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The official Bluesky account for the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #KingsDLLC
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♻️ Tabby Bunyan, graduate of @kingsdllc.bsky.social and @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social, explains how she started upcycling company RE_CONSIDERED in the latest issue of InTouch from @kclalumni.bsky.social ⬇️

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Tabby Bunyan: ‘I hope to keep creating beautiful things from waste’
From radio to recycling
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November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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👂 Tanvi Solanki of Yonsei University & @crasshlive.bsky.social presents on aural philology for @kingsdllc.bsky.social, with a focus on contact zones wherein readers attempt to resist, appropriate, or even attempt to become co-present with the Ancient Greek language and its canon 👇
Aural Philology: A Theory and Practice of Reading within Contact Zones | King's College London
Tanvi Solanki explores contact zones wherein readers attempt to resist, appropriate, or even attempt to become co-present with the Ancient Greek language and its canon.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🎤 Professor Siobhán McIlvanney from @kingsdllc.bsky.social delivers her Inaugural Professorial Lecture on 4 December, exploring different literary representations of ageing and care in recent women’s writing in French and how they may teach us to age and care better.

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Literature as Collaborative Care: Professor Siobhán McIlvanney Inaugural Lecture | King's College London
Professor Siobhán McIlvanney looks at different literary representations of ageing and care in recent women’s writing in French.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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📸 Congratulations to Karina Hilbolling, Kristina Krylova and Jeffrey Zhu for placing first, second and third in this year's @kingsdllc.bsky.social year abroad photography competition 🥇🥈🥉

🔗 Discover the inspiration behind their photos, taken in Colombia and Switzerland 👇
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November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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✒️ Dr Alicia Kent from @kingsdllc.bsky.social explores the different Salvador Dalís portrayed in David Vilaseca's words and images for the 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social.

📆 11 November
⏰ 18:15pm
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Dr Alcia Kent: 'Dalís'
The 2025 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Alicia Kent (King’s College London) and will examine the many different versions of Salvador Dalí.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🏆 Congratulations to Eleanor Gluck, @kingsdllc.bsky.social PhD student, on winning the King's Outstanding Thesis Prize for her research on the translation of "transgressive" French texts into English and their constructs of gender & sexuality.

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Student wins King's Outstanding Thesis Prize for research on translations of sexuality, gender and sex | King's College London
Eleanor Gluck (French Studies PhD) received a King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize for her research on translations into English of three French authors of transgressive pornographic literature.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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📚 Souleymane Bachir Diagne from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social asks if viewing translation as “linguistic hospitality” mean failing to see the power relations and violence between languages that come into contact at this @kingsdllc.bsky.social seminar 👇
Translation as Hospitality, Translation as Violence | King's College London
Souleymane Bachir Diagne asks whether viewing translation as “linguistic hospitality” mean failing to see the power relations and violence between languages that come into contact.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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⛪ On 9 November, discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London, where short talks, an exhibition of rarely displayed paintings, documents, and silverware, and an organ recital reveal more about this little-known community with @cemskcl.bsky.social and @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ⤵️
Refuge, Science, Faith: Discovering London's 18th-Century Germans | King's College London
Discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🇫🇷 Professor Vinay Swamy from Vassar College explores the challenges faced by non-binary French-speaking people regarding language and syntax, given the binary nature of French grammar at this @kingsdllc.bsky.social and Queer@King's event on 29 October.

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When the French began to Feminize: Gender, Language and the Politics of Culture | King's College London
Professor Vinay Swamy examines the stakes at hand in creating and sustaining inclusive and expansive possibilities within Francophone linguistic, cultural and educational spaces.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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💭 Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social analyses the paradoxical nature of Goethe's writing on politics, science, religion and sexuality, revealing how other thinkers of the type shaped his views.

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Research sheds new light on contradictions between Goethe's writing and political beliefs | King's College London
Professor Matthew Bell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, reveals how Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s political ideas pervade his…
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🎓 Lauren Castle-Baker (Global Cultures MA) shares how modules on diversity and inclusion, the digital realm of global cultures, and gender studies and globalisation have altered her approach to work projects.

💡 Originally published on @alivewithideas.bsky.social

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My Global Cultures MA research: Knowledge is empowerment
Lauren Castle-Baker describes how the Global Cultures MA has influenced the way she approaches her career.
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August 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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 ⤵️
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Global Cultures MA student wins AKC Leathes Prize for essay on love
Éile Rasmussen, student on the Global Cultures MA, has won the AKC Leathes Prize for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities for her essay on the ethic of radical, relational love.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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🔭 On 1 October, Dr Juan Carlos Mantilla from @kingsdllc.bsky.social presents his project Cosmographia Antarctica, exploring how Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ⤵️
Cosmographia Antarctica: The Early Modern invention of the Southern World between the Andes and the Mediterranean | King's College London
Juan Carlos Mantilla explores how between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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King's alumnus Sir Michael Morpurgo FKC (English, French & Philosophy) welcomed students at the Opening of Year Ceremony 2025 today. This was followed by a Q&A with Dr Edmund Gordon discussing Michael's experiences as a student, his storytelling and his hopes for the future.
September 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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✒️ 'This deeply learned, crisply written biography is equally remote from hagiography and iconoclasm.'

Ritchie Robertson reviews the new book, Goethe: A Life in Ideas, by Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social for @litreview.bsky.social 🔽
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Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light
Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell
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October 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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💡 Professor Patrick ffrench @pffr.bsky.social and Dr Cillian Ó’Fathaigh from @kingsdllc.bsky.social organised the @sephilo.bsky.social Annual Conference at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social between 7-9 July, featuring contributions from 21 countries.

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International conference champions research on continental philosophy
King’s hosted the Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference from 7-9 July, the largest annual gathering of academics working on continental philosophy.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🎭 Out of the Wings Festival is back for 2025!

Now in its 10th year, the festival celebrates Ibero-American playwriting with readings of plays from six different countries, all in English translation and in the UK for the first time 🎉

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Out of the Wings Festival 2025
Join Out of the Wings for its 10th-anniversary festival of UK-premiere play readings from Ibero-America.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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🔤 'Not everyone is quite so enthusiastic about multilingualism as I am.'

Professors Terry Lamb and Jo Angouri put forward the case for promoting and valuing linguistic diversity in universities at a Language Debate, hosted by Language Acts and Worldmaking on 23 June 👇

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'Multilingualism is seen as a problem' – valuing languages in university settings
Speakers debated the possibility of achieving true multilingualism in universities at the latest Language Debates event on 23 June, hosted by Language Acts and Worldmaking.
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July 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🇩🇿 A visit to Algeria by academics from @kingsdllc.bsky.social & @kingsenglish.bsky.social marked the start of collaborations on languages and literatures between @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, @cam.ac.uk, the University of Virginia and the University of Blida 2.

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Departments initiate new research collaboration with Algerian universities
Academics from King’s participated in a collective enterprise with the University of Blida 2 in Algeria on research and teaching in African and Caribbean literatures, with the promise of future collaborations.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📢 Applications are now open for the 2025 BritishSpanish Society Scholarship!

For British and Spanish nationals pursuing postgraduate study in any field.

🗓️ Deadline: 20 June 2025
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June 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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📽️ Has Cold War propaganda impacted politics in Brazil today?

In our latest Spotlight on Arts & Humanities, discover how Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz has supported school children in Brazil to recognise how propaganda has shaped the country’s understanding of modern political messaging 🇧🇷

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Propaganda in action: photographs document legacy of US Cold War messaging in Brazil
Visual media can play a dominant role in shaping our understanding of politics – sometimes without us even noticing. In this Spotlight on Arts & Humanities, Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz, Senior Lecturer…
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June 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🎭 What futures do acts of translation hold in a world in disarray?

Scholars & artists from theatre, literature & performance examine radical translations, worldmaking, postcolonial and disability justice in theatre translation, and poetics of performative resistance at this event ⬇️
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Performance and the Futures of Translation
What futures do acts of translation hold in a world in disarray?
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June 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🇯🇵 On 11 June, @kingsdllc.bsky.social welcomes Dr Filippo Cervelli from @soasuni.bsky.social to deliver a talk on Nobel laureate Ōe Kenzaburō's relationship with Dante Alighieri as a prism shedding light into how a Japanese sensibility can engage with the Italian poet.

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Dante in Japan: Ōe Kenzaburō reads and writes the Divine Comedy
This talk examines Nobel laureate Ōe Kenzaburō’s relationship with Dante Alighieri as a prism shedding light into how a Japanese sensibility can engage with the Italian poet.
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June 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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To learn more, sign up to the book launch on 18 June, featuring @sarahbowdenkcl.bsky.social in conversation with Mark Chinca and Almut Suerbaum 🔽

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Book Launch – Writing Sin in the German Lands 1050-1215: Confession, Penance and Textuality
Dr Sarah Bowden launches her new book about how sin and atonement function as an impetus for textual production and formal, linguistic, and intellectual creativity.
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June 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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✝️ In her new book, Dr @sarahbowdenkcl.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social brings a new approach to German-language devotional writing by revealing how medieval interest in sin encouraged textual production and formal, linguistic & intellectual creativity.

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Medieval fascination with sin shaped German language and textual production
The relationship between sin and creative literary production in the medieval era are revealed in a new book by Dr Sarah Bowden, Reader in German and Medieval Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
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June 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM