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Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
This reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling in the production of evidence.
Marxism in Culture
The Marxism in Culture seminar series was conceived in 2002 to provide a forum for those committed to the continuing relevance of Marxism for cultural analysis. Both ‘Marxism’ and ‘culture’ are conceived here in a broad sense. We understand Marxism as an ongoing self-critical tradition, and correspondingly the critique of Marxism's own history and premises is part of the agenda. ‘Culture’ is intended to comprehend not only the traditional fine arts, but also aspects of popular culture such as film, popular music and fashion.
Migration Research Unit PhD Network
The Migration Research Unit PhD Network launched in 2019 and has, with the generous support of the IAS, expanded into a thriving research hub for postgraduate students conducting interdisciplinary research into migration at UCL. In co-ordination with the IAS Refuge in a Moving World network, the MRU PhD Network hosted a number of reading groups and training sessions on topics as varied as humanitarian assistance, refugee law, vulnerability and the politics of care. Contact: jessica.sullivan.21@ucl.ac.uk
Practice As Research
The Practice As Research network aims to bring together the many different strands of practice-led/based research across all disciplines so as to not be limited by disciplinary conventions, but instead to benefit from cross-disciplinary fertilisation.We consider Practice As Research any practice that is underpinned by scholarship and academic rigour. The network runs a seminar series, a poetic inquiry group and a social fiction writing group. Contact: Nicole Brown, nicole.brown@ucl.ac.uk
PREM
PRE-MODERN (PREM) is a new research cluster that explores the wide and varied topics of medieval and early modern studies. Contact Victoria or Sam, victoria.rasbridge.19@ucl.ac.uk, samantha.brown.18@ucl.ac.uk.
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group
An informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
Racism and Racialisation PhD group
The Racism and Racialisation PhD group, hosted by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, is comprised of UCL postgraduate research students working on issues surrounding race and racism. This student-led network welcomes postgraduate researchers from all departments and schools across UCL.
Reading for Wellbeing
This reading group warmly welcomes any UCL staff member who would like to meet and talk about how books – all kinds of books! – can help us with our sense of wellbeing. What do you go to for comfort? Inspiration? Escape? From cookery books to nature writing, crime fiction to romance novels, no matter what your preferences are, come along and join us! Contact ah-wellbeing@ucl.ac.uk
Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Justice
This reading group invites students and scholars of all disciplines and career stages to consider interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to the study of sexuality, reproductive health, and reproductive justice.
Sociology Network PhD Group
Run by and for its members, and as such will evolve to suit their needs.
Systems and Representations — Culture and Ecology from the South
This interdisciplinary reading group explores the relationship between society, politics, economics, and the environment in Latin America and the global South from a sociocultural perspective.