Modern Languages

My Black Stars

Listen to the following chapters from My Black Stars for free below. This project was conducted with students from the Universities of Stirling and Strathclyde. Introduction Read by Lilian Thuram (in French) ‘Uproot the Tree of Slavery with me’: Toussaint Louverture Read by Emma Robinson (in English) The Poet of Paradise Lost: Phillis Wheatley Read by Kirsten … Continue reading →

Film studies

John Frankenheimer’s Seconds (1966)

New to Auteur's Constellations series, Seconds explores John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy. In this blog post authors Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood reflect on their study of the 1966 film. Writing a book about John Frankenheimer’s Seconds, arguably Hollywood’s bleakest ever film, was always going … Continue reading →

Journals

Featured in International Development Planning Review 43.3: Towards a comparative research agenda on in situ urbanisation and rural governance transformation

The editors of International Development Planning Review (IDPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in IDPR 43.3. This paper will be free to access for a limited time: 'Towards a comparative research agenda on in situ urbanisation and rural governance transformation' by Donald Brown When asked to describe the paper and highlight its … Continue reading →