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New book amplifies expertise of migrant domestic workers | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 13h

Learn more about Dr Parry-Davies' work on our website 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-boo...

In a new book by Dr Ella Parry-Davies, Lecturer in Theatre, Performance and Critical Theory in the Department of English, migrant domestic workers contradict expectations by voicing their own lived ex...

COMMENT: Kerouac's Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can't reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 13h

🎧 In a new book by Dr Ella Parry-Davies from @kingsenglish.bsky.social, soundwalks recorded by domestic migrant workers usurp narratives that describe them as 'voiceless & victimised', instead giving them agency over how they tell their stories.

Listen to part of Phoebe's story in the video below ⤵️

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 1d

🚗 'Today, Sal Paradise would have a podcast. And I am not convinced it would be much different from some of the worst of the manosphere.'

Dr Michael Collins from @kingsenglish.bsky.social asks if Jack Kerouac's mythologisation of the open road still exists today 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/comment...

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend A...

Data Visualization in the Humanities: Nodegoat Open Workshop | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 2d

💻 Learn how to use Nodegoat to create diachronic geographical and social network visualisations in this workshop on 16 October, co-hosted by the Global Cultures Institute and LITAID project. Suitable for academics & PGRs working in humanities.

🔗 Register here – places are limited ⬇️

Nodegoat is a web-based research environment for the humanities.

Research sheds new light on contradictions between Goethe's writing and political beliefs | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 5d

💭 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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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…

King's alumna Dame Sarah Mullally named Archbishop of Canterbury | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 6d

📻 King's Professor Linda Woodhead talks to the media about the first woman appointed as the head of the Church of England, and the challenges she faces in her tenure 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/first-w...

King's Professor Linda Woodhead talks to the media about the first woman appointed as the head of the Church of England, and the challenges she faces in her tenure.

Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 7d

🌈 Dr @kevinguyan.bsky.social from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social reveals how the promise of inclusion requires LGBTQ+ people to identify with an ever-growing list of classifications, categories & labels – putting them in a rainbow trap.

📆 23 Oct
💡 Hosted by Queer@King's
🔗 Register ⬇️

Join Queer@King's for an evening with researcher and writer Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh) to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of…

'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery'

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 8d

🗞️ Professor Alana Harris seeks restorative justice for asylum patients buried at the abandoned Horton Cemetery. She said there were 120 cemeteries across the country, with Epsom's the largest, but also "the most derelict, in most need of saving and attention". 👇

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 8d

🎉 Congratulations to @kclalumni.bsky.social Nick Makoha (Creative Writing PhD) and former @kingsenglish.bsky.social staff member Sarah Howe on being shortlisted for the @tseliotprize.bsky.social 🙌

T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 9d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 8d

💡 Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social explores decolonising the curriculum & asks 'how we might rethink the work we do in the classroom to persuade students that there remains value to reading at length, to living with complexity and resisting easy answers' in @globalpolicy.bsky.social ⤵️

Global Policy @globalpolicy.bsky.social · 9d

Opinion

Against Mastery: Thinking in the Shadow of Neoliberal Times

www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/10/2...

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 9d

✒️ '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 🔽
literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-lig...

Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell

literaryreview.co.uk

NHS doctors want 'deepfake doubles' banned as health scams put patients at risk

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 9d

Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education, Dr Rachael Kent explains that social media platforms are not neutral spaces but “commercial ecosystems” that stand to profit from deepfake videos promoting supplements.

Read more 👇
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

Deepfake videos of NHS doctors promoting supplements have been circulating on social media, raising concerns about medical misinformation and questions about where to pin liability.

www.mirror.co.uk

COMMENT: Singapore's national identity excludes those who don't look like a 'regular family' | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 12d

🇸🇬 Singapore commits to being a nation of equality – but is this a reality for every citizen?

Dr Pavan Mano from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social shows how Singapore's policies on issues such as housing and COVID restrictions favour heterosexual couples for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️

Nationalism usually works on the basis that a nation should imagine itself as a “we”, with a common identity, history and culture. But it doesn’t always clearly say who the “we” are. Instead, it…

The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 13d

🇩🇪 On 20 October, @bschillace.brandyschillace.com joins Queer@King’s and the Centre for the Humanities and Health to discuss her latest book, The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, telling the forgotten story of the world’s first centre for homosexual & transgender rights.

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Author and historian Brandy Schillace joins Queer@King’s and the Centre for the Humanities and Health for a talk about her latest book, The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story.

Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Novel | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 14d

🦊 Elisha Cohn from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social rethinks the status of animals in fiction by theorizing the novel as a form of multispecies ecology or a 'milieu' in this talk for @kingsenglish.bsky.social on her new book.

📆 13 October
⏰ 16:30-18:30
🔗 Find out more ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/milie...

Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in fiction by theorizing the novel as a form of multispecies ecology: as a milieu.

The Digital Futures of History | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 15d

🗓️Don't miss 👇
Stuart Dunn, ‘Can AI be superstitious? The digital future of folklore’

Vincent Hiribarren, ‘Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best?’

Stephen Whiteman, ‘What goes in must come out: the possibilities and perils of digital art history and AI’
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-d...

Join us in The Digital Futures of History in looking forward to the new ways in which we may soon be looking back.

On The Calculation of Meaning, Or Doing Words Without Things | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 16d

⌨️ On 15 Oct, Dr @mrsbunz.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social explores Large Language Models and literary & philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike meaning produced in communication.

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Bringing computational mechanisms of Large Language Models in conversation with literary and philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike…

Author Sir Michael Morpurgo inspires students at King's Opening of Year Ceremony | King's College London

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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 19d

#ThisWeekAtKings world-renowned author and King’s alum, Sir Michael Morpurgo returned to King's to welcome students to the new academic year.

Sir Michael shared reflections from his time at King’s, encouraging students to value both learning and friendship. ⬇️

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/author-...

King’s alum, world-renowned author and former Children's Laureate, Sir Michael Morpurgo welcomed students to the new academic year at this year's Author Sir Michael Morpurgo inspires students at King'...

Clara Obligado & Fiona Mackintosh: Escritura, edición y traducción | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 19d

🌱 Join Language Acts and Worldmaking for a workshop with author Clara Obligado and translator Fiona Mackintosh to discuss Todo lo que crece. Naturaleza y escritura (2021) / All that grows. Nature and Writing (2025).

📆 2 Oct
⏰ 11:00
📚 Part of the London Spanish Book & Zine Fair
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Join us for a workshop with Argentine-Spanish author Clara Obligado and her translator Fiona Mackintosh.

Cosmographia Antarctica: The Early Modern invention of the Southern World between the Andes and the Mediterranean | King's College London

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 20d

🔭 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 ⤵️

Juan Carlos Mantilla explores how between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward.

Religious culture and control in and beyond the Global Iberian World | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Happening today: Professors Fernando Baños Vallejo and Carme Arronis Llopis from @ua.es present on early modern Iberian religiosity and cultural control ⛪

⏰ 16:00-18:00
📍 Bush House, Strand campus
🌎 Hosted by Language Acts and Worldmaking

🔗 Register here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/relig...

The Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking welcomes two scholars from the University of Alicante, Professors Fernando Baños Vallejo and Carme Arronis Llopis.

Report Launch: Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education | King's College London

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 23d

💡 'It can feel weird asking for help... and intimidating as an Early Career Researcher.'

Dr Pavan Mano (@kingsinterhums.bsky.social), Dr Leonie Smith & Professor @annavignoles.bsky.social discuss academic funding on the new @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk podcast ⤵️
shorturl.at/FGNct

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 27d

⏰ Only one day to go!

Join us tomorrow to discuss findings from Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social & Dr Laura Gibson's @kingsdh.bsky.social research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education.

📍 Online, 11:30-13:00

Access the report & register here 🔽

Join us for this online event to present and discuss findings from our recent research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education.