Join FSU IP as we celebrate 50 years of FSU in London! To commemorate this golden anniversary, IP will be hosting a variety of virtual events to honor the present, reminisce on the past, and dream about the future of FSU London. From faculty lectures to alumni interviews there will be opportunities to reflect on your own study abroad experience, learn about the history of FSU London and the surrounding city, and support the future of the program.
Fall Events
A Golden Jubilee: FSU London at Fifty
Watch this event here.
Education, exploration, and adventure are the hallmarks of study abroad and have been the essence of FSU London for the past 50 years. Join us at this opening event to kick off a year of celebrations as we look back on all FSU London has achieved and look forward to remarkable things to come!
The London Theatre Experience
Thursday, September 30th 12 PM ET
Theatre Academy London (TAL) grew out of the London Theatre Experience for FSU theatre students. Join us for this virtual event led by TAL's Director, Mark Wheatley, where we celebrate that story from its pre-millennium beginnings to the present day with help from friends and alumni, faculty, staff and students. There will be live interviews, video contributions from familiar faces and a host of memories, reflections, anecdotes and disputed facts.
London Live Lecture: ‘Who Owns the Treasures of the British Museum?’
Tuesday, October 19th 12 PM ET
Join renowned archaeologist Louise Schofield as she takes us on a tour of ‘her’ British Museum. In this lavishly illustrated talk, Louise – who was a Curator in the British Museum for 13 years – will explore some of the more controversial artifacts in the museum. From the Rosetta Stone of Egypt, via the Elgin Marbles of Greece to the Benin Bronzes looted from the Royal Court of the Kingdom of Benin in West Africa (modern Nigeria), she will ask the essential question: who owns the treasures of the British Museum?
Spring Events
London Calling: Alumni & Faculty Voices
Wednesday, January 19th 12 PM ET
FSU students have been in London since 1971 and have a lot to talk about. Join us as we hear from alumni, faculty, staff, and students and their individual and collective adventures over the past 50 years.
London Live Lecture: 'Living Dangerously in Bloomsbury'
Tuesday, March 1st 12 PM ET
Join Dr. Karina Jakubowicz, FSU London lecturer in 20th century literature and winner of the 2017 Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize, for a discussion about a well-known group who lived and learned in the same neighborhood as the FSU London Study Centre. The Bloomsbury Group were famously creators of art and ideas, but all their output hinged not on how they worked but how they lived. The philosophy of living honestly underpinned their worldview and allowed them to exist boldly at the forefront of social progress. However, living boldly in the early 20th century could be also dangerous – both politically and emotionally.
FSU London: Back to the Future
Tuesday, April 12th 12 PM ET
Event description: Join us for our signature event which will feature perspectives from alumni and staff as we look ahead to the future and all the promise to come, while still remembering the last 50 years of FSU London’s history and all our alumni experiences and achievements. If the next 50 years are half as good as the last 50, FSU London has a great deal to look forward to!
If you have any questions about London’s 50th Anniversary celebrations please reach out to IP-Alumni@fsu.edu.