🇨🇳🇮🇳 On 18 March, @kingsdllc.bsky.social welcomes Adhira Mangalagiri (New York University) to talk about "stealth translation" – a translational practice that enables the foreign to slip through exclusionary borders – with focus on the China-India border 👇
🥳 Congratulations to Dr Emrys Jones, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, at @kingsenglish.bsky.social on this recognition!
🎹 Professor Kevin K. Gaines traced support for civil rights movements, disability advocacy and environmental awareness in Stevie Wonder's music, particularly in the album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, at the Global Cultures Institute annual lecture.
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🇺🇾 Immerse yourself in Uruguayan theatre through English translations of six plays by writers who have won widespread recognition at home and beyond Uruguay's borders.
📆 13 March
⏰ 19:30
📍 Omnibus Theatre
🎭️ Hosted by Out of the Wings
🔗 Free to attend – registration required ⤵️
⛪️ 'I had assumed to question the church was to wound God. She showed me that devotion and questioning can live in the same breath.'
Dr @eddyade.bsky.social from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social shares how Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie changed his perspective on religion 👇 #WorldBookDay
There are 2 nights left to see King's Greek Play 2026 this week 🎭
Book your last minute tickets now
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💡 'Bell does a very successful job of bringing us back to the themes that connect the wildly diverse ensemble of Goethe’s writings.'
Rowan Williams reviews Goethe: A Life In Ideas by Professor @matthewgbell.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social ⬇️
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🎭 Professor Catherine Boyle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social features at this #IWD2026 event by @ilcs.bsky.social exploring how we can make fruitful connections across different types of creative practice, such as theatre translation, poetry translation, creative writing, directing and film-making 👇
👏 Congratulations to Dr Declan Ryan, Lecturer in Creative Writing in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, on his appointment as poetry editor at @jonathancape.bsky.social.
We asked Dr Ryan to share some of his favourite works and his poetry recommendations for the year ahead ⤵️
🪶 Professor Emily Butterworth from @kingsdllc.bsky.social explores the Latin etymology of 'dissidence' to show how women challenged the world around them in sixteenth century France before the word 'dissidence' became a known term.
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🏆 Singer-songwriter Rosalía won her first BRIT Award for International Artist of the Year.
Her latest album, LUX, has earned critical acclaim. But should we consider it pop, classical music or something entirely in between?
@drandrewjgreen.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com ⬇️
Coming up, next Wednesday, from our friends at King’s College London. An exploration of Stevie Wonder's music through political movements and other influences. Details below.
🔍️ In July 1518, hundreds of Strasbourg residents were swept up in an endless dance, struck by a strange illness driving them to fidget to the point of exhaustion – or even death.
Professor Kélina Gotman explores this mystery in a new @artefr.bsky.social documentary 👇
An illustration from the page of a book from the 1600s showing two men playing a game of chess. Text reads A game at chess as it hath sundrey times acted at the Globe on Bankside.
Apply by 9 March for @kingsartshums.bsky.social MA in Early Modern English Literature, taught in partnership with us.
Find out more about this rich and unique course where you will learn from our expert curators and examine rare texts in our collections.
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/kpr
📖 On 18 March, Professor Abigail Williams explores how we might use the material traces of past non-elite readers to better understand the relationship between literacy and selfhood in early modern England.
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💬 'There’s not much hope for justice in the wider world in this novel, any more than there is in ours now.'
Professor Lara Feigel, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture in @kingsenglish.bsky.social, reviews Our Better Natures by Sophie Ward for @theguardian.com.
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🇺🇦 'Destruction of heritage is not limited to crumbling bricks and mortar. It is also about lived experiences that once took shelter in those places.'
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene reflects on safeguarding Ukraine's heritage ⬇️
🩺 The Centre for the Humanities and Health welcomes Professor Marlene Goldman from @utoronto.ca to talk about her latest book, Medicine as Theatre: Theatre as Medicine, which argues for a performative future for healthcare.
📆 18 March
⏰ 16:00-18:30
📍 Strand campus
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🚨 Don't miss out on your place at this event – register for tickets using the link below 👇
🗓️ Last chance to sign up for the launch of A Short History of the Department of Theology & Religious Studies- a project by Professor Linda Woodhead and Sarah Limb 👇
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🎵 Dr Betty Rosen and Dr @genevievehyoung.bsky.social from @kingsmusic.bsky.social present a comparative perspective on the “spontaneous” making of sung/recited medieval verse drawing on their work on the MUSLIVE project at this @kingsdllc.bsky.social research seminar on 4 March ⤵️
🌿 Digital X Climates network has officially launched at King's 🌎
Led by academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social, it is dedicated to advancing research, dialogue and public engagement on the entanglements of digital technologies with environmental, social and political ecologies.
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📚 @rsliterature.bsky.social and @kingsenglish.bsky.social welcomed Mojisola Adebayo, Suresh Ariaratnam, Nic Bottomley, @rose-condo-poet.bsky.social and Sara Kärpänen to share their journeys to successful careers in literature on 11 February.
🔗 Watch the event here ⬇️
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🇩🇪 Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social & @kingshistory.bsky.social says while powerful men have been credited with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the true heroes were everyday men and women
🎧️ Listen on No One Saw It Coming with @marcfennell.bsky.social ⬇️
🎼 Discover more about the @oswaldsraven.bsky.social project, including the premiere of the song cycle "My Name is Oswald", on our website ⬇️
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👑 Why is Oswald of Northumbria – a medieval English king and saint – so popular in the German-speaking world?
A new set of songs based on research by @oswaldsraven.bsky.social tell us how he transcended cultures and languages through ever-evolving stories ⬇️
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🧑🎨 Make your own zine using imagery from East London's queer past at this workshop with Cas Bradbeer, hosted by Queer@King's.
📆 18 February
⏰ 11:00-13:00
📍 Strand Building
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🧀 "More cheese, Gromit?"
🎥 Dr Christopher Holliday from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social reviews the new 'Inside Aardman – Wallace and Gromit and Friends' exhibition at the Young V&A for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️
🇪🇬 Dr Hannah Scott Deuchar from @qmul.bsky.social asks how translation shaped the Dinshaway Affair in 1906 and whether the event might still reshape conceptions of translation, justice and reparation in this talk for @kingsdllc.bsky.social on 18 February.
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❤️🔥 'Prepare to get obsessed.'
As Wuthering Heights premieres in UK cinemas, Dr Shelley Galpin explains how Emerald Fennell’s bold style, willingness to embrace moral complexity and track record of challenging audiences make her perfectly placed to reinterpret Brontë’s dark and turbulent classic ⬇️
