In this special episode, author and contemporary art historian Clare Carolin joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss the British government’s deployment of art as an instrument of war in the North of Ireland and the Falklands (Malvinas) in the 20th century, and their research in the archives and collections of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London.
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This episode was recorded live as part of A Conversation about Art, Media, and the State, with Laleh Khalili, Munira Cheema, Asif Akhtar, and Jamie Hakim at Bush House, King’s College London in June 2026. Find all the information online: kcl.ac.uk/events/a-conversation-about-art-media-and-the-state
The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968–1982 (2025) by Clare Carolin is published by Routledge.
Dissenting Counter-Publics in Pakistani Social Media and Cafe Culture (2025) by Munira Cheema is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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