IAS Book Launch: Pioneering Women Archivists 1 December 2025, 6pm-8pm We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Shepherd for the launch of her book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany 28 November 2025, 5:30pm-7:30pm An Ultra-Violet Art History of Afterlives. Join this @marxisminculture.bsky.social seminar with Sara James (Manchester School of Art, MMU) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Galaxies 🌌✨🚀 26 November 2025, 6pm-8pm Join us at the IAS for a double book launch dedicated to galaxies. We welcome authors Richard Ellis (When Galaxies were Born) and Or Graur (Galaxies). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story 13 Nov 6:15pm-7:30pm Join Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

New Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies 12 Nov 2:30pm Join IAS Fellows Rana Banna & Mary Newman for the first session, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting & smelling www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

⏰Still time to register! Cricket, Imperial Culture and the Remaking of Postwar England 10 Nov, 5:30pm-7pm Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social will re-consider the postwar history of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and how cricket 'remade' postwar England. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📚 Book Launch Join us for the launch of Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World by Dr. Steve Cushion. 🗓️ Date: 12 November 2025 🕠 Time: 17:30–19:00 BST 💻 Location: Online 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

British Academy Early Career Network: Writing Retreat 28 Nov, 9am-5pm @britishacademy.bsky.social ​​​​​​​If you are an early career researcher looking to finish (or start) that piece of writing/lecture/grant application/proposal, this event might be for you! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I’ll Make Me a World: The Past, Present & Future(s) of Black History 18 Nov 6-8pm @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Prof Jarvis R. Givens will discuss what’s politically at stake in “black memory work” and what can be done to preserve & expand this important intellectual tradition. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story 13 Nov 6:15-7:30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Join our seminar with Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof 12 Nov 2:30-4pm This new @ucl-ias.bsky.social reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice 11 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends 19 Nov 4pm Using novels, plays & newspaper columns, Andrea Goulet proposes the fictional Quaker as a screen onto which the French projected their own ambivalence about “liberté, égalité et fraternité" www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus' 6 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Cricket, Imperial Culture and the Remaking of Postwar England 10 November 2025, 5:30pm-7pm This session with Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social will re-consider the postwar history of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and how cricket 'remade' postwar England. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Logistics & Power in Illegitimate Markets 29 Oct 5pm, UCL, London Illegal logistics reveal social & cultural consequences of two centuries of laissez-faire economics. @ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcomes Susan Zieger to give this seminar. With Prof @ariskomporozos.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

⚠️Last chance to register! Space, Mobility & Subjecthood in Early Modern History 29 Oct 5:30pm UCL & online With authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, feat. Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure & Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez 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.

An 'experimental' piece of writing by me @ucl-ias.bsky.social on Crawford Lake, the site proposed for the Anthropocene's location c.1950. (Publication was delayed—it was written before the Subcommission for Quaternary Stratigraphy's rejection of the Anthropocene as an epoch). #Anthropocene

Cricket, Imperial Culture and the Remaking of Postwar England 10 Nov 5:30–7pm at UCL This session with Dr Michael Collins (@uclhistory.bsky.social) will re-consider the postwar history of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and how cricket 'remade' postwar England. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book Launch: Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States: Normalizing Dispossession and Elimination in Palestine 23 October 2025, 6pm-8pm Along with @ucl-ias.bsky.social, we are delighted to host Emile Badarin for the launch of his book. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

⚡️First seminar of new academic year Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: The Production and Afterlives of Yugoslav Socialist Monuments with Sanja Horvatinčić & Beti Žerovc 31st Oct 🎃, 5.30-7.30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social IAS Common Ground G11, South Wing, UCL,WC1E 6BT www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

HYBRID: Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History 29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Sylvia Townsend Warner's Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing 22 October 2025, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm Join us for the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture, featuring Harriet Baker. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Dylan Thomas: Need We Say More? 10 October 2025, 12pm-1pm You are invited to this Friday Lunchtime Session organised by ARIEL, UCL's Centre for Creative Practice Research. Dr Dai George will be joined in conversation by Mererid Puw Davies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Launching the new issue of Migration and Society - exploring migration, solidarity & the “Anti-Refugee Machine”. Featuring editors from @ucl.ac.uk Geography and @ucl-ias.bsky.social. 🗓️ 21 Oct, 4:30–6:30pm | Online #Migration #Refugees #Solidarity #UCLGeography

Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice. 📅27 Oct, 2-4pm 📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Teaching Britain & Britishness: challenges & dilemmas 16 Oct 5:30–7:30pm A roundtable on how contemporary understandings & practices of British values, citizenship & belonging are being addressed in education with contributions on primary, secondary & higher education. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Logistics and Power in Illegitimate Markets 29 Oct 5-7pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social is delighted to welcome Susan Zieger to give this seminar. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Teaching Britain and Britishness 16/10/25. The concept of Britishness is bitterly contested. This roundtable will interrogate the inequalities, key challenges and dilemmas in supporting students to confront complex and diverse historical legacies: tinyurl.com/2ucmh8hz @ucl-ias.bsky.social

The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková. 🗓️ 23 October at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @themhra.bsky.social

Symposium: Useful Cinemas / Useful Archives: Labour, History and Mediation in Latin American Film & Video 7–8 Oct 4-8pm @uclselcs.bsky.social We're delighted to co-host this symposium that brings together scholars & filmmakers to reflect on ongoing research. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social @uclhistory.bsky.social @ucl-ias.bsky.social

On 30 September: Sounds like a superb event on nature in socialist art history, all part of the ERC/UKRI supported research project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts @ucl-ias.bsky.social. sava.earth

This book by the excellent @selenadaly.bsky.social, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, looks really interesting. Come celebrate its launch! @uclselcs.bsky.social, @artshumsucl.bsky.social

Book Launch: ARTMargins on the Socialist Anthropocene 30 Sept 6–7:30pm Investigating transformation of nature in socialist art history, by discussing artworks that disclose environmental impacts of the system’s extractivist & terraforming interventions in natural world. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Workshop: Dwelling in / on Gordon Square 20 September 2025, 2pm-5pm This half-day workshop is part of the #OpenHouseFestival and invites participants to “collectively dwell” and map Gordon Square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Remembering Errol Lawrence 1 Oct 4:30–8:00 pm This event will be of interest to all who are writing, creating and working on the politics of housing and its effects upon communities in societies today. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Object-based Learning workshop and book launch 15 Oct, 2:30–7pm with @ucllccos.bsky.social Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends 19 November 2025, 4pm-6pm We welcome Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk. 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...

Émile Zola: Life and Dream 2 October 5-7pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social We are pleased to host this triple book launch: 'Émile Zola: A Determined Life' by Robert Lethbridge 'Zola's Dream: Idealism on Trial' by Claire White 'Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life' by Rachel Bowlby www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Workshop: Dwelling in / on Gordon Square 20 September 2025, 2pm-5pm This half-day workshop is part of the Open House Festival and invites participants to “collectively dwell” and map Gordon Square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Bordering Social Reproduction | 25th September 2025 An in-person & online #BookLaunch and conversation with Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson, authors of 'Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows'. #Migration #SocialPolicy #Welfare isrf.org/events/borde...

Palestinian Childhoods: Solidarity and Ṣumūd 1–14 September 2025, 10am-4pm An immersive experience to counter the dehumanisation of the Palestinian people: exhibition, film screenings, community events, international conference, family days. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Charms & Experiments in English Medieval Medical Manuscripts 11 September 1-2pm at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social Join this Historical Health & The Body Reading Group session for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Space, Mobility & Subjecthood in Early Modern History 29 Oct 5:30pm at UCL This roundtable will be of interest to scholars working on the histories of imperial formations, subaltern lives, and intellectual histories from the margins of empires in the early modern period 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...

Palestinian Childhoods: Solidarity and Ṣumūd 1–14 September 2025, UCL East This exhibition seeks to witness and convey Palestinian children’s struggle for everyday life, love, play and learning in the face of loss and brutality. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...