There are 2 nights left to see King's Greek Play 2026 this week 🎭 Book your last minute tickets now estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-....

💡 'Bell does a very successful job of bringing us back to the themes that connect the wildly diverse ensemble of Goethe’s writings.' Rowan Williams reviews Goethe: A Life In Ideas by Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social ⬇️ buff.ly/XJfj8Zc

🎭 Professor Catherine Boyle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social features at this #IWD2026 event by @ilcs.bsky.social exploring how we can make fruitful connections across different types of creative practice, such as theatre translation, poetry translation, creative writing, directing and film-making 👇

👏 Congratulations to Dr Declan Ryan, Lecturer in Creative Writing in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, on his appointment as poetry editor at @jonathancape.bsky.social. We asked Dr Ryan to share some of his favourite works and his poetry recommendations for the year ahead ⤵️

🪶 Professor Emily Butterworth from @kingsdllc.bsky.social explores the Latin etymology of 'dissidence' to show how women challenged the world around them in sixteenth century France before the word 'dissidence' became a known term. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ #WomensHistoryMonth

🏆 Singer-songwriter Rosalía won her first BRIT Award for International Artist of the Year. Her latest album, LUX, has earned critical acclaim. But should we consider it pop, classical music or something entirely in between? @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com ⬇️

Coming up, next Wednesday, from our friends at King’s College London. An exploration of Stevie Wonder's music through political movements and other influences. Details below.

🔍️ In July 1518, hundreds of Strasbourg residents were swept up in an endless dance, struck by a strange illness driving them to fidget to the point of exhaustion – or even death. Professor Kélina Gotman explores this mystery in a new @artefr.bsky.social documentary 👇

Apply by 9 March for @kingsartshums.bsky.social MA in Early Modern English Literature, taught in partnership with us. Find out more about this rich and unique course where you will learn from our expert curators and examine rare texts in our collections. Find out more here: link.bl.uk/kpr

📖 On 18 March, Professor Abigail Williams explores how we might use the material traces of past non-elite readers to better understand the relationship between literacy and selfhood in early modern England. 🔗 Register ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/in-th... @kingsenglish.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social

💬 'There’s not much hope for justice in the wider world in this novel, any more than there is in ours now.' Professor Lara Feigel, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, reviews Our Better Natures by Sophie Ward for @theguardian.com. 🔗 Read more ⬇️

🇺🇦 'Destruction of heritage is not limited to crumbling bricks and mortar. It is also about lived experiences that once took shelter in those places.' On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene reflects on safeguarding Ukraine's heritage ⬇️

🩺 The Centre for the Humanities and Health welcomes Professor Marlene Goldman from @utoronto.ca to talk about her latest book, Medicine as Theatre: Theatre as Medicine, which argues for a performative future for healthcare. 📆 18 March ⏰ 16:00-18:30 📍 Strand campus 🔗 Register ⤵️

🚨 Don't miss out on your place at this event – register for tickets using the link below 👇

🗓️ Last chance to sign up for the launch of A Short History of the Department of Theology & Religious Studies- a project by Professor Linda Woodhead and Sarah Limb 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/launc...

🎵 Dr Betty Rosen and Dr @genevievehyoung.bsky.social from @kingsmusic.bsky.social present a comparative perspective on the “spontaneous” making of sung/recited medieval verse drawing on their work on the MUSLIVE project at this @kingsdllc.bsky.social research seminar on 4 March ⤵️

🌿 Digital X Climates network has officially launched at King's 🌎 Led by academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social, it is dedicated to advancing research, dialogue and public engagement on the entanglements of digital technologies with environmental, social and political ecologies. Find out more ⬇️

📚 @rsliterature.bsky.social and @kingsenglish.bsky.social welcomed Mojisola Adebayo, Suresh Ariaratnam, Nic Bottomley, @rose-condo-poet.bsky.social and Sara Kärpänen to share their journeys to successful careers in literature on 11 February. 🔗 Watch the event here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=seh1...

🇩🇪 Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social & @kingshistory.bsky.social says while powerful men have been credited with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the true heroes were everyday men and women 🎧️ Listen on No One Saw It Coming with @marcfennell.bsky.social ⬇️

👑 Why is Oswald of Northumbria – a medieval English king and saint – so popular in the German-speaking world? A new set of songs based on research by @oswaldsraven.bsky.social tell us how he transcended cultures and languages through ever-evolving stories ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtv...

🧑‍🎨 Make your own zine using imagery from East London's queer past at this workshop with Cas Bradbeer, hosted by Queer@King's. 📆 18 February ⏰ 11:00-13:00 📍 Strand Building 🔗 Register here 👇

🧀 "More cheese, Gromit?" 🎥 Dr Christopher Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social reviews the new 'Inside Aardman – Wallace and Gromit and Friends' exhibition at the Young V&A for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️

🇪🇬 Dr Hannah Scott Deuchar from @qmul.bsky.social asks how translation shaped the Dinshaway Affair in 1906 and whether the event might still reshape conceptions of translation, justice and reparation in this talk for @kingsdllc.bsky.social on 18 February. 🔗 Find out more ⬇️

❤️‍🔥 'Prepare to get obsessed.' As Wuthering Heights premieres in UK cinemas, Dr Shelley Galpin explains how Emerald Fennell’s bold style, willingness to embrace moral complexity and track record of challenging audiences make her perfectly placed to reinterpret Brontë’s dark and turbulent classic ⬇️

Our new exhibition Lost Landscapes of Print is now open 24/7 at the Curiosity Cabinet (171 Strand). Drop by for some local print/publishing history and a self-guided walking tour. Presented by @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social

🌈 Professor Avi Ben-Zeev discusses how storytelling enables inquiry, healing and activism in the face of transphobia and anti-queer sentiment and reads from his Polari Prize-longlisted memoir at the Derek Jarman Annual Lecture by Queer@King's. 📆 18 March ⏰ 18:00-20:00 🔗 Register ⤵️

🧑‍💻 On 9 March, @kingsinterhums.bsky.social welcomes Dr Nisha Kapoor from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social to deliver a lecture on the emergence of the "Data State" in Hyderabad and examine how data-driven urban security has become central to city's mode of governance ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/inter...

💑 'The showmance is basically one of Hollywood’s most durable marketing tricks' says Dr Christopher Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social, as he traces Hollywood's use of fake relationships to promote films like Wuthering Heights. 🔗 Read more in @thetimes.com ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

📢 NEW: Lost Landscapes of Print launches today in the Curiosity Cabinet to tell the story of London’s popular print culture in the nineteenth century around the Strand, curated by Dr Brian Murray from @kingsenglish.bsky.social and @bearyardpress.bsky.social. 🔗 Discover more 👇 buff.ly/ZJcJ9pf

The Face by Professor Fay Bound Alberti is listed in the @newscientist.com best new popular science books for February. The book explores the ways humans have interpreted faces and how they have shaped our ideas of morality, social hierarchy and psychology. www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

🇵🇷 Bad Bunny's DtMF made history as the first Spanish-language album to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. His Super Bowl performance, criticised by Donald Trump, celebrated Puerto Rican culture and called for unity, ending with the message 'The only thing more powerful than hate is love' 🧵⬇️

👏 'The Recce', a new short film by Dr Daniel Mann, Lecturer in Film Studies @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social, will premiere at the 76th Berlinale Film Festival. The film was selected for the Forum Expanded programme with two screenings scheduled on 16 and 18 February. Find out more ⬇️

📀 Professor Kevin K. Gaines explores how Stevie Wonder's album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants was inspired by political movements, global musical styles and engagement with nature at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture. 📆 4 March ⏰ 18:00 🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️

📹 Alumni Brian and Diana Sparkes chat about their #LifeAtKing's in the Department of Classics The Greek Play is still a tradition today, you can book tickets for the March performances here 👇https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek-play-2026-the-clouds www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2T...

🎭 The Greek Play 2026 will feature guest speakers: 3 March: Dr Naomi Scott (University of Bristol) 4 March: Professor James Robson (The Open University) 5 March: Professor Peter Meineck (NYU/ICS) Secure your tickets now 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek...

👏 Congratulations to Professor Francisco Bethencourt who has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for his project, New Christian Materiality, 1450-1750 (MATERIA), a landmark for King's Department of History. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-chr...

👑 Professor Lucy Munro from @kingsenglish.bsky.social features on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time examining how Shakespeare asked questions of power, legitimacy and succession through his play Henry IV, despite the dangers of discussing these topics in the period. 🔗 Listen here ⤵️

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🧠 Today is Time to Talk Day 🧠 Professor Alana Harris' work at @kingshistory.bsky.social seeks to recover the names and stories of those buried anonymously in former asylum cemeteries to be respectfully remembered. Read more 👇 www.lbc.co.uk/article/asyl...

🤝 Four new projects uniting researchers and activists will address some of society's key challenges – including marginalisation, exclusion and how to enact solidarity – under the Activist-in-Residence scheme in the Global Cultures Institute. 🔗 Find out more ⤵️

Introducing: Ocypete, played by Zo Năstase. Zo is a second year KCL Classics student who is part a powerful retelling of Aristophanes' Clouds directed by Giulia Balsamo. Performances at Greenwood Theatre 3rd-5th March 2026. Have you got your tickets yet? estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...

🏓 Ever wondered how ping pong found its way onto the big screen? From Forrest Gump to Marty Supreme, table tennis has had a rich cinematic life. In his new article for @theconversation.com, Dr @jeffscheible.bsky.social unpacks how it moved from background prop to centre‑stage storytelling ⬇️

🏆️ Congratulations to former @kingsdllc.bsky.social students Valeria Berghinz and Aldo Ruggiero on winning the Jethro Bithell Prize and Alice Emily Bithell Prize respectively from @sas-news.bsky.social for their studies in German. 🔗 Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-s...

📜 Hear Professor @klavezzo.bsky.social reveal an unexpected link between Stuart Hall and J.R.R. Tolkien challenge assumptions about the medieval-modern divide at this Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies event on 10 February. 🔗 Register ⤵️

🔊 'In the interwar period, campaigners created a story about noise and nerves to galvanise the public into keeping it down.' 🤫 Professor Anna Snaith from @kingsenglish.bsky.social explores how modernist writers like Woolf and Orwell reacted to noise for @uk.theconversation.com 👇

👨‍👧‍👧 Professor Lara Feigel (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) discusses child custody cases of the past and today, and the relationship between motherhood and feminism with Dr Hannah Dawson (@kingshistory.bsky.social). 📆 29 January ⏰ 19:00-21:00 📍 Second Home, Spitalfields secondhome.io/event/custod...

🎉 Congratulations to Benjamin Wood from @kingsenglish.bsky.social, winner of the Nero Book Award for fiction for his novel Seascraper 🏆 'Having been shortlisted alongside three authors I greatly admire, it’s an honour I’m especially grateful to receive,' said Wood. 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-a...

📚 Abdoolkarim Vakil from @kingsdllc.bsky.social and @kingshistory.bsky.social analyses Miguel Real's O Ultimo Europeu – 2284 (The Last European – 2284) and its strands of orientalist and racialised invasion and race-war speculative fiction on 4 February. 🔗 Learn more 👇

✒️ Join the Writers Reading Book Club and @kingsenglish.bsky.social on 19 March for a discussion on the art of writing science fiction and fantasy, with Rebecca Zahabi, Bimpe Alliu, Sabdh Kellett, and Jude Reid (@squintywitch.bsky.social). 🔗 Book your place now ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/specu...

📚 Why does Jane Austen still matter? At an event hosted by @kingsartshums.bsky.social, novelist Tessa Hadley joined actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai to explore why Austen was a revolutionary writer for her time & why she remains relevant to readers today. 🔗➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/storyte...