✒️ Dr Alicia Kent from @kingsdllc.bsky.social explores the different Salvador Dalís portrayed in David Vilaseca's words and images for the 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social. 📆 11 November ⏰ 18:15pm 💻 Online 🔗 Sign-up here ⤵️

🏆 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 ⤵️

📚 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 👇

⛪ 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 ⤵️

🇫🇷 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 ⬇️

💭 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 👇

🎓 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 ⤵️

🏆 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-...

🔭 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 ⤵️

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.

✒️ '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...

💡 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

🎭 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...

🔤 '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

🇩🇿 A visit to Algeria by academics from @kingsdllc.bsky.social & @kingsenglish.bsky.social marked the start of collaborations on languages and literatures between @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, @cam.ac.uk, the University of Virginia and the University of Blida 2. 🔗 Read more ⬇️ buff.ly/FlzQfqN

📢 Applications are now open for the 2025 BritishSpanish Society Scholarship! For British and Spanish nationals pursuing postgraduate study in any field. 🗓️ Deadline: 20 June 2025 🔗 www.britishspanishsociety.org/scholarships...

📽️ Has Cold War propaganda impacted politics in Brazil today? In our latest Spotlight on Arts & Humanities, discover how Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz has supported school children in Brazil to recognise how propaganda has shaped the country’s understanding of modern political messaging 🇧🇷 🔗 Read more 👇

🎭 What futures do acts of translation hold in a world in disarray? Scholars & artists from theatre, literature & performance examine radical translations, worldmaking, postcolonial and disability justice in theatre translation, and poetics of performative resistance at this event ⬇️ buff.ly/VuyDVNd

🇯🇵 On 11 June, @kingsdllc.bsky.social welcomes Dr Filippo Cervelli from @soasuni.bsky.social to deliver a talk on Nobel laureate Ōe Kenzaburō's relationship with Dante Alighieri as a prism shedding light into how a Japanese sensibility can engage with the Italian poet. 🔗 Find out more 👇

To learn more, sign up to the book launch on 18 June, featuring @sarahbowdenkcl.bsky.social in conversation with Mark Chinca and Almut Suerbaum 🔽 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

✝️ In her new book, Dr @sarahbowdenkcl.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social brings a new approach to German-language devotional writing by revealing how medieval interest in sin encouraged textual production and formal, linguistic & intellectual creativity. 🔗 Read more ⬇️

💡 What is the current place of multilingualism and plurilingualism in UK universities? Discover how the multilingual university could look, behave and speak at this panel discussion with Professors Terry Lamb and Jo Angouri. 📆 23 June, 6pm 💻 Hybrid 🔗 Register here ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/langu...

🔊 'Hearing the polyphonic voicing of Woolf’s words echoing through the building foyer, and around the statue of Wax Virginia, was a mesmerising and unforgettable experience.' Istanbul Queer Art Collective and Dr Lizzie Stewart performed extracts from Virginia Woolf's writing on 16 May 👇

Tate Britain’s exhibition Edward Burra - Ithell Colquhoun opens on 13th June! They are looking for students to be photographed for an exclusive press view before it opens to the public. 📅 11th June, 08:45-10:30  📍 Tate Britain shorturl.at/ZrTip Contact: [email protected] by 9th June

🇩🇪 What caused the fall of the Berlin wall? Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social asks whether it all began with a small slip up during a routine press conference in the 'No One Saw It Coming' podcast with @marcfennell.bsky.social. 🎧 Listen here ⤵️ @kingsdllc.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social

👏 Congratulations to Mary Ann Vargas, @kingsdllc.bsky.social PhD student‬, for winning a King's Outstanding Thesis Prize 2025 for her research on the intersection of British and Peruvian popular theatre and performance. 🔗 Find out more 👇 buff.ly/tgxrOci

📢 Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi for winning the #InternationalBooker2025 with Heart Lamp 👏 Discover what students from @kingsdllc.bsky.social thought of the winning book 👇 kcl.ac.uk/students-rev...

🔤 Does your research suffer because of your lack of language skills? On 21 May, this Language Debate hosted by Language Acts and Worldmaking asks how multilingualism and pluralism influence the supervision of doctoral research and the research that is produced. 🔗 Register ⬇️

🎉 The Global Cultures Institute is delighted to announce two Fellows for 2025-26 – Dr @saramarzagora.bsky.social (@kingsdllc.bsky.social) and Dr @rezaziaebrahimi.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social). 🔗 Find out more about their research ⤵️ buff.ly/41Fv2Ie

💭 Students from @kingsdllc.bsky.social have reviewed some of the novels shortlisted for the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social #InternationalBooker2025, exploring the impact of translation, narration and form in telling stories from around the globe. Read their work on our website ⬇️

👩‍🦽 NGOs often say they offer humanitarian support to people of all abilities – but does it happen? For her Global Cultures MA dissertation, Anna Fatholahzadeh explores how disabled people are excluded from receiving the assistance they need. 🔗 Read more 👇 buff.ly/UillznM

Programme for the DLLC Postgraduate Conference There’s still time — don’t forget to register! 📆 2nd May 📌 Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 (S)1.01 www.tickettailor.com/events/depar...

✒️ As Wax Virginia by @eleanorcrook.bsky.social prepares to leave King's Virginia Woolf Building, Istanbul Queer Art Collective and Dr Lizzie Stewart will wax poetic in an experimental performance using quotes from Woolf's novels, diaries and letters. 🔗 Limited places available - register now ⤵️

💡 Professor Kevin B. Anderson from @uofcalifornia.bsky.social explores the later writings of Karl Marx and his three theories of revolutionary change as alternatives to capitalism. 📆 8 May ⏰ 14:00-16:00 👋 Hosted by Dr @ncourtman.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social 🔗 Register here ⬇️

Counting down the days to our Postgraduate Conference, hosted by @kingsdllc.bsky.social on 2 May. Join us to celebrate postgraduate research in the Arts and Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Register by 30 April here: www.tickettailor.com/events/depar...

🔤 Are you a language educator at a school or college? Join this free hybrid workshop on rethinking assessment in language learning on 29 April, hosted by @kingsdllc.bsky.social. 🔗 Register here ⤵️

📸 Dr @saramarzagora.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social challenged her students to take photographs around London to show different perspectives on the British nation and its colonial past. Explore their work 👇

Join us for a one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures! Friday 2 May 2025 📍 Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 (S)1.01, Strand Campus, King’s College London More info ⬇️ www.tickettailor.com/events/depar...

🇧🇷 Join us for the launch of A Arte da Diplomacia (The Art of Diplomacy), a documentary about the first exhibition of Brazilian Modernism at the Royal Academy of Arts and its role in Brazil's soft power campaign during World War II. 📆 9 April 🕰️ 2pm-4pm 🗣️ With English subtitles 🔗 Sign-up here ⬇️

Join us for the launch of the Spring editions of our four student magazines!

🤞 PhD student Oliver Roughton (@kingsdllc.bsky.social) is in the final of King's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition today at 4pm. His research explores contributions on the nature of language by Johann Georg Hamann and Johann Gottfriend Herder. 🔗 Watch the final online ⤵️

🌸 This week is your last chance to visit Botany Through the Camera's Eye, an exhibition of botanical photography by Brother Marie-Victorin and Keir Watson. 📍 The Exchange, Bush House 📆 Open this week between 6pm-8.30pm 🚨 Closes on Thursday 27 March 🔗 Find out more 🔽 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/botan...

🪶 Two poets reflect on their practice within spaces where “national” languages have traditionally thrived, but whose autonomy is complicated in today's world by an increasingly global and largely anglophone cultural context. Part of @kingsdllc.bsky.social research seminars. 🔗 Find out more ⬇️

Join us for the Careers Networking Event organised by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures! 📆18th March 📍Council Room, Strand Campus More details here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/caree...

Calling all undergraduate students to participate in the DLLC Undergraduate Research Conference! Open to all undergraduate students within the University of London, from all disciplines. 📆 21st March kingsartshums.bsky.social Theme and link to register ⬇️

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures is accepting entries for its annual writing competition for A-Level students interested in modern languages and comparative literature! Open to students in Year 12 or 13, and S5 or S6 in Scotland. For more details: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/a-level...

Inviting postgraduate students in the Arts and Humanities to submit abstracts for the DLLC PGR conference! Link to the submission form: forms.office.com/e/RN0m3W1D87 @kingsartshums.bsky.social

🙌 Welcome to Bluesky @kingsdllc.bsky.social! Follow along to stay up to date with news & events ⬇️ 💡 Did you know... students in the Department take part in a photo competition during their study abroad year? Examples of their work are visible across the Department's website 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/dllc

The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is now on Bluesky! Follow this space for news, events, and updates from the department (more to come very soon!) 🥳 @kingsartshums.bsky.social