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⭐Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History of Art, Materials and Technology
⭐Conservation Laboratory Manager - 0.5FTE
📢 We’re hiring at UCL History of Art!
We are currently recruiting for two full-time, permanent Lecturer positions:
🔹 Lecturer in Modern Art and Theory
🔹 Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures, c.1300–1700
💼 Salary: £54,931–£64,644
📅 Closing date: 26 April 2026
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Film Screening 🎬
Les Entrelacs de l’Objet / The Object’s Interlacing (2020) by Kader Attia 🎥
A powerful reflection on restitution, repair & the futures of African artefacts displaced during colonial rule.
🗓 13 Mar 2026
⏰ 17:30–20:00
📍 Room 780, IOE, 20 Bedford Way
All welcome!
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Tomás Harris Lecture with Lamia Balafrej (UCLA)✨
Technical Marvels and the Making of Difference in Medieval Islam explores automata, “hidden labor,” frontier talismans, and the making of medieval race, from idols to Gog and Magog.
🗓 17–19 Mar 2026
⭐ Open to all ⭐
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Applications are now open for Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026–27 with us!✨
🗓️ Deadlines:
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship: 31 July 2026
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship: 2 October 2026
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Last month, Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (Associate Professor in Art and Material Cultures of Britain) opened the new series of Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4, discussing Colour in Film from 1950s Indian film stocks to 1961’s Junglee starring Shammi Kapoor 🎥
Listen here: shorturl.at/xfOeb 🎧
Wishing everyone who is celebrating a Happy Year of the Horse 🏮
Out Laws: Screening and discussion
11 May 6–8:30pm, UCL East
Out Laws follows three queer activists, from Namibia, Sri Lanka and Barbados, as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives.
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There are several opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to join the Department. Key fellowship routes are outlined below, with many other funding options also available.
Have you taught LGBTQ+ topics in the secondary school history curriculum? 📚🏳️🌈
We’re making video resources to support teaching in this area and would love to hear from teachers willing to share their ideas and experience.
Available on 28 or 29 May? Email: [email protected] 📩
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Please join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Out Laws (2025, Lexi Powner & James Lewis) with director James Lewis, Professor Bob Mills (UCL) and activist Friedel Dausab.
In January, Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson opened a new series of BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed with a wide-ranging discussion on colour in film, sharing her research with a national audience.
UCL History of Art is an inclusive and globally-minded community of nearly 400 talented staff and students in the heart of Bloomsbury, London. We strive to create a welcoming environment, open to all.
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In The Object’s Interlacing (2020), Kader Attia interviews leading voices on the restitution of African artefacts displaced into Western collections during colonial rule.
UCL History of Art is an inclusive and globally-minded community of nearly 400 talented staff and students in the heart of Bloomsbury, London. We strive to create a welcoming environment, open to all.
