Congratulations on your offer to study Culture, Politics & Society MA!

We've curated this hub to provide you with all the information you need to know about your course, including taster lectures, campus tour videos and student blogs.

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A welcome from the Head of Department - Dr George Legg

Links mentioned in welcome video:

• InterHums Annual Lecture
• Chris Holliday's podcast, Fantasy/Animation
• Our research interests
• Penelope's Opera: amplifying the unheard voices of ancient Greek myth
• Investigations on how visual media was used in the Cold War to influence public opinion in Brazil

Get to know the academics who will be teaching you and get a taste of what's waiting for you on the course:

Take a look at the breadth of work the academics have been getting up to in the department recently.

Dr Pavan Mano

• Watch a recording of a panel I recently hosted at the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2025 on the 21^st century Far Right
• Watch my Ted talk on resisting nationalism

Dr George Legg

• My latest publication - about surveillance in the city of London
• Take a look at the social media we did around the publication too on the King's website and Instagram

Dr Emily Pillinger

• Take a look at my new book which explores how music, from opera to hip-hop, has been inspired by ancient Greece and Rome

Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz

• I am collaborating with performance artist Gael Le Cornec on Ecofeminism and Reparative Histories
• I am working on a project on photography during the Cold War, which has a website, an impact report and was a news item on the A&H website recently

Dr Chris Holliday

• I have a website that is an online educational resource examining the relationship between fantasy storytelling and the medium of animation. On the website you can find my weekly podcast, which was recently named one of the top 10 Animation podcasts in the UK, and also my weekly blog
• I was interviewed for The Sunday Times about Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi and the Hollywood ‘showmance’ industry
• I was also invited to review an Aardman exhibit at the London’s South Bank Centre

Tim Huzar

• Practising vulnerability; presuming equality: towards a pedagogy of care in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
• Singular Vulnerability: Notes on the Apprehension of Precarious Life in Global Studies Quarterly

In this recording, Dr George Legg, Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Dr A Haziz-Ginsberg, Lecturer in the department, walk you through everything you need to know before September.

You'll get an overview of the course structure and career prospects, a taster lecture to give you a feel for postgraduate study with us, and a Q&A drawing on questions from fellow offer holders.

We hope it helps you picture yourself here. 

Where could your degree from the faculty of Arts and Humanities take you?

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