☪️ 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.

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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

✒️ 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 ⤵️

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.

🤔 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

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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’

🎓️ 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 👇

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💭 '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 🧵

🇩🇪 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

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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.

🏆 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 👇
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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…

🏆️ 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.

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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.

🗣️ 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

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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…

🌎️ 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.

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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”.

🫶 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

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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…

🇨🇱 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

Film Screening and Q&A with Activist-in-Residence Gaël Le Cornec | King's College London Activist-in-Residence Gaël Le Cornec hosts a screening of Ana (2019) and Q&A.

🎬️ Watch a screening of Ana (2019) followed by a Q&A with director Gaël Le Cornec on 1 April.

Le Cornec is part of the Ecofeminism and Reparative Histories project in King's Activist-in-Residence scheme, pairing academics and researchers to make societal change.

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Stealth Translation at the China-India Border | King's College London Adhira Mangalagiri discusses examples of translation conducted in the shadows to avoid surveillance and expulsion.

🇨🇳🇮🇳 On 18 March, @kingsdllc.bsky.social welcomes Adhira Mangalagiri (New York University) to talk about "stealth translation" – a translational practice that enables the foreign to slip through exclusionary borders – with focus on the China-India border 👇

Out of the Wings: Plays from Uruguay | King's College London Join Out of the Wings at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, for Plays from Uruguay, an encounter with contemporary Uruguayan playwriting, in celebration of the recent publication of The Methuen Drama Book of…

🇺🇾 Immerse yourself in Uruguayan theatre through English translations of six plays by writers who have won widespread recognition at home and beyond Uruguay's borders.

📆 13 March
⏰ 19:30
📍 Omnibus Theatre
🎭️ Hosted by Out of the Wings

🔗 Free to attend – registration required ⤵️

Goethe the radical reactionary | The Observer Matthew Bell’s Goethe: A Life in Ideas reveals a restlessly inventive thinker who admired autocrats and shunned Christianity

💡 'Bell does a very successful job of bringing us back to the themes that connect the wildly diverse ensemble of Goethe’s writings.'

Rowan Williams reviews Goethe: A Life In Ideas by Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social ⬇️

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🎭 Professor Catherine Boyle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social features at this #IWD2026 event by @ilcs.bsky.social exploring how we can make fruitful connections across different types of creative practice, such as theatre translation, poetry translation, creative writing, directing and film-making 👇

Latin etymologies reveal different possibilities for women's resistance and rebellion | King's College London Professor Emily Butterworth, Professor of Early Modern French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, shows how women challenged social structures in sixteenth century France…

🪶 Professor Emily Butterworth from @kingsdllc.bsky.social explores the Latin etymology of 'dissidence' to show how women challenged the world around them in sixteenth century France before the word 'dissidence' became a known term.

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Making in the Moment: Extemporised Verse in Medieval French and Arabic | King's College London Drs Betty Rosen and Geneviève Young draw on their work on the MUSLIVE project to present a comparative perspective on the “spontaneous” making of sung/recited medieval verse.

🎵 Dr Betty Rosen and Dr @genevievehyoung.bsky.social from @kingsmusic.bsky.social present a comparative perspective on the “spontaneous” making of sung/recited medieval verse drawing on their work on the MUSLIVE project at this @kingsdllc.bsky.social research seminar on 4 March ⤵️

Three words brought down the Berlin Wall - ABC listen The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 is one of the most famous events of modern history. And with it came a wave of momentous events - the reunification of East and West Germany, the…

🇩🇪 Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social & @kingshistory.bsky.social says while powerful men have been credited with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the true heroes were everyday men and women

🎧️ Listen on No One Saw It Coming with @marcfennell.bsky.social ⬇️

Songs and stories highlight role of saints in community-building | King's College London “My Name is Oswald”, a new song cycle telling the stories of St Oswald of Northumbria, premiered in a performance in the King’s Chapel on 12 February.

🎼 Discover more about the @oswaldsraven.bsky.social project, including the premiere of the song cycle "My Name is Oswald", on our website ⬇️

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The life of St Oswald YouTube video by King's Arts & Humanities

👑 Why is Oswald of Northumbria – a medieval English king and saint – so popular in the German-speaking world?

A new set of songs based on research by @oswaldsraven.bsky.social tell us how he transcended cultures and languages through ever-evolving stories ⬇️

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Translate and Rule: Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive | King's College London Dr Hannah Scott Deuchar asks how the Dinshaway Affair is shaped by translation, and how the event might yet reshape conceptions of translation, justice, and reparation.

🇪🇬 Dr Hannah Scott Deuchar from @qmul.bsky.social asks how translation shaped the Dinshaway Affair in 1906 and whether the event might still reshape conceptions of translation, justice and reparation in this talk for @kingsdllc.bsky.social on 18 February.

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New projects pair activism and academia to drive social change | King's College London Four new projects under the Activist-in-Residence scheme by the Global Cultures Institute seek to address social challenges by bringing activists and researchers together.

🤝 Four new projects uniting researchers and activists will address some of society's key challenges – including marginalisation, exclusion and how to enact solidarity – under the Activist-in-Residence scheme in the Global Cultures Institute.

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King's students win London-wide prizes for German studies | King's College London Two students from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures have been awarded the 2025 Bithell Prizes.

🏆️ Congratulations to former @kingsdllc.bsky.social students Valeria Berghinz and Aldo Ruggiero on winning the Jethro Bithell Prize and Alice Emily Bithell Prize respectively from @sas-news.bsky.social for their studies in German.

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Text, Intertext, Context, Subtext: Race War(mongering) and the Last European | King's College London Abdoolkarim Vakil analyses O Ultimo Europeu – 2284 (The Last European – 2284).

📚 Abdoolkarim Vakil from @kingsdllc.bsky.social and @kingshistory.bsky.social analyses Miguel Real's O Ultimo Europeu – 2284 (The Last European – 2284) and its strands of orientalist and racialised invasion and race-war speculative fiction on 4 February.

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The arcane text: rethinking the integumentum and twelfth-century theories of knowledge-acquisition | King's College London In the Middle Ages, as now, teachers and students had to answer the question: What is a literary text? Why study literature? What is an appropriate way to interpret text?

✒️ Jonny Morton from @tulaneu.bsky.social reassesses the idea of the integumentum & high medieval literary theory more broadly by considering medieval theories of cognition and practices of pedagogy in this talk for the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies on 3 February ⬇️

📢 Entries are still open to the @kingsdllc.bsky.social A Level writing competitions in the below areas:

Comparative Literature 📚
French 🇫🇷
German🇩🇪
Spanish and Portuguese 🇪🇸 🇵🇹

Find out how to take part ⬇️