the UCL IAS Review
HELENE SCHULZE
The exhibition presents the outcomes of an intercultural botanical collaboration in eighteenth century Canton, focusing especially on the native artists and mediators, Mak Sau 麥秀 and Whang At Tong 黃遏東.
NIALL SREENAN
The author revisits the legacy of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution in the literary works of Thomas Hardy, Emile Zola, Aldous Huxley and others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ALICIA SPENCER-HALL
This monograph offers a provocative medieval(ist) reading of Twitter’s premature demise, and Elon Musk’s medievalism.
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.
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?
JENNIFER RUSHWORTH
What is the role of songs in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu? And how did Proust drew inspiration from contemporary composers and theorists of song?
ANA CLÁUDIA SURIANI DA SILVA ET AL
An anthology of short fiction from established and emerging Afro-Brazilian voices that responds to a growing demand for Afro-descendant literature.