This post was originally published on The Conversation US. Marvel’s blockbuster “Black Panther,” which recently became the first superhero drama to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, takes place in the secret African Kingdom of Wakanda. The Black Panther, also known as T’Challa, rules over this imaginary empire – a refuge from the colonialists … Continue reading
Liverpool University Press: Forward-looking for 120 years
This year Liverpool University Press will be 120 years old. The UK’s third oldest university press, after Oxford and Cambridge, came into being on the 4th October 1899 with its founding Secretary/Director an Irish immigrant to Liverpool ‘possessed (of) a semi-divine inspiration, being endowed with a fertile imagination and a robust constitution,’ who left school … Continue reading
Artistic works inspired by the Great Famine struggle to do it justice, but they keep the memory alive
This piece was originally published on The Conversation. How do you represent in film an experience as keen and painful as hunger? Director Lance Daly’s recently released film Black ‘47 – a revenge epic set during the 1840s Irish famine – is the latest attempt to depict the devastating catastrophe which left more than a million dead … Continue reading
Dystopolis – In Conversation with Jasmir Creed
Dystopolis presents new paintings by Jasmir Creed. Critical texts by Dr Lauren Elkin and Dr Graeme Gilloch explore the paintings in contemporary cultural contexts. The paintings explore Jasmir Creed's 'psycho-geographic city journeys, focusing on architecture and crowds showing the city as a rich forest-like environment'. We caught up with Jasmir Creed to discuss her exhibition … Continue reading
Viewpoint: Thoughts on internationalism and planning
Town Planning Review 89.4 features 'Viewpoint: Thoughts on internationalism and planning' by Ben Davy. In Town Planning Review 90.1, the first issue of 2019, Klaus Kunzmann contributed his paper 'Viewpoint: Why not Italian? Differences matter! A comment on Ben Davy’s Viewpoint in TPR on ‘Thoughts on internationalism and planning’. Below, Ben Davy describes his paper … Continue reading
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