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Exploring global challenges through diverse perspectives. Home to King’s Geography; Global Health & Social Medicine; International Development plus Global Institutes.

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Spheres of Knowledge is written for curious readers who want to understand the forces shaping our world.

It’s not an academic journal – it’s a space where complex global issues are unpacked in clear, straightforward language.

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New Blog Post🆕

From pandemics to probiotics, the history of microbial research goes beyond Louis Pasteur and the lab. Explore the history of it and how it can shape future research 🦠🔬

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Rethinking Microbial Histories: Beyond Pasteur and the Lab
In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS 👇

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Since the rise of generative AI, hype has obscured the deeper question: who really controls this transformative technology?

Join us to hear from Nick Srnicek on his new book, which explores this important topic…
Book Discussion: Silicon Empires - The Fight for the Future of AI | King's College London
Join us to discuss the new book with author Nick Srnicek.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
New Blog Post🆕

The question “Who owns chickens?” is not trivial. 🐔 It opens a window into the machinery of global agribusiness, revealing how a handful of firms shape what we eat, how it’s produced, and who pays the price.

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November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Call for abstracts, Seed Panel

Innovating Methods to Find (G)local Solutions for Global Challenges

Conv. by Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) & @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

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November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Join us for a roundtable to reflect on three decades of feminist thinking on gender, development, and macroeconomic policy.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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✅ Check our latest newsletter, right here or in your inbox!

✅ The latest news, publications picks, calls, vacancies and opinion from us and our member community

📕 Special feature: @scnat.ch Guide for Global Research Partnerships

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November 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Nyra is here: Climate action, from the ground up. Join us in supporting farmers on the frontline of climate change.

Learn more 👉 nyra.community

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November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
ONE WEEK TO GO 👇
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox,
Dr Rafeef Ziadah
⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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We're hiring a Senior Centre Manager!

The role will involve working as part of the Centre’s senior leadership team, overseeing a wide range of business and research operations to ensure effective management of all day-to-day operations.

Find out more and apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130606-...
Senior Centre Manager | King's College London
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November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"Governments, parliaments, and non-state actors — who support what until recently was a broad global consensus on sustainable development need to find ways to counter the destructive influence of the Trump administration on established forums such as the G7 and G20"
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The G7 and Global Development Architecture: Gradual Shift or Pivotal Moment?
By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or w…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"Like Banquo’s Ghost at Macbeth’s feast, the $100 billion climate finance pledge haunts every COP."

New insightful blog post from Prof. @sarahbracking.bsky.social
looking at this history of climate financing at COP.

🔗https://kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/cop30-banquos-ghost-at-belem
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
TWO DAYS TO GO 📢
Have you got your ticket yet?
📚 Disrupted Development in The Congo
📅 19 Nov | 🕔 17:00–18:30 | 📍 Strand Campus
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Hear from author Ben Radley, alongside Dr Christian Otchia and Dr Ingrid Kvangraven.

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Book Talk on “Disrupted Development in the Congo” with Ben Radley | King's College London
Please join the Department of International Development at KCL for a book talk with Ben Radley about his new book, "Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Co...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Your COP30 questions, answered. 🌍
What makes this climate summit in Belém, Brazil so important for the Brazil and global action?

🎥 Dr. Andreza de Souza Santos, Director of King's Brazil Institute shares her perspective.

Full Video 🔗 youtu.be/XaIsIP3En6w
COP30 Questions: With the King's Brazil Institute
YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London
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November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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What does it mean to participate in a community with severe mental illness? We're hosting a seminar on 19 November with Hanna Kienzler, who will share insights into community inclusion and participation of people with severe mental illness in Palestine.

Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/lesso...
"Get to know us! Our lives with mental illness in the Palestinian community" - the journey of and lessons learned from a participatory action project | King's College London
In this talk, Hanna Kienzler will share insights into community inclusion and participation of people with severe mental illness in Palestine.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
FREE book talk and live music performance 📚 🎵

Join us for an evening of live experimental electronic music and a book talk exploring England’s vanishing landscapes...

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🎧Sample Mix: www.mixcloud.com/gypjh2000/li...
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🆕 New Blog Post
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🌍 COP30 kicks off this week in Brazil, and King’s is there. We’ve been granted observer status by the UNFCCC Secretariat.
But why is King’s attending COP?
What role do academics play in global climate negotiations?
COP 30: Why King’s is participating in the world’s biggest climate conference
As the world turns its attention to COP30, our delegation shares how our presence will benefit our research and allow us to contribute to important conversations on climate change.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Annual Lecture: The Paradox of Home by Les Back (11.12.25)
Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Have you got your tickets? 🎟️
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law
⏰ 18:00 to 20:00 | 📅 13 Nov | 📍 King's College London
🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/court...
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Why are homes in England shrinking? 🏘️🔎
new blog post explains all...
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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South Asian activists & academics discuss cyber safety, data protection, gendered violence online & the human cost of AI content moderation.
📅 14 Nov | 4-5:40pm GMT | Online
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Social Media and Cyber Security Space(s) | King's College London
Digital Rights Activism Dialogues
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November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What happens when mining industrialisation in Africa is led by transnational corporations?

Ben Radley discusses the challenges this has brought to the Congo.
🗓️ 19 Nov | ⏰ 17:00–18:30 | 📍 Strand Campus

🔗https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-talk-on-disrupted-development-in-the-congo-with-ben-radley
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🚨 Just another day of terror in Rio?

David Kenyon unpacks the politics, violence, and broken security logic behind Operation Containment.

#Brazil #RioDeJaneiro #PublicSecurity #Politics #KingsGlobalAffairs pic.x.com/W9PODLou3X

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Another Day of Terror in Rio de Janeiro
Is this a new paradigm?
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November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
💔📜 Between 1806–1975, nearly 1,000 Australians, mostly women, took heartbreak to court.
Join Alecia Simmonds at King's College London as she explores how love & law collided in breach of promise cases.
🗓️ 13 Nov | 🕕 18:00 - 20:00
🎟️ Tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/court...
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law | King's College London
For 2025's Reese Lecture, join Associate Professor Alecia Simmonds in exploring the emotional and legal history of courting.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🎙️ Mariz Tadros @ids.ac.uk & Laura Camfield @kings-sga.bsky.social discuss decolonising knowledge, including experiences in contexts where they are indigenous or non-indigenous scholars, and alternatives to the current development knowledge ecosystem
🎧 Listen here:
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October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📢 Book Talk": The Long Heat, Climate Politics When It’s Too Late

Join Andreas Malm & Wim Carton for a vital discussion on climate politics in the age of overshoot.

📅 Nov 6 | 🕕 6-8PM GMT
📍KCL, Strand Campus, London
🎟️ Free tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/publi...
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM