UCL SSEES
@uclssees.bsky.social
UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is the UK’s largest national centre for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
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📢We are thrilled to announce our Graduate Open Evening 2026!
📆28 January 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
📌UCL SSEES Masaryk Common Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
🎓Join us and meet our Admissions Tutors and academic colleagues from across our subject areas!
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
📆28 January 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
📌UCL SSEES Masaryk Common Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
🎓Join us and meet our Admissions Tutors and academic colleagues from across our subject areas!
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
How do cultural organisations in the UK engage with the new cultural discourse of decolonisation that has gained momentum in response to Russia’s aggression against #Ukraine? Join us for this roundtable discussion to find out more.
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How do cultural organisations in the UK engage with the new cultural discourse of decolonisation that has gained momentum in response to Russia’s aggression against #Ukraine? Join us for this roundtable discussion to find out more.
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Reposted by UCL SSEES
Looking forward to presenting @uclssees.bsky.social next week on Tea Arciszewska’s life and her (tragically timely) modernist play about children in wartime, “Miryeml.”
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Looking forward to presenting @uclssees.bsky.social next week on Tea Arciszewska’s life and her (tragically timely) modernist play about children in wartime, “Miryeml.”
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
🔊 Job vacancy: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Bulgarian Language and Culture
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🔊 Job vacancy: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Bulgarian Language and Culture
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
Join us for this special areas studies event with Prof. Rudra (Rudy) Sil, who will discuss the impact of qualitative research in an era of big data.
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Why Comparative Area Studies Needs Area Studies - and Vice Versa
Magnifying the Impact of Qualitative Research in an Era of Big Data
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Join us for this special areas studies event with Prof. Rudra (Rudy) Sil, who will discuss the impact of qualitative research in an era of big data.
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🔊 This Friday!
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🔊 This Friday!
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🔊 Book talk!
Journalist @joannalillis.bsky.social will present 'Silk Mirage', her new book on #Uzbekistan, a country at the centre of a power struggle between reformers and reactionaries for the soul of this strategic land in Central Asia.
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Journalist @joannalillis.bsky.social will present 'Silk Mirage', her new book on #Uzbekistan, a country at the centre of a power struggle between reformers and reactionaries for the soul of this strategic land in Central Asia.
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🔊 Book talk!
Journalist @joannalillis.bsky.social will present 'Silk Mirage', her new book on #Uzbekistan, a country at the centre of a power struggle between reformers and reactionaries for the soul of this strategic land in Central Asia.
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Journalist @joannalillis.bsky.social will present 'Silk Mirage', her new book on #Uzbekistan, a country at the centre of a power struggle between reformers and reactionaries for the soul of this strategic land in Central Asia.
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
Reposted by UCL SSEES
All eyes on UCL for its 200th birthday. Across 3 nights our Wilkins Building and main Quad will transform into an immersive sound and light experience as UCL illuminated takes us through the history of London’s oldest university. 11–13 Feb 2026 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/app/ev/25074/
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
All eyes on UCL for its 200th birthday. Across 3 nights our Wilkins Building and main Quad will transform into an immersive sound and light experience as UCL illuminated takes us through the history of London’s oldest university. 11–13 Feb 2026 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/app/ev/25074/
Reposted by UCL SSEES
to to SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London in two weeks' time!
It will be fun.
It will be fun.
Has Kazakh society found a solution to divisive ethno-nationalism? How have ordinary citizens shaped their identities? Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood.
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
to to SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London in two weeks' time!
It will be fun.
It will be fun.
🔊 Deadline approaching: South-East European Studies Fellowship!
The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes at SSEES.
Apply by 1 Dec.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes at SSEES.
Apply by 1 Dec.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Submissions Open: South-East European Studies Fellowship
The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes / opportunities at SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🔊 Deadline approaching: South-East European Studies Fellowship!
The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes at SSEES.
Apply by 1 Dec.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
The fellowship is awarded to PhD students from the territories of the former Yugoslavia, with special emphasis on those areas of SEE which do not benefit from existing schemes at SSEES.
Apply by 1 Dec.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Has Kazakh society found a solution to divisive ethno-nationalism? How have ordinary citizens shaped their identities? Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood.
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Has Kazakh society found a solution to divisive ethno-nationalism? How have ordinary citizens shaped their identities? Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood.
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
📢We are thrilled to announce our Graduate Open Evening 2026!
📆28 January 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
📌UCL SSEES Masaryk Common Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
🎓Join us and meet our Admissions Tutors and academic colleagues from across our subject areas!
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
📆28 January 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
📌UCL SSEES Masaryk Common Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
🎓Join us and meet our Admissions Tutors and academic colleagues from across our subject areas!
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📢We are thrilled to announce our Graduate Open Evening 2026!
📆28 January 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
📌UCL SSEES Masaryk Common Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
🎓Join us and meet our Admissions Tutors and academic colleagues from across our subject areas!
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
📆28 January 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
📌UCL SSEES Masaryk Common Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
🎓Join us and meet our Admissions Tutors and academic colleagues from across our subject areas!
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🔊 Job vacancy: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Bulgarian Language and Culture
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🔊 Job vacancy: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Bulgarian Language and Culture
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
The post-holder will specialise in delivering teaching and assessment in Bulgarian language. The post is available from 5 January 2026 until 31 August 2026.
🗓️ Deadline: 26 November
➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/8X7gQ03
Reposted by UCL SSEES
Last night I and others presented our special items at the event held at @uclssees.bsky.social: The Balkans, its Diasporas, and the Stories of Material Culture, facilitated by Arbër Qerka-Gashi, @ailievskazavrsnik.bsky.social, Mirela Xhaferraj and @ramonagonczol.bsky.social.
Which were my items?
Which were my items?
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Last night I and others presented our special items at the event held at @uclssees.bsky.social: The Balkans, its Diasporas, and the Stories of Material Culture, facilitated by Arbër Qerka-Gashi, @ailievskazavrsnik.bsky.social, Mirela Xhaferraj and @ramonagonczol.bsky.social.
Which were my items?
Which were my items?
Please join us for this special areas studies event with Prof. Rudra (Rudy) Sil, who will discuss the impact of qualitative research in an era of big data.
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Why Comparative Area Studies Needs Area Studies - and Vice Versa
Magnifying the Impact of Qualitative Research in an Era of Big Data
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Please join us for this special areas studies event with Prof. Rudra (Rudy) Sil, who will discuss the impact of qualitative research in an era of big data.
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Co-organised with @uclamericas.bsky.social and @uclhjs.bsky.social.
🗓️ 8 December at 3pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnic-vio...
Reposted by UCL SSEES
I’ll be at this event in London this evening at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London @uclssees.bsky.social
There are only a handful of tickets left!
And what an amazing line-up of speakers too. It promises to be a very interesting evening.
There are only a handful of tickets left!
And what an amazing line-up of speakers too. It promises to be a very interesting evening.
The Balkans, its Diasporas, and the Stories of Material Culture
Facilitated by: Arbër Qerka-Gashi, Ana Ilievska Zavrsnik, Mirela Xhaferraj and Ramona Gonczol
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I’ll be at this event in London this evening at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London @uclssees.bsky.social
There are only a handful of tickets left!
And what an amazing line-up of speakers too. It promises to be a very interesting evening.
There are only a handful of tickets left!
And what an amazing line-up of speakers too. It promises to be a very interesting evening.
How do cultural organisations in the UK engage with the new cultural discourse of decolonisation that has gained momentum in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine? Join us for this roundtable discussion to find out more.
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
How do cultural organisations in the UK engage with the new cultural discourse of decolonisation that has gained momentum in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine? Join us for this roundtable discussion to find out more.
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 8 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Join us next week for this Politics and Sociology seminar with author @joannalillis.bsky.social to hear about her new book 'Silk Mirage' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Join us next week for this Politics and Sociology seminar with author @joannalillis.bsky.social to hear about her new book 'Silk Mirage' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
🗓️ 27 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Please join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@lediona.bsky.social
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@lediona.bsky.social
Bleeding borders: Ethnic violence and social transformation in the Greco-Albanian borderlands
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, University of Manchester
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Please join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis, who will examine how paramilitary mobilization, violence, and nation-building reshaped north-western Greece circa 1940-49.
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@lediona.bsky.social
🗓️ 28 Nov at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@lediona.bsky.social
Please join us on Monday to hear more about
@kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy'
@universitypress.cambridge.org.
Discussants: @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy'
@universitypress.cambridge.org.
Discussants: @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Please join us on Monday to hear more about
@kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy'
@universitypress.cambridge.org.
Discussants: @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
@kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy'
@universitypress.cambridge.org.
Discussants: @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social
🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering.
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.
🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Join our PhD and MRes Graduate Open Zoom Session on Tuesday 2nd December 2025! Learn more about postgraduate research opportunities at UCL SSEES!
This online session will be led by PhD and MRes Admissions Tutor, Dr Michał Murawski.
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
This online session will be led by PhD and MRes Admissions Tutor, Dr Michał Murawski.
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Join our PhD and MRes Graduate Open Zoom Session on Tuesday 2nd December 2025! Learn more about postgraduate research opportunities at UCL SSEES!
This online session will be led by PhD and MRes Admissions Tutor, Dr Michał Murawski.
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
This online session will be led by PhD and MRes Admissions Tutor, Dr Michał Murawski.
Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...