🔊 Yugo Queer Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. 🗓️ 19 February ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

'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...

CfP: Everyday Communication in the Holocaust This workshop will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University, Monday 29 – Tuesday 30 June 2026. Deadline for submissions: 4 May 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) 4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health 2 Feb 6:15–8:15pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcome Susi Geiger & Théo Bourgeron to present their new book, which traces the long-wave movements between the pharmaceutical industry, its discontents and regulators. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula' (2025 @versobooks.bsky.social) Steve Edwards & Gail Day in discussion with Alex Fletcher & Stephanie Schwartz Fri 30 Jan 5.30-7.30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social IAS Common Ground, G11, South Wing, UCL, WC1E 6BT www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England 22 January 2026, 1pm–2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s 29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Working with Open Source 12 February 2026, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Discover how open-source tools can transform your research. A roundtable for PhD students and Early Career Researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

IAS Roundtable on Budget 20 January 2026, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm This roundtable brings to the spotlight the common calculative practice that is central to modern society – Budget. 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...

Yugo Queer 19 February 2026, 2pm-9pm Yugo Queer remaps the Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. This hybrid conference aims to make area studies more queer and queer studies more far-reaching. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened 9 Feb 5pm Authors Tash Walker & Adam Zmith will launch their book 'The Log Books', an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) 4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health 2 February 2026, 6:15pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcome authors Susi Geiger @susigeiger.bsky.social & Théo Bourgeron @theobourgeron.bsky.social to present their new book. Chaired by Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

What the Eye Does Not See: Albert Renger-Patzsch and the Problem of Photographic Facture 22 January 2026, 5:30pm-7:30pm @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social welcome Professor Megan R. Luke (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) for this research seminar. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

**UCL staff and students only** 💰IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund💰 supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from Arts & Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social & Social & Historical Sciences. Up to £500 per application. ⚠️Apply by 12 Jan 2026 ⚠️ www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Gail Day & Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula, 'Amphibious Realities'. 30 Jan, 5:30–7:30 pm Join this @marxisminculture.bsky.social seminar on Allan Sekula, the award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, photographer, filmmaker and theorist. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Finance has shaped our world. Now it must help build the one we need. Today we launch the Global Consortium for Rethinking Capitalism: a new international alliance of universities & practitioners reimagining what finance can make possible for public value. Learn more+watch the trailer: gcrc.online

My friend and colleague, Michael Collins's Windrush Cricket arrived in the post today. Christmas has come early! @uclhistory.bsky.social y.social @academic.oup.com

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There is still time to join our Race Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies MA - Information Session today: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #MARaceEthnicityandPostcolonialStudies

CfP: Women and Musical Histories, 1789–1914 Submit by 31 Jan 26 Royal Academy of Music, London; 3-4 Sept 2026 They welcome papers (20 mins) & lecture-recitals (30 mins) that address the broad theme of women in/and musical history across the period 1789–1914. www.ram.ac.uk/research/wom...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) 4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health 2 Feb 6:15pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcomes authors Susi Geiger (U. College Dublin) and Théo Bourgeron (U. of Edinburgh) to present their new book. Moderated by Toby Seddon @sriucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

On Resonance: Literature, Theory, Education 10 Dec 5:30–7:15pm Could the idea of resonance offer another slant on the “love of literature,” while also clarifying how critical theory can animate, and captivate? 60th PESGB Lecture with Rita Felski (U. Virginia) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Ethiopian Christianity, Islam and European Perceptions of Religious Sameness and Difference 10 December 2025, 5pm–7pm A UCL Early Modern Exchanges seminar with Eduardo Fernández Guerrero (The Warburg Institute) and Carlos Cañete Jiménez (CSIC) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Out of Gaza 4 December 2025, 6pm-8pm With @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social we are delighted to host Katharina Galor for the launch of her book 'Out of Gaza. A Tale of Love, Exile, and Friendship'. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Critical Games 2 Dec, 6:30-8pm Please join @timb-m.bsky.social Tim Beasley-Murray for the launch of his new book Critical games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, Literature and Life. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

If you are in London on 2nd December and interested in Critical Games, do come and help launch it at the UCL Institute of Advance Studies! I'll be in discussion with Abigail Wiliams (Oxford/KCL). @manchesterup.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl-ias.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

How public art shapes community and identity in Delhi’s Lodhi Art District. 📅 25 November | ⏰ 1 PM – 2 PM | Free and open to all! Find out more: tinyurl.com/ucl-lodhi #UCLGeography #PublicArt #UrbanIdentity #CityLife #CreativePlacemaking @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-ias.bsky.social

Our Next Seminar: 📢☢️ Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany, with Sarah James Friday 28th November 2025, 5.30-7.30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Theatre and Marxism(s), with Shane Boyle @shaneboyle.bsky.social Friday 5th December 2025, 5.30-7.30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil, with Thomas Waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social Friday 12th December, 2025 5.30-7.30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Head to @ucl-ias.bsky.social next week, 26 Nov at 6:00pm GMT, to hear Richard Ellis discuss his book, When Galaxies Were Born, a firsthand account of how scientists harnessed the world’s largest telescopes to decipher the history of the universe and witness cosmic dawn. Learn more: buff.ly/MoKWGpL

‘So-called Puerperal Insanity’ Diagnosing Postnatal Mental Illness (late 19th-early 20thC) 27 Nov 6:15pm With case studies from London & Liverpool asylums, Hilary Marland examines response of asylum doctors to debate about role of childbirth in prompting mental illness www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Galaxies 26 November 2025, 6pm-8pm Join us at the IAS for a double book launch dedicated to galaxies. We welcome authors Richard Ellis (When Galaxies were Born) and Or Graur (Galaxies). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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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...

I’ll Make Me a World: The Past, Present & Future(s) of Black History 18 Nov 5:30pm @uclamericas.bsky.social @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Prof Givens identifies what’s at stake in “black memory work” & what can be done to preserve & expand this important intellectual tradition www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Join us in person at UCL, or online, at 6pm on 9th December. Register at isrf.org/events/neoli...

#London! Join Alison Bashford tonight, Nov 13 at 6:15pm, with @ucl-ias.bsky.social & @uclhhcentre.bsky.social as she discusses her new book, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic. #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #BookTour #palmistry buff.ly/Bw0sA38

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...

Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany 28 November 2025, 5:30pm-7:30pm An Ultra-Violet Art History of Afterlives. Join this @marxisminculture.bsky.social seminar with Sara James (Manchester School of Art, MMU) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Galaxies 🌌✨🚀 26 November 2025, 6pm-8pm Join us at the IAS for a double book launch dedicated to galaxies. We welcome authors Richard Ellis (When Galaxies were Born) and Or Graur (Galaxies). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Biometrics and Palmistry: The UCL Story 13 Nov 6:15pm-7:30pm Join Alison Bashford FBA, who will explore the central place of UCL-associated research in this unexpected strand of medical history and of somatic diagnostics. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

New Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies 12 Nov 2:30pm Join IAS Fellows Rana Banna & Mary Newman for the first session, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting & smelling www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

⏰Still time to register! Cricket, Imperial Culture and the Remaking of Postwar England 10 Nov, 5:30pm-7pm Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social will re-consider the postwar history of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and how cricket 'remade' postwar England. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📚 Book Launch Join us for the launch of Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World by Dr. Steve Cushion. 🗓️ Date: 12 November 2025 🕠 Time: 17:30–19:00 BST 💻 Location: Online 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

British Academy Early Career Network: Writing Retreat 28 Nov, 9am-5pm @britishacademy.bsky.social ​​​​​​​If you are an early career researcher looking to finish (or start) that piece of writing/lecture/grant application/proposal, this event might be for you! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...