London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Last weekend’s “The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power” continues to resonate ✨ What stayed with us most was how persistently the conversations returned to one idea: unpacking how emotions move through politics, shape narratives and sit at the heart of power 🧠

Beyond Labels. Beyond Limits. Beyond Assumptions. Join us this September at Beyond Labels: International Conference on Disability, Different Ability and Neurodiversity 📍 Birkbeck, London / Online 📅 12–13 September 2026 Submit by 31 March 2026  diversity.lcir.co.uk

🌸⚡ Kyoto. October. Conference. We’re taking the International Conference on Disaster Studies out of the usual circuit and into Kyoto, Japan — and honestly, we’re a bit obsessed with this choice. disaster-studies.lcir.co.uk

Still thinking about last weekend’s International Conference on Medical Humanities— two packed days of fascinating papers, lively discussion, and truly interdisciplinary thinking ✨📚 Next stop ➡️ diversity.lcir.co.uk

From feminism and leadership to gendered labour, migration, digital cultures, law, cinema and activism, our speakers explored how gender and power shape everyday life and global debates. Day 1 brought us together in London and Day 2 continued online on International Women’s Day!

🌍 How does colonialism continue to shape our world today? We invite scholars from across disciplines to explore colonial histories, postcolonial identities, resistance movements, race, gender, diaspora, decolonising knowledge, environmental issues, etc. postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk

⏰ Call for abstracts — deadline tomorrow! If your research explores the strange, eerie, unsettling or unfamiliar across texts, media or cultural practices, we would love to hear from you. uncanny.lcir.co.uk

✨ Just released! Beyond Natural: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motherhood (ed. Emma Domínguez-Rué) is here — and it’s not your typical book on motherhood. 📖 Grab the eBook: lcir.co.uk/publications 📢 Inspired? See the next CfP: genderstudies.lcir.co.uk

Two days, five continents, countless ideas 🌍 This weekend’s Spatiality and Temporality International Conference at Birkbeck brought together scholars exploring how time, place, memory and power shape our worlds. 📸 Highlights from Day 1 below!

Day 1 of Identity and Otherness in Film at Birkbeck was packed with exciting debate, sharp critique and truly global perspectives on how film constructs — and disrupts — ideas of self, power and belonging. film.lcir.co.uk

✨ CfP ✨ Creativity, Resistance & Social Change 📍 Accra, Ghana / 💻 Online | 13–14 June 2026 How does creativity challenge power, tell untold stories and imagine fairer futures? This conference focuses on creativity as a force for social change. creative-voices.lcir.co.uk

Join critical conversations on harm, power, resistance and pathways to social change:  violence.society.lcir.co.uk

Step into two days of bold thinking at Spatiality and Temporality, where scholars trace how worlds are built, remembered, contested, and undone across literature, architecture, culture and lived experience. 📍 London / Online 📅 14–15 February 2026 🌀 spatiality.temporality.lcir.co.uk

Whether you’re a researcher, student, filmmaker or film lover, this is a space to think critically about film and the politics of representation. 📅 7–8 Feb 2026 | 📍 Birkbeck, University of London / Online 👉 Register and join the conversation: film.lcir.co.uk

Join “Migrating World”, an international, interdisciplinary conference exploring how migration reshapes identities, communities and ideas of home — from diasporas and citizenship to memory, culture and policy. 📍 London / Online 📅 4–5 July 2026 🔗 integration.lcir.co.uk

Join us for “The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture”, an international conference exploring moments when home turns hostile, objects come alive, identities fracture and meaning slips out of reach. Set against the striking beauty of Mallorca: uncanny.lcir.co.uk

Daydreams, doctrines, wombs, wars, lullabies, laws — mothers move through them all, sometimes sainted, sometimes surveilled, always interpreted. Join us at the conference - submit your proposal ⤵️ 🔗 genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/discourses-on-…

We remember through spaces — childhood rooms, monuments, ruins, streets, servers, rivers, names whispered and renamed. This conference explores how memory settles into the world and how the world, in turn, edits memory. 📝 Submit by 20 February 2026 🔗 memory.lcir.co.uk

Storytelling as evidence, memory as method and identity as terrain — across classrooms, communities, screens, clinics and performance spaces. If your work looks at lived experience, interrogates narrative power or bends academic form, you belong here. life-history.lcir.co.uk

“Somewhere in Between: Borders and Borderlands” International Conference 25–26 April 2026 | London & Online Proposals are still open. Send yours in and join the conversation that starts where lines end. Selected papers to be published. ✍️ borders.lcir.co.uk