Writing with delight: Insights from Creative Writing 27 March 9am-5pm This British Academy Writing workshop participants will be invited to take part in a number of activities designed to explore the impact of creative writing practice on academic writing. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 27 March 6:15pm From pre-historic roots to today, with 100+ essays from experts across disciplines & countries, it provides a contemporary analysis of current issues & sheds new light on often ignored regions. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Changer la vie: poétique et usages de Rimbaud 26 March 5pm Author Denis Saint-Amand (U. de Naumur) will discuss his new book, which seeks to grasp the coherence of Rimbaud's complex poetic project and undertake a pragmatic reading of its contemporary uses. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Blindness as Form: Rethinking Disability with Matthew Paris 25 March 5pm In her inaugural lecture, Jane Gilbert will explore how recent creative encounters between visually impaired people & various art-forms show us new ways to read blindness in medieval manuscripts www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

An extract from my stand-up routine on the French Revolution. Excuse the poor sound and image quality. youtube.com/watch?v=SSLV...

Diversifying the French Stage: A Conversation with Penda Diouf TONIGHT! 6 Mar 2026, 17:00 – 18:30 Join us for a conversation about theatre and representation with the French playwright Penda Diouf www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

‘Fake News’ After the Paris Commune, 1871 11 March 4pm Dr Jann Matlock will give this @uclselcs.bsky.social SELCS Society Lecture, reflecting on the way moments of crisis show how literature & critical theory make possible resistance & instil hope for democratic values www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

TODAY! 2 March, 5:30-7pm Song and the Modality of Realism Prof Jane Gilbert will examine song and the modality of realism in 'La Chastelaine de Vergi' and 'L’Istoire de la Châtelaine du Vergier et de Tristan le chevalier' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Holistic ecologies before modernity 18 March 3-5pm, online Two fascinating pre-modern figures: the cosmic polymath Hildegard of Bingen & French artisan philosopher of a sentient world, Bernard Palissy. With Minji Lee(Montclair State) & François Quiviger(Warburg) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holistic-e...

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel 3 Mar 6–8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Sreenan revisits the legacy of Darwin’s thought in works by Thomas Hardy & Émile Zola, and in utopian fictions by Aldous Huxley & the more contemporary Michel Houellebecq. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book Talk: 'Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France' 25 Feb 5pm-7pm A rich historiography of architecture in France has long maintained that it was men alone who could become architects prior to 1902. But were there, in fact, others? www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Feeling for the Sense' Tact & the Art of Interpretation 5 Feb 6:30pm @uclselcs.bsky.social Using Proust, Plessner, Adorno, Truffaut & Barthes, Dr Katja Haustein invites us to reconsider our ways of engaging with people, images & texts and gauge the significance of tact www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth': a history of post-war psychiatry UCL French & Francophone Research is delighted to announce the 2026 Noble Lecture with prize-winning French novelist Adèle Yon. 29 January 2026, 5pm-7pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Feeling for the Sense': Tact & the Art of Interpretation 5 Feb 6:30-8pm In her book 'Alone with Others', using reading encounters with Proust, Plessner, Adorno, Truffaut & Barthes, Dr Haustein asks us to reconsider our ways of engaging with other people, images & texts www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book Talk: 'Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France' 25 February 5-7pm A rich historiography of architecture in France has long maintained that it was men alone who could become architects prior to 1902. But were there, in fact, others? www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends TODAY! 4pm Using serial novels, vaudeville plays & newspapers of the Second Empire, Andrea Goulet proposes fictional Quaker as a screen on which the French projected their ambivalence about liberté, égalité, fraternité www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Community Cinema: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (+Q&A) 19 Nov 6:30–10pm This historical rollercoaster rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/eve...

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...

⏰Happening tomorrow! Ludic Literature 29 October 2025, 4pm-6pm We welcome Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL) to discuss ludic literature. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Ludic Literature 29 October 2025, 4pm-6pm We welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University) and Dennis Duncan (UCL). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

**Note change of location** Is Metafiction still Post-Modern? 29 Oct 3–4:30pm We welcome Prof Anne Duprat (U. Picardy Jules Verne) to give this seminar. We are pleased to co-host this event with UCL Comparative Literature & UCL French [email protected] www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting 9 Oct 5:30-7:30pm In early modern France, “oeconomie” referred to the art of managing material resources, particularly within a household. @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (Courtauld Institute) for this seminar www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' 2 Oct, 5-7pm '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...

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...

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...

IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' 2 October 2025, 5pm-7pm Along with @ucl-ias.bsky.social, we are pleased to host this triple book launch, with authors Robert Lethbridge, Claire White and Rachel Bowlby. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' 2 October 5-7pm Along with @ucl-ias.bsky.social, we are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Next Thursday I get to hear about something I know truly nothing about. Tiéphaine Thomason will be giving a talk on 'Mobilising the Francophone Speechscape in Eighteenth-Century Urban Martinique'. What a great topic - come along! www.history.ac.uk/seminars/soc...

Displacement & the French Revolution 29 May 9:45am–6:30pm @uclhistory.bsky.social This interdisciplinary workshop gathers historians, historical geographers, literary scholars & art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution. www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

Book launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream' 2 Oct 5–7pm, UCL We and @ucl-ias.bsky.social are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rope-Dancing and Female Performance 14 May 5-7pm UCL Including "Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in Seventeenth-century Paris" with Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL) Join us for this interesting discussion, and a glass of wine. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies' with @jean23bean.bsky.social 📆20 May 2025 🕠5:30 pm–7:00 pm ➡️Sign up here: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging & Non-belonging in Plural Societies 20 May 5:30pm @uclei.bsky.social From ethnographic research on France’s antiracist movement & mobilization against state violence, Dr Beaman will introduce a framework of “suspect citizenship” www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

Including Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley's paper on "Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in Seventeenth-century Paris"

Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times 29 Apr 17:00 @thebartlettucl.bsky.social Sunčana Laketa's book analyses the impact of framing public emergencies & violence in Paris & Brussels as acts of war, normalizing militarism within urban contexts www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Colonial Biopolitics: A Politics of Health Which Kills & Cures 7 May 5:30-8pm Azzedine Haddour examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders 26 March 2025, 5-7pm We're pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📣Provincialising the Anthropocene Research Labs Grants - deadline extended 🎉! UCL Anthropocene & @ucl-ias.bsky.social are offering grants of up to £2,000-£3,000💰for researchers to work on cross-disciplinary themes related to the September 2025 Conference. Apply by 4 April! 🔗 shorturl.at/VrGRn

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders 26 March 2025, 5pm-7pm The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences) Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚 Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. 📅 6 March 4pm UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation 6 March 4pm, UCL We welcome novelist Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents & reconstructs her escape, at the age of 15, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Lady Oscar: Between Genres and Genders 26 March 5-7pm UCL 'Lady Oscar' is a Japanese manga series, set in the French Revolution. It focuses on the lives of two women: Marie Antoinette & Oscar François de Jarjayes, commander of the Royal Guard. #queerdesire #feministicon www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Conversation 6 March 4-5pm We welcome novelist Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of 15, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢Calling all UCL ECRs & PhDs in A&H and SHS 📢 (if you are not in A&H or SHS you just need to find a suitable collaborator who is!) The IAS Octagon Grant is open for applications 🎉🙌🏽 Apply by 24 Feb - get writing! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Medieval Twitter 29 Jan 6-8pm Chapters include brand-new readings of The Owl and the Nightingale, the Chastelaine de Vergi, and Marie de France’s Laüstic, and arresting insights into troubadour style. #MedievalTwitter. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Provincialising the Anthropocene Research Labs Grants Closing 23 February 2025 We are offering up to 5 grants of £2-3K to support teams of researchers in a virtual Research Lab to work on cross-disciplinary themes/ topics related to 'Provincialising the Anthropocene' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Radical Bildung and Revolutionary Pedagogy (Goethe, Nizan, Godard) 22 January 2025, 5pm–7pm We are pleased to present this conversation with Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg and Cambridge University) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Radical Bildung and Revolutionary Pedagogy (Goethe, Nizan, Godard) 22 January 2025, 5pm-7pm The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg and Cambridge University) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...