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Exhibition Review: Conflict, Time, Photography

Image credit: Michal Louč – CC BY 3.0 Sukaina Kadhum, BA English 1945, August 6, 8:15 Japan time, a bomb plummeted into central Hiroshima. A young man called Toshio Fukada captured the mushroom cloud that hovered over the city in a photograph. This is one among many pieces that

February 14th: A Comprehensive Guide to the Valentine's Day Blues

February 14th: A Comprehensive Guide to the Valentine's Day Blues

Kevin Quigley, BA Linguistics and Japanese Studies Have you slapped a bran muffin out of your flatmate’s grimy, gorilla fingers after he compared your love life to that of Dobby the elf’s? Do you spend Saturday evenings watching You’ve Got Mail over two (three) bottles of white

Disobedient Objects: The V&A

Disobedient Objects: The V&A

Jenny Williams, BA Social Anthropology It is hardly what you would deem subversive. The nature of the display reflects the norm of a modern art museum in a major city, perhaps not what you might expect from the traditional V&A, with its grand cases of costumes through the

All Things Weird and Wonderful - Dispatches from Dissertation Land

All Things Weird and Wonderful - Dispatches from Dissertation Land

Jon Galton, MA Social Anthropology Recently I met a girl who was in the middle of a PhD on the melodic ornamentation of seventeenth century English barrel organs. During the very same week I talked to another studying interracial relationships as depicted in contemporary Bollywood films. “Ah, academia…” I thought,

Festivus for the rest of us: A comprehensive guide to holiday events in London

Festivus for the rest of us: A comprehensive guide to holiday events in London

Kevin Quigley, BA Linguistics and Japanese Studies The season starts with the introduction of winter-flavored lattes at Starbucks, and usually ends with me bent over a basement toilet with a glass of imitation champagne sloshing onto the floor as Auld Lang Syne chimes in the background. Needless to say, I’

Not just filling blank space

Not just filling blank space

Miriam Hicklin, BA Arabic and Persian I have recently embarked upon a journey that has necessitated my being fearless in the face of judgement, throwing away my old inhibitions, and falling in love with Taylor Swift’s music. Blank Space is the killer track on the new album 1989 – mocking

Lights, Bhangra, Pujan: A Guide to Divali in London

Lights, Bhangra, Pujan: A Guide to Divali in London

Photo credit: Bhavit Mehta Jonathan Galton, BA Social Anthropology Trafalgar Square, October 13th: The monkey god Hanuman treads carefully round the fountain’s edge, slightly elevated from the throngs watching Bollywood dancers on the stage or queuing for hot samosas at one of the food stands. Elsewhere, you can find