About

What is culture to you?

The Global Cultures Institute aims to explore how we can understand and value our diversity and differences. At a time when ‘culture wars’ are relentlessly being pushed through our media landscapes and when the power structures that underpin these differences are so often associated with harmful division?

To address these, we need to understand their origin and development. The Institute exists to promote this through research, education, and public and community engagement. It exists, in short, to talk beyond boundaries.

The Institute is housed in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and draws upon extensive networks within King’s and beyond – with original research forming in the research centres, on our Faculty Fellowships and through educational programmes, lectures and events.

Research Centres

Leadership Team

Marie Berry

Deputy Director of Operations, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Professor Catherine Boyle

Head of Department, Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Dr Zeena Feldman

Director of Queer@King's
Professor Daniel Orrells

Head of Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Professor Alice Taylor

Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Professor Jon Wilson

Head of Department, History
Dr Jarad Zimbler

Director of Research, Global Cultures Institute

Steering Committee

Representatives from Dickson Poon School of Law, King's Business School, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's Foundations, and more are currently being appointed.