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UCL Arts and Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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
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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
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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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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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
Event poster for 'T.S. Eliot's anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era' with a photo ofT.S. Eliot quote in concrete, embedded in the ground on the Queen's Walk, near the Tate Modern Gallery.
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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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...
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UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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. studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl-e…
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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
'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...
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'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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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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
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Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thinking others in @uclselcs.bsky.social will be interested in this emphasis of the importance of the Humanities in Medicine.
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UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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
Social Science in CHina Today
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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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
Mosaico Mag
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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It's official @fmussgnug.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social has sold out the Gustave Tuck. Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.
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UCL Dutch @ucldutch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
StellaBruzzi, Dean of UCL Arts & Humanities introducing Prof Florian Mussgnug's inaugural lecture "Loving Apocalypse too much" @UCLSELCS.bsky.social #CompLit
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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
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...
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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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UCL Dutch @ucldutch.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
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
UCL Dutch koffie-uurtje
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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
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...
ANS bursary
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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
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...
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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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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
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
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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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Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
If you use your British Library password elsewhere, now would be a good time to stop doing that.
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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
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
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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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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
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
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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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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
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
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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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UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies @uclhjs.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
A letter of support from Jewish staff to Jewish students at UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
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Letter of support for Jewish students
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