UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

David Lambert (Warwick) - The ‘Africa’s Sons Under Arms’ project is sub-divided into a number of components. David Lambert's part, ‘Slaves to Soldiers’, examines the textual and visual representation of the West India Regiments in Britain and the British Empire in order to understand changing ideas about race, masculinity, the military and empire.

On 26 September 2014, 43 students from the [teaching training college] Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos (Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico) were abducted by local police. According to a highly contested official investigation, the police handed the students over to a gang of drug-traffickers who killed them, incinerated their bodies, and threw what remained into a river. Nearly a year after the tragic e...

This is the Annual UCL Canadian Studies Lecture. This year, we are honored to have Sir Nicholas Bayne KCMG, former British High Commissioner to Canada, to deliver the lecture. In 1995 the people of Quebec voted only by the narrowest of margins not to separate from Canada. Yet Canada remains united twenty years later.

Cybercrime, cybersecurity and cyberwarfare are growing issues for all advanced states, including Canada and the UK. ‘In many areas the vast global information and communications system is improving lives, driving productivity and efficiency, accelerating research and creating new opportunities.

In 2006, Time magazine infamously declared that the Caribbean is 'the most homophobic place on earth,' one of many similar statements. In this talk, Rosamond S. King questions the truth of this statement and analyzes its problematic origins.

Damián Zaitch (Utrecht University) - For the past 15 years, several transformations have taken place at the levels of cocaine production in Latin America and subsequent export to Europe. These changes refer to the nature of drug trafficking organizations, their relation with legal structures and actors, territorial displacement, but also to the modus operandi of cocaine entrepreneurs in terms of r...

President & Provost Michael Arthur introduces the eight academics from across the faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences, who were pitching the book they felt the audience simply must read.

Dr Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva (UCL Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies) pitches Dom Casmurro By Machado De Assis.

Professor Iain Stevenson (UCL Department of Information Studies) pitches The Riddle Of The Sands By Erskine Childers.

Professor Michael Berkowitz (UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies) pitches On Snooker By Mordecai Richler.

Professor John Took (UCL Italian) pitches The Divine Comedy By Dante.

Dr Samantha Rayner (UCL Department of Information Studies) pitches The Buried Giant By Kazuo Ishiguro.

Dr Erin Michelle Goeres (UCL Scandinavian Studies) pitches Egil's Saga.

Dr Nick Shepley (UCL English) pitches Here By Richard McGuire.

Dr Julia Wagner (UCL German) pitches My Wounded Heart By Martin Doerry.

President & Provost Michael Arthur introduces the eight academics from across the faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences, who were pitching the book they felt the audience simply must read.

Professor Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (UCL SSEES) pitches for Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz.

Dr Mererid Puw Davies (UCL German) pitches Children's & Household Tales by Jacob and Wilheim Grimm.

Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (UCL Philosophy) pitches Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings by Quobna Ottobam Cugoano.

Professor Jane Fenoulhet (UCL Dutch) pitches A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emants.

Dr Lars Fischer (UCL History) pitches The Seventh Well by Fred Wander.

Professor Philip Horne (UCL English) pitches Mrs Bathurst by Rudyard Kipling.

Professor Timothy Mathews (UCL French) pitches The Cave by Jose Saramago.

The North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) has joined together Canada, Mexico, and the United States with a combined population of 475 million people and an annual GDP of 20 trillion dollars.

Lux intelligibilis: What's in a Metaphor? We say ‘I see what you mean’. We speak of the Enlightenment. What is this inner light that helps us think? Who discovered it? What does it do? Why has it inspired for centuries the most pervasive metaphors used to describe how we think? Why are we heliotropes rather than dung beetles in our quest for knowledge? And what does it matter or, rather, why has i...