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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Out Laws: Screening and discussion Please join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Out Laws (2025, Lexi Powner & James Lewis) with director James Lewis, Professor Bob Mills (UCL) and activist Friedel Dausab.

Out Laws: Screening and discussion
11 May 6–8:30pm, UCL East
Out Laws follows three queer activists, from Namibia, Sri Lanka and Barbados, as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives.
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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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Book cover of 'Queering Twentieth Century Irish Women's Writing', sliced into two segments, one with title of book and other showing an illustration of a waterfall.

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns
1 May 5:30-7:30pm
Dr @naoisemurphy.bsky.social (Manchester) will discuss disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Contesting Equality: LGBTIQ+ Rights, the State, and Democratic Decline This seminar explores backlash, state power, and activist resistance across the Global North and South.

Contesting Equality: LGBTIQ+ Rights, the State & Democratic Decline
12 March 6:15–7:30 pm
This seminar explores backlash, state power, and activist resistance across the Global North and South.
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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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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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‘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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Photo credit: © National Portrait Gallery, London
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qUCL Annual Lecture: Anarchitecture After Everything qUCL are delighted to welcome Professor Jack Halberstam to give their annual lecture, exploring the meaning of trans embodiment now, using a vocabulary borrowed from a 1970’s art collective called “an...

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Anarchitecture After Everything
10 March 6pm
We're delighted Prof Jack Halberstam will give our annual lecture, exploring the meaning of trans embodiment now, with vocab borrowed from a 70’s art collective, “anarchitecture”
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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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Visit Queer Britain 🖼️

Join B.Queer and explore queer histories, culture & creativity at Queer Britain.

📍 26 February, 4:00–6:00 pm

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Happy 200th anniversary UCL!

Read a little about UCL’s Queer History via this blog post from Milo Edwards, a BA Education Studies student, who completed a summer research fellowship with Generation UCL.

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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...

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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With the wonderful Max Liboiron, a queer Two Spirit scientist and Indigenous STS scholar whose thinking around science is informed by these intersections. @maxliboiron.bsky.social

Yugo Queer A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.

🔊 Yugo Queer

Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.

🗓️ 19 February
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Yugo Queer A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.

🔊 Yugo Queer

Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.

🗓️ 19 February
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Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)
4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
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Can’t wait to read this. I did some transcribing for the podcast and was such a fascinating project.

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Prof Jonathan Bell (UCL Institute of the Americas), who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s
29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm
We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.
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Yugo Queer Yugo Queer remaps the Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. This hybrid conference aims to make area studies more queer and queer studies m...

Yugo Queer
19 February 2026, 2pm-9pm
Yugo Queer remaps the Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. This hybrid conference aims to make area studies more queer and queer studies more far-reaching.
www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)
4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
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Front cover of 'The Log Books' showing two people answering telephones in a call centre in the 70s/80s.

The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened
9 Feb 5pm
Authors Tash Walker & Adam Zmith will launch their book 'The Log Books', an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes.
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group
Session 13 is on 9 Dec 2pm-3:30pm
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. @ctlnkane.bsky.social
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 12 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 12
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
25 Nov 2pm-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11 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 11
11 Nov 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
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Schedule for Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group with image of the bearded St. Wilgefortis surrounded by the pride flag. Dates and times for meetings: 11th November 2:00-3:30pm, 25th November 2:00-3:30pm, 9th December 2:00-3:30pm. Email caitlin.kane.18@ucl.ac.uk to sign up.

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up!
For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.