Afterword
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI
After one year of writing about London and Memory, the series ‘Other Cities: London Memoryscape’ is coming to end with a look back by the series’s editor.
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?
The First Page: Liberation Theology
PABLO BRADBURY, NIALL H.D. GERAGHTY
This new book reevaluates the legacy and significance of the liberation theology movement which emerged in the late twentieth century in Latin America.
The First Page: Metropolitan Science
REBEKAH HIGGITT & JASMINE KILBURN-TOPPIN
New perspectives on the development of a scientific culture in London between 1600 and 1800.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The First Page: ‘Am I Less British?’
DOĞUŞ ŞIMŞEK
How do children living in North London, whose parents migrated from Turkey, position themselves within a range of locations? And what sense of identity, belonging and transnational experiences do they have?
Dear Earth at the Hayward Gallery
REBECCA EMPSON
Public debate around the climate catastrophe has become increasingly fraught, divisive and desperate. The exhibition Dear Earth at the Hayward Gallery offers a fresh approach.
Cinema as Ritual
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.
Cecilia Vicuña at the Tate Modern
ADRIANA SUÁREZ DELUCCHI
My visit to Cecilia Vicuña’s exhibition Brain Forest Quipu at the Tate Modern was an immersive experience. Although situated in the open plan space of the Turbine Hall, I was pulled into a far more intimate and inward place.