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...

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...

Becoming Hugo 11 Dec 4pm–6pm We are pleased to welcome Stéphanie Boulard (Georgia Tech) to give this seminar. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

On Kafka's Translators 4 Dec 5pm at UCL The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Maïa Hruska, author of "Dix Versions de Kafka". www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...