🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums kcl.ac.uk/artshumshttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mlpxjr4nhp2p🪖 'Border wars are fought not just with tanks and mines, but also with common cognates and homonyms.' Professor Emily Apter advocated for multilingualism and cognitive translation in her @kingsinterhums.bsky.social conference keynote lecture on language justice ⬇️ https://buff.ly/kXUKGTP13 May 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpxjr4nhp2phttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mlnzfmklee27📙 Award-winning poet Joelle Taylor discusses her new collection, Maryland, exploring the scars, hopes and potentialities of dyke counterculture and the queer underground, as well as work from her previous book C+NTO, at this Queer@King's event. 📆 25 June ⏰ 18:30-20:00 🔗 Register ⤵️ https://buff.ly/jVa2jok12 May 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnzfmklee27https://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mlec3uqhe22q🌟 Call for Submissions | VSAC 2026 VSAC 2026 will take place at King’s College London (20–22 August 2026), bringing together a diverse community across art, science, and technology to explore perception, not only as observation, but as an active way of engaging with the world 🧵⬇️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vsac-202608 May 2026 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlec3uqhe22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mldufkdgdk2o💬 'It captures this sort of anxiety that we all have about being thrust into a role we’re not prepared for, but trying to perform competently anyway.' Dr @zaborowski.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social was quoted in @nytimes.com on Guy Goma's famous BBC interview 🔽 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/bbc-guy-goma-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.bA0O.VwPWbA02fXmh&smid=url-share08 May 2026 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldufkdgdk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3ml3ttzdona2x🇩🇪 Why was the town of Weimar so important to the Nazis? Due to it's significance in German culture and history, the Nazis wanted to make Weimar a district capital – changing the city's architecture forever with their ideology, says Katja Hoyer, Visiting Research Fellow in @kingsdllc.bsky.social ⬇️🧵05 May 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3ttzdona2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkzddi2pog2m🪶 'He was always pushing the language into strange new corners and finding new ways to surprise you and do things that you didn't think were possible.' Dr Luke Roberts from @kingsenglish.bsky.social pays tribute to British post-war poet J.H. Prynne on BBC Front Row. 🎧️ Listen from 24:35 ⤵️ https://buff.ly/H6d3abt04 May 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzddi2pog2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mksebas4bp2m📺️ How is women's ambition portrayed in Pakistani television shows? Maham Sajid (Global Cultures MA) explores which desires are rendered visible, which are contained, and which stories about women translate to international audiences ⬇️ buff.ly/jSoeHfH01 May 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksebas4bp2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkrrwo7sz222👋 Meet Professor Vincent Lloyd who joins King's Department of Theology & Religious Studies as @leverhulme.ac.uk Visiting Professor in May. Vincent will work with King's colleagues while he completes manuscript with Professor Jonathan Tran (Duke University) on Christianity and race.01 May 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrrwo7sz222https://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkrduhtmzv2zWhat separates humans from "simpler animals and even our nearby primate cousins is a capacity for sophisticated forms of dissembling—e.g.lying, misleading, and the use of strategic ambiguity." More from Eliot Michaelson on his fellowship project 👇️ https://buff.ly/17jcTnS01 May 2026 05:00 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrduhtmzv2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkqgjegaot2t👥 Read A Short History of the Department of Theology & Religious Studies- a booklet celebrating alumni memories, milestones, and stories. Available now 👇️ https://buff.ly/6lcYOSY30 Apr 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqgjegaot2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkq6huh5xk2y🏆Congratulations to Marie Tranchant, winner of the inaugural Pipe Roll Society essay prize in memory of medieval historian Mabel Mills. Her award-winning research on documentary culture and manuscript production is due to be published in Thirteenth Century England. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/pipe-roll-society-prize-for-phd-candidate30 Apr 2026 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkq6huh5xk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkq57gk7xc2y📖 "Roman soldiers are important and interesting in the history of the Roman conquest of Britain but they are far from the whole story. " https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/roman-soldiers-are-important-and-interesting-in-the-history-of-the-roman-conquest-of-britain-but-they-are-far-from-the-whole-story-new-book-explore-civilian-lives-at-hadians-wall30 Apr 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkq57gk7xc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkq53gwbgk2yWhat can philosopher, Lotze teach us about consciousness, attention, and the mind? Professor Mark Textor's new book revisits the work of Hermann Lotze- a thinker who helped reshape philosophy and psychology. Read more https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lotze-a-trend-setter-in-the-philosophy-of-psychology30 Apr 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkq53gwbgk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mknlntherm24🐦‍⬛ 'What does it say about people that they revere pelicans (viewing them as a Christian symbol of selflessness) but despise cormorants?' Professor Gordon McMullan's research on why the cormorant is so hated is reviewed in @economist.com ⤵️ buff.ly/JXmh5KO @kingsenglish.bsky.social https://buff.ly/JXmh5KO29 Apr 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknlntherm24https://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkksuipp4y22🇨🇱 Experience performance in conversation with academic research at this staging of HABLAN by Leyla Selman – translated as THEY SPEAK by Professor Catherine Boyle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social. 📆 14 May ⏰ 14:00-16:00 📍 Soho Poly 🔗 More details 👇 https://buff.ly/mh38J9528 Apr 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkksuipp4y22https://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkhq34mcnr2m🏆️ Congratulations to Zuzu Burton, student in @kingsenglish.bsky.social on winning the Undergraduate Essay Prize from @officialbaas.bsky.social. Zuzu explored the tension between spirituality and the realities of violence embedded in the land in Homecoming by Marilynne Robinson ⬇️ https://buff.ly/BZ2msSm27 Apr 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhq34mcnr2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mkaphk2lbc2n🗓️ Ends tomorrow: last chance to visit! Dive Deep: Our Immersive Selves presents immersive Virtual Reality (VR) work by students in Virtual Realities led by Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene @kingsdh.bsky.social at @scigallerylon.bsky.social 🔽 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/coming-soon-dive-deep-our-immersive-selves24 Apr 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkaphk2lbc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mka6oboxvp2v📢 Join Queer@King's and @kingscmci.bsky.social for a conversation launching the special issue on Queer Asia as Method, published in Media, Culture & Society on 7 May. 🔗 Learn more 👇 buff.ly/46OgR7924 Apr 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mka6oboxvp2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mk6grrjcqs24👥 "There seems to be something rich and distinctive about the human capacity for meaning and communication. What is it that distinguishes these human capacities from those of other sorts of animals?" https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/eliot-michaelson-awarded-leverhulme-fellowship23 Apr 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6grrjcqs24https://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mk5o7ep2b22vMeet Aniruddha Jena, who joins the Global Cultures Institute on the @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social Visiting Fellowship 👋 His project examines listening as a political and relational practice on community radio and how migrant communities in India navigate belonging 📻️ 🔗 Read more 👇 buff.ly/vLrHxqK https://www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-the-fellow-aniruddha-jena23 Apr 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5o7ep2b22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mk3q2yahfk27☪️ Professor Mercedes García-Arenal examines the reading habits and literary culture of Spain's Moriscos – the Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity in 1502 and expelled in the early seventeenth century – at this Language Acts and Worldmaking seminar on 29 April. 🔗 Register ⤵️ buff.ly/BdwK3fP22 Apr 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3q2yahfk27https://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mjz7m47ivq2x🎉 Meet the winners of the 2026 Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize hosted by @kingsenglish.bsky.social... This year's winners and runners-up are Bella Steiner, Shaz Baker, Billy Smith and Grace Brimacombe-Rand. Their work will feature in Wild Court. 🔗 Discover the inspiration behind their writing 👇 https://buff.ly/CfblfXt21 Apr 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz7m47ivq2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mjymxxe2yk2w📰 Dr Daniel Nilsson DeHanas, Reader in Politics and Religion is interviewed in Tagesspiegel about President Trump's relationship with religion 👇 https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/wie-der-us-prasident-religion-fur-sich-nutzt-wir-haben-die-wahren-gefahren-noch-gar-nicht-erkannt-15488948.html21 Apr 2026 09:06 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjymxxe2yk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mjymninsi226📣 Considering methodologies of memorialisation and reparation, King's Past's colloquium explores how institutions and communities remember, and reckon with, their pasts. Sign up https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/institutions-and-the-art-of-memory-and-repair21 Apr 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjymninsi226https://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mjwzwypl222q▶️ F.D. Maurice Professor, Linda Woodhead from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies is interviewed on DW news 👇 Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JagopjaTSnE20 Apr 2026 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwzwypl222qhttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mjw4slim322t🪶 'The prejudice remains, and it is destructive both to the natural world and to human society.' Understanding the cormorant can teach us about human prejudice, says Professor Gordon McMullan from @kingsenglish.bsky.social in a new book published by @universitypress.cambridge.org ⬇️ https://buff.ly/81SQt3t20 Apr 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjw4slim322thttps://bsky.app/profile/kingsartshums.bsky.social/post/3mjoyscinjk2b🕯️ 'For centuries, that was the only way we read books — together.' As reading retreats and book clubs become increasingly popular, Professor Abigail Williams discusses the resurgence of sociable reading in @bloomberg.com 👇 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-10/booktok-and-burnout-are-fueling-interest-in-1-000-reading-retreats17 Apr 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:mfa2x6ilhn7pcjup6ea2bar5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoyscinjk2b