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RESCHEDULED: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition & Performance This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data—such as muscle activity, movement, and physiological signals—can function to drive, represent and inform musical expression across music making...

RESCHEDULED: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition & Performance
13 March 12-1pm
This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data can function to drive, represent and inform musical expression across music making and education domains.
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Call for Papers: ECR Workshop on South Asia and the Indian Ocean World This Early Career Researcher's Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for doctoral and postdoctoral scholars from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to present their research and to...

Call for Papers: ECR Workshop on South Asia & the Indian Ocean World
📅 Deadline: 15 April | Workshop: 15 June
An interdisciplinary forum for doctoral & postdoctoral scholars from Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to present their research & participate in debate.
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A @uclpress.bsky.social publication. Of interest to @artshumsucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @qucl.bsky.social @ucl-gfrn.bsky.social @sprc-ucl.bsky.social probably!

We look forward to the launch of this edited volume with the editors Natasha Tanna @natashatanna.bsky.social, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez @abeyamiortega.bsky.social and Hakan Sandal-Wilson @hsw.bsky.social

IAS Book Launch: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice We look forward to the launch of this edited volume with the editors Natasha Tanna, Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez, Hakan Sandal-Wilson.

IAS Book Launch: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice
19 March, 6-8pm
This edited volume considers the role of storytelling and experimental, creative and often collaborative interventions across, between and beyond disciplines.
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IAS Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel 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.

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'
3 March 6-8pm
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Apprehending other worlds 4 March, 15:00-17:00 | Online, registration free

Apprehending other worlds
4 March 3-5pm, online with @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social
What life counts as political? Increasingly, answers go beyond the merely human. With Mohamed Amer Meziane (Brown), Melissa Leach (Cambridge) and James Fairhead (Sussex)
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Holistic ecologies before modernity 18 March, 15:00-17:00 | Online, registration free but essential. With Minji Lee (Montclair State) and François Quiviger (Warburg Institute).

Holistic ecologies before modernity
18 March 3-5pm, online
Two fascinating pre-modern figures: the cosmic polymath Hildegard of Bingen & French artisan philosopher of a sentient world, Bernard Palissy. With Minji Lee(Montclair State) & François Quiviger(Warburg)
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Women & (Musical) Histories, Early Career Researcher Day
📅 19 June 2026
This Royal Academy of Music event is to support ECRs exploring the intersections of gender & history across humanities & creative arts. More details to come. Interested ECRs/PhDs can email questions to WMH1Conference@ram.ac.uk

Check out our latest episode: In Conversation with Keir Milburn and Kai Heron
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#podcast #radicalabundance #globaleconomy

Call for Papers: New Mergers of Feminism and Finance A one-day symposium at the London School of Economics, 8 May 2026. Submission deadline: 23 March 2026

Call for Papers: New Mergers of Feminism and Finance
A one-day symposium at the London School of Economics
📅 8 May 2026
⚠️ Submission deadline: 23 March 2026
Organised by former @ucl-ccs.bsky.social visiting fellows, Dr Rachel O’Neill & Dr Simidele Dosekun
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RTs welcome! @uclartssciences.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @orwellprize.bsky.social @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social

IAS Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel 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.

IAS Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel
3 March 6-8pm
Tracing how narrative fiction has responded to humanity’s traumatic dethronement, Niall Sreenan's book explores themes of hereditary fate, violence, sexual competition, and utopian desire.
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Play As We Are: A Symposium of Somatic Sound Practices In this Symposium, Maya Felixbrot, Ali Baybutt and Aina Font will share and facilitate an intensive workshop to immerse you - musicians, music scholars, musical movers - in our work, methods and appro...

Play As We Are: A Symposium of Somatic Sound Practices
15 May 10am–5pm
Maya Felixbrot, Ali Baybutt and Aina Font will share and facilitate an intensive workshop to immerse you - musicians, music scholars, musical movers - in our work, methods and approaches.
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No, the Sarah Parker Remond Centre and its MA programme will continue.

All good things come to an end 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.

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.

We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026.

Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗

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The Song of Songs: Poetry in History How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.

The Song of Songs: Poetry in History
10 April 2-5pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.
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Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph "Artistic Labour of the Body" Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Rose Anne-Gush, Alexander Stoffel, and Jenny Nachtigall. They will examine the use of the body and psyche as artistic material to explore Adorno’s concept o...

"Artistic Labour of the Body" Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph, with @rsenne.bsky.social Alexander Stoffel and Jenny Nachtigall.

Fri 20 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground, G11 Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

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Reflectance Transformation Imaging 4-day Training Course This 4-day course, led by Dr Kathryn Piquette, will run from 13-16th October 2026 and includes a combination of lectures, demonstration, and practical hands-on sessions.

📷 Reflectance Transformation Imaging Training Course
📅 13-16th October 2026
This course, led by @kathrynpiquette.bsky.social, includes a combination of lectures, demonstration, and practical hands-on sessions 🙌🏽🤩
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Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).
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IAS Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel 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.

Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel
3 Mar 6–8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
Sreenan revisits the legacy of Darwin’s thought in works by Thomas Hardy & Émile Zola, and in utopian fictions by Aldous Huxley & the more contemporary Michel Houellebecq.
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The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data—such as muscle activity, movement, and physiological signals—can function to drive, represent and inform musical expression across music making...

The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance
13 Feb 12-1pm
This ARIEL Lunch Session explores how biometric data can function to drive, represent & inform musical expression across music making & education domains
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Forgotten Fear of Excrement Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

The Forgotten Fear of Excrement
19 February, 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
The Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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IAS Book Launch: The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 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.

International launch of the Cambridge Urban History of Europe

Ft. our own Roey Sweet in conversation with the series editors Maarten Prak, Penelope Davies, Christina Williamson, Patrick Lantschner, Dorothee Brantz & Gábor Sonkoly

🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏰ 6:15 pm–8:15 pm
📍 @ucl-ias.bsky.social

Early Career Network: Slow Scholarship Dr Alison Brady will discuss the key ideas that tie together the “slow movements” and how this applies to the reality of early career research in the university. We will then strategize possible ways ...

Early Career Network: Slow Scholarship
6 March 9:30-4:30
*For members of the @britishacademy.bsky.social #BAECRN*
Dr Alison Brady will discuss key ideas that tie together the “slow movements” & how this applies to the reality of early career research in the university.
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Book Talk: 'Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France' 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?

Book Talk: 'Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France'
25 Feb 5pm-7pm
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?
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Book talk: Feminism Enchanted qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er, to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason?

Book talk: Feminism Enchanted
24 Feb 6pm
qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er @eryanbing.bsky.social to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason? www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data—such as muscle activity, movement, and physiological signals—can function to drive, represent and inform musical expression across music making...

The Body as a Future Instrument: Exploring the Use of Biometrics in Musical Composition, Performance
13 Feb 12-1pm
This ARIEL Lunchtime Session explores how biometric data can drive, represent & inform musical expression across music making and education domains.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...