If you have seen ‘Pride’, the movie – or even if you haven’t – you will enjoy these conversations between the real activists involved in LGSM and the Miners’ Strike and their reflections on politics then and now.
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The recording of this interview lay forgotten in an attic for years. Now on the centenary of the ‘soldiers’ truce’ in WWI, it is broadcast for the first time. Could the soldiers have stopped the slaughter that followed?
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It is the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, “a popular poet who is complex… who shows you can deal with big troubling philosophical issues and make beauty out of the strangest things”.
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A conversation about comics as a scurrilous gutter medium, about Milo Minara’s Spiderwoman, about Judge Dredd and Watchmen, how the work of Hogarth and Gilray speaks across the centuries – and much more…
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“Gracefully stitching one’s own traditions onto the fabric of the national and / or culturally dominant cloth and by doing so highlighting one’s previous omission, makes it impossible for anyone to ever look again at the source material in quite the same way again” says author Caryl Phillips in this presentation on the Star Spangled Banner.
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Wai Chee Dimock‘s radical new reading of William Faulkner, at the Rupture, Crisis, Transformation conference on the future of American Studies held at Birkbeck in November 2014.
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This is a fun piece, and a tragic piece, about the energy unconscious in US studies.
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What is the role of technology in contemporary geopolitics at the end of the ‘American Century’? Is technology pushing us too fast? Do we need time to catch up?
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It’s the start of the UN’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, but as the austerity cuts – to refuges and legal aid – have a devastating impact on women’s safety, what is the economic cost of violence against women?
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