🤔 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
🔗 Register ⬇️
British Museum
💬 'The lives of ordinary people tell us a different history. We're still not telling those stories.'
Dr @sarafelix.bsky.social from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social examined the role of galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) in decolonisation for The Pluriversity Podcast ⬇️🧵
💡 Professor Emily Apter interrogates translation and justice, and the notion of “global criticality” as a rubric for a multi-disciplinary vision of language politics at this lecture by @kingsinterhums.bsky.social.
📆 7 May
⏰ 18:00-19:30
📍 Bush House
💰️ Free to attend
🔗 Register ⤵️
💻️ Investment from tech companies feeds into the Hindu nationalist project of India, said Dr Nisha Kapoor at the @kingsinterhums.bsky.social annual lecture.
This 'data nationalism' is re-shaping the city of Hyderabad, hiding its Muslim past and dramatically increasing surveillance ⬇️
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Applying for funding and grants are a continual part of academic life.
Hear from Dr Pavan Mano @kingsinterhums.bsky.social as he unpacks his real-life experiences with funding throughout his career in Ep 2 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR with Dr Leonie Smith.
🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjyH...
⛪️ 'I had assumed to question the church was to wound God. She showed me that devotion and questioning can live in the same breath.'
Dr @eddyade.bsky.social from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social shares how Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie changed his perspective on religion 👇 #WorldBookDay
'New book explores how music, from opera to hip-hop, has been inspired by ancient Greece and Rome'
Dr Emily Pillinger publishes Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity with Dr Miranda Stanyon. Get it from your library (or ask them to order it?)!
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-boo...
🧀 "More cheese, Gromit?"
🎥 Dr Christopher Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social reviews the new 'Inside Aardman – Wallace and Gromit and Friends' exhibition at the Young V&A for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️
🇮🇳 Join us for the second Interdisciplinary Humanities Annual Lecture on 9 March with Dr Nisha Kapoor on 'Governing by Data: Surveillance, Tech Capital and Majoritarian Power in Hyderabad'.
Details and registration link below ⬇️
💑 'The showmance is basically one of Hollywood’s most durable marketing tricks' says Dr Christopher Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social, as he traces Hollywood's use of fake relationships to promote films like Wuthering Heights.
🔗 Read more in @thetimes.com ⬇️
www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
📀 Professor Kevin K. Gaines explores how Stevie Wonder's album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants was inspired by political movements, global musical styles and engagement with nature at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture.
📆 4 March
⏰ 18:00
🔗 Register for tickets ⬇️
🤝 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.
🔗 Find out more ⤵️
🔠 Imi Lo, graduate of the Global Cultures MA, shares how understanding hermeneutical injustice – when there is no shared language to name an experience, causing invisible harm – has changed her work with neurodivergent individuals.
🔗 Read more in New Voices in Global Cultures ⤵️
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💰 In honour of Jane #Austen’s 250th birthday, we're revisiting Nicholas Foretek’s discovery about the first buyer of Sense and Sensibility... 👑
The discovery was made through the Georgian Papers Programme, of which @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social is a proud partner.
🔗 Read more 👇
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👩🎓 From AI to online platforms, education is being remade by the rapid expansion of digital technology.
Join us online on 10 December for a panel discussion on the Digital Futures of Education and explore the digital transformations currently at work and what these changes mean for the future ⤵️
🔍 Dr Jean Smith reveals how the universal declaration of independence in Rhodesia played a pivotal role in Britain's anti-apartheid movement, as activists began to campaign against colonial oppression throughout southern Africa ⬇️
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@kingsinterhums.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social
🇸🇬 On 3 December, Dr Pavon Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social dissects the intricacies of nationalism in Singapore and its relationship to the governance of sexuality for the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science ⤵️
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
Title card: Toy Story at 30: How it revolutionalised animation, in conversation with Dr Christopher Holliday
From its pioneering use of CGI to how it redefined storytelling for audiences of all ages, Toy Story remains a landmark in cinema history.
As its 30th anniversary approaches, Dr Christopher Holliday (@kingsartshums.bsky.social) reflects on the impact of Pixar’s classic.
#KingsQs 🧵⬇️
📽️ Louise Mackin analyses how the film Kneecap (2024) 'captures a significant generational shift in how masculinity is understood and expressed' in Northern Ireland through her research for the Global Cultures MA.
🔗 Read more in our New Voices in Global Cultures blog ⬇️
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🎬 🎶 Our very own Dr Christopher Holliday explains the allure of musicals on film ⤵️
📢 @kingsinterhums.bsky.social has launched a new Master's in Culture, Politics & Society, designed for students who want to gain the skills and expertise to tackle humanity's most urgent challenges.
🔗 Learn more and discover how to apply 👇
📸 In analysis of Henrietta Williams' photographs of the Ring of Steel, Dr George Legg from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social explores the impact of invisible security technology in the City of London – showing how hiding surveillance prevents us from querying its intentions.
🔗 Read more ⤵️
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Congratulations to department member Dr Shuangyu Li, Reader in Clinical Communication and Cultural Competency, on receiving this award 👏
💻 Learn how to use Nodegoat to create diachronic geographical and social network visualisations in this workshop on 16 October, co-hosted by the Global Cultures Institute and LITAID project. Suitable for academics & PGRs working in humanities.
🔗 Register here – places are limited ⬇️
💡 Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social explores decolonising the curriculum & asks 'how we might rethink the work we do in the classroom to persuade students that there remains value to reading at length, to living with complexity and resisting easy answers' in @globalpolicy.bsky.social ⤵️
🇸🇬 Singapore commits to being a nation of equality – but is this a reality for every citizen?
Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social shows how Singapore's policies on issues such as housing and COVID restrictions favour heterosexual couples for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️
💡 'It can feel weird asking for help... and intimidating as an Early Career Researcher.'
Dr Pavan Mano (@kingsinterhums.bsky.social), Dr Leonie Smith & Professor @annavignoles.bsky.social discuss academic funding on the new @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk podcast ⤵️
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🏆 Congratulations to Global Cultures MA student @eilerasmussen.bsky.social on winning the AKC Leathes Prize for an essay on the ethic of radical, relational love 💘
'To have that work recognised affirms that these questions are shared, urgent, and alive,' said Éile ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/global-...
