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All good things come to an end It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS.

We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026.

Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

A group of people happily cross a city street. They are dressed in casual, warm clothing. The background shows a row of buildings, visible traffic lights, and a clear blue sky.

Visit Queer Britain 🖼️

Join B.Queer and explore queer histories, culture & creativity at Queer Britain.

📍 26 February, 4:00–6:00 pm

🔗 Sign up: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=_oivH5ipW0yTySEKEdmlwq13Gm8t27FGoGSAMaORU7FUM0YxMUVVTUVINVVYS1dPTjU2OVRPOE9VUy4u&route=shorturl

Happy 200th anniversary UCL!

Read a little about UCL’s Queer History via this blog post from Milo Edwards, a BA Education Studies student, who completed a summer research fellowship with Generation UCL.

studentsunionucl.org/articles/ucl...

Book talk: Feminism Enchanted qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er, to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason?

Book talk: Feminism Enchanted
24 Feb 6pm
qUCL are pleased to welcome Yanbing Er @eryanbing.bsky.social to share insights from her new book. How might feminist thought make sense of a fate that can no longer be indexed by a framework of progressive reason? www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14
10 February 2026, 3:30pm-5pm
An informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

With the wonderful Max Liboiron, a queer Two Spirit scientist and Indigenous STS scholar whose thinking around science is informed by these intersections. @maxliboiron.bsky.social

Yugo Queer A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.

🔊 Yugo Queer

Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.

🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Yugo Queer A project by Natalija Stepanović, with support from UCL FRINGE, IAS & qUCL.

🔊 Yugo Queer

Join us for this one-day conference, which aims to make area studies more #queer and queer studies more far-reaching. It remaps the #Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge.

🗓️ 19 February
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)
4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Can’t wait to read this. I did some transcribing for the podcast and was such a fascinating project.

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s Join this Health Humanities Seminar with Prof Jonathan Bell (UCL Institute of the Americas), who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.

The Health Care Closet: Sexual Politics & American Health since the Rights Revolutions of the 1960s
29 Jan 6:15–7:30pm
We welcome Prof Jonathan Bell @uclamericas.bsky.social, who will explore an emerging crisis in health care access through the lens of sex and gender.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Yugo Queer Yugo Queer remaps the Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. This hybrid conference aims to make area studies more queer and queer studies m...

Yugo Queer
19 February 2026, 2pm-9pm
Yugo Queer remaps the Balkans from a war-torn region into one where new forms of activism, art, and affinity can emerge. This hybrid conference aims to make area studies more queer and queer studies more far-reaching.
www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero) This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)
4 February 2026, 5pm-7pm
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Front cover of 'The Log Books' showing two people answering telephones in a call centre in the 70s/80s.

The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened
9 Feb 5pm
Authors Tash Walker & Adam Zmith will launch their book 'The Log Books', an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes.
www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group
Session 13 is on 9 Dec 2pm-3:30pm
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. @ctlnkane.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 12 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 12
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
25 Nov 2pm-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11
11 Nov 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Schedule for Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group with image of the bearded St. Wilgefortis surrounded by the pride flag. Dates and times for meetings: 11th November 2:00-3:30pm, 25th November 2:00-3:30pm, 9th December 2:00-3:30pm. Email caitlin.kane.18@ucl.ac.uk to sign up.

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up!
For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
6 Oct 6-8pm
Discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
6 Oct 6-8pm
With @sprc-ucl.bsky.social we are pleased to host Dean Spade, discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...

Sticking Together in Tough Times
6 Oct 6-8pm at UCL, London
We & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social are pleased to host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I am beyond thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and a Visiting Fellowship at @ucl-ias.bsky.social to write a book on ‘Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024’. Pictured: Chathuri Nissansala, ‘Saudade’, 2024.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 10 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 10
29 July 2–3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 9 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 9
15 July 2025, 2pm-3:30pm
This is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rainbow Trap – London Launch Join author Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'

Rainbow Trap – London Launch
📅10 July 2025 ⏰ 6:15pm-8:15pm
Join author @kevinguyan.bsky.social to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 8 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 8
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
10 June 2-3:30pm @ctlnkane.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rainbow Trap – London Launch Join author Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'

🏳️‍🌈 Join author‪ @kevinguyan.bsky.social‬‬ to launch his new book 'Rainbow Trap'. Chaired by Harry Nicholas. Supported by @qucl.bsky.social‬‬ + @thecommonpress.bsky.social

📆: 10 July 2025
🕕: 6:15 pm–8:15 pm
📍: IAS Common Ground, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Register:

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 7 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 7
27 May 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book cover of 'Rainbow Trap' by Kevin Guyan

Rainbow Trap – London Launch
10 July 6:15pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
Join author @kevinguyan.bsky.social to explore ideas from his hot new book 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...