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'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery'

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 1d

🗞️ Professor Alana Harris seeks restorative justice for asylum patients buried at the abandoned Horton Cemetery. She said there were 120 cemeteries across the country, with Epsom's the largest, but also "the most derelict, in most need of saving and attention". 👇

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 Congratulations to @kclalumni.bsky.social Nick Makoha (Creative Writing PhD) and former @kingsenglish.bsky.social staff member Sarah Howe on being shortlisted for the @tseliotprize.bsky.social 🙌

T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 3d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 1d

💡 Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social explores decolonising the curriculum & asks 'how we might rethink the work we do in the classroom to persuade students that there remains value to reading at length, to living with complexity and resisting easy answers' in @globalpolicy.bsky.social ⤵️

Global Policy @globalpolicy.bsky.social · 3d

Opinion

Against Mastery: Thinking in the Shadow of Neoliberal Times

www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/10/2...

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 3d

✒️ 'This deeply learned, crisply written biography is equally remote from hagiography and iconoclasm.'

Ritchie Robertson reviews the new book, Goethe: A Life in Ideas, by Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social for @litreview.bsky.social 🔽
literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-lig...

Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell

literaryreview.co.uk

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 3d

Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education, Dr Rachael Kent explains that social media platforms are not neutral spaces but “commercial ecosystems” that stand to profit from deepfake videos promoting supplements.

Read more 👇
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

NHS doctors want 'deepfake doubles' banned as health scams put patients at risk

Deepfake videos of NHS doctors promoting supplements have been circulating on social media, raising concerns about medical misinformation and questions about where to pin liability.

www.mirror.co.uk

COMMENT: Singapore's national identity excludes those who don't look like a 'regular family' | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 6d

🇸🇬 Singapore commits to being a nation of equality – but is this a reality for every citizen?

Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social shows how Singapore's policies on issues such as housing and COVID restrictions favour heterosexual couples for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️

Nationalism usually works on the basis that a nation should imagine itself as a “we”, with a common identity, history and culture. But it doesn’t always clearly say who the “we” are. Instead, it…

The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 6d

🇩🇪 On 20 October, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com joins Queer@King’s and the Centre for the Humanities and Health to discuss her latest book, The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, telling the forgotten story of the world’s first centre for homosexual & transgender rights.

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Author and historian Brandy Schillace joins Queer@King’s and the Centre for the Humanities and Health for a talk about her latest book, The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story.

Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Novel | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 7d

🦊 Elisha Cohn from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social rethinks the status of animals in fiction by theorizing the novel as a form of multispecies ecology or a 'milieu' in this talk for @kingsenglish.bsky.social on her new book.

📆 13 October
⏰ 16:30-18:30
🔗 Find out more ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/milie...

Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in fiction by theorizing the novel as a form of multispecies ecology: as a milieu.

The Digital Futures of History | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 8d

🗓️Don't miss 👇
Stuart Dunn, ‘Can AI be superstitious? The digital future of folklore’

Vincent Hiribarren, ‘Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best?’

Stephen Whiteman, ‘What goes in must come out: the possibilities and perils of digital art history and AI’
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-d...

Join us in The Digital Futures of History in looking forward to the new ways in which we may soon be looking back.

On The Calculation of Meaning, Or Doing Words Without Things | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 9d

⌨️ On 15 Oct, Dr @mrsbunz.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social explores Large Language Models and literary & philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike meaning produced in communication.

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Bringing computational mechanisms of Large Language Models in conversation with literary and philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike…

Author Sir Michael Morpurgo inspires students at King's Opening of Year Ceremony | King's College London

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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 12d

#ThisWeekAtKings world-renowned author and King’s alum, Sir Michael Morpurgo returned to King's to welcome students to the new academic year.

Sir Michael shared reflections from his time at King’s, encouraging students to value both learning and friendship. ⬇️

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/author-...

King’s alum, world-renowned author and former Children's Laureate, Sir Michael Morpurgo welcomed students to the new academic year at this year's Author Sir Michael Morpurgo inspires students at King'...

Clara Obligado & Fiona Mackintosh: Escritura, edición y traducción | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 12d

🌱 Join Language Acts and Worldmaking for a workshop with author Clara Obligado and translator Fiona Mackintosh to discuss Todo lo que crece. Naturaleza y escritura (2021) / All that grows. Nature and Writing (2025).

📆 2 Oct
⏰ 11:00
📚 Part of the London Spanish Book & Zine Fair
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Join us for a workshop with Argentine-Spanish author Clara Obligado and her translator Fiona Mackintosh.

Cosmographia Antarctica: The Early Modern invention of the Southern World between the Andes and the Mediterranean | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 13d

King's alumnus Sir Michael Morpurgo FKC (English, French & Philosophy) welcomed students at the Opening of Year Ceremony 2025 today. This was followed by a Q&A with Dr Edmund Gordon discussing Michael's experiences as a student, his storytelling and his hopes for the future.

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 14d

🔭 On 1 October, Dr Juan Carlos Mantilla from @kingsdllc.bsky.social presents his project Cosmographia Antarctica, exploring how Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ⤵️

Juan Carlos Mantilla explores how between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward.

Religious culture and control in and beyond the Global Iberian World | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 Happening today: Professors Fernando Baños Vallejo and Carme Arronis Llopis from @ua.es present on early modern Iberian religiosity and cultural control ⛪

⏰ 16:00-18:00
📍 Bush House, Strand campus
🌎 Hosted by Language Acts and Worldmaking

🔗 Register here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/relig...

The Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking welcomes two scholars from the University of Alicante, Professors Fernando Baños Vallejo and Carme Arronis Llopis.

Report Launch: Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 16d

💡 'It can feel weird asking for help... and intimidating as an Early Career Researcher.'

Dr Pavan Mano (@kingsinterhums.bsky.social), Dr Leonie Smith & Professor @annavignoles.bsky.social discuss academic funding on the new @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk podcast ⤵️
shorturl.at/FGNct

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 21d

⏰ Only one day to go!

Join us tomorrow to discuss findings from Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social & Dr Laura Gibson's @kingsdh.bsky.social research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education.

📍 Online, 11:30-13:00

Access the report & register here 🔽

Join us for this online event to present and discuss findings from our recent research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education.

Dr Nicole Graham explores stand-up comedy, theology, and ethics in new book | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 21d

📖 Dr Nicole Graham's analysis of comedians draws on themes of building communities, comical targets, exploring cancel culture and addressing the assumption that ethical comedy must always “punch up”👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-nico...

In her new book, co-authored with Reverend Dr Jacob D. Myers (Columbia Theological Seminary), Dr Nicole Graham, Lecturer in Ethics and Values at King’s Department of Theology & Religious Studies, draw...

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Sep 9

🗣️ Hear from Professor Roberta Comunian (@kingscmci.bsky.social), Professor Eka Ikpe (African Leadership Centre @kings-sga.bsky.social), @martaforesti.bsky.social & @tiziana.bsky.social.

🗓️ Saturday 13 September 2025, 11:00am-12:30pm
📍 King’s College London, Bush House
🎟️ Free, ticket required

All Other Passports: shapes and sounds of visa inequality | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Sep 9

🛂 Millions are denied short-stay visas to Europe every year. In 2024 alone, rejected applicants lost €145M in fees – 90% from Africa & Asia.

On 13 Sept, exhibition by LAGO Collective & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will explore visa inequality through data, sound and design ⬇️

Mark the beginning of LDF25 with an exhibition by LAGO Collective & King’s College London in the historic Bush House.

@kingsinterhums.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Sep 3

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Sep 3

🏆 Congratulations to Global Cultures MA student @eilerasmussen.bsky.social on winning the AKC Leathes Prize for an essay on the ethic of radical, relational love 💘

'To have that work recognised affirms that these questions are shared, urgent, and alive,' said Éile ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/global-...

Global Cultures MA student wins AKC Leathes Prize for essay on love

Éile Rasmussen, student on the Global Cultures MA, has won the AKC Leathes Prize for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities for her essay on the ethic of radical, relational love.

My Global Cultures MA research: Knowledge is empowerment

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Aug 29

🎓 Lauren Castle-Baker (Global Cultures MA) shares how modules on diversity and inclusion, the digital realm of global cultures, and gender studies and globalisation have altered her approach to work projects.

💡 Originally published on @alivewithideas.bsky.social

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Lauren Castle-Baker describes how the Global Cultures MA has influenced the way she approaches her career.