In 'Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze', Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Xine Yao unpack how aesthetics and emotional refusal have been used as resistance by queer figures, women doctors and racialised communities.
Listen now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/queer…
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In 'Queerness, Islam and the Left', Prof Philip Schofield is joined by Dr Jonathan Galton as they ask how the progressive left navigates the tension between queerness and Islam.
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Reviews from Italica 102.2:
📕 Simone Gugliotta reviews "Materialising the Roman Empire" @UCLpress
📘 L.Scott Lerner reviews "Primo Levi: Essays in Dialogue with Nicholas Patruno, special Issue of NeMLA Italian Studies" @northeastMLA
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Packaged Plants offers an absorbing ethnography and cultural history of how the production and consumption of plants for food and medicine has gone through ‘metabolic rifts’...
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Have you listened to 'Bentham, Romanticism and the ‘Cockney College’'?
This episode is all about the philosophical divide between Romanticism and Utilitarianism, and how these ideas shaped the founding of UCL, or the 'Cockney College'.
Listen now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/benth…
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book on the importance of ideas about the Middle Eastern origins of civilization for the understanding of the role of the United States in human history in US thought in the Progressive Era
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Enjoyed being interviewed for China Law Journal on 'What Can Scholars Do in the Face of Structural Injustice?'
There will soon be a Chinese edition of Structural Injustice and the Law (@UCLpress), a book I co-edited with Jo Wolff, with Morning Star Press, a Hong Kong publisher.
Have you seen Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty?
This documentary explores Jeremy Bentham’s radical defence of queer lives, and shows how his thinking not only shaped UCL’s founding values, but still resonates today.
Watch now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/benth…
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Yesterday was World Book Day and we're reflecting on 10 years of @UCLPress 🙌
Over a decade of world-class research, open to all – championed by the late Dr Paul Ayris, who believed knowledge has no barriers. Here's to limitless knowledge 📚
Read more 👉 bit.ly/4ldalXD