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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👑 What was life like for the women courtiers of Charles II? @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social, @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social, Dr Hannah Dawson and Catharine MacLeod examine how women embraced travel, consumerism and libertinism at this @cemskcl.bsky.social event on 22 October. buff.ly/H0MXfq5
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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a conversation on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
✏️ Mark your diaries! Next month @cemskcl.bsky.social, Kerry Apps, Hannah Dawson, Catharine MacLeod, & ME will be talking about Restoration women, their libertinism, their consumerism, & their contact with the expanding world. Book here & spread the word 🌍 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...
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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a conversion on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🇪🇸 In this Valedictory Lecture, Professor Federico Bonaddio (@kingsdllc.bsky.social) explores (im)personality in Lorca’s poetry, his concern with human life, and connections to Spanish cinema. 📆 29 September ⏰ 18:00-20:00 📍 Bush House 🔗 Register for your ticket 👇 buff.ly/fQAanEA
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What’s in a Name? Lorca, Cinema, and the Allure of Personality | King's College London
In this Valedictory Lecture, Federico Bonaddio will reflect on the question of (im)personality as it relates to the poetry of Federico García Lorca and to academic methodology.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🏆️ Grace Yee Shuen Cheng, PhD student in @kingsdllc.bsky.social, has won the Paragraph Prize for Best Article for her analysis of Proust and his use of “texture”, which acts as a layer between the observer and reality. 🔗 Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/kGKei26
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PhD student wins prize for best journal article | King's College London
Grace Yee Shuen Cheng, PhD student in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, has won this year’s Paragraph Prize for Best Article.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📢 FINAL FEW WEEKS The Enemies and Rascals exhibition at the @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Maughan Library closes next month, so make sure you stop by 👇
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🩺 Professors Patrick ffrench and Neil Vickers have co-edited a special issue on the history and and epistemology of the medical humanities for @histhum.bsky.social. This edition marks the first time the field's development has been compared across the UK, France and USA ⬇️ buff.ly/kmzDlRC
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Special journal issue on medical humanities published | King's College London
Two King’s academics have co-edited a special journal issue on the history of the medical humanities, representing a major milestone in the field.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
💡 'I'm more agile than I gave myself credit for.' Discover how @kclalumni.bsky.social Pierrette Hebga Meinrad (German with English Literature BA) founded health tech company SenaForma with support from the @kingsei.bsky.social King's Start-up Accelerator ⤵️ buff.ly/g11Q3um
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A Start-up Founder's Story: SenaForma
Driven by her experience as a young carer, Pierrette is building SenaForma to put disabled people, not their diagnosis, at the centre of product design. Read her story.
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King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures @kingsdllc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🗳️ 'Five political parties would have to form a coalition against the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt to find a majority without it. This would likely not satisfy any of their voters or bring about the change so many crave.' Visiting Research Fellow Katja Hoyer explores AfD's victory in Germany's elections 👇
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King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures @kingsdllc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇩🇪 'What people want most is real change. They've stopped believing that the mainstream parties can deliver this – and the parties have not given them cause to think otherwise.' Katja Hoyer analyses the AfD's success in Germany's local elections on @deutschewelle.dw.com 👇 www.dw.com/en/how-the-a...
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How the AfD changed its pitch and broke through
Historian Katja Hoyer says the AfD's breakthrough was fueled by a more upbeat campaign around Ulrich Siegmund, while mainstream parties struggled to offer a positive vision of change.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
👏 Congratulations to Dr Craig Moyes from @kingsdllc.bsky.social on being appointed as Collège des chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone at the Université d'Ottawa. He will spend a month at the institution to further his book project on poetics and ecology in 20th-century Quebec 🇨🇦
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🇨🇦 ‘Giving in to American pressure on this point would amount to relinquishing a degree of sovereignty.’ Dr Craig Moyes from @kingsdllc.bsky.social speaks to @france24.com about the role of French language and culture in the trade war between Canada and the US ⬇️ www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...
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Guerre commerciale : face à Trump, le Canada défend la langue française et sa souveraineté
Mark Carney a affirmé, lundi, que les États-Unis avaient fait des demandes “inacceptables” qui “auraient mis en péril la culture et la langue française” au Canada. Le Premier ministre canadien en a fa...
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🧑‍🩰 On the Classics and Poetry Now podcast, Dr Justine McConnell talks to composer and installation artist Neo Muyanga about his recent production, The Bacchae: An African Choral Ballet, produced by Joburg Ballet. 🎧️ Listen here ⤵️ buff.ly/483EnOv @kingsclassics.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social
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A conversation with Neo Muyanga
Podcast Episode · Classics and Poetry Now · 6 August · 44min
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King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures @kingsdllc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Etiane Cheung, who graduated this summer, has received the prestigious Jelf Medal for @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🎉 'Etiane’s presence has genuinely made @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social a better place, and her intelligence, positivity and maturity are inspiring,' said Professor Sarah Bowden ⬇️
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Congratulations to Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social, who has been elected as a @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow 🙌 He was recognised for his work on the history of the literature and ideas of modern Europe, especially Germany 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-a...
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King's academics elected to prestigious British Academy Fellowship | King's College London
Professor Katherine Brickell and Professor Matthew Bell from King’s College London have been elected as British Academy Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and ...
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🫖 What can a tea brand tell us about a nation? Global Cultures MA student Zsofia Balatoni explores the relationship between Chagee – a Chinese milk tea brand – and China's soft power ambitions in South East Asia 👇 @kingsinterhums.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social
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Soft power, one sip at a time
Zsofia Balatoni analyses how the Chinese tea brand Chagee constructs a myth of “Chineseness” in Singapore, turning everyday consumption into a vehicle of soft power.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Dr @saramarzagora.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social will develop the concept of genre pedagogy – the deliberate labour of authors to make new textual genres legible and persuasive – with focus on early 20th century Ethiopia and the role of literature in cementing the nation's independence.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
👏 Three academics from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities have received @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Fellowships for 2026 ⤵️🧵
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
📢 The programme for the 2026 Worldmaking on Stage Forum is now live! Visit the link below for details 👇
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🪪 'Was my great-grandfather a Nazi, a reluctant conscript or something in between?' Katja Hoyer analyses the impact of a new online tool that allows anyone to search the digitised records of the Nazi Party ⬇️ 🔗 www.ft.com/content/2229... @kingsdllc.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social
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The Nazi files shedding new light on family secrets
Party membership records are now searchable online. But, as many Germans are finding out, the archive poses more questions than it answers
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📢 NEW: Enemies and Rascals 🇨🇦 From 3 July, a new exhibition in the Maughan Library of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social reveals a forgotten episode of North American history: the Invasion of Quebec during the American War of Independence ⬇️🧵 buff.ly/CK9WJzD
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨 Live facial recognition cameras are being expanded to London's West End. Yet when an algorithm flags the wrong person for police attention, who bears the cost? Louise Mackin, student on the Global Cultures MA, explores the racial bias behind facial recognition technology 👇
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The Met Police's facial recognition cameras don't see all faces…
When an algorithm flags the wrong person for police attention, who bears the cost?
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
📽️ Can film contribute to climate justice and community-led activism in the Amazon? This panel explores the opportunities and tensions at the intersection of cinema, advocacy and social change for London Climate Action Week. 📆 25 June ⏰ 15:00 📍 Strand campus 🔗 Sign up for tickets ⤵️
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Film, activism and climate justice in the Amazon | King's College London
Can film contribute to climate justice and community-led activism in the Amazon?
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🎓️ @kingsdllc.bsky.social is launching Neurodivergences & Modern Languages on 23 June, a new series exploring the unique challenges that neurodivergent students face when studying languages, literatures and film at universities across the UK and Ireland ⬇️ buff.ly/qY7xg3f
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Introduction to Neurodivergences & Modern Languages | King's College London
Online talk series ‘Neurodivergences & Modern Languages’ explores the unique challenges that neurodivergent students face when studying languages, literatures and film at universities across the UK…
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🇧🇷 How do theatre and performance shape the ways societies remember slavery, resistance and Black political struggle? Join @kingsenglish.bsky.social and @kingsdllc.bsky.social on 24 June to explore the legacy of Zumbi dos Palmares in Brazilian theatre and culture 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/stagi...
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Staging Black Resistance: Theatre, History and the Legacy of Zumbi in Brazil | King's College London
Join us for a seminar exploring the enduring legacy of Zumbi dos Palmares in Brazilian theatre and culture.
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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
One year ago I was honoured to receive the @kingsartshums.bsky.social Distinguished Alumni Award for Changemaker of the Year. The picture on Strand is still a shock! There’s still a lot of work to do, but I’m thankful to be able to play a small part ❤️‍🔥 #KCLAlumni #changemaker #barrister
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🎭️ Are you interested in theatre translation? This one day forum on 14 July sets the scene for a week of play readings from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain, presented in English translation every evening at Omnibus Theatre in Clapham, South London. 🔗 Register ⤵️
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Worldmaking on Stage Forum 2026: Theatre Translation Networks in Building Acts of Worldmaking | King's College London
A one-day discussion forum aimed at theatre translation practitioners and researchers.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🇵🇹 Join us for a book launch and conversation celebrating the 500th anniversary of Luís de Camões on 25 June. Bringing together seven Portuguese artists, the volume reimagines the women of Camões’ lyric poetry through the language of contemporary comics and visual storytelling 👇
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Sete Mulheres, Sete Musas / 7 Women, 7 Muses: Camões in Comics | King's College London
7 Women, 7 Muses: Camões in Comics is a book launch and conversation celebrating an anthology created to mark the 500th anniversary of Luís de Camões.
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King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures @kingsdllc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🗣️ Our new online talk series ‘Neurodivergences & Modern Languages’ explores the unique challenges that neurodivergent students face when studying languages, literatures and film at universities across the UK and Ireland. The opening session will take place on 23 June, register to attend 🔽
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Introduction to Neurodivergences & Modern Languages | King's College London
Online talk series ‘Neurodivergences & Modern Languages’ explores the unique challenges that neurodivergent students face when studying languages, literatures and film at universities across the UK an...
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
⚡ A new undergraduate degree in Global Media and Languages is now available at King’s with @kingscmci.bsky.social and @kingsdllc.bsky.social. Learn more about the programme at King’s Undergraduate Open Days on 27 June and 5 September, taking place on our Strand campus in central London ⬇️
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King's launches BA in Global Media and Languages | King's College London
A new undergraduate degree in Global Media and Languages is now available at King’s with the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Culture...
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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🎟️ Have you booked your ticket yet? Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social invites you to join us for the Digital Futures Institute Festival of Storytelling on 2-4 June. 🔗 Discover our free event programme: tickettailor.com/events/dfistory
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🎮️ 'You press the start button. You boot up the game. In doing so, you also launch a metamorphosis of space and the self.' Steven Williams examines the relationship between queerness, identity and video games for New Voices in Global Cultures ⤵️
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Respawning as queer: Playing games to playing with gender
Steven Williams examines the relationship between queerness and playing video games.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🖼️ 'Ambiguity has long been recognised as central to Rego’s work. But here, stripped of the scale and theatricality of her large pastels, it feels more immediate.' Alexandra Lourenço Dias reviews the Paula Rego exhibition at @victoriamiro.bsky.social for @uk.theconversation.com 👇
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COMMENT: Paula Rego's Story Line – an exhibition that invites exploration of the ambiguous narratives the Portuguese artist drew | King's College London
At first glance, these look like sketches – the kind artists make on the way to something more finished. But that expectation doesn’t quite hold.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🖋️ How have women writers navigated global conflict while shaping feminist debates? From the late 19th century through to World War II, women's war writing acted as a site of cultural activism and international solidarity in Europe and Latin America ⬇️
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King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures @kingsdllc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
✍️ How do texts respond to damage, rupture, and loss? 🪡 What kind of mending do they attempt? 💡 What kinds of new beginnings (or closures) do they offer in the wake of harm and destruction? Explore repair as method, practice and hope on 4 June ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/liter...
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Literatures and Cultures of Repair | King's College London
Join us for the annual Postgraduate Research Conference hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (DLLC) at King’s College London.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🇩🇪 Why was the town of Weimar so important to the Nazis? Due to it's significance in German culture and history, the Nazis wanted to make Weimar a district capital – changing the city's architecture forever with their ideology, says Katja Hoyer, Visiting Research Fellow in @kingsdllc.bsky.social ⬇️🧵
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📺️ How is women's ambition portrayed in Pakistani television shows? Maham Sajid (Global Cultures MA) explores which desires are rendered visible, which are contained, and which stories about women translate to international audiences ⬇️ buff.ly/jSoeHfH
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🇨🇱 Experience performance in conversation with academic research at this staging of HABLAN by Leyla Selman – translated as THEY SPEAK by Professor Catherine Boyle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social. 📆 14 May ⏰ 14:00-16:00 📍 Soho Poly 🔗 More details 👇
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HABLAN (THEY SPEAK) by Leyla Selman: an Illuminated Lecture - Soho Poly
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
☪️ Professor Mercedes García-Arenal examines the reading habits and literary culture of Spain's Moriscos – the Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity in 1502 and expelled in the early seventeenth century – at this Language Acts and Worldmaking seminar on 29 April. 🔗 Register ⤵️ buff.ly/BdwK3fP
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
✒️ Interested in the ethics of survivor testimony and witness literature? Dr Zoe Norridge from @kingsenglish.bsky.social & @kingsdllc.bsky.social contributes to this panel discussion, hosted by @warstudieskcl.bsky.social and @kingssocialscience.bsky.social ⤵️
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Witness Literature: Writing Exceptional Violence in the Global South | King's College London
This event introduces Minoli Salgado’s recent monograph, Witness Literature: Culture, Memory and Contested Truths
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🤔 What do we know about gender and sexuality in medieval times? Shape the future of queer medieval studies at this workshop hosted by Queer@King's and the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies on 5 June 🏳️‍🌈 🏰 @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social 🔗 Register ⬇️
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Queering the Medieval: 2026 Edition | King's College London
Queer@King’s and the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (CLAMS) invite applications to participate in a workshop exploring and shaping the future of queer medieval studies.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🎓️ If universities become STEM-heavy, 'we end up with a small number of elite universities that do arts and humanities, and then arts and humanities doesn’t become a driver of social mobility,' said Professor Bowden 🔗 Read more in @timeshighered.bsky.social 👇 buff.ly/EqLOxub
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UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest
‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
💭 'Instead of cutting languages, universities should work together with languages departments to think about how they can do things differently.' Professor Sarah Bowden from @kingsdllc.bsky.social highlighted the 'vicious cycle' facing arts & humanities subjects in @timeshighered.bsky.social 🧵
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🇩🇪 How does Germany's past continue to shape the modern world? Discover 'Reichs and Republics' the new podcast by @drcrdillon.bsky.social and Katja Hoyer charting Germany's history and its relevance today ⤵️ @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/0UpM8Al...
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Reichs & Republics | The German History Podcast
Podcast · Battle Guide · Takes you beyond the familiar clichés to uncover the richness and diversity of the German past. Join us as we untangle this complex story, dispelling the popular myths and misapprehensions about a national history that still shapes the world we live in.  Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Katja Hoyer & Dr Christopher Dillon ⁠⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/reichs-republics#host⁠⁠ To comment and ask questions, please join our community:⁠ https://reichs-and-republics.com/supporters⁠ Support via Paypal:⁠⁠ http://battleguide.co.uk/rr-paypal⁠⁠⁠ Merchandise and Shop: ⁠⁠https://reichs-and-republics.com/collections/all⁠ Our WW1 Podcast:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/⁠ Our WW2 Podcast:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://listen.both-sides-of-the-wire.com⁠⁠ Untitled History Podcast: http://listen.untitled-history.com/ Battle Guide YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT⁠⁠ If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter:⁠⁠ ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter⁠⁠ Katjas socials X (Twitter): ⁠ https://x.com/hoyer_kat Substack: Zeitgeist ⁠https://www.katjahoyer.uk/ General Enquiries: republics@battleguide.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠ Credits: - Host: Katja Hoyer and Dr Christopher Dillon - Production: Linus Klaßen
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King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures @kingsdllc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🏆 Congratulations to Professor Javed Majeed, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, on winning the Outstanding Teaching (PGT) prize at the @kingsartshums.bsky.social Awards! 🔗 Discover all the winners 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
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Staff and students honoured at King's Arts & Humanities awards | King's College London
The annual Arts & Humanities Awards recognises outstanding contributions by student representatives, mentors, community champions - and, for the first time this year, members of staff.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🏆️ Congratulations to this year's winners of the @kingsdllc.bsky.social A-Level writing competitions! The winners' pieces were published in the department's student magazines on Comparative Literature, French, German, and Spanish and Portuguese. 🔗 Read more ⬇️
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Winners of A-Level writing competitions announced | King's College London
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures announced the winners of its annual A-Level writing competitions, with the successful writers seeing their work published in the Department’s…
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🗣️ Join Language Acts and Worldmaking for the launch of a new book raising awareness of the complexities at play in languages education and how these have shaped recent university provision. 📆 20 May ⏰ 18:00-21:00 📍 Bush House South East 🔗 Register for tickets 👇
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Book Launch: Politics and Identity in Language Teaching and Learning
The centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking is launching the book Politics and Identity in Language Teaching and Learning: Voices in Higher Education from the UK and Beyond.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🌎️ On 29 April, Dominic Thomas examines how environmental and migration issues intersect through transregional and transhistorical lenses, and how disinformation and fear generated by the political instrumentalization of these is shaping contemporary societies. 🔗 Register ⬇️
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Climates of Migration: Ecology, Literature and Propaganda | King's College London
Dominic Thomas examines how environmental and migration issues intersect, and how the disinformation and fear generated by the political instrumentalization of these is shaping contemporary…
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🫶 Şeyda Kurt discusses her newly translated book Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion, which argues for a “radical re-imaging of a revolutionary emotion”, at this workshop for @kingsdllc.bsky.social. 📆 22 April ⏰ 15:30-17:30 📍 Strand campus 🔗 Find out more 👇
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Workshop with Şeyda Kurt on “Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion” | King's College London
Şeyda Kurt argues for a “radical re-imaging of a revolutionary emotion”.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🇨🇱 Despite their cultural significance, cantoras – women music poets – have often faced exclusion. Dr María B. Batlle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social says analysing their role can help to understand the way colonialism shaped gender, class and race in Latin America. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ #WomensHistoryMonth
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Women folk singers reveal colonial legacies in Latin America | King's College London
New research shows how the traditional figure of the ‘cantora’ – a woman who composes and performs music and poetry – explains constructions of gender, race and class in Latin America and their roots…
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