Less than a month until UCL turns 200 🎂 Throughout 2026 we’ll be celebrating our bicentenary with events, stories and projects that showcase the best of UCL. Get involved: buff.ly/jN8LfBc @uclhjs.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social

📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...

Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford

An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Please join us for the next Study of Central Europe seminar with @jcbretan.bsky.social to hear more about British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era. 🗓️ 27 January at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @annakoch.bsky.social

Come learn Edwardian ballroom dances from a 1909 Jewish dance card in the Gaster Papers! With dance instructor Susan de Guardiola (USA), Subject Librarian @vrfreedman.bsky.social and myself (talking about Jewish balls). @uclhjs.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

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Come Fill Your Dance Card. A @uclhjs.bsky.social and @uclspeccoll.bsky.social event, 5 February, 6-8pm in person at UCL. Learn to party like British Jews around 1900! Book early, spaces are limited www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

In Manchester next week? Come and hear Michael Collins (UCL) on his recent book on Windrush Cricket, Tuesday 27 January 2026, 4 p.m. @manchester.ac.uk Samuel Alexander Building A116 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The CASA Connected Environments Lab, led by Prof Duncan Wilson & Prof Steven Gray, has built an IoT Bus Tracker for the shuttle service between Stratford Station & UCL East, designed and operated by students. https://studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl-east-shuttle-bus-your-journey-just-got-easier

'Feeling for the Sense': Tact & the Art of Interpretation 5 Feb 6:30-8pm In her book 'Alone with Others', using reading encounters with Proust, Plessner, Adorno, Truffaut & Barthes, Dr Haustein asks us to reconsider our ways of engaging with other people, images & texts www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Feeling for the Sense': Tact & the Art of Interpretation

A talk by Dr Katja Haustein (Kent) following the release of her latest book 'Alone with Others'. Chaired by Prof Patrick Bray

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From morose misery to moderate merriment: sniffles, suicide & sadistic, self-immolating trees offered an alternative take on Christmas @oldwoollen.bsky.social. With masterful emceeing by @quantum-sauce.bsky.social, the night moved swiftly from virology to musicology to ecology @uclselcs.bsky.social

Thinking others in @uclselcs.bsky.social will be interested in this emphasis of the importance of the Humanities in Medicine.

Harry Wallop@harrywallop.co.uk · 9mo ago

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Report in Social Sciences in China Today on UCL-PKU project "Decoding Climate Narratives: Climate Change Communication in China & UK". Many thanks to @ucl-global.bsky.social & @pku1898.bsky.social for the kind support ai-and-society.org/projects/dec... @artshumsucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Excited to announce Mosaico Mag, the #UCL #SPLASsociety publication for creative writing, current affairs, reviews & photography re the Hispanic & Lusophone worlds. Submissions open: finished pieces or just ideas, all contributions welcome. Deadline: 3 Dec. @artshumsucl.bsky.social tr.ee/mAoyB6xQKD

It's official @fmussgnug.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social has sold out the Gustave Tuck. Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.

John Sabapathy@jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Large red-letter day Tues 28 Oct @uclselcs.bsky.social + @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social when my wonderful colleague @fmussgnug.bsky.social will give his inaugural professorial lecture on why we love apocalypse so much (and maybe shouldn't…?). In person, 18:00. #Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature

StellaBruzzi, Dean of UCL Arts & Humanities introducing Prof Florian Mussgnug's inaugural lecture "Loving Apocalypse too much" @UCLSELCS.bsky.social #CompLit

Funding for postgraduate study at UCL. Have a look at our wide range of Masters programmes incl. #ModernLanguages, #ComparativeLiterature, #FilmStudies, #EuropeanStudies, #GenderStudies, and more: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

UCL Masters Bursary

The UCL Master Bursary aims to enable and encourage those from lower income backgrounds to pursue a full-time or part-time Master's degree studies at UCL.

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What a joy! A full house at koffie-uurtje today for our Sinterklaas celebrations. All students had written poems for each other, including the beginners after only 8 weeks of Dutch. Very impressed. 🤩 @uclselcs.bsky.social

We are happy to announce a new bursary scheme for postgraduate Dutch Studies @ucldutch.bsky.social, made possible by our friends and partners from the Anglo-Netherlands Society (ANS): www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...

Don't miss our second inaugural lecture this year: professor Haki Antonsson on 'The Beginning of Njáls Saga: Or the Attractions of Opposites', 6 December, 5:30pm www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...

The Beginning of Njáls Saga: Or the Attractions of Opposites.

Professor Haki Antonsson’s Inaugural lecture: The Attractions of Opposites. This event is free and open to all.

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Before tomorrow's Inaugural Lecture, lets spend 60 seconds with ... Professor Claire Thomson | SELCS - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... Grab your free tickets in the link above

60 seconds with... Professor Claire Thomson

Professor Claire Thomson reflects on her research as she prepares to give her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Public health films in mid-century Scandinavia, at UCL on 22 November 2023...

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If you use your British Library password elsewhere, now would be a good time to stop doing that.

Lesley Pitman@lesleypitman.bsky.social · 3y ago

British Library data now apparently up for sale to the highest bidder. This screenshot now circulating in the other place.

We are one week away from our first Inaugural of the year - Register here for your free Tickets! Cigarettes & alkohol: Public health films in mid-century Scandinavia | SELCS - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... By Professor Claire Thomson

Cigarettes & alkohol: Public health films in mid-century Scandinavia

Assessing the imaginative strategies used by filmmakers to capture audiences, Professor Claire Thomson's inaugural lecture is free and open to all.

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Save the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm) On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... By Professor Patrick Bray

On Literary Taste

What pleasure do we get from reading literature? Should we study literary taste? Does our taste in literature provide us with useful knowledge?

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Save the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm) On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... By Professor Patrick Bray

On Literary Taste

What pleasure do we get from reading literature? Should we study literary taste? Does our taste in literature provide us with useful knowledge?

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A letter of support from Jewish staff to Jewish students at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Letter of support for Jewish students

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