Please join us in celebrating the launch of Xiaofan Amy Li's book The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures.

A one-day symposium that will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.

This BA ECRN Writing Retreat is part of a series. Whilst previous retreats have explored themes such as languages of the future and slowness, this workshop will invite participants to reflect on the t...

We are pleased to host the international launch of this three-volume urban history of Europe - from ancient to contemporary times - and to welcome the editors and many of the contributors.

UCL Centre for French & Francophone Research welcomes author Denis Saint-Amand (Université de Naumur) to discuss his new book, which seeks to grasp the coherence of Rimbaud's complex poetic project an...

In her inaugural lecture, Jane Gilbert will explore how recent creative encounters between visually impaired people and various art-forms show us new ways to read blindness in medieval manuscripts.

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Join us for a conversation about theatre and representation with the French playwright Penda Diouf

Dr Jann Matlock will give this SELCS Society Lecture, reflecting on the way moments of crisis show how literature and critical theory make possible resistance, and instils hope for democratic values.

Prof Jane Gilbert will examine song and the modality of realism in 'La Chastelaine de Vergi' and 'L’Istoire de la Châtelaine du Vergier et de Tristan le chevalier'

18 March, 15:00-17:00 | Online, registration free but essential. With Minji Lee (Montclair State) and François Quiviger (Warburg Institute).

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

We are pleased to welcome Niall Sreenan for the launch of his book Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel. Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction.

A rich historiography of architecture in France has long maintained that it was men alone who could become architects prior to 1902.  But were there, in fact, others?

A talk by Dr Katja Haustein (Kent) following the release of her latest book 'Alone with Others'. Chaired by Prof Patrick Bray

UCL French & Francophone Research is delighted to announce the 2026 Noble Lecture with prize-winning French novelist Adèle Yon.

A talk by Dr Katja Haustein (Kent) following the release of her latest book 'Alone with Others'. Chaired by Prof Patrick Bray

A rich historiography of architecture in France has long maintained that it was men alone who could become architects prior to 1902.  But were there, in fact, others?

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

Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this Oscar nominated historical rollercoaster.

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

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).

The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), Aubrey Gabel (Columbia University), and Dennis Duncan (UCL).

We welcome Prof Anne Duprat (U. Picardy Jules Verne) to give this seminar. The Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to co-host this event with UCL Comparative Literature and UCL Fren...

For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on ‘Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting’.

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

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

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

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

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

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.

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

An Early Modern Exchanges event with Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)

Join us for a discussion with Dr Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), on "suspect citizenship", a framew...

Join UCL Urban Lab to launch Sunčana Laketa's new book Cities of Banal Warfare: Affective Geographies in Violent Times. This event is part of the Urban Lab's 20th anniversary event series.

This lecture examines the interconnections between the development of modern France’s republican and democratic institutions, the rise of the Second Empire, and the colonisation of Algeria.

The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).

The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).

This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.

We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, ...

We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, ...

The Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to present this conversation with Frances Clemente (Oxford), Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford) and Christina Parte (UCL).

We are delighted to welcome prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse to discuss her book 'The Convoy', which documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, ...

The Octagon Small Grants Fund supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences. Apply by 24th February.