantic holds the peculiar summoning power of a history under reconstruction. That the book is also an invitation to join its project reflects the capaciousness of its historical interventions.
OLIVIA ARIGHO-STILES
A man runs, to escape his burning skin. He collapses in a river: a voice whispers to him, “you are killing yourselves and killing me too.” All the while a plane looms ominously in the sky.
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI,
NICHOLAS LACKENBY
How come some atrocities of the twentieth century are generally recognised and actively remembered while others are not?
MARTHE LISSON
In his Anecdotes of Painting in England, published in 1762, Horace Walpole confessed that his native country ‘has very rarely given birth to a genius in [painting].