King's College London Alumni

🥂 🎉 🍾 Congratulations to The Last Dinner Party. The indie rock group were crowned Best New Artist at the BRITs on Saturday night. And the King’s connection? Band members Abigail Morris (English with Film Studies, 2021), Georgia Davies (Modern Literature and Culture, 2022) and Lizzie Mayland met during Freshers’ Week in 2021.

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Today is and we’re looking forward to hearing what Dr Richard Milburn MBE has to say about terminating the illegal wildlife trade.

Alumni can join the King’s academic online at 13.00 on Wednesday 12 March as he discusses his new book, Killing the Trade: Strategies to End the Illegal Wildlife Trade and Make Conservation Pay.

Event details: https://loom.ly/tqtctZs

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📢 🌍 Africa Week IS BACK from 3-7 March 2025! 🌍 📢

Hosted by our African Leadership Centre, the week will feature a range of exciting events run by faculties across King’s.

This year's theme is Disrupting Distances: Nations, Systems and Leadership. Talks will examine how Africa can exercise greater agency in changing the trend of increasing global polarisation and disconnect between nations, and between institutions and the people they’re supposed to serve.

Link to full programme 👇
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dHUpTwjQ

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It’s the 97th Academy Awards tonight. And what better time to celebrate musician and King’s alum Michael Nyman CBE (Mmus Music, 1971)?

Alongside an amazing career as an acclaimed classical composer, he wrote the soundtrack for the Oscar-winning 1993 drama, The Piano. His film output also includes music for the comedy horror, Ravenous; dystopian sci-fi thriller Gatacca; and Peter Greenaway’s visual feast, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.

In 2009, Nyman also teamed up with singer David McAlmont to release the album, The Glare.

Read more about our amazing alum:

https://loom.ly/Xf18C10

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Best of luck to The Last Dinner Party at the BRIT Awards tonight! The indie rock group has been nominated for no fewer than FOUR awards!!! 🖤

Did you know that band members Abigail Morris (English with Film Studies, 2021), Georgia Davies (Modern Literature and Culture, 2022) and Lizzie Mayland met during Freshers’ Week at King's back in 2021? 🎸🎤

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We're taking you back to 1968 and the redevelopment of the Strand Building 🏗️

Do you remember these works taking place?

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'The student newspaper, Roar, was a tabloid full of mischief and swagger…'

Meet journalist Sharon Lougher (Geography, 2001). The former Features Editor at Metro now works as a Commissioning Editor at The Telegraph. She tells us about her time at King’s, interviewing three UK Prime Ministers and running her own martial arts school…

Read more: https://loom.ly/j1ZemnE

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Join The Dickson P**n School of Law for a panel discussion about sanctions and state security as the war in Ukraine continues and the new administration in the US takes power.

Register your place for Wednesday 19 March now 👇
https://loom.ly/3004Wqo

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Ukraine, Sanctions and Security in Europe for 2025 Sanctions, supported by diplomacy, are important rule-of-law tools to discourage belligerence, disrupt war, indicate opposition to corruption and defend international norms. On 6 February 2025 leading sanctions experts will consider how imminent changes to what is somewhat euphemistically called “...

The government's devolution agenda promises to reshape Britain’s economy. Join the Policy Institute and Strand Group at King’s, in partnership with Faerfield, on 27 February to discuss the challenges, promises and what’s needed for genuine regional prosperity.

Register now: https://loom.ly/LDgrsUc
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Perplexed by the intricacies of the British justice system? If so, check out You Do Not Have to Say Anything on Radio 4. This series, presented by criminal defence barrister and King’s alumna Joanna Hardy-Susskind (LLB, 2008; LLM 2009), may provide some intriguing insights.

Listen here: https://loom.ly/6plESDs
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📢 🕊️ Join us on Monday 17 March at 18.00 for our Annual Peace Lecture 2025.

Professor Helen Frowe from Stockholm University, who leads the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, is our guest speaker. Her talk is entitled The Ethics of Collective Defence Agreements.

The event will be held at Stamford Lecture Theatre, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA. Register here: https://loom.ly/8dIXQhw

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In the words of legendary American drag queen RuPaul: 'If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an Amen?' ❤️🙏

Looking for some Sunday reading? In the wake of Valentine’s Day, we get to the heart of self-love and ponder whether it really is necessary in romantic relationships.

🔗 Read more on the King's website at: https://loom.ly/J-MiR_A

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Is it true you need to love yourself before you can find romantic love? Here's what philosophers say Consider the popular idea that you need to love yourself first, before you can find love from others. It was set out in the German psychologist Erich Fromm’s book The Art of Loving in 1956 and has been popularised in recent years by drag queen RuPaul’s catchphrase “if you can’t love yourself...

It was fabulous to hear Professor Anthony Kessel (Anatomy & Human Biology, 1986; Medicine, 1989) on Private Passions on BBC Radio 3. The National Deputy Medical Director (Specialised Services) for NHS England, award-winning author and King’s alum included work by German composer Johannes Brahms, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla and Canadian songwriter Chilly Gonzales among his musical choices.

Want to learn more about Anthony and his amazing career? Listen here:

https://loom.ly/SrPR01M

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🎉 KCLA Annual Dinner & Duel Day Celebration 2025 🎉

Join King’s College London Alumni Association for this year’s Annual Dinner and Duel Day Celebration on Friday 21 March at Vintners' Hall, with King’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Sh*tij Kapur.

This is the fourth year KCLA have held their Annual Dinner at Vintners' Hall, which has an amazing history and houses some beautiful historical artefacts, including carvings in the hall and Court Room, as well as a fine staircase. The original hall burnt down in the Great Fire of London, but was rebuilt and in use by 1671. A pre-dinner tour is available for a limited number of people.

The duel fought on 21 March 1829 on Battersea Fields between the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchelsea, which secured the right of King’s to offer education to all, will be reenacted as it is internationally when alumni meet to celebrate King’s foundation.

Register now: https://loom.ly/aHeTAz0

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Are you interested in exploring Digital Health Technologies & Artificial Intelligence? Join us for a virtual Research Symposium hosted by our Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care on 3 March 2025. Gain valuable insights and engage with experts in the field!

Register now: https://loom.ly/h144Lgs

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Alumni in San Francisco – we'll see you in April! 📣

Meet fellow graduates in SF and hear the latest news from King's at our exclusive alumni event at Ridge Ventures on Thursday 3 April. This is part of our King's in California 2025 tour.

Register your place now 👇
https://loom.ly/pGLtdLY

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King's in California 2025 - San Francisco Meet fellow alumni in San Francisco and hear the latest news from King's at our exclusive alumni event at Ridge Ventures.