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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 2d

Sylvia Townsend Warner's Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing
22 October 2025, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
Join us for the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture, featuring Harriet Baker.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner's Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing

Join us for the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture, featuring Harriet Baker.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 2d

Dylan Thomas: Need We Say More?
10 October 2025, 12pm-1pm
You are invited to this Friday Lunchtime Session organised by ARIEL, UCL's Centre for Creative Practice Research. Dr Dai George will be joined in conversation by Mererid Puw Davies.
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Dylan Thomas: Need We Say More?

You are invited to this Friday Lunchtime Session organised by ARIEL, UCL's Centre for Creative Practice Research. Dr Dai George will be joined in conversation by Mererid Puw Davies.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social · 2d

Launching the new issue of Migration and Society - exploring migration, solidarity & the “Anti-Refugee Machine”.

Featuring editors from @ucl.ac.uk Geography and @ucl-ias.bsky.social.

🗓️ 21 Oct, 4:30–6:30pm | Online

#Migration #Refugees #Solidarity #UCLGeography

Migration and Society launch: solidarity and the “Anti-Refugee Machine”

Launching the latest issue of 'Migration and Society', which highlights global research on migration, solidarity & refugee experiences.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 9d

Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.

📅27 Oct, 2-4pm
📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN

Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour.

www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

The 1950s Shit They Want From Me: Tay-Vis and the Disciplinary Lens of Reproductive Labour

Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain @ucl-cmcb.bsky.social · 7d

Teaching Britain & Britishness: challenges & dilemmas
16 Oct 5:30–7:30pm
A roundtable on how contemporary understandings & practices of British values, citizenship & belonging are being addressed in education with contributions on primary, secondary & higher education.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Teaching Britain and Britishness: challenges and dilemmas

A Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain round table discussion on how contemporary understandings and practices of British values, citizenship and belonging are being addressed in education with ...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 8d

Logistics and Power in Illegitimate Markets
29 Oct 5-7pm
@ucl-ccs.bsky.social is delighted to welcome Susan Zieger to give this seminar.
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Logistics and Power in Illegitimate Markets

UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is delighted to welcome Susan Zieger to give this seminar.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 8d

Teaching Britain and Britishness 16/10/25. The concept of Britishness is bitterly contested. This roundtable will interrogate the inequalities, key challenges and dilemmas in supporting students to confront complex and diverse historical legacies: tinyurl.com/2ucmh8hz
@ucl-ias.bsky.social

Teaching Britain and Britishness: challenges and dilemmas

A round table discussion on the contested nature of Britain and Britishness in primary, secondary and higher education

tinyurl.com

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 16d

The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/...

Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

White text on magenta background: Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. leverhulme.ac.uk/news
"We are excited to be collaborating with the British Academy on this new podcast to help early career researchers navigate every stage of their career journey."

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 9d

Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-Čapková.

🗓️ 23 October at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@themhra.bsky.social

Event poster for 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' with a painting titled 'After breakfast' by Elin Danielson-Gambogi, 1890.

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 12d

Of interest to @uclamericas.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social perhaps?

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 12d

Symposium: Useful Cinemas / Useful Archives: Labour, History and Mediation in Latin American Film & Video
7–8 Oct 4-8pm @uclselcs.bsky.social
We're delighted to co-host this symposium that brings together scholars & filmmakers to reflect on ongoing research.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Symposium: Useful Cinemas / Useful Archives

The IAS is delighted to co-host the symposium 'Useful Cinemas / Useful Archives. Labour, History and Mediation in Latin American Film and Video' that brings together scholars and filmmakers to reflect...

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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 16d

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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 16d

Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 13d

On 30 September:

Sounds like a superb event on nature in socialist art history, all part of the ERC/UKRI supported research project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts @ucl-ias.bsky.social.

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 12d

This book by the excellent @selenadaly.bsky.social, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, looks really interesting. Come celebrate its launch!

@uclselcs.bsky.social, @artshumsucl.bsky.social

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Jul 11

IAS Book Launch: Emigrant Soldiers
15 October 2025, 5:30pm-7:30pm
We are delighted to host Selena Daly and the launch of her book 'Emigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Emigrant Soldiers

We are delighted to host Selena Daly and the launch of her book 'Emigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War'

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 19d

Book Launch: ARTMargins on the Socialist Anthropocene
30 Sept 6–7:30pm
Investigating transformation of nature in socialist art history, by discussing artworks that disclose environmental impacts of the system’s extractivist & terraforming interventions in natural world.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Special Issue of ARTMargins on the Socialist Anthropocene

Join editors Maja and Reuben Fowkes for the launch of a special issue of ARTMargins on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 19d

Workshop: Dwelling in / on Gordon Square
20 September 2025, 2pm-5pm
This half-day workshop is part of the #OpenHouseFestival and invites participants to “collectively dwell” and map Gordon Square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Workshop: Dwelling in / on Gordon Square

This half-day workshop is part of the Open House Festival and invites participants to “collectively dwell” and map Gordon Square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Sarah Parker Remond Centre @sprc-ucl.bsky.social · 26d

Remembering Errol Lawrence
1 Oct 4:30–8:00 pm
This event will be of interest to all who are writing, creating and working on the politics of housing and its effects upon communities in societies today.
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Remembering Errol Lawrence

This event will celebrate the life, work and legacy of Errol Lawrence

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · 26d

Object-based Learning workshop and book launch
15 Oct, 2:30–7pm with @ucllccos.bsky.social
Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Object-based Learning workshop and book launch

Please join us for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · 26d

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
19 November 2025, 4pm-6pm
We welcome Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · Sep 5

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
6 Oct 6-8pm
With @sprc-ucl.bsky.social we are pleased to host Dean Spade, discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade

qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Émile Zola: Life and Dream
2 October 5-7pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
We are pleased to host this triple book launch:
'Émile Zola: A Determined Life' by Robert Lethbridge
'Zola's Dream: Idealism on Trial' by Claire White
'Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life' by Rachel Bowlby
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'

The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Sep 5

Workshop: Dwelling in / on Gordon Square
20 September 2025, 2pm-5pm
This half-day workshop is part of the Open House Festival and invites participants to “collectively dwell” and map Gordon Square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Workshop: Dwelling in / on Gordon Square

This half-day workshop is part of the Open House Festival and invites participants to “collectively dwell” and map Gordon Square along the axes of space, sound, senses, memory and meaning. Let's mobil...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bordering Social Reproduction | 25th September 2025

An in-person & online #BookLaunch and conversation with Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson, authors of 'Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows'.

#Migration #SocialPolicy #Welfare

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Bordering Social Reproduction | 25th September 2025 | Barnard's Inn Hall, London & Online

An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Professor Rachel Rosen & Dr Eve Dickson, authors of 'Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows'.

isrf.org

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UCL Critical Childhood Studies Centre @criticalchildhood.bsky.social · Sep 5

Palestinian Childhoods: Solidarity and Ṣumūd
1–14 September 2025, 10am-4pm
An immersive experience to counter the dehumanisation of the Palestinian people: exhibition, film screenings, community events, international conference, family days.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Palestinian Childhoods: Solidarity and Ṣumūd

An immersive experience to counter the dehumanisation of the Palestinian people: exhibition, film screenings, community events, international conference, family days.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Charms & Experiments in English Medieval Medical Manuscripts
11 September 1-2pm at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Join this Historical Health & The Body Reading Group session for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Two drawings of skeletons from the early modern period, with bones and muscles numbered

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