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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That's it, at the Institute of Advanced Studies Farewell, dear reader! mailer.ucl.ac.uk/cr/AQj2sBMQ4...

Global Fascisms workshop 30 June 9:30am–7pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Including papers on ‘An ethnographic study of Muslim gig-workers in India’ (Khawla Zainab, Oxford) and ‘The Shaheen Bagh protests in New Delhi, 2019-20’ (Pragya Dhital, SAS). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Workshop: Global Fascisms

This one-day workshop brings together a range of voices and presents new work that reconsiders the complex legacies of fascism, the Second World War and genocide in global context.

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CANCELLED Please note this Friday's Seminar 'Old Materialism: making gold and performing money in pre-modern London and Venice' with Alison Wright (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social ) at @ucl-ias.bsky.social is cancelled due to the extreme heat wave. See you in the Autumn🍂

Old Materialism: making gold & performing money in pre-modern London & Venice 26 June 5:30pm @marxisminculture.bsky.social with Alison Wright (UCL). She questions adequacy of new materialist ethics in face of all-too-human assertion & coercion at play in ‘making’ gold. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Old Materialism: making gold and performing money in pre-modern London and Venice

Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Alison Wright (UCL). Her paper questions the adequacy of new materialist ethics in the face of the all-too-human assertion and coercion at play in ‘making’ ...

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Becoming a Novelist in Post-Brexit Britain 23 June 5:30–7pm @uclselcs.bsky.social Four Italian Women on Writing, Identity and the Contemporary Novel. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Becoming a Novelist in Post-Brexit Britain

Four Italian Women on Writing, Identity and the Contemporary Novel.

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Radical Ecology presents: Wedding Songs & Agit Prop 24 June 6-8pm An evening of performance, reading, reflection & collective encounter with artists, writers, musicians & activists who work on racial justice, environmental justice, memory, displacement and repair. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Radical Ecology presents (as part of London Climate Action Week): Wedding Songs & Agit Prop

Wedding Songs & Agit Prop is an evening of performance, reading, reflection and collective encounter bringing together artists, writers, musicians and activists whose work engages questions of racial ...

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Becoming a Novelist in Post-Brexit Britain 23 June 5:30pm 4 novels offer a compelling insight into recent Italian migration to the UK. They prompt reflections on language, memory, social & cultural privilege, and on how 'home' can be reimagined in contemporary Britain. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Becoming a Novelist in Post-Brexit Britain

Four Italian Women on Writing, Identity and the Contemporary Novel.

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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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Racial Capitalism and the Urban: Racial dynamics in Brazilian cities 16 June 5-6:30pm The second lecture in the series examines how racial classification shapes peripheral urbanisation in Brazil, with Professor Renato Emerson dos Santos. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Racial Capitalism and the Urban: Racial dynamics in Brazilian cities

The second lecture in the 'Racial Capitalism and the Urban' series examines how racial classification shapes peripheral urbanisation in Brazil, with Professor Renato Emerson dos Santos.

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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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TOMORROW!! IAS Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany Author Holly Fletcher overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wealth while thinness indicated poverty. 9 June 6pm www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

IAS Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany

The IAS is pleased to welcome author Holly Fletcher, whose book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wea...

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TONIGHT! FLIGHT PATHS: Of Avian Lives and Human Survival Creative-Critical Readings and Translations in English and German 8 June 2026, 6pm–7:30pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

FLIGHT PATHS: Of Avian Lives and Human Survival

Creative-Critical Readings and Translations in English and German

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join us next Thu, 11th June 6:30PM at the @ucl-ias.bsky.social +online for the ‚Building Sites’ book launch www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-book-l... The book wouldn‘t happen had the researchers on the TF/TK project 2020-24 not read and discussed Sérgio Ferro‘s writings in a regular reading group

IAS Book Launch Building Sites: Architecture, Labour and Production Studies

The book addresses the need to advance the understanding of relations between architectural design and the labour of building.

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I am on the Big Train southwards to London, where tomorrow evening I’m going to give this public lecture at UCL. All welcome, but do please register. Maybe see some London peeps there…

UCL Digital Humanities@ucldh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Prof Melissa Terras argues Digital Humanities is not just the usage of computational tools to explore human creativity & culture, but an important rejection of and opposition to surveillance, data & platform capitalism. UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture 2026 2 June 6pm www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures 2 June 2-4pm Instead of disaster narratives, Xiaofan Amy Li approaches risk from the fresh perspective of ludic aesthetics, or playful, gamelike, illusionistic and experimental literary strategies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

Please join us in celebrating the launch of Xiaofan Amy Li's book The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures.

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📢Last chance to grab one of the few remaining tickets! 📢 The more things change - Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world 2 June 2026, 6pm-8pm www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

The more things change - Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world

UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture.

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IAS Book Launch: Sonic Relations. Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands 3 June 6-8pm Stefan Williamson Fa examines how sound shapes religious & communal life among Shi‘i Muslims in east Turkey, foregrounding the powerful role of vocal poetic recitation. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Sonic Relations

We are welcoming Stefan Williamson Fa to the IAS to present his first monograph Sonic Relations. Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands.

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The more things change: Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world. The @ucldh.bsky.social welcomes Melissa Terras (University of Edinburgh) for the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture to talk about the role of community, and the importance of data and software sovereignty. buff.ly/76fK8fH

IAS Book Launch: Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment 21 May 6-8pm We welcome the authors, Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, for the launch of their book, a comparative study of contemporary fiction in neoliberal ruins. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment

We welcome the authors, Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, for the launch of their book, a comparative study of contemporary fiction in neoliberal ruins.

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Audio-visual Media & the Global Dream Space 4-5 June 2026 In the face of planetary permacrisis & a collective urgency to imagine new forms of worldmaking, this event seeks to take stock of & analyse the audio-visual project of the global space from multiple perspectives www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Symposium: Audio-visual Media and the Global Dream Space

The IAS is pleased to support this symposium charting the audio-visual production which, from the mid-twentieth century, constituted a key site for creating, circulating and debating ideas about an em...

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Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof 27 May 2:30-4pm Join Rana Banna & Mary Newman for their next reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense and Proof

Join IAS Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for their reading group, which explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasti...

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IAS Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures 2 June 2-4pm Franco-East Asian literatures help us rethink risk in linguistically diverse and cross-cultural contexts, providing a new paradigm for comparative criticism and world literature. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

Please join us in celebrating the launch of Xiaofan Amy Li's book The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures.

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We welcome Stefan Williamson Fa to present his monograph: 'Sonic Relations. Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands' 3 June 2026, 6-8pm The book examines how sound shapes religious and communal life among Shi‘i Muslims living in eastern Turkey. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Sonic Relations

We are welcoming Stefan Williamson Fa to the IAS to present his first monograph Sonic Relations. Devotion and Community in Turkey's Eastern Borderlands.

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Workshop: Literary Translation as a Creative-Critical Practice 21 May 2026, 10am-2pm Attendees will be able to undertake practical tasks to get a taste of how creative and critical approaches meet when translating works of literature. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Workshop: Literary Translation as a Creative-Critical Practice

Attendees will be able to undertake practical tasks to get a taste of how creative and critical approaches meet when translating works of literature.

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🚨 TONIGHT! 6pm 🚨 'The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire

We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.

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Workshop: Literary Translation as a Creative-Critical Practice 21 May 2026, 10am-2pm Attendees will be able to undertake practical tasks to get a taste of how creative and critical approaches meet when translating works of literature. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Workshop: Literary Translation as a Creative-Critical Practice

Attendees will be able to undertake practical tasks to get a taste of how creative and critical approaches meet when translating works of literature.

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FLIGHT PATHS: Of Avian Lives and Human Survival 8 June 6–7:30 pm Creative-Critical Readings and Translations in English and German www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

FLIGHT PATHS: Of Avian Lives and Human Survival

Creative-Critical Readings and Translations in English and German

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IAS Book Launch: Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment 21 May 2026, 6pm-8pm Hans Demeyer (@uclselcs.bsky.social) & Sven Vitse (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) launch their book, a comparative study of contemporary fiction in neoliberal ruins. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment

We welcome the authors, Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, for the launch of their book, a comparative study of contemporary fiction in neoliberal ruins.

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