📅 22 May 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

IAS Book Launch: Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space

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UCL IAS

⏰Tomorrow, 14th May, 5pm at UCL
'The Libidinal Lives of Statues'
qUCL GFRN_UCL annual lecture with Rahul Rao Rahul Rao
Bringing together sexual politics, anti/colonialism, fetishization, idolisation and destruction
Don't miss it! Book now!📲
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Thrilled to announce Rahul Rao Rahul Rao will deliver our annual lecture on 'The Libidinal Lives of Statues'!

May 14 at 5

bringing together sexual politics & anti/colonialism
fetishization
idolisation
destruction

qUCL GFRN_UCL UCL Arts & Humanities

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The Feminist Philosopher, the Nomad, The Posthuman
Summer School course
A Week With Rosi Braidotti (former IAS Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow)
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Reproductive Justice Now! Conference
8–9 May UCL IAS Carolina Topini
Bringing together feminist, transnational & intersectional approaches to address impact of gender, race, class & disability inequalities in reproductive & sexual health care.
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***Update to Catholics in Conflict, 1914-1945 Symposium***

Thanks to the generous support of UCL IAS and SHoW, we are pleased to offer small travel grants for PhD and ECR students applying to present/attend the conference.

Please refer to the updated CfP below.

Two weeks left to apply for this joint Stipendiary Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in cooperation with UCL IAS!

More info: ghil.ac.uk/opportunities/…

#twitterstorians #postdoc

come along and play along at this PGR-led summer conference on the anthropology of play ❤️ #AnthroTwitter

🌈 full CFP here: tinyurl.com/anthroplayconf

UCL Anthropology + gratefully funded by UCL IAS

Comment piece Clive Nwonka: How the great US writer James Baldwin still influences Londoners today

He explores the continued impact American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin has had on Londoners.

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📅 17 May 2024, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Against Development: Med Hondo's Migrant Cinema as a Practice of Antisystemic Worldmaking

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UCL IAS

📅 20 May 2024, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

IAS Book Launch: Into the Continent

Join us for the launch of Emily McGiffin's new book of poetry, Into the Continent.

Tickets are free, book now: buff.ly/3W6EYUb

UCL IAS

The libidinal lives of statues
14 May 2024, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm
In this talk Dr Rahul Rao (University of St Andrews) asks what it is about statues that has spooked people in the past enough to arouse in them the impulse to destroy.
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Call for Visiting Research Fellows at the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies (CCS)
Applications welcomed from post-doctoral, mid-career and senior scholars. Apply by 2nd June 2024.
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Sounds of Place: Listening Geographically to Nordic and British Art Song
3 May 2024, 1-2:15pm
How does music interpret place? Don't miss this conversation-recital exploring the sounds of Nordic and British art songs in different sites and settings
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Annual Tagore Lecture 'Mexican Apocalypses: 2023 | 1521 | 14,000 BC'
29 April 6-8pm
Prof Robert Folger will use Mexican art work from different time periods to tease out the particular temporality of Apocalypse in which the present folds back onto the past
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The global afterlives of Lachlan Macquarie
14 May 5-7:30pm
While we work out what to do with bad memorials, what affective & political possibilities for solidarity & resistance are opened up when we tarry with the bad feelings that they produce?
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Discussion: Nostalgia - A History of a Dangerous Emotion
27 April 9:30 am–5pm UCL European Institute UCL Grand Challenges
Consider the origins of nostalgia as a psychopathological disorder through to how it is used and misused in contemporary life & how we best respond.
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Symposium with CreativeCritical.Net: The Forms of Criticism
27 April 9:30am-5pm
Can criticism be creative? And if so, should critics be writing in other forms as well as the article and monograph, the default forms of criticism in contemporary academia?
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