Awardees
The Spectacle of Propaganda: Allan Fisher’s Photography and USIS Operations in Brazil
Daniel Mandur Thomaz (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Thais Blank (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – CPDOC, Brazil), Martina Spohr (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – CPDOC, Brazil)
The Spectacle of Propaganda project, led by Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures), explored how visual media was used to shape public opinion in Brazil during the Cold War. Drawing on a previously unseen archive of photographs by US photographer Allan Fisher, who worked for the US Information Service between 1945 and 1955, the project traced how propaganda was delivered through mobile film screenings in schools, factories, and rural communities. In collaboration with Dr Thais Blank and Dr Martina Spohr at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV CPDOC) in Brazil, the team digitised and contextualised the images and launched a bilingual (English–Portuguese) website to make them accessible to a wide audience… Read More >>
Emma Yule (Department of Political Economy), Francesca Pia Vantaggiato (Department of Political Economy), James Porter (Department of Geography), Pamela Candea (Board Member, Scottish Communities Climate Action Network), Joana Avi-Lorie (Researcher, SCCAN and PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh)
The Narrating Change project, led by Dr. Emma Yule, explores how communities and policymakers in Scotland can co-produce meaningful climate adaptation targets. The project brings together researchers from King’s College London and the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) to promote inclusive and participatory decision-making in climate adaptation policy… Read More >>
Cristina Viti (Translator and Activist), Rosa Mucignat and Sanja Perovic (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures), with contributions from a broad network of poets, translators, performers, publishers, and language activists, including collaborators from Tenement Press, Francis Boutle Publishers, and others
Reimagining Language Justice Through the Art of Translation brought together poets, translators, publishers and activists to explore how language shapes power, identity and resistance. Led by Cristina Viti with collaborators Rosa Mucignat and Sanja Perovic, the project responded to the erasure of minoritised languages and the constraints of institutional language by creating spaces for dialogue, poetry and co-translation… Read More >>
Dr Katharine Low (GKT School of Medical Education, Centre for Education), Dr Ella Parry-Davies (Department of English, Performance@King’s Network), Silvia Petretti (Positively UK) Michelle Bockor (Positively UK), Charity Nyirenda (Positively UK), Ellie Angus (Positively UK), Daniel McIlwraith aka Daisy Puller
Led by Dr Katharine Low (GKT School of Medical Education) and Dr Ella Parry-Davies (Department of English), Rebel by Default brought together King’s researchers and colleagues from Positively UK to co-create a participatory arts project with women living with HIV. Through a series of co-facilitated workshops, participants designed and crafted symbolic “Power Bags” — textile artworks containing personal objects that reflected their identities, experiences, and aspirations… Read More >>
David Kam | 甘家伟 (kindredpacket / besea.n), Dr. Wing-Fai Leung (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries), Dr. Jonathan Gray (Department of Digital Humanities)
The Moving/Homing project, co-led by Dr Wing-Fai Leung (Culture, Media and Creative Industries), Dr Jonathan Gray (Digital Humanities), and movement artist David Kam (kindredpacket / besea.n), explored how East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities experience home, movement, and belonging through the body. Through two workshops—one on storytelling and one on community walking—the project brought together artists and organisers to reflect on migration, care, and solidarity… Read More >>
