IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies 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.

Our last big hurrah before we're shut down.
We hope you can join us (free lunch!)
28 April 2026, 9am-5pm
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The Devil Made Me Do It: Understanding Occult Crime in South Africa The UCL Africa Research Centre is delighted to welcome author Prof Nicky Falkof, Director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, to discuss her new book.

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The Devil Made Me Do It: Understanding Occult Crime in South Africa
20 April, 5:30 pm, UCL
Prof Nicky Falkof will discuss how beliefs in occult crime intersect with problems of gender, race and class.
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Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

Friends - I'm launching my book in London at @qucl.bsky.social on May Day - I promise extra anti-capitalism in honour of the occasion 🥖🌹and if that isn't enticement enough, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Sophie Chauhan and @jackconneely.bsky.social

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Painting of a seated woman holding her head and covering her eyes with the other hand and a baby with the other. But Men Must Work and Women Must Weep, 1883 by Walter Langley. From Birmingham Museums Trust via UnSplash.

Call for Papers: Sexuality and Shame Conference
📅 27-28 May 2026 @exeter.ac.uk
Submission Deadline: 27 March
This conference explores how sexual shame has been historically produced, regulated, circulated & contested across different periods & social settings
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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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Call for book chapters: abstracts by 16th March 2026

Rethinking queer ageing: The significance of geo-temporal contexts. Edited by Linn Sandberg, Rebeka Põldsam and Rebecca L. Jones (me!)

Academic understandings of LGBTQ+ ageing are dominated by Anglo-American contexts, which means that [...]

‘Bright young thing’: Stephen Tennant, a life lived on his own terms, part of Faces of UCL.

His story is one that has influence and relevance today.

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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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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

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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photo of a women writing in a book, with a microscope next to her, studying at UCL in 1878

Happy 200th anniversary UCL!

Founded in 1826, and from 1878 UCL becomes the first university in England to welcome women to university education.

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...

Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'.

Reading Group: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice
This time with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health) and the theme 'Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice'.
12 February 2026, 1pm-2pm
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14
10 February 2026, 3:30pm-5pm
An informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
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Screening and Q&A: Gentle, Angry Women This is a documentary with an intergenerational conversation on the history of the women's peace movement. Director Barbara Santi will join online for a Q&A.

Screening and Q&A: Gentle, Angry Women
This is a documentary with an intergenerational conversation on the history of the women's peace movement. Director Barbara Santi will join online for a Q&A.
27 January 2026, 5:30pm-7pm
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Join our online information sessions to discover more about the Gender, Society and Representation MA.

Hear directly from the programme team and gain insights into what it’s like to study at UCL.

Book onto events in Feb and March: buff.ly/NH8htxT
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Gender Society and Representation MA: Virtual Open Event March Join our Graduate Open Event for anyone who is interested in applying for the Gender Society and Representation MA at UCL.

Gender Society and Representation MA: Virtual Open Event
11 Mar 2026, 12:00 – 13:00
Join @artshumsucl.bsky.social Graduate Open Event for anyone who is interested in applying for the Gender Society and Representation MA at UCL.
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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 February 5-7pm
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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Women and Musical Histories, 1789–1914 | Royal Academy of Music Find out more about the Academy's upcoming research conference: Women and Musical Histories, 1789-1914.

CfP: Women and Musical Histories, 1789–1914
Submit by 31 Jan 26
Royal Academy of Music, London; 3-4 Sept 2026
They welcome papers (20 mins) & lecture-recitals (30 mins) that address the broad theme of women in/and musical history across the period 1789–1914.
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Hybrid Seminar: Urban Mental Health
2 Dec 12-2pm UCL & online
Exploring how gendered experiences and perceptions of violence shape urban mental health and well-being.
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NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health).

NEW DATE: Environmental Exposures, Disability, and Reproductive Justice
3 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Join this 'Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice' reading group session with Dr Rosamund Greiner (Institute for Global Health).
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IAS Book Launch: Pioneering Women Archivists We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Shepherd for the launch of her book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England'

IAS Book Launch: Pioneering Women Archivists
1 December 2025, 6pm-8pm
We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Shepherd for the launch of her book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England'
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Researching gender inequalities in Kenyan education: Promising practices and persistent barriers Join this event to hear from Dr Ayse Demir, Dr Sarah Fedha, Dr Francis Omondi, and Dr Eliza Ngutuku on their research in Kenya.

Researching gender inequalities in Kenyan education: Promising practices and persistent barriers
30 Oct 2-3:30pm
Join this event to hear from Dr Ayse Demir, Dr Sarah Fedha, Dr Francis Omondi, and Dr Eliza Ngutuku on their research in Kenya.
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The 1950s Shit They Want From Me: Tay-Vis and the Disciplinary Lens of Reproductive Labour Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.

Join the next session of the Reading Group on Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice.

📅27 Oct, 2-4pm
📍51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN

Join us to workshop Dr Amelia Morris (University of Exeter)’s paper on Taylor Swift and reproductive labour.

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'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
6 Oct 6-8pm
Discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
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Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970 This session explores Miss Great Britain (1945–70) as a lens on beauty, gender, class, race, and national identity, revealing sexism yet also new forms of female agency.

Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970
10 Oct 2025, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room, London
IHR Women's History seminar with Amanda Vickery (QMUL)
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Doing Otherwise: Tracing Feminist Urban Methodologies Join UCL Urban Lab for a reflective roundtable of scholars working across feminist, decolonial and critical methodologies. This event is part of a series celebrating 20 years of UCL Urban Lab.

Doing Otherwise: Tracing Feminist Urban Methodologies
22 Jul 2025, 16:00 – 18:00
Join UCL Urban Lab for a reflective roundtable of scholars working across feminist, decolonial and critical methodologies.
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Revolutionizing Human Development: Learning from Feminist Co-operators in the Americas Black feminist co-operators engage in globalizing solidarity economies through a specific form of mutual aid – formally referred to as Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) – to meet livel...

Revolutionizing Human Development: Learning from Feminist Co-operators in the Americas
🚨TOMORROW! 3 June, 4-6pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social 🚨
With the wonderful @carolinehossein.bsky.social ⭐

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