💡 'It can feel weird asking for help... and intimidating as an Early Career Researcher.' Dr Pavan Mano (@kingsinterhums.bsky.social), Dr Leonie Smith & Professor @annavignoles.bsky.social discuss academic funding on the new @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk podcast ⤵️ shorturl.at/FGNct

⏰ Only one day to go! Join us tomorrow to discuss findings from Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social & Dr Laura Gibson's @kingsdh.bsky.social research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education. 📍 Online, 11:30-13:00 Access the report & register here 🔽

📖 Dr Nicole Graham's analysis of comedians draws on themes of building communities, comical targets, exploring cancel culture and addressing the assumption that ethical comedy must always “punch up”👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-nico...

🛂 Millions are denied short-stay visas to Europe every year. In 2024 alone, rejected applicants lost €145M in fees – 90% from Africa & Asia. On 13 Sept, exhibition by LAGO Collective & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will explore visa inequality through data, sound and design ⬇️

🏆 Congratulations to Global Cultures MA student @eilerasmussen.bsky.social on winning the AKC Leathes Prize for an essay on the ethic of radical, relational love 💘 'To have that work recognised affirms that these questions are shared, urgent, and alive,' said Éile ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/global-...

🎓 Lauren Castle-Baker (Global Cultures MA) shares how modules on diversity and inclusion, the digital realm of global cultures, and gender studies and globalisation have altered her approach to work projects. 💡 Originally published on @alivewithideas.bsky.social 🔗 Read more ⤵️

💡 'Emma Woodhouse is Jane Austen’s most vividly realised, proto-feminist heroine.' 📘 Professor @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social from @kingsenglish.bsky.social argues that Emma is Jane Austen's greatest novel – do you agree? 🔗 Read more and vote for your favourite ⤵️ theconversation.com/what-was-jan...

🇩🇴 Dr Rosa Andújar from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social was appointed as Pedro Henríquez Ureña Chair by the Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña in the Dominican Republic thanks to her research on the influence of ancient Greece on Latin America. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-a...

✨ VISIONSCAPES ✨ An evening of mood board making 📅 Thu, Aug 28 | 6–8:30PM 📍 Locke at Broken Wharf, Millennium Bridge All materials + light refreshments provided 🍵🎨 Register here:

📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📢 Deadline extended: submissions are welcome until 7 September 2025!

💘 Who's your favourite Austen leading man? Dr Emrys Jones from @kingsenglish.bsky.social makes the case for Captain Wentworth from Persuasion, who is 'more vulnerable than any of the leading men before him'. Vote for your favourite in @uk.theconversation.com ⤵️ theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

🎓 Congratulations to Jessie Sumroy (Liberal Arts BA) on receiving the Jelf Medal for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at graduation 🎉 'I am grateful to have this award as a commemoration of the relationships, hard work and fun that formed my time here,' said Jessie 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/liberal...

🙌 Nick Makoha, graduate of the Creative Writing Research PhD programme by @kingsenglish.bsky.social, has been elected as a Fellow of the @rsliterature.bsky.social and had a poem shortlisted for @forwardprizes.bsky.social 🎉 🔗 Find out more ⬇️ @kclalumni.bsky.social

🚘 What hi-tech gadgets can we expect in the new James Bond film? Dr Christopher Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social plots how the films mirror the technology of their time and whether AI will be the star of Bond 26. 🔗 Read more from @uk.theconversation.com ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/comment...

Congratulations to Benjamin Wood, whose novel Seascraper is on @thebookerprizes.com 2025 longlist 🎉 📚 Read more about the novel and Wood's inspiration below ⤵️

🧓 Why do we need to change attitudes towards ageing? Dr Martina Zimmermann from @kingsenglish.bsky.social explains how this shift could change how we retire, treat and care for older people, fund research and care, and understand intergenerational relations ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/an-agenda-fo...

‘My ambition is to keep telling little-known stories and bring understanding to those stories.’ Meet BBC journalist and @kingsartshums.bsky.social alum Jane Corbin, who’s reporting on the world’s most pressing issues. 🔗 Read InTouch: https://loom.ly/0IAYQdA

🪶 Shakespeare might be known around the world, but his work has a reputation as being for those who are in the arts or 'in the know' – yet research by academics from @kingsenglish.bsky.social shows how Shakespeare's works still shape culture today. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlig...

🌟 Congratulations to our alumnus Dylan Huw (BA Liberal Arts @kingsinterhums.bsky.social with a Major in Film Studies @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social, 2014-2017), who has been selected to represent Wales at the 2026 Venice Biennale!

🧸 Is childhood intensifying or eroding? This question will guide the 2026 Child & Teen Consumption conference at King’s. Contributions are invited on themes like agency in digital economy, sustainability and climate crisis, and changing institutions of childhood. Deadline: 22 August 2025 🔽

💡 Curious what it’s really like to study Digital Futures at King’s College London? In this special student Q&A episode of The DigiTalk Podcast, we hear directly from those living it, with insights from @giotita.bsky.social & @gealga.bsky.social, and three current MA students 🧵

👏 Congratulations to Professor Erica Carter @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social and Professor David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social, who have been elected to the British Academy Fellowship for 2025! @britishacademy.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's. Read more👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

💡 Professor Patrick ffrench @pffr.bsky.social and Dr Cillian Ó’Fathaigh from @kingsdllc.bsky.social organised the @sephilo.bsky.social Annual Conference at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social between 7-9 July, featuring contributions from 21 countries. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ #SEP2025

🧑‍🎨 Discover Lusophone literature at this workshop on 25 July, where artist Hugo Lami will guide you through the process of producing a painting, drawing or collage that reflects your own interpretation of a text. 🎨 All materials provided 💰 Free to attend 🔗 Register here ⤵️

💷 As the @bankofengland.bsky.social invites the public to submit ideas for new banknote designs, Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social reflects on the contradictions of national symbols and the irony of undertaking this activity in an increasingly cashless society. 🔗 Read more 👇

🏆 Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah received the International Bing Xin Literature Award from Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA in a ceremony organised by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. 🔗 Read more ⬇️

🏰 Beautiful escapism or a reflection of our life? Dr Shelley Galpin, Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries @kingscmci.bsky.social, spoke to Town & Country Magazine about our fascination with period dramas 🔽

📘 Benjamin Wood, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, releases his fifth novel this week. Seascraper follows a day and half in the life on Thomas Flett who is visited by an American stranger claiming to be a film director 👇

🎭 Out of the Wings Festival is back for 2025! Now in its 10th year, the festival celebrates Ibero-American playwriting with readings of plays from six different countries, all in English translation and in the UK for the first time 🎉 🔗 Find out more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie...

In a new Artworks series for BBC Radio 4, Dr Clara Jones from @kingsenglish.bsky.social discusses how Virginia Woolf critiqued systems of power and privilege through her work. 🎧 Listen here ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

✒️ @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social hosted pre-event activities for the 34th International Conference on Virginia Woolf, including trips to the King's Archives, analysis of Woolf's impact on creative writing today, and a performance by the Woolf Quartet 🎻 🔗 Read more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/woolf-c...

How was the Domesday survey of 1086 created? A new book, co-authored by Prof. Julia Crick of @kingsartshums.bsky.social sheds light on one of the most famous records in English history. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/author-...

📺 Tune in this Sunday, 6 July, at 9:10 am for the English version of the NHK documentary "New Japonism: Vocaloids", featuring our own Dr @zaborowski.bsky.social! 🔗 Catch it on NHK On-Demand: buff.ly/RmQa19V #DigitalCulture #Vocaloids @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

📚 New book co-authored by Professor Julia Crick explores the process of the Domesday survey, the people responsible for writing it, the way they collaborated and their diverse origins. Find out more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/author-...

🔤 'Not everyone is quite so enthusiastic about multilingualism as I am.' Professors Terry Lamb and Jo Angouri put forward the case for promoting and valuing linguistic diversity in universities at a Language Debate, hosted by Language Acts and Worldmaking on 23 June 👇 buff.ly/pqQh7Zr

📻 Catch Professor Anna Snaith from @kingsenglish.bsky.social talking about how Virginia Woolf foregrounded interior lives in her writing, particularly in the novel Mrs Dalloway, in a new Artworks series on BBC Radio 4. 🎧 Listen here ⬇️

🤖 'We're dealing with the automation of labour, but at the same time we're also dealing with ethics, consent and risk.' Dr Christopher Holliday explores the challenges and opportunities for advertising and AI on BBC Talking Business. 📺 Watch from 03:28 🔽 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

🎶 Can music transform our understanding of classical myths? Dr @emilypillinger.bsky.social's research gives voice to the unheard character of Penelope from Homer's Odyssey by using contemporary musical performances to share ancient myths with modern audiences 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlig...

📚 'It was King’s that gave me the inspiration and skills to make the most of my relationship with books.' Alumnus David Shriver says studying at King's reinforced his love of literature and gave him the skills to succeed in a varied international career ✈️ 🔗 Read more 👇

🎟️ Tickets are available for the 2025 McDonald Agape Lecture in Theology and the Visual Arts Genesis Tramaine and Emily Young are artists inspired by religion. They will be discussing their work with Dr Christine Joynes (University of Oxford) ⬇️

🎥 Is Denis Villeneuve the right choice to direct the next James Bond film? 🍸 Dr Christopher Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social explores what the franchise needs to 'future-proof Bond's status as a British institution against charges that 007 is past his best' ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/not-yet-jame...

🫶 ‘When I arrived at King’s, it was exciting. I still get that feeling when I walk along The Strand five decades later. King’s is a special place.’ Alumna Jane Corbin (English Literature, 1975) explores her journalism career and shares why she supports King's ⤵️ intouch.kcl.ac.uk/jane-corbin-...

BJPS have awarded the 2024 Popper Prize to Dr Alexander Franklin's article ‘The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is the Measurement Problem‘. Find out more 👇

✍️ COMMENT: "[The voting patterns of 2025] turned on its head perhaps the most fundamental of all electoral assumptions, not only in Poland but across most other democracies: that support for the right and the far right increases with age." -Professor Jim Bjork Read more 👇

🏆Awarded for bringing together analysis across India and the UK, Dr O'Brien will examine how sustainability principles are incorporated into plant-based practices today including in herbal medicine industries and broader conversations around environmental responsibility in healthcare.

🍿 Why are sequels more popular than original animated films? Dr Chris Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social says Pixar is at a 'crossroads where they are trying to balance films that have an audience built into them and their identity as a studio of innovation' ⤵️ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

Earlier this week, Prof. David Carpenter from @kingsartshums.bsky.social & Prof. Nick Vincent visited Harvard Law School Library to view the Magna Carta which they discovered was an original. Learn more ⤵️https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/harvard-law-schools-copy-of-magna-carta-revealed-as-original