Hybrid Seminar: Urban Mental Health 2 Dec 12-2pm UCL & online Exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice 3 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Pioneering Women Archivists 1 December 2025, 6pm-8pm We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Shepherd for the launch of her book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Researching gender inequalities in Kenyan education: Promising practices and persistent barriers 30 Oct 2-3:30pm Join this event to hear from Dr Ayse Demir, Dr Sarah Fedha, Dr Francis Omondi, and Dr Eliza Ngutuku on their research in Kenya. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice. 📅27 Oct, 2-4pm 📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade 6 Oct 6-8pm Discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970 10 Oct 2025, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room, London IHR Women's History seminar with Amanda Vickery (QMUL) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Doing Otherwise: Tracing Feminist Urban Methodologies 22 Jul 2025, 16:00 – 18:00 Join UCL Urban Lab for a reflective roundtable of scholars working across feminist, decolonial and critical methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Revolutionizing Human Development: Learning from Feminist Co-operators in the Americas 🚨TOMORROW! 3 June, 4-6pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social 🚨 With the wonderful @carolinehossein.bsky.social ⭐ www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Writing Histories of Abortion and Reproductive Health Today 27 May 2025, 10am-12pm Second session of the new reading group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Care or control? Regulating technology, behaviour & gender at school Hybrid, 23 May 11:00 – 17:00 @ioe.bsky.social A panel discussion to discuss the global uptake of mobile phone bans in schools to support and promote young people’s rights and prevent sexual violences. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Rainbow Trap – London Launch 10 July 6:15pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Join author @kevinguyan.bsky.social to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Victim/Suspect: film screening & panel discussion 15 May 3:30–7pm Watch the film & learn about similar UK cases from our panellists, where women accused of lying to police about sexual assault have been prosecuted. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion 15 May 3:30–7pm A US reporter discovers a pattern of women who reported sexual assault to police nationwide but were then charged with fabricating their allegations—sometimes facing prison. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Colonial Domesticity with Lisa Lowe This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family, and household organization to both the governance of colonized peoples. 29 April 3:30-5:30pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Victim/Suspect: film screening and panel discussion 15 May 2025, 3:30 pm–7:00 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

New Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice Students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages, from any university/institution welcome. Session 1: Reproductive Justice and the Environment. 13 May, 10am @uclamericas.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Colonial Domesticity with Lisa Lowe 29 April 3:30-5:30pm Examining literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family & household organization to the governance of colonized peoples. 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...

‘I simply rejected femaleness’: Diana Chapman’s narratives of gendered & sexual selfhood in mid-20thC Britain 11 March 6:30pm Prof Rebecca Jennings Inaugural Lecture opens up questions re the entangled nature of gendered and sexual subjectivities in mid-20thC Britain www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism 7 March 2025, 1pm-5pm A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms' 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...

Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism 7 March 2025, 1:30pm-5pm Collaborative thinking, a discussion and a collaborative mapping and analysis activity. A prelude to the 2025 qUCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Word for Quilting was Work 27 Feb 5:30pm @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social Bailey will suggest Europe's premodern quilts might offer provocations for how we write feminist art histories of quilting, ultimately aiming to dismantle the primacy of a gender-binary. www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/...

Honoured to have @reproutopia.bsky.social deliver our annual qUCL/GFRN lecture! March 7 ‘The Feminism of Fools: When Real Feminists do Fascism' Respondents @galarexer.bsky.social Victoria Mangan, Emrah Karakus #feminism #lgbtq

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 Feminism of Fools: When Real Feminists do Fascism 7 Mar 6:30pm with @qucl.bsky.social Sophie Lewis issues a love letter to feminism by refusing to accept it as an inherent political good. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

qUCL / GFRN Annual Lecture: 'Enemy Feminisms' 7 March 2025, 6:30pm-8:30pm qUCL and GFRN are pleased to welcome Dr Sophie Lewis to give their joint annual lecture. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 2 4 February 2025, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Each session will invite discussion on sources and readings highlighting queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, non binary and asexual identities in the premodern. 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...

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is a new informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. Introductory session 21 January 2025, 2pm–3:30pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World 20 January 2025, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm The Takhayyul Project hosts gender scholar, Dr Asli Zengin, to discuss her recent book at UCL. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday & Making of an Urban World 20 Jan 4-5pm Takhayyul Project hosts gender scholar Dr Asli Zengin to discuss her book, which traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate & resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

International Symposium: Women in the Latin American and Iberian Press 30–31 Jan 2025 Fostering exchange of knowledge on similarities, intersections and differences in women’s roles in local journalism, & engagement in transnational networks in 19th and 20th centuries. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Inconspicuous Impact of Feminist Pressure Through Law 5 Dec 1pm The inconspicuousness of impact is characteristic of feminist efforts to reform the law since historically, feminists have struggled to gain a sympathetic ear among members of the executive or judiciary www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...