🏆 Congratulations to Eleanor Gluck, @kingsdllc.bsky.social PhD student, on winning the King's Outstanding Thesis Prize for her research on the translation of "transgressive" French texts into English and their constructs of gender & sexuality. 🔗 Read more about Eleanor's work ⤵️

South Asian activists & academics discuss cyber safety, data protection, gendered violence online & the human cost of AI content moderation. 📅 14 Nov | 4-5:40pm GMT | Online 🔗 buff.ly/3hw4JrJ @taranginisriraman.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social

📮 Royal Mail asked Professor Ben Quash, Department of Theology & Religious Studies to be its expert advisor in the preparation of their special-edition stamp designs for Christmas. Find out more👇

📚 Souleymane Bachir Diagne from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social asks if viewing translation as “linguistic hospitality” mean failing to see the power relations and violence between languages that come into contact at this @kingsdllc.bsky.social seminar 👇

💌 Read Dr Tony Milligan's take on dating app swipes, messaging on WhatsApp and FaceTime on @uk.theconversation.com 👇

✒️ STUDENT COMPETITION ✒️ The Centre for Hellenic Studies calls for submissions for the Niki Marangou Translation Prize, established in 2016 in memory of the Cypriot poet, novelist, and painter Niki Marangou. Translate this piece of work from Greek to English 👇

🎷 Dr Anthony Joseph from @kingsenglish.bsky.social celebrates Black musical heritage at the EFG London Jazz Festival, with an electrifying Afrofuturist journey inspired by The African Origins of UFOs. 📆 17 November ⏰ Doors @ 19:00 🔗 Buy tickets ⤵️ efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/events/antho...

🌈 Queer@King's hosts a discussion of Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism by Dr @danielconway.bsky.social, a new book exploring the impacts, controversies & potential of Pride around the world. 📆 27 November ⏰ 18:30-20:00 📍 Strand campus 🔗 Register 👇

⭐ The Faculty of Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social has funded the purchase of two brand new Steinway grand pianos, and the full refurbishment of a third, for the Department of Music at King's. Discover more – and watch our alumnus play the new piano ⬇️

Congratulations to Dr Shuangyu Li and Professor Susannah Ticciati, both of whom are the recipients of the Supervisor Excellence Award 2025 for the Faculty. The awards were setup by King's Doctoral College to showcase PhD supervision excellence across King's. Full story 👇 tinyurl.com/2ch9zp7p

📢 On 21 January, join novelist Tessa Hadley & actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai in conversation with Professor Lara Feigel from @kingsenglish.bsky.social as they ask why Austen remains so popular and what she has to say to us after 250 years. 🔗 Register here ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/auste...

The National Army Museum recently identified the likely subject of a portrait of a black soldier in its collection as Private Thomas James. Read more from Dr Michael Rowe, Reader in European History, writing for @uk.theconversation.com 👇 #BlackHistoryMonth

"On current trends, it would take 283 years for women to make up an equal share of the tech workforce." Professor Atkinson awarded ARC Accelerator for GLOW-in-a-BOX, the world’s first touring exhibition platform addressing underrepresentation in the creative tech sector. tinyurl.com/bdebm4pk

"We're adding an extra dimension to PhD life." 🎓 Prof @ajt55.bsky.social on @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus Talks podcast explaining the rationale behind the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Listen here 👇 www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/campu...

⚖️ Queer@King’s celebrates Dr @senthorun.bsky.social's new monograph, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law, and invites responses from Professor @lovedayh.bsky.social, Dr @florarenz.bsky.social & Dr Peter Dunne. 🔗 Register ⤵️

Adoption, Memory, and Reform: How is Greece Shaping Policy for Its Diaspora? 🗓️ 19 Nov 2.00-3.30pm 📍The Exchange, King’s College London 🎤 With Professor Gonda Van Steen

📻 Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Theology & Religious Studies, Dr George Gross on LBC, talking about the King and the Pope praying together- for the first time in around 500 years 👇 Listen at 1.44.00 buff.ly/PdIOi8K

🙋 Find out more about Dr Jessica Scott who has recently joined the Department of Theology & Religious Studies

👏 Dr Rachael Kent @kingsdh.bsky.social wins historic case against Apple in £1.5 billion collective action. The decision paves the way for £1.5 billion in compensation to be returned to nearly 36 million UK consumers and businesses ⬇️

🗞️ King's Professor Linda Woodhead is quoted, as King's alumna, Dame Sarah Mullally is named Archbishop of Canterbury 👇

⛪ On 9 November, discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London, where short talks, an exhibition of rarely displayed paintings, documents, and silverware, and an organ recital reveal more about this little-known community with @cemskcl.bsky.social and @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ⤵️

🙋‍♀️ Early modern women were vital for literary criticism, reveals Dr Elizabeth Scott-Baumann from @kingsenglish.bsky.social. Her new book explores the gendered nature of poetry, including the history behind descriptions such as ‘original’, ‘smooth’ or ‘irregular’ 📝 🔗 Read more 👇

🇫🇷 Professor Vinay Swamy from Vassar College explores the challenges faced by non-binary French-speaking people regarding language and syntax, given the binary nature of French grammar at this @kingsdllc.bsky.social and Queer@King's event on 29 October. 🔗 Sign-up here ⬇️

📚Book Club: Dr Colby Gordon’s Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature- a cultural imaginary of transition in the English renaissance religious writing. Gordon insists that transition happened - surgically and spiritually - well before the nineteenth century 👇

Join King’s Centre for Early Modern Studies to celebrate the launch of Professor Evelyn Welch’s (University of Bristol) new book: Renaissance Skin. The launch includes a book Introduction and comments from speakers, Q&A and drinks reception. More info:

🎉 Celebrate 250 years of Jane Austen with our special event series, where King's academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social, @kingsenglish.bsky.social and @kingsmusic.bsky.social will apply their expertise to the writer's life and works 📚 💻 🎹 📆 22 Oct - 21 Jan 🔗 Read more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/event-s...

🪶 For @nybooks.com, Clare Bucknell reviews Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England, the new book by Dr Elizabeth Scott-Baumann from @kingsenglish.bsky.social that places women writers at the centre of poetic theory and practice in 16th- & 17th-century literature ⤵️

✍️ Professor Mukti Lakhi Mangharam (Rutgers) explores ‘indigeneity’ as a counter-discourse of decolonisation and theorisation of universal belonging, drawing on examples from Native American & Palestinian writing and activism at this @kingsenglish.bsky.social event. 🔗 Sign-up now 👇

🎭 Dr Murat Öğütcü presents 'Jonson’s Masque of Blackness: Materializing Environmental Injustice' and Dr Andrea Stevens explores 'Racial Masquerade and the ‘Retconning’ of The Spanish Match in Walter Montagu’s The Sheperd’s Paradise' at the London Shakespeare Seminar on 21 October ⬇️

📣 Are you an MA, MPhil or a PhD student at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's? Don’t miss out — apply now! ⏰ Deadline: 24 November 2025, noon

🎧 In a new book by Dr Ella Parry-Davies from @kingsenglish.bsky.social, soundwalks recorded by domestic migrant workers usurp narratives that describe them as 'voiceless & victimised', instead giving them agency over how they tell their stories. Listen to part of Phoebe's story in the video below ⤵️

🚗 'Today, Sal Paradise would have a podcast. And I am not convinced it would be much different from some of the worst of the manosphere.' Dr Michael Collins from @kingsenglish.bsky.social asks if Jack Kerouac's mythologisation of the open road still exists today 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/comment...

💻 Learn how to use Nodegoat to create diachronic geographical and social network visualisations in this workshop on 16 October, co-hosted by the Global Cultures Institute and LITAID project. Suitable for academics & PGRs working in humanities. 🔗 Register here – places are limited ⬇️

💭 Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social analyses the paradoxical nature of Goethe's writing on politics, science, religion and sexuality, revealing how other thinkers of the type shaped his views. 🔗 Read more 👇

📻 King's Professor Linda Woodhead talks to the media about the first woman appointed as the head of the Church of England, and the challenges she faces in her tenure 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/first-w...

🌈 Dr @kevinguyan.bsky.social from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social reveals how the promise of inclusion requires LGBTQ+ people to identify with an ever-growing list of classifications, categories & labels – putting them in a rainbow trap. 📆 23 Oct 💡 Hosted by Queer@King's 🔗 Register ⬇️

🗞️ Professor Alana Harris seeks restorative justice for asylum patients buried at the abandoned Horton Cemetery. She said there were 120 cemeteries across the country, with Epsom's the largest, but also "the most derelict, in most need of saving and attention". 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎉 Congratulations to @kclalumni.bsky.social Nick Makoha (Creative Writing PhD) and former @kingsenglish.bsky.social staff member Sarah Howe on being shortlisted for the @tseliotprize.bsky.social 🙌

💡 Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social explores decolonising the curriculum & asks 'how we might rethink the work we do in the classroom to persuade students that there remains value to reading at length, to living with complexity and resisting easy answers' in @globalpolicy.bsky.social ⤵️

✒️ 'This deeply learned, crisply written biography is equally remote from hagiography and iconoclasm.' Ritchie Robertson reviews the new book, Goethe: A Life in Ideas, by Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social for @litreview.bsky.social 🔽 literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-lig...

Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education, Dr Rachael Kent explains that social media platforms are not neutral spaces but “commercial ecosystems” that stand to profit from deepfake videos promoting supplements. Read more 👇 www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

🇸🇬 Singapore commits to being a nation of equality – but is this a reality for every citizen? Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social shows how Singapore's policies on issues such as housing and COVID restrictions favour heterosexual couples for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️

🇩🇪 On 20 October, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com joins Queer@King’s and the Centre for the Humanities and Health to discuss her latest book, The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, telling the forgotten story of the world’s first centre for homosexual & transgender rights. 🔗 Sign-up 👇

🦊 Elisha Cohn from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social rethinks the status of animals in fiction by theorizing the novel as a form of multispecies ecology or a 'milieu' in this talk for @kingsenglish.bsky.social on her new book. 📆 13 October ⏰ 16:30-18:30 🔗 Find out more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/milie...

🗓️Don't miss 👇 Stuart Dunn, ‘Can AI be superstitious? The digital future of folklore’ Vincent Hiribarren, ‘Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best?’ Stephen Whiteman, ‘What goes in must come out: the possibilities and perils of digital art history and AI’ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-d...

⌨️ On 15 Oct, Dr @mrsbunz.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social explores Large Language Models and literary & philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike meaning produced in communication. 🔗 Read more ⤵️

#ThisWeekAtKings world-renowned author and King’s alum, Sir Michael Morpurgo returned to King's to welcome students to the new academic year. Sir Michael shared reflections from his time at King’s, encouraging students to value both learning and friendship. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/author-...

🌱 Join Language Acts and Worldmaking for a workshop with author Clara Obligado and translator Fiona Mackintosh to discuss Todo lo que crece. Naturaleza y escritura (2021) / All that grows. Nature and Writing (2025). 📆 2 Oct ⏰ 11:00 📚 Part of the London Spanish Book & Zine Fair 🎫

King's alumnus Sir Michael Morpurgo FKC (English, French & Philosophy) welcomed students at the Opening of Year Ceremony 2025 today. This was followed by a Q&A with Dr Edmund Gordon discussing Michael's experiences as a student, his storytelling and his hopes for the future.

🔭 On 1 October, Dr Juan Carlos Mantilla from @kingsdllc.bsky.social presents his project Cosmographia Antarctica, exploring how Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ⤵️