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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Digitalised childhood and the Gandhi-Tagore Legacy At a time when digital technology is decisively shaping the global political economy and children’s education, Gandhi and Tagore and their pedagogic legacy offer us a rare perspective and also a direc...

Digitalised childhood and the Gandhi-Tagore Legacy
11 May 5:30–7:30pm
Gandhi & Tagore and their pedagogic legacy offer us a rare perspective and direction for contemplating our response to digitalised childhood.
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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...

⚠️Reminder
Call for Papers: ECR Workshop on South Asia and the Indian Ocean World
Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2026
Workshop: 15 June 2026, at UCL
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Learning to belong to a nation that denies you: Myanmar curriculum & education for Rohingya refugees Join this event to hear Dr Vanessa Ozawa and Dr Tejendra Pherali discuss contradictions between national discourses and children’s lived realities.

Learning to belong to a nation that denies you:
Myanmar curriculum & education for Rohingya refugees
19 March 2-3:30pm @ioe.bsky.social
Dr Vanessa Ozawa & Dr Tejendra Pherali discuss contradictions between national discourses and children’s lived realities.
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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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CRUNCH: Depth and Belonging Ijlal Muzaffar examines how depth reveals invisible connections between land and belonging, traced through silt, dust and bodies in colonial Sindh.

CRUNCH: Depth and Belonging
9 Mar 2026, 18:30 – 20:00
Ijlal Muzaffar examines how depth reveals invisible connections between land and belonging, traced through silt, dust and bodies in colonial Sindh.
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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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CRUNCH: The Architecture of Imminence Swati Chattopadhyay draws on Bengal's flood-prone riverine landscape to propose ways of reimagining architecture beyond permanence, challenging how we design in the face of global warming.

CRUNCH: The Architecture of Imminence
23 Feb 18:30 – 20:00
Swati Chattopadhyay draws on Bengal's flood-prone riverine landscape to propose ways of reimagining architecture beyond permanence, challenging how we design in the face of global warming.
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Caregiving at the Centre of Empire and the Contemporary World Order, 1930-2023 Exploring the vast and blurred domains of paid and unpaid caregiving, from 1930-2023 in South Asia and beyond.

Thursday’s seminar asks why caregiving is central to understanding empire & today’s world. New research traces how paid & unpaid care shaped labour, migration & political change across South Asia & beyond.
5 Feb, 12–1pm, Gordon Sq
#SocialResearch #socialInclusion
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🇮🇳 is facing #tariffs from 🇺🇸; 🇨🇳 is part of South Asian #geopolitics; 🇺🇸 is altering global dynamics. Join us to discuss this w/ experts.

📆 Mon, 26 Jan - ONLINE
🕒 3pm🇬🇧 8.30pm🇮🇳 11pm🇨🇳
🗣️ & 🆓 reg. details > tinyurl.com/33vykcz3

@filippoboni.bsky.social @lseideas.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social

The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)

Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Beyond Creative Placemaking This talk explores how public art in Delhi’s Lodhi Art District shapes encounters, access and belonging, showing how placemaking becomes a contested arena for community, identity and power.

How public art shapes community and identity in Delhi’s Lodhi Art District.

📅 25 November | ⏰ 1 PM – 2 PM |
Free and open to all!

Find out more: tinyurl.com/ucl-lodhi

#UCLGeography #PublicArt #UrbanIdentity #CityLife #CreativePlacemaking @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-ias.bsky.social

Visualizing Design and its Values in Postcolonial India A seminar on postcolonial Indian design by Dr Vishal Khandelwal (Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)

Visualizing Design and its Values in Postcolonial India
Nov 26 3-5pm GMT
The Queen's College, Oxford
A seminar on postcolonial Indian design by Dr Vishal Khandelwal (Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)
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Prof Tirthankar Roy – Building a state in late-18th century India: Revisiting the Permanent Settlement debate
9th Oct 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Royal Asiatic Society, London
The talk will suggest how we should read institutional reforms in early-colonial India.
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In celebration of South Asian Heritage Month, students and staff have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

india & me: engage. reflect. act. A participatory, cross-disciplinary, and innovative decolonial educational programme on intersectional justice in India.

india & me: engage. reflect. act.
27 Sept –12 Oct with @ioe.bsky.social
A participatory, cross-disciplinary, and innovative decolonial educational programme on intersectional justice in India.
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Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940 Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940
25 September 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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I am beyond thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and a Visiting Fellowship at @ucl-ias.bsky.social to write a book on ‘Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024’. Pictured: Chathuri Nissansala, ‘Saudade’, 2024.

Trace the Forgotten History of South Asian Seafarers Join scholars and artists to uncover South Asian seafarer histories through talks and a soundscaped walking tour in East London.

Trace the Forgotten History of South Asian Seafarers
15 July 2025–16 July 2025, 11am-5pm
Join scholars and artists to uncover South Asian seafarer histories through talks and a sound-scaped walking tour in East London.
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The Bombay Film Colour Symposium The Bombay Film Colour Symposium

Bringing together South Asian film researchers & industry specialists from India, @uclselcs.bsky.social aim to open up new perspectives on colour’s distinctive role in Bombay film culture.
The Bombay Film Colour Symposium
June 23 · 10am - 6pm GMT+1
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Crowdsourcing the Past: Memory Projects in South Asia (HAP Summer Seminar)

Crowdsourcing the Past: Memory Projects in South Asia
Online via Zoom with @ihr.bsky.social and Mallika Leuzinger (@ghilondon.bsky.social)
24 July 2025, 1-1:30PM
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The Bombay Film Colour Symposium The Bombay Film Colour Symposium

The Bombay Film Colour Symposium
23 June 10am-6pm @uclselcs.bsky.social
Inviting researchers from South Asian film studies, global colour film history & India's industry specialists, to open new perspectives on colour’s distinctive role in Bombay film culture
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Buddhism in Asia: Anthropology & Everyday Life This workshop and exhibition explore Buddhist-influences material culture, embodied practices and everyday experiences across Asia through conversations with scholars, spiritual teachers and Buddhist ...

Buddhism in Asia: Anthropology & Everyday Life
5 June 9am–6pm
This workshop & exhibition explore Buddhist-influences material culture, embodied practices & everyday experiences across Asia through conversations with scholars, spiritual teachers & Buddhist practitioners
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Inaugural Lecture: Professor Mohammad Shamsudduha RDR Monthly Event: Join us as Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha (Shams), Professor of Water Crisis and Risk Reduction, delivers his inaugural lecture at UCL.

How Data-Driven Science Transforms Lives: Spotlight on Water Security
13 May 6–8:30 pm, UCL
Join @uclrdr.bsky.social for an inspiring talk on how Prof Shams’ research evolved, focusing on his data-driven research in groundwater science, particularly in Bangladesh.
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Anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state The political independence of (certain) nation-states in the Global South during the twentieth century was not the end of anticolonialism. The geographical borders and social projects of these new sta...

Anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state
7 April 2025, 5pm–7pm
- Mahvish Ahmad, “A Colony in a Colony: Balochistan and the Unfinished Project of Decolonisation.”*
- Sara Salem, “Faded Dreams – On Encountering Traces of Anticolonial Pasts.”
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Ramadan Mubarak to all observing in our UCL community and beyond 🌙✨

Book Launch: Lahore in Motion Please join us for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the publication of 'Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan'

Book Launch: Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan
5 March 2025, 6pm-7:30pm
Please join us for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the publication of 'Lahore in Motion'
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IAS Early Career Network Workshop: Getting Published This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.

📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences)
Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚
Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL
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