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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Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.

I'll be speaking about my NEW BOOK 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' at the roundtable 'Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' next week (28 April) at UCL, and ONLINE, with Dr @psimonetto.bsky.social and Dr Grace Lucas. Sign up below!

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Call for papers: Reframing Poetics: Language, Structure, Form
A one day symposium at the UCL Institute of Advanced Study, 22nd July, considering the materiality of language in poetics. Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2026.
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Our MA Early Modern Studies trains you in palaeography, book history & archival research skills, plus options in information & literary studies, history & language.
Join us for a taster lecture, learn more about the course & ask questions
📅1 May 2-3:30pm BST online
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Our MA Early Modern Studies trains you in palaeography, book history & archival research skills, plus options in information & literary studies, history & language.
Join us for a taster lecture, learn more about the course & ask questions
📅1 May 2-3:30pm BST online
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The Song of Songs: Poetry in History How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.

The Song of Songs: Poetry in History
10 April 2–5pm
How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.
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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.

IAS Reflections Symposium: Celebrating the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
28 April 2026 9am-5pm
This symposium will celebrate the wealth of highly innovative, interdisciplinary research that has been generated within the auspices of the IAS over the last ten years.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Deadline next week! We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs for our upcoming colloquium. This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'.

Deadline: 7th April

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The Song of Songs: Poetry in History How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.

How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds?
Join us for 'The Song of Songs: Poetry in History' on 10th April to find out!
www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

CfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'.

We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs.

Deadline: 7th April

Full details below.

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⚠️Register before 12 April ⚠️
Marking Music: the Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe
11–12 May 2026 @cemskcl.bsky.social & online
For scholars of music, book history & related to explore how people engaged with books containing music in early modern period.
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The Song of Songs: Poetry in History How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.

The Song of Songs: Poetry in History
10 April 2026, 2-5pm
How does poetry work in the medieval and early modern and other worlds? This workshop will take the example of the Biblical Song of Songs.
www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

IAS Book Launch: The Cambridge Urban History of Europe We are pleased to host the international launch of this three-volume urban history of Europe - from ancient to contemporary times - and to welcome the editors and many of the contributors.

IAS Book Launch: The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
27 March 6:15pm
From pre-historic roots to today, with 100+ essays from experts across disciplines & countries, it provides a contemporary analysis of current issues & sheds new light on often ignored regions.
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Blindness as Form: Rethinking Disability with Matthew Paris In her inaugural lecture, Jane Gilbert will explore how recent creative encounters between visually impaired people and various art-forms show us new ways to read blindness in medieval manuscripts.

Blindness as Form: Rethinking Disability with Matthew Paris
25 March 5pm
In her inaugural lecture, Jane Gilbert will explore how recent creative encounters between visually impaired people & various art-forms show us new ways to read blindness in medieval manuscripts
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Fully Funded PhD: Migrant Labour & British Craft. Trace the invisible hands of migrant makers in eighteenth-century Britain. Photo of an Artificial Flower Making Kit from circa 1830, from the V&A archives.

AHRC Studentship – Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour & British Craft in 18thC (UCL & V&A)
Closes 15 April
Using historical, curatorial & digital humanities methods, you will uncover visible & invisible ‘migrant hands’ that contributed to textiles, metalwork, ceramics etc
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Reformation Studies Colloquium
15-17th April 2026, UCL
This colloquium is devoted to deepening our understanding of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century in all their aspects and relationships to other historical phenomena.
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IAS Book Launch: A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200–1600 In conjunction with the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, the IAS is delighted to welcome Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong and Rhiannon Daniels to launch their new book.

Book Launch: A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200-1600
18 March 5:30–7:30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong & Rhiannon Daniels launch their book, which reveals the poetry of Italy (1200-1600) as a site of creative plurality in genre, form & language.
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In the Margins: Writing Non-Elite Lives in the Long Eighteenth Century with Prof. Abigail Williams — CEMS KCL Blog Join CEMS for a talk by Prof. Abigail Williams on non-elite reading in long-eighteenth-century Britain. Wednesday 18th March, 17:30-19:00

We're delighted to be welcoming Prof. Abigail Williams to CEMS on 18th March. She'll be delivering a talk on the reading practices of non-elites in the long eighteenth century. Join us if you can. Full details below!

18 March, 17:30

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IAS Book Launch: A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200–1600 In conjunction with the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, the IAS is delighted to welcome Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong and Rhiannon Daniels to launch their new book.

A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200–1600
18 March 5:30-7:30pm
From the medieval Sicilian invention of the sonnet form to early modern epics, and from poetry recorded in graffiti & marginalia to the classification & cataloguing of a poetic canon in the age of print.
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IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense and Proof Join IAS Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for their reading group, which explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasti...

IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
📅 18 March 2:30-4pm
Join Rana Banna & Mary Newman for their reading group, which explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence.
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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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Holistic ecologies before modernity 18 March, 15:00-17:00 | Online, registration free but essential. With Minji Lee (Montclair State) and François Quiviger (Warburg Institute).

Holistic ecologies before modernity
18 March 3-5pm, online
Two fascinating pre-modern figures: the cosmic polymath Hildegard of Bingen & French artisan philosopher of a sentient world, Bernard Palissy. With Minji Lee(Montclair State) & François Quiviger(Warburg)
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We invite 20-minute papers for our 2026 Summer Conference 'The Church and Race' #CfP #history

Keynote speakers:

▪️Prof Miri Rubin, EHS President @qmul.bsky.social
▪️Prof Herman Bennett, @cuny.edu
▪️The Right Reverend Rowan Williams

Deadline: 15 April

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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.

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