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artshumsucl.bsky.social
Less than a month until UCL turns 200 🎂

Throughout 2026 we’ll be celebrating our bicentenary with events, stories and projects that showcase the best of UCL.

Get involved: buff.ly/jN8LfBc
@uclhjs.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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diderotesque.bsky.social
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford
An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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uclssees.bsky.social
Please join us for the next Study of Central Europe seminar with @jcbretan.bsky.social to hear more about British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era.

🗓️ 27 January at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

@annakoch.bsky.social
Event poster for 'T.S. Eliot's anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era' with a photo ofT.S. Eliot quote in concrete, embedded in the ground on the Queen's Walk, near the Tate Modern Gallery.
January 21, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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sgollance.bsky.social
Come learn Edwardian ballroom dances from a 1909 Jewish dance card in the Gaster Papers!
With dance instructor Susan de Guardiola (USA), Subject Librarian @vrfreedman.bsky.social and myself (talking about Jewish balls).

@uclhjs.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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stuartjones.bsky.social
In Manchester next week? Come and hear Michael Collins (UCL) on his recent book on Windrush Cricket, Tuesday 27 January 2026, 4 p.m. @manchester.ac.uk Samuel Alexander Building A116 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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January 20, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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casaucl.bsky.social
The CASA Connected Environments Lab, led by Prof Duncan Wilson & Prof Steven Gray, has built an IoT Bus Tracker for the shuttle service between Stratford Station & UCL East, designed and operated by students.

https://studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl-east-shuttle-bus-your-journey-just-got-easier
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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ucl-cffr.bsky.social
'Feeling for the Sense': Tact & the Art of Interpretation
5 Feb 6:30-8pm
In her book 'Alone with Others', using reading encounters with Proust, Plessner, Adorno, Truffaut & Barthes, Dr Haustein asks us to reconsider our ways of engaging with other people, images & texts
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
'Feeling for the Sense': Tact & the Art of Interpretation
A talk by Dr Katja Haustein (Kent) following the release of her latest book 'Alone with Others'. Chaired by Prof Patrick Bray
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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jori-saudade.bsky.social
From morose misery to moderate merriment: sniffles, suicide & sadistic, self-immolating trees offered an alternative take on Christmas @oldwoollen.bsky.social. With masterful emceeing by @quantum-sauce.bsky.social, the night moved swiftly from virology to musicology to ecology @uclselcs.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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drjannmatlock.bsky.social
Thinking others in @uclselcs.bsky.social will be interested in this emphasis of the importance of the Humanities in Medicine.
harrywallop.co.uk Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · Dec 2
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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ucldh.bsky.social
Report in Social Sciences in China Today on UCL-PKU project "Decoding Climate Narratives: Climate Change Communication in China & UK". Many thanks to @ucl-global.bsky.social & @pku1898.bsky.social for the kind support ai-and-society.org/projects/dec... @artshumsucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
Social Science in CHina Today
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
uclselcs.bsky.social
Excited to announce Mosaico Mag, the #UCL
#SPLASsociety publication for creative writing, current affairs, reviews & photography re the Hispanic & Lusophone worlds. Submissions open: finished pieces or just ideas, all contributions welcome. Deadline: 3 Dec. @artshumsucl.bsky.social tr.ee/mAoyB6xQKD
Mosaico Mag
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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jwwsabapathy.bsky.social
It's official @fmussgnug.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social has sold out the Gustave Tuck.

Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.
October 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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ucldutch.bsky.social
StellaBruzzi, Dean of UCL Arts & Humanities introducing Prof Florian Mussgnug's inaugural lecture "Loving Apocalypse too much" @UCLSELCS.bsky.social #CompLit
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
uclselcs.bsky.social
Funding for postgraduate study at UCL. Have a look at our wide range of Masters programmes incl. #ModernLanguages, #ComparativeLiterature, #FilmStudies, #EuropeanStudies, #GenderStudies, and more:

www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...

www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
UCL Masters Bursary
The UCL Master Bursary aims to enable and encourage those from lower income backgrounds to pursue a full-time or part-time Master's degree studies at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 8, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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ucldutch.bsky.social
What a joy! A full house at koffie-uurtje today for our Sinterklaas celebrations. All students had written poems for each other, including the beginners after only 8 weeks of Dutch. Very impressed. 🤩 @uclselcs.bsky.social
UCL Dutch koffie-uurtje
December 6, 2023 at 10:22 PM
uclselcs.bsky.social
We are happy to announce a new bursary scheme for postgraduate Dutch Studies @ucldutch.bsky.social, made possible by our friends and partners from the Anglo-Netherlands Society (ANS): www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...
ANS bursary
December 5, 2023 at 6:44 PM
uclselcs.bsky.social
Don't miss our second inaugural lecture this year: professor Haki Antonsson on 'The Beginning of Njáls Saga: Or the Attractions of Opposites', 6 December, 5:30pm www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...
The Beginning of Njáls Saga: Or the Attractions of Opposites.
Professor Haki Antonsson’s Inaugural lecture: The Attractions of Opposites. This event is free and open to all.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 29, 2023 at 9:08 AM
uclselcs.bsky.social
Before tomorrow's Inaugural Lecture, lets spend
60 seconds with ... Professor Claire Thomson | SELCS - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...
Grab your free tickets in the link above
60 seconds with... Professor Claire Thomson
Professor Claire Thomson reflects on her research as she prepares to give her Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Public health films in mid-century Scandinavia, at UCL on 22 November 2023...
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 21, 2023 at 11:31 AM