An Evening with UCL at The National Arts Club in New York
20 February 2025, 6:30 pm–9:30 pm

Join alumni and friends for a reception in New York with the UCL Deans of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL alumni
Availability
- Sold out
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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UCL Alumni Relations
Location
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The National Arts Club15 Gramercy Park SouthNew York10003United States
This event is now sold out. To register for the waitlist, please email alumni@ucl.ac.uk.
As we prepare to celebrate UCL's bicentenary in 2026, this event offers a unique opportunity to hear from two of UCL's distinguished academic leaders about their vision for the future of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Discover how philanthropic partnerships can drive transformative education and research, enabling groundbreaking advancements that address the pressing challenges of our time.
Connect with UCL Deans, Prof Stella Bruzzi and Prof Nick Witham, about how their world-leading faculties can remain relevant, input meaningfully into contemporary global challenges such as climate change, inequality, and sustainable development, and showcase how the arts and culture make life worth living.
You will also be joined by senior academics from the UCL departments of History, English, Philosophy, and Anthropology, as well as fellow alumni who studied and/or have an interest in these fields.
This event will take place on Thursday 20 February: 6:30pm arrivals for 7pm speeches followed by networking until 9:30pm (all EST).
About the Speakers
Professor Stella Bruzzi
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UCL

Stella has been Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London (UCL) since 2017 where where she is also Professor of Film. Stella has held positions at the University of Manchester, Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Warwick, where she also served Chair of the Faculty of Arts from 2008 to 2011.
Stella has published widely in the areas of costume and cinema (including Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, the first book in the field), documentary (including the influential New Documentary in 2006), gender and masculinity in Hollywood and representations of history. She has, to date, published eight monographs, the last of which was Approximation: Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality (Routledge, 2020). In 2013, Stella was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
From January 2024, Stella will be Distinguished Visiting Professor at CityU, Hong Kong (until 2026).
Professor Nick Witham
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences (interim) at UCL

Nick is interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences and Professor of American Studies at the UCL Institute of the Americas. An interdisciplinary Area Studies researcher, his published work and teaching in History focuses on the United States but is transnational in focus and draws on concepts and theories from Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology, amongst other disciplines.
Nick was Director of the Institute of the Americas from 2022 to 2024, and he served as the Institute’s Director of Research in the build-up to REF2021. Before arriving at UCL, Nick worked from 2012 to 2015 as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in American History at Canterbury Christ Church University. He completed his PhD in American Studies at the University of Nottingham in 2012, and his BA in History and Politics at the University of Warwick in 2007, during which time he was a Cornell London Club Scholar at Cornell University.
From 2019 until 2022, Nick was Co-Editor of the Journal of American Studies. His leadership in learning and teaching has been recognized by a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has served on the steering committee of HOTCUS (Historians of the Twentieth Century United States), and the executive committee of BAAS (British Association for American Studies). With colleagues at King’s College London and the British Library, he co-organized EBAAS 2018, the largest American Studies conference to take place in Europe.