I'm really thrilled to have received a The British Academy fellowship to research Ukraine's multicultural literary heritage! And very grateful to all at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, UCL Research and especially to Vitaly Chernetsky for supporting the project.

Important piece from ⁦⁦Peter Foster⁩ and colleagues at Financial Times - with input from ⁦Russell Group⁩
For me it’s also about what kind of country we want to be. A self-confident country on the global economic stage would seek to attract global talent. on.ft.com/3wjRvt2

I wrote for the London Review of Books about crackdowns on student protest, universities, open letters, and free speech.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

And on the first day, we created 4 panels! Panel 4 will be chaired by Uta Staiger of UCL European Institute and looks set to discuss 'Change & conflict'

Featuring Igiaba 📚 & Iryna Shuvalova from Embassy of Ukraine to the UK

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Looking forward to this, v much!

Join us on 15th May for an evening on Nostalgia, with author Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster, in dialogue with UCL academics 💭

15 May, IAS Common Ground, 6-7:30pm

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At the time, London was the largest and richest city in Europe, and one of its major musical centres. This passage was first published on 29 July 1851. It is about street music in London, displaying Berlioz's usual irony about how professional music in theatres is poorly paid.

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was a French composer, critic, and conductor of the Romantic period. He visited London for the Great Exhibition in the summer of 1851 and stayed at 58 Queen Anne Street; it would be the second of five visits he paid the city.

#europeanliterarylondon

📣 Meet Larisa Faber, our latest writer-in-residence at the SSEES Library! 📚✍️ Larisa will be working on a unique project exploring Eastern European seasonal veg pickers, food politics and plenty from the perspective of asparagus. 🥬 Welcome, Larisa! #SSEES UCL European Institute

The responses keep coming to our question ‘How has London changed you?’

Share your experience in the city at the ‘Lost & Found’ exhibition in UCL South Cloisters until 31st May 2024!

@ucl_ei @artshumsucl

#europeanliterarylondon #LondonChangedMe

Last places for Endangered Languages event May 7th SSEES
Tony Thorne Marius Turda @_elpproject Paul Kaye - also @paulkaye elsewhere Dr Tessa Dunlop Istros Books
ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2…

'Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?' Great piece by Lanre Bakare on James Baldwin's love of cinema, rejection by Hollywood and his film criticism that inspired my new Barbican Centre film season 'The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin Through Film':theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

#20YearsTogether
Discussion on 'Expanding Horizons: 20 years of EU membership - paving the path for future EU enlargement' 
📆7 May 2024, London CER
Speakers: 
Amelia Hadfield 
Pedro Serrano
Simona Leskovar
Anand Menon & Uta Staiger
Email [email protected] for further info.

One week to go until the annual Sir Julian Priestley Memorial Lecture, delivered by Annette Dittert  and hosted for the first time @UCL!

Chaired by Mike Galsworthy, European Movement UK

Followed by a drinks reception.

Book now: ucl.ac.uk/european-insti…

Welcoming this wonderful young Bulgarian writer to London: Joanna Elmy is one of 30 literary stars at the European Writers' Festival 18/19 May British Library (TICKETS ON BL WEBSITE), as well as the first Writer in Residence UCL European Institute .

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming students from Bobby Moore Academy to visit the ‘Lost & Found’ and ‘Not Just Words’ exhibitions 📝 ✨

Led by Uta Staiger and Elettra Carbone, students curated their own posters, sharing fun facts and their perspectives on London 🏙️

Nothing I’ll ever write will top this. Dude’s entry alone is worth the visit #EuropeanLiteraryLondon UCL Arts & Humanities UCL European Institute Uta Staiger

Città irreale [Unreal City], 2019

Excerpt from Cristina Marconi’s award-winning debut novel. Told through the eyes of Alina, a young Italian in search of broader horizons, it is a coming of age story of a generation of Europeans who made their home in the UK capital.

How has London changed you?

A range of responses to our question at the ‘Lost & Found’ exhibition. Come along and share your response in the UCL South Cloisters until 31st May 2023.

@ucl_ei @artshumsucl

#europeanliterarylondon #LondonChangedMe

Mit Livs Eventyr [The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography], 1855

Excerpt from Hans Christian Andersen’s autobiography, recording his first encounter with London in June 1847.

Suggested by Prof Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen @uclselcs

Image 1 - Miguel Navarro
Image 3 - Wikipedia