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Great Expectations and Furnace Creek
This event took place 24 February 2022, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm. With Joseph Boone (USC) and John Mullan (UCL). Why does Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations continue to inspire readers and authors today? In this event, John Mullan, Professor of English at UCL, is in conversation with Joseph Boone, the author of a new novel, Furnace Creek, which is inspired by Dicken’s masterpiece. Furnace Creek teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues—racial injustice, a war abroad, women’s and gay rights, class struggle—that galvanized the world in those decades. Advance copies of the novel have garnered high praise from readers. This promises to be a riveting discussion between the novelist and one of our most distinguished literary critics.
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3/10/2022
VIRTUAL IAS Book Launch: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe VIRTUAL IAS Book Launch: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe (21 October 2021)
The Postsocialist Art Centre presents the launch of Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius’s Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe with responses by Wendy Bracewell (SSEES UCL), Paweł Leszkowicz, (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Maja and Reuben Fowkes (IAS UCL)
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11/6/2021
VIRTUAL IAS Book Launch: The Palestinian Prisoners Movement by Julie M. Norman (25 October 2021)
Co-hosted by UCL Political Science, UCL Middle East Research Centre (MERC) and SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies. Providing a contemporary history of the Palestinian prisoners movement, this book illustrates the centrality of the movement in the broader Palestinian national struggle. Based on direct interviews with former prisoners and former security sector personnel, it offers new insights into the strategies that prisoners employed to gain rights over time, as well as the tactics used by prison authorities to maintain control.
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11/5/2021