Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11 11 Nov 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up! For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade 6 Oct 6-8pm Discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade 6 Oct 6-8pm With @sprc-ucl.bsky.social we are pleased to host Dean Spade, discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Sticking Together in Tough Times 6 Oct 6-8pm at UCL, London We & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social are pleased to host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I am beyond thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and a Visiting Fellowship at @ucl-ias.bsky.social to write a book on ‘Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024’. Pictured: Chathuri Nissansala, ‘Saudade’, 2024.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 10 29 July 2–3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 9 15 July 2025, 2pm-3:30pm This is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rainbow Trap – London Launch 📅10 July 2025 ⏰ 6:15pm-8:15pm Join author @kevinguyan.bsky.social to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 8 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. 10 June 2-3:30pm @ctlnkane.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

🏳️‍🌈 Join author‪ @kevinguyan.bsky.social‬‬ to launch his new book 'Rainbow Trap'. Chaired by Harry Nicholas. Supported by @qucl.bsky.social‬‬ + @thecommonpress.bsky.social 📆: 10 July 2025 🕕: 6:15 pm–8:15 pm 📍: IAS Common Ground, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Register:

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 7 27 May 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rainbow Trap – London Launch 10 July 6:15pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Join author @kevinguyan.bsky.social to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Victim/Suspect: film screening & panel discussion 15 May 3:30–7pm Watch the film & learn about similar UK cases from our panellists, where women accused of lying to police about sexual assault have been prosecuted. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion 15 May 3:30–7pm A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations—sometimes facing prison. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion 15 May 2025, 3:30 pm–7:00 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice Students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages, from any university/institution welcome. Session 1: Reproductive Justice and the Environment. 13 May, 10am @uclamericas.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims & the Construction of LGBT Political Identity 20 March 6-8pm Marginalized identity groups have internal hierarchies that determine whose political claims are heard or ignored. www.ucl.ac.uk/political-sc...

ReelQueers 20,000 Species of Bees - Film Screen and Discussion 6 March 2025, 5:30–8:30 pm Join us for the screening of this absolutely wonderful Spanish film about trans childhood (Estibaliz Urresola, 2023). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism 7 March 2025, 1pm-5pm A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences) Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚 Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism 7 March 2025, 1:30pm-5pm Collaborative thinking, a discussion and a collaborative mapping and analysis activity. A prelude to the 2025 qUCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders 26 March 5-7pm UCL 'Lady Oscar' is a Japanese manga series, set in the French Revolution. It focuses on the lives of two women: Marie Antoinette & Oscar François de Jarjayes, commander of the Royal Guard. #queerdesire #feministicon www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Feminism of Fools: When Real Feminists do Fascism 7 Mar 6:30pm with @qucl.bsky.social Sophie Lewis issues a love letter to feminism by refusing to accept it as an inherent political good. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms' 7 March 2025, 6:30pm-8:30pm qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 3 25 February 2025, 2pm-3:30pm The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 2 4 February 2025, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Each session will invite discussion on sources and readings highlighting queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, non binary and asexual identities in the premodern. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢Calling all UCL ECRs & PhDs in A&H and SHS 📢 (if you are not in A&H or SHS you just need to find a suitable collaborator who is!) The IAS Octagon Grant is open for applications 🎉🙌🏽 Apply by 24 Feb - get writing! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queeranth presents a screening of 'Sanctuary' 4 Feb 5-6:30pm Artist Sam Ashby presents his short film Sanctuary (2024), an exploration of queer spirituality and utopian sexualities through the figure of Peter Chistopher Purusha Androgyne Larkin (1934–1988). www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology...

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is a new informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. Introductory session 21 January 2025, 2pm–3:30pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World 20 January 2025, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm The Takhayyul Project hosts gender scholar, Dr Asli Zengin, to discuss her recent book at UCL. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The reality of queer homelessness - film screening and Q&A 4 Feb 2025, 6–8:30pm Join us for a evening exploring the realities of queer homelessness, featuring a film screening and Q&A. www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/eve...

Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday & Making of an Urban World 20 Jan 4-5pm Takhayyul Project hosts gender scholar Dr Asli Zengin to discuss her book, which traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate & resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Lunch Hour Lecture | 'Cancel culture' in queer and trans online worlds 11 February 2025, 1pm-2pm Dr Kyrölä explores what happens when conflict or disagreement arises within queer and transgender communities online. www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Introductory session 21 January 2025, 2–3:30 pm The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is a new informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Professor Philip Schofield (Bentham Project, UCL Laws), Professor Judy Stephenson (UCL BSSC), and Dr Xine Yao (UCL English), feature in a new UCL Press Play documentary entitled 'The Greatest Good: Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty'. 📺👇 youtu.be/ZndE5GhlX1I?...

⏰Tomorrow, 14th May, 5pm at UCL 'The Libidinal Lives of Statues' qUCL and GFRN annual lecture with Rahul Rao Bringing together sexual politics, anti/colonialism, fetishization, idolisation and destruction Don't miss it! Book now! 📲 ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The libidinal lives of statues 14 May 2024, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm In this talk Dr Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews) asks what it is about statues that has spooked people in the past enough to arouse in them the impulse to destroy. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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