SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep 7: Alden Young
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SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep 7: Alden Young

More about this episode Samples of music in this podcast have been for research and academic discussion, or are free use tracks. Podcast Transcript Introduction (Ellan): This is a SOAS History Blog podcast. To read and hear more content from the SOAS History Blog, go to blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog. Music: Atlas Shoulders by Koi Discovery John-Michael: Hi, I’m…

SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep 6: Nada Moumtaz
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SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep 6: Nada Moumtaz

More about this episode Podcast Transcript:  Introduction (Ellan): This is a SOAS history Blog podcast to read and hear more content from the SOAS History Blog, go to: blog.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog.  Intro: Atalas Shoulders Koi-discovery (used with artist’s permission) Jawhara: Welcome to our podcast, we are joined here today by with Nada Moumtaz who’s an Associate Professor at the University…

Particles Beyond Sight: Black Subjectivity and Creolization in Denis Williams’ Other Leopards
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Particles Beyond Sight: Black Subjectivity and Creolization in Denis Williams’ Other Leopards

“There was a silence at the heart of the flying bodies; there was a soundless sound; there was a motion meaningless as the awful collision of particles beyond sight; there was an energy purposeful of intention but beyond understanding. A man must lose his life to find it.”

Queer Baroque: Nikko Mausoleum
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Queer Baroque: Nikko Mausoleum

The construction of modern sexuality emphasises the sameness of biological gender between sexual object and sexual subject, which did not operate in Japan as it could not accommodate these existing gender constructions. The intense connection of the Nikkō Tōshōgu to the Tokugawa meant that it was intrinsically connected to a time that was becoming increasingly demonised as deviant.