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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

Attention history #postdocs!

The Institute of Advanced Studies
@ucl-ias.bsky.social, UCL, and the GHIL are looking to appoint a joint Stipendiary Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a period of six months from 1 October 2024.

Apply by 15 May. More info: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie....

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 10:29 UTC

Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution
24 May 2024, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm, UCL
Marnie Holborow's book explores work and care provided in the home, and identifies their effects on gender inequality and discrimination.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28 UTC

The Institute of Advanced Studies and the German Historical Institute London are appointing a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, for six months from 1 October 2024.
Apply by 15th May 2024
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 25, 2024 at 09:44 UTC

💰IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund💰 supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences.
Up to £1,500 per application. Deadline for 2024 applications: 8 April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism
4 March 2024, 6pm-8pm
The IAS is delighted to welcome co-editors Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage to discuss: What is good technology? Is it even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 21, 2024 at 14:06 UTC

Reminder: Job ad closing soon!
The Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation (SPRC) is currently recruiting an Associate Professor/Professor to be the new Director of the Centre ⭐Apply by 25 Feb 2024 ⭐
See job page: tinyurl.com/m28uks8d

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 19, 2024 at 15:16 UTC

Verses from the Antique 3: Poems of Love and War from the Ancient World
22 February 2024, 4pm-5pm
In this series, scholars talk about their favourite poems from antiquity. In this third session, Miriam Leonard (UCL Greek & Latin) will share poems from the Greeks.
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 09, 2024 at 11:42 UTC

The Digital Imperium
22 February 2024, 5-7pm at UCL
The paper explores the contingent political and economic histories underlying the birth and expansion of a praxis of information control that gets built into the metal of digital computational machines www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 09, 2024 at 11:29 UTC

What the Mine Gives, the Mine Takes: Critical-Creative Praxis & Mineral Extractivism in Venezuela
21 Feb 5pm UCL & Zoom
Discussing intersections btwn art, research, & alternative epistemologies & Venezuela’s role in planetary debates on extractivism & climate emergency www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 30, 2024 at 14:25 UTC

Breathing In: Air & Atmospheres
Online seminar Feb- June 2024
With WISER & IAS, fortnightly on Mon 4pm JHB /2pm London. Drawing out ideas for future research & ways of acting upon contemporary air & atmospheric crisis, with focus on global South
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 30, 2024 at 14:24 UTC

Noble Lecture 2024 with Marie NDiaye 29 February 2024, 6pm-7:30pm In conversation with Profs Nicholas Harrison (KCL) and Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths)
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 03, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

Health Humanities seminar: "Defend yourself from madness"
18 Jan 6:15pm
'Stigmatisation of mental illness in mental hygiene literature in Latin America at the beginning of the 20th century (1920-1947)' with Mariano Ruperthuz Honorato (Andrés Bello University, Chile)
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

17 Jan, 5pm, Café Spéculatif, an exciting evening of intellectual exploration, featuring researchers and artists in conversation to explore fresh ideas in creative methods and artistic practice around the theme of 'film' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

15th Jan, 6pm, join us for the launch of Julie Bonzon's book 'The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation: Remaking Histories' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

11th Jan, 6pm, come and celebrate the publication of our first book 'Wastiary', on the uncomfortable but pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

Wishing all our followers the very best for 2024. Here's what we have coming up in January...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 20, 2023 at 11:19 UTC

Café Spéculatif, conversations around 'Film'
17 Jan 5–8:30pm at UCL, London
Join us for an exciting evening of intellectual exploration, featuring researchers and artists in conversation to explore fresh ideas in creative methods and artistic practice. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 13, 2023 at 14:31 UTC

Catastrophe Time! How do we live in a world that we’re actively unmaking?
31 January 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
The Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present this multi-media event, film screening and discussion with Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen & Bahar Noorizadeh
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 14:55 UTC

IAS Book Launch: Wastiary
11 Jan 6pm
Published by UCLpress, Wastiary is a creative exercise that occupies letters, numbers & symbols of Western academic language to form 35 short entries on the pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 12, 2023 at 14:31 UTC

England’s Continental Catholic Colleges and their Literary Culture
14 December 2023, 5pm, Foster Court, UCL
The Centre for Early Modern Exchanges is pleased to welcome Dr Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo (UCL IAS) and Dr Christopher Archibald (QMUL)
www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 10, 2023 at 13:58 UTC

Rethinking Drug Laws: Theory, History, Politics
21 Nov 4:30pm
UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies welcomes Toby Seddon to launch his new book, which draws on diverse social science disciplines to present a new regulatory perspective on drug control and drug law reform. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 10, 2023 at 13:52 UTC

Marxism in Culture: The Economy of Mass Graves
17 November 2023, 5:30pm-7:30pm
This paper will explore approaches to reframing Memory Studies from a materialist perspective, through the lens of the film, 'Parallel Mothers' (2021).
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 07, 2023 at 11:48 UTC

IAS Book Launch: Anteaesthetics
13 Nov 6-8pm at UCL
Join author Rizvana Bradley for the launch of her book Anteaesthetics. Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 03, 2023 at 14:59 UTC

IAS Conference: Indigenous Ecologies and Environmental Crisis
8–9 November 2023, 10am-6pm
This conference invites participants to reflect about the opportunities Indigenous ecologies offer in response to overlapping environmental, economic, political and social crises.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 02, 2023 at 14:11 UTC

We're excited to be here! Read more about the IAS on our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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