@kingsartshums.bsky.social
🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🫀 How can sound and music help us better understand the human body, health, illness, and the natural world?
Dr Helen Anahita Wilson, @wellcometrust.bsky.social Research Fellow @kingscmci.bsky.social, will talk about her research and perform on BBC One Sunday Morning Live this weekend.
Watch here ⬇️
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🏳️🌈 Untangle the knotty, contradictory questions that have emerged around queer sex in the present moment at this symposium on 2 November, hosted by Queer@King's and the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster at @mybcu.bsky.social.
🔗 Reserve your place ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/queer...
@kingsartshums.bsky.social📻 Did you catch Dr John Callanan, Reader in Philosophy on Great Lives?
Listen to to hear more about Kant 👇
@kingsartshums.bsky.social📽️ Join us for a screening of the documentary 'Hinemihi: The House with the Golden Eyes' and a discussion about the making of the film and the carving 'Exchange' of Hinemihi from the UK to Aotearoa, chaired by Professor Daniel Orrells.
📆 22 Oct
⏰ 19:00
📍 Strand campus
@kingsartshums.bsky.social💡 Want to learn more about Old English? Dr @carlkears.bsky.social explains how this medieval language is kept alive today on our YouTube channel ⬇️
@kingsartshums.bsky.social👂 What did medieval poetry sound like? Did it sound like the English we use today?
Dr @carlkears.bsky.social from @kingsenglish.bsky.social reads Caedmon's Hymn in Old English for the @poemsonthetube.bsky.social website 👇
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🇬🇼 'The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa' by Professor Toby Green has been shortlisted for the @asanewsonline.bsky.social Best Book Prize.
The book explores the life of Crispina Peres, a slave trader in West Africa 👇
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🗓️ Don't miss New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Professor Beth Allison Barr at King's 👇
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🎷 Dr Anthony Joseph from @kingsenglish.bsky.social chooses his favourite albums combining jazz and spoken word for a special edition of BBC Radio 3’s ‘Round Midnight with @sowetokinch.bsky.social for #NationalPoetryDay.
🔗 Listen to the episodes (28 Sept – 1 Oct) on BBC Sounds ⬇️
buff.ly/bhdQMB7
@kingsartshums.bsky.social👑 What was life like for the women courtiers of Charles II?
@kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social, @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social, Dr Hannah Dawson and Catharine MacLeod examine how women embraced travel, consumerism and libertinism at this @cemskcl.bsky.social event on 22 October.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social✒️ 'The personal was always political for these women writers.'
Dr Clara Jones from @kingsenglish.bsky.social shows how interwar British women writers experimented with genre to work out & articulate their political views, & foregrounded debates about gender that still exist today ⤵️
@kingsartshums.bsky.social▶️ Professor Lydia Schumacher explores the impact that the establishment of theology as an academic discipline had on women’s ordination in the Church, and how women's prior roles in ordained ministry were forgotten 👇
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🏹 'This tapestry occupies a unique position in European history, culture and politics.'
Dr Josh Davies & Dr @carlkears.bsky.social explore why the original Bayeux Tapestry continues to spawn replicas across art, fashion and film, hundreds of years after its final stitch 🪡 ⤵️
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🚦 'I’m not surprised that people need to find a narrative, because we’re so disenfranchised when it comes to the collection of our data.'
Professor @cb-hq.bsky.social discusses the origins of conspiracy theories about tech and how they may reflect fears of technological overreach ⬇️
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🇺🇸 250 years on from the 1776 Pennsylvania constitution, what do these papers reveal about history and the USA today? Dr Angel-Luke O’Donnell from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social shows why small historical moments matter as much as big ones and how a street near King’s links to American independence 👇
@kingsartshums.bsky.social📺 Watch Professor William Pettigrew (@kingshistory.bsky.social) and his team on David Olusoga's new series ⬇️
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🇪🇸 In this Valedictory Lecture, Professor Federico Bonaddio (@kingsdllc.bsky.social) explores (im)personality in Lorca’s poetry, his concern with human life, and connections to Spanish cinema.
📆 29 September
⏰ 18:00-20:00
📍 Bush House
🔗 Register for your ticket 👇
buff.ly/fQAanEA
@kingsartshums.bsky.social🏆️ Grace Yee Shuen Cheng, PhD student in @kingsdllc.bsky.social, has won the Paragraph Prize for Best Article for her analysis of Proust and his use of “texture”, which acts as a layer between the observer and reality.
🔗 Learn more ⤵️
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@kingsenglish.bsky.socialReposted by @kingsartshums.bsky.social🎥 Join us for the Sylvia Wynter Lecture on 9 October, where you can enjoy a screening of Onyeka Igwe's film A Radical Duet (2023) followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and Alexander Weheliye.
🔗 Spaces are limited – register now to secure your ticket ⬇️
@kingsartshums.bsky.social📢 FINAL FEW WEEKS The Enemies and Rascals exhibition at the @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Maughan Library closes next month, so make sure you stop by 👇
