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  • ‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authors

    Nilay Kılınç and Russell King discuss the making of their book on second-generation Turkish-German return migration

    August 21, 2025
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Drawing as Discovery: The Clothing of John Ruskin

By Dr Ingrid E. Mida In April 2018, I was invited by artist Sarah Casey, as part of a collaborative project partially funded by the British Council and Arts Council England, to don my dress detective hat and study the…

  • Teri Williams
  • August 25, 2020
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Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Five)

In the final part of this five-part series on African American film, Geetha Ramanathan discusses 2017 hit “Get Out” alongside Kathleen Collins’s “The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy” to consider different ways race relations are portrayed on screen. Click here…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 21, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Four)

In part four of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan uses two examples to consider how African American films of the 1970s and 1980s explored America’s relationship with race. Click here to read part one of the series. Over the course of African…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 20, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Three)

In part three of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan explores the use of American mythology and folklore in two African American films. Click here to read part one of the series. The great mythology of the US is written on…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 19, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Two)

In part two of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan considers the use of the “ancestral archive” to discuss gender models and sexuality in African American films. Click here to read part one of this series. Artists from the US, the…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 18, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part One)

In this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan, author of Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), explores over a century of African American films and what they tell us about African American history both on and off screen.…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 17, 2020

8 new introductions to The Squid Cinema from Hell (extended post)

In and extended blog post, William Brown and David Fleming discuss 8 new introductions to their new book, The Squid Cinema from Hell.

  • Carla Hepburn
  • August 13, 2020
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8 new introductions to The Squid Cinema from Hell

William Brown and David H Fleming discuss the eight possible other introductions to their book The Squid Cinema from Hell.

  • Carla Hepburn
  • August 13, 2020

George Strachan of the Mearns: A Historian’s Biography

Biography is a dangerous genre for any historian. Inevitably it has to be set in the history of the subject’s time and place, but it is driven by the obsession engendered in the writer by the subject. This has been…

  • Anna Glazier
  • August 12, 2020
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