Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern Professor Alexander Samson Before the shattering of organic and providential temporalities by universal clock time, a period dubbed the ‘early modern’ foreshadowed and heralded our ‘modernity’. But how are our times different from what came before?

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6/24/2025

A Baltic-Scandinavian-American Nexus: The Journey of Estonian Refugees of the 1905 Revolution Mart Kuldkepp This lecture examines how Estonian refugees of the 1905 Revolution escaped abroad through clandestine routes and navigated subsequent challenges in other countries, not least from authorities who suspected them of plotting bank robberies or planning the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II. Focusing on revolutionary networks connecting the Baltics, Scandinavia, and the United States, it investigates how the refugees maintained ideological commitments, experienced further radicalisation in 1917, and in some cases returned home for renewed revolutionary activism. Their experiences reveal overlooked transnational revolutionary connections linking Eastern and Northern Europe with America, illuminating a complex but neglected dimension of early 20th-century history.

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6/24/2025

Scandimania! Nordic Noir in the UK since 2008 Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen In the early 2010s, Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic noir television drama became an international publishing and media sensation, which has since then evolved into a multitude of genres, with changing locations, with versions and adaptations into several languages. This lecture will review and assess the phenomenon, the changing publishing and media landscapes that enabled its rise, and discuss how Nordic noir became a particular British (even UCL) invention and obsession.

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6/24/2025

Professor Geraldine Brodie Vice-Dean (Advancement), Faculty of Arts & Humanities at UCL Professor of Translation Theory and Theatre Translation, Centre for Translation Studies, SELCS/CMII Following a career as a chartered accountant, Geraldine Brodie gained her PhD in theatre translation from UCL. Her publications on translation for performance include The Translator on Stage (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Adapting Translation for the Stage, co-edited with Emma Cole (Routledge, 2017). She is a member of the Clore Leader network, which draws its members from across arts, culture and the creative sector in the UK, and Chair of Actors Touring Company.

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4/16/2024

In March 2023, the Centre for Humanities Education supported a work-shop on problem-based learning. Problem-based learning is an approach to teaching that has long been used in the fields of law, medicine and STEM. At the outset of a module, students are presented with a real-world problem, case study or scenario from their discipline and work together to find a solution, usually culminating in a final product (report, presentation, exhibition etc.) Organised by Dr Selena Daly (UCL SELCS) in collaboration with Jesper Hansen (UCL Arena), this workshop showcased how problem-based learning techniques can be applied to the humanities classroom, and featured case studies of modules across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities led by Elettra Carbone (SELCS), Geraldine Horan (SELCS), and Ranjita Dhital (Arts and Sciences).

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6/12/2023

A recording of the online open event held on 25th January 2023.

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2/7/2023

Academic papers by Dr Louise Peacock, Associate professor in Drama at De Montfort University and Joana Jacob Ramalho, teaching Lecturer in Film Studies, Comparative Literature and Portuguese at UCL. Clowning for mind, body and soul (Louise Peacock) Sad, Scary and Sadistic Clowns in Films (Joana Jacob Ramalho) Political Clowns and the Buffons of Internationa Politics (Louise Peacock)

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7/21/2022

Grimaldi’s Last Act, performed reading Edmund Behn, directed by Anthony Shrubsball, with music by Zelida Gordon. Adapted from ‘Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi’ by Charles Dickens.

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7/21/2022