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To get involved in future activities, please contact lgbtq-research@ucl.ac.uk.
Upcoming events
Felling for Freedom: War, Abolition and the Settler Colonial Statue
In May 2024, Rahul Rao gave the Gender and Feminism Research Network and qUCL joint annual lecture and spoke about the ‘libidinal lives of statues’. Sophie Chauhan responded and has since developed her response into the following essay, in which she shares her reflections on the place-making of colonial statues and, equally, their felling.
Read the article on IAS Think Pieces online review
The Lives of Statues - Adored, Ignored, Abhorred?
We were delighted to welcome Dr Rahul Rao (Reader in International Political Thought at the University of St Andrews) to give the GFRN/qUCL 2024 annual lecture, on 'The libidinal lives of statues'.
In follow-up to this lecture, we present a conversation with Rao and inclusive heritage specialist Sean Curran.
In this episode, Rao and Curran expand on the central question of the lecture: what is it about statues that has spooked people in the past enough to arouse in them the impulse to destroy?