Join us on Thursday 22 January as we talk to our SAS academics about studying a PhD at the Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies, the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute of English Studies, and the Institute of Historical Research. Sign up: https://bit.ly/4j6PYu8

The Rubinstein Scholarship is open to home students who have been offered a place on the Institute’s MPhil/PhD Programme at The Warburg Institute. Find out more: https://bit.ly/483KZ9I

The Convocation Trust provides funding to projects through a combination of grants, scholarships, and academic prizes. Find out more on the Master's Funding page: https://bit.ly/44uCimz

The University of London will close for the Christmas holidays at 5pm on Tuesday 23 December 2025 and will reopen at 9am on Monday 5 January 2026. We wish you a happy festive season and all the best for the New Year.

There's still time to secure your place for The National Humanities Lecture on 3 February 2026. This year's lecture will be delivered by award-winning novelist and storyteller Elif Shafak and will celebrate the public value of the humanities. In person + online. Register now: https://bit.ly/3KgvXEB

Congratulations to Dr Kaspar Beelen (@dh-researchhub.bsky.social) and colleagues Dr Ruth Ahnert (@qmul.bsky.social), Dr Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Dr Daniel Wilson (@ucl.ac.uk) who've received a grant from Schmidt Sciences to bring AI to humanities research.

Fascinating article in @uk.theconversation.com from the @ihr.bsky.social's @justincolson.bsky.social and @uni-bamberg.de's Werner Scheltjens discussing their work with colleagues on the "Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data" project. 📰You can read the article here: bit.ly/3L5CthA

The IP AI Summer School is back! 🎉 Applications are now open, with a 10% early-bird discount available. 📍 Venice | 📅 15–19 May 2026 Don’t miss the opportunity to participate! philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Institute of Classical Studies is nationally funded to develop researchers and to promote and facilitate research in classical studies and related disciplines throughout the UK and abroad. View our PhD course: sas.ac.uk/phd-ics

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD at the Warburg Institute? Register for our upcoming online webinar to ask your questions directly to Dr Sara Miglietti, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Intellectual History. Register today: https://bit.ly/4pN1VI2

Our 2025 festival highlights film is here! Thank you to everyone who contributed 🎬 bit.ly/49jmaqK

📚✨ In November we were pleased to host History Day, an annual event bringing together researchers, students, librarians, archivists and members of the public to explore historical collections and the ways they support research.

Are you a PG research student based outside of London? Did you know that you may be eligible for a bursary of up to £500 to take one of our short courses in 2026? Find out more on our IHR Research Training and Short Courses page: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini... Applications open until 31 Jan 2026!

Delighted to write my first article for @artsprofessional.co.uk celebrating disability! @ncace.bsky.social Thanks to my three wonderful interviewees: Kyle Lewis Jordan @davidturners.tcgs.co & Jessica Thom ! It’s been such pleasure to hear your stories! www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

We recently hosted the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the @dh-researchhub.bsky.social exploring the challenges of preserving digital records and the impact of data loss on research, cultural memory and everyday life. Watch here 👉 https://bit.ly/4aQfZvu

🎉Congratulations to Professor Damien Short, Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice and co director of the Human Rights Consortium at the @icws-sas.bsky.social whose Ecocide Research Network proposal has received funding from the Danish Research Council (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond).

Call for Convenors - The Law and Humanities Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (LHub) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) invite proposals from conveners for a new History and Law seminar to be launched in May 2026. Download call 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities is inviting academic researchers in the arts, humanities & social sciences to collaborate with community groups as part of a new community-led grant. The pilot will run from January to May 2026. Info here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

PhD students at the Institute of Classical Studies enjoy access to one of the world's leading research libraries and hands-on teaching methods, developed in close collaboration with the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and Roman Studies. Find out more: sas.ac.uk/phd-ics

Mapping the Arts and Humanities is launching Law & the Humanities in Practice with LHub (@ials.bsky.social), spotlighting how law, arts & humanities shape each other. Blog and podcast now live. Explore the map & get involved! 🎧 Listen to the podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0mif... #MAHP

happy human rights day to all www.un.org/en/teach/hum...

On 3 February 2026, the award-winning novelist and storyteller Elif Shafak will deliver the 2026 National Humanities Lecture, a prestigious annual event celebrating the vital role of the humanities in public life. Book now to attend in person at Senate House or join us online: https://bit.ly/3KgvXEB

Discover what London recycled during the Second World War, from bones to books to Blitz scrap. Join us at The London Archives on 10 December for an illustrated talk, an opportunity to browse original archival material and a Q&A session. 🎟️Book now: https://bit.ly/4rIGXLS @ies-sas.bsky.social

The Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies' MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders explores how research methods of cultural and translation studies, linguistics, and area studies can be combined to offer new insights into complex societal issues. https://bit.ly/3O2gR3u

Thank you to the @ciol-linguists.bsky.social for sharing @drjoeford.bsky.social's recent article for @theconversation.com on the CIOL Voices blog. "Learning languages promotes cross-cultural understanding and tolerance of ambiguity in an increasingly ambiguous world." Read more: bit.ly/3XCKRIh

The BRAID Responsible AI & Cultural Heritage Forum recently took place at Senate House, led by Dr Anna-Maria Sichani, BRAID UK Fellow and Research Associate in Digital Humanities within the @dh-researchhub.bsky.social. bit.ly/4iB9crr

Working in a university-cultural sector partnership and looking for support, shared learning and a space to develop new possibilities for your collaboration? Register your interest for @ncace.bsky.social's The Collaboration Lab pilot and the Ideas Pool event in January 👉 tinyurl.com/EOI-form-NCACE

Tomorrow at 4pm, join us online for the first seminar in a new @dh-researchhub.bsky.social series on incompleteness and loss in digital cultural heritage collections: "Old, New, Precarious Data." We'll be examining and reflecting on the precarious nature of data across old and new forms and devices.

Delighted to see that Maria Delgado, Vice Principal at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Honorary Fellow of ILCS, has been given this year's Premio Ñ by the Instituto Cervantes. The award will be given by the King of Spain on 9 December. Very many congratulations!

At the School of Advanced Study, our students learn directly from sector-leading experts who bring cutting-edge research and real-world experience into the classroom. Join us and become part of a community where research meets opportunity: sas.ac.uk

There are a wide range of bursaries and scholarships available for SAS students, so make sure do you your research! The deadline is 19 March, so there's still time: https://www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study/fees-funding

@ncace.bsky.social is launching The Collaboration Lab, a new pilot helping universities and cultural organisations explore creative, sustainable ways to continue their partnerships beyond project funding. To kick things off, join us at the Cultures of Change hybrid event on 10 Dec: bit.ly/48yg8Ch

@ials.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its Practitioner in Residence 2026 programme, a unique opportunity to reimagine the iconic Charles Clore House as a dynamic exhibition space that invites dialogue on law, justice and history. 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 🔗 Details: tinyurl.com/5xzcu3p9

Students from the @ies-sas.bsky.social recently took part in a unique, hands-on workshop on print making at the St Bride Foundation. Practical sessions like this bring the history of the book to life, connecting academic study with professional historic practice. Read more 👉 shorturl.at/x0zh4

Delighted to present the keynote @ 7th Privacy Symposium Africa in Lagos. Looking forward to discussions w/ industry leaders in data protection, regulation, policy & law. It’s encouraging to see civil society, academic & advocacy colleagues here too #digitalidentity #biometrics @sas-news.bsky.social

**New article** on The Conversation UK about languages and the government's national curriculum review - theconversation.com/englands-nat... - @uk.theconversation.com @ilcs.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

🎧 Listen to @historyandpolicy.bsky.social's Izzy Conn on Matt Forde's Political Party podcast talking about Leading Labour. Leading Labour is a unique audio documentary series exploring the leadership and legacies of every former post-war Labour Party Leader, from Clement Attlee to Jeremy Corbyn.

✨ Booking is now open for the 2026 London Rare Books School! ✨ EARLY BIRD OFFER 21 November - 23 January: Use code LRBS10 to receive 10% off the booking fee at the checkout @sas-news.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Still time to register for next week’s hybrid seminar Deep Time Global Scope: A Digital Project on the Example of the Human Figure hosted by @dh-researchhub.bsky.social. The event is interdisciplinary and will interest researchers from digital humanities, history and classics: https://bit.ly/48lxtye

Professor Charles Burdett, Director of @ilcs.bsky.social is one of four linguist co-authors of a new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social which outlines that there is no substitute for the cultural understanding and personal rapport that language graduates bring. Read more: https://bit.ly/4i8rgch

Fascinating piece about the popular misconceptions surrounding the Viking's mead consumption by the @ihr.bsky.social's Simon Trafford in @theconversation.com as well as The Times (www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...) and The Independent (www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...) ⬇️ Read more ⬇️

ICYMI - @barrycsmith.bsky.social from the @ip-sas.bsky.social was on BBC Radio London talking about ‘Senses Unwrapped’, a new collaborative, immersive sensory experience from the Centre for the Study of the Senses (CenSes). Listen here, from around 2 hours 44 mins: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

There are only a few days left to apply for our Public Humanities Fellowship! Applications are invited from those at the forefront of shaping the future of Public Humanities. Application window closes this Friday 21 November: www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...

A huge thank you to everyone who organised and attended over 220 free events across the UK! We have loved seeing the variety of humanities research, activities and events with audiences from all over the country. There will be more Being Human festival 2025 highlights coming soon! #BeingHuman2025

The @icws-sas.bsky.social has celebrated the 30th anniversary of its post-graduate programmes in Human Rights with students, staff, graduates and fellows from around the world. Discover Human Rights Education at the ICwS, including the newly established Convocation Trust Scholarship 👉 bit.ly/4pgalae

👋 Hi Bluesky! The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate. Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/