qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker 19 Oct 6pm, UCL From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies, Stryker finds surprising places to tune into the origins, idiosyncrasies & generative possibilities of the gender concept www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker

From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies to examples from her lifetime as an agenda setting historian, filmmaker and activist, Stryker finds surprising places to tune ...

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IAS Book Launch: Biography of a Revolution 22 June 6-8pm Tracing the long genealogy of Egyptian feminist organising across the twentieth century, she shows how women's resistance to both state & domestic violence created the political conditions for 2011. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Biography of a Revolution

We are welcoming Lucia Sorbera for the launch of her book Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt.

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IAS Book Launch: Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt. 22 June 6-8pm At the centre of Lucia Sorbera's book are women human rights defenders — the activists, organisers, and survivors whose work made the Egyptian revolution possible. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Biography of a Revolution

We are welcoming Lucia Sorbera for the launch of her book Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt.

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Book Launch: Elect Women for a Change 9 Jun 12–1pm The book provides a roadmap for gender parity in politics, drawing on author Prof Mona Lena Krook’s academic work & 25+yrs policy experience working with international organizations, governments & civil society groups. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Book Launch: 'Elect Women for a Change' by Professor Mona Lena Krook

Join us for a lunchtime book launch, hosted jointly by the Department of Political Science and the Institute of the Americas.

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just a few tickets remaining for my book launch on 2 June in London! get 'em before they're gone: www.eventbrite.com/e/1986476474...

Book Launch of Katie Gaddini's 'Esther's Army'

Join us in person to celebrate the launch of Katie Gaddini’s new book 'Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right'

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Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care & Race in US-Mexico Borderlands 26 May 4:30-6pm Uncovering nearly 100yrs of struggle, Prof Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of border fought to reclaim autonomy & care for themselves & their community www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Prof Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their community.

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Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care & Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 26 May 4:30pm Uncovering 100yrs of struggle, Prof Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy & care for themselves & their community www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Prof Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their community.

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GOTH symposium - Gender and Otherness in the Humanities Friday, May 15, 9am-5pm The Open University, Kents Hill Gender and otherness in drama, literature, creative writing and visual culture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/6th-annual...

6th Annual GOTH Symposium

SAVE THE DATE: The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate.

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Queering 20thC Irish Women’s Writing 1 May 5:30pm @naoisemurphy.bsky.social will discuss her new book, disrupting narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality & race in the postcolonial state. With Sophie Chauhan, @jackconneely.bsky.social & @ctlnkane.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

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Women and (Musical) Histories An interdisciplinary study day for PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers, with a focus on gender studies, to explore academic publishing avenues. 📅19th June at the Royal Academy of Music, London www.ram.ac.uk/research/wom...

Women and (Musical) Histories | Royal Academy of Music

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Book Launch: 'Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right' 📅2 June 5:30pm @uclsociology.bsky.social welcome you to the launch of 'Esther's Army' by @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social. A sweeping portrait of the women shaping the political future of the US. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book Launch: 'Esther's Army'

UCL Sociology Network are excited to welcome you in person to celebrate the launch of 'Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right' (WW Norton) by Katie Gaddini.

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Our last big hurrah before we're shut down. We hope you can join us (free lunch!) 28 April 2026, 9am-5pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

A one-day symposium that will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.

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‼️Registration closing soon!‼️ The Devil Made Me Do It: Understanding Occult Crime in South Africa 20 April, 5:30 pm, UCL Prof Nicky Falkof will discuss how beliefs in occult crime intersect with problems of gender, race and class. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Devil Made Me Do It: Understanding Occult Crime in South Africa

The UCL Africa Research Centre is delighted to welcome author Prof Nicky Falkof, Director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, to discuss her new book.

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Friends - I'm launching my book in London at @qucl.bsky.social on May Day - I promise extra anti-capitalism in honour of the occasion 🥖🌹and if that isn't enticement enough, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Sophie Chauhan and @jackconneely.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

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Call for Papers: Sexuality and Shame Conference 📅 27-28 May 2026 @exeter.ac.uk Submission Deadline: 27 March This conference explores how sexual shame has been historically produced, regulated, circulated & contested across different periods & social settings exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

IAS Book Launch: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice 19 March, 6-8pm This edited volume considers the role of storytelling and experimental, creative and often collaborative interventions across, between and beyond disciplines. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice

We look forward to the launch of this edited volume with the editors Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez, Hakan Sandal-Wilson.

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Call for book chapters: abstracts by 16th March 2026 Rethinking queer ageing: The significance of geo-temporal contexts. Edited by Linn Sandberg, Rebeka Põldsam and Rebecca L. Jones (me!) Academic understandings of LGBTQ+ ageing are dominated by Anglo-American contexts, which means that [...]

‘Bright young thing’: Stephen Tennant, a life lived on his own terms, part of Faces of UCL. His story is one that has influence and relevance today. buff.ly/KURnyzq Photo credit: © National Portrait Gallery, London @ucl.ac.uk @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social

Call for Papers: New Mergers of Feminism and Finance A one-day symposium at the London School of Economics 📅 8 May 2026 ⚠️ Submission deadline: 23 March 2026 Organised by former @ucl-ccs.bsky.social visiting fellows, Dr Rachel O’Neill & Dr Simidele Dosekun www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Call for Papers: New Mergers of Feminism and Finance

A one-day symposium at the London School of Economics, 8 May 2026. Submission deadline: 23 March 2026

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Women & (Musical) Histories, Early Career Researcher Day 📅 19 June 2026 This Royal Academy of Music event is to support ECRs exploring the intersections of gender & history across humanities & creative arts. More details to come. Interested ECRs/PhDs can email questions to WMH1Conference@ram.ac.uk

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...

All good things come to an end

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 on 31 July 2026.

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Happy 200th anniversary UCL! Founded in 1826, and from 1878 UCL becomes the first university in England to welcome women to university education.

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...

Book Talk: 'Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France'

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?

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Book talk: Feminism Enchanted 24 Feb 6pm qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er @eryanbing.bsky.social to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason? www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book talk: Feminism Enchanted

qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er, to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason?

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Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'. 12 February 2026, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice

This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'.

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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14 10 February 2026, 3:30pm-5pm An informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

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Screening and Q&A: Gentle, Angry Women This is a documentary with an intergenerational conversation on the history of the women's peace movement. Director Barbara Santi will join online for a Q&A. 27 January 2026, 5:30pm-7pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Screening and Q&A: Gentle, Angry Women

This is a documentary with an intergenerational conversation on the history of the women's peace movement. Director Barbara Santi will join online for a Q&A.

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Join our online information sessions to discover more about the Gender, Society and Representation MA. Hear directly from the programme team and gain insights into what it’s like to study at UCL. Book onto events in Feb and March: buff.ly/NH8htxT @uclselcs.bsky.social

Gender Society and Representation MA: Virtual Open Event 11 Mar 2026, 12:00 – 13:00 Join @artshumsucl.bsky.social Graduate Open Event for anyone who is interested in applying for the Gender Society and Representation MA at UCL. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Gender Society and Representation MA: Virtual Open Event March

Join our Graduate Open Event for anyone who is interested in applying for the Gender Society and Representation MA at UCL.

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