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London Lectures

Feed of lectures in London, UK sources from various academic institutions, particularly institutions with interests in Artificial Intelligence and Conservation.

Friday
Apr
17
10:00
Borderlines Workshop: Discourse Analysis (Theory and Method)
Queen Mary University of London
13:00
English Writing Competition
Queen Mary University of London
Saturday
Apr
18
18:00
The science of cooking with Ben Ebbrell
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Apr
20
17:00
Reimagining Post-Cinematic Environments
Queen Mary University of London
18:00
The living lab above: Science of the sky
The Royal Institution (Ri)
CRESTEM Keynote Lecture 2026: If I Can Do It, So Can You
King's College London
A World Without Work
Gresham College
Tuesday
Apr
21
10:00
Intelligence Across Borders
King's College London
18:00
Professors Monica Busse-Morris and Stephen Bremner inaugural lecture
King's College London
Taming AI
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
22
18:00
Book Talk: 'The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s' with Jason Burke
King's College London
Why Do We Love?
Gresham College
Thursday
Apr
23
08:00
More Than Just A Game London 2026
Queen Mary University of London
09:30
Wonderful World of Maths
Queen Mary University of London
17:00
Book Talk: US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory with James D. Boys
King's College London
18:00
The Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be?
Gresham College
Friday
Apr
24
17:30
Trust and Knowledge in the Age of GenAI: A Conversation with Jimmy Wales
King's College London
"We Know How to Win": Words of Defiance from Ukraine
Queen Mary University of London
18:20
Discourse: Nanoparticles in functional materials
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Apr
25
13:30
This talk will make you a scientist (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
The whispers of rock: Stories from the Earth
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Apr
28
15:00
Data as Resistance: Feminist and Trans Interventions in Data and AI
Queen Mary University of London
15:30
Mathematical Colloquium: Scaling Limits of Random Trees by Christina Goldschmidt
King's College London
17:00
Book Talk: Preparing for War: Strategy, Power and Military Change with Oliver Schmitt
King's College London
18:00
The Turing Lectures: Frontier AI under pressure - building resilience across layers
The Alan Turing Institute
The Turing Lectures: Frontier AI under pressure - building resilience across layers
The Alan Turing Institute
The Shape of Tiles: Regular and Irregular, Hard and Soft
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
29
11:30
Taster Event: Exploring Artificial Intelligence
Queen Mary University of London
17:00
Book Talk: Breaking the New Axis with Harry Halem
King's College London
Thursday
Apr
30
13:00
Judicial Innovation in Times of Planetary Crisis: International Courts Between Resilience and Reconfiguration
King's College London
17:15
Before the Asiento: the English Atlantic slave trade from its origins through to 1713
King's College London
17:30
Professor Alfredo Iacoangeli - Inaugural Lecture
King's College London
18:00
Give Peace a Chance: Legal Implications of the Israel-Palestine Conflict 
Gresham College
Saturday
May
2
13:30
Mathmagics! (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Discoveries without understanding: Trusting AI research
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
May
5
09:00
Guy’s Hospital 300th Anniversary Celebrations
King's College London
17:00
Unmaking Contact: Interdisciplinary Conversations
Brunel University London
18:00
Music, Death and Afterlife
Gresham College
19:00
Brunel Creates: Opening Night
Brunel University London
Wednesday
May
6
12:00
Brunel Creates: SoundScapes- Day 1
Brunel University London
Brunel Creates: Summer Shorts- Pottery Throw Down
Brunel University London
16:45
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Simon Cherry
King's College London
18:00
Dionysus: Lord of Misrule
Gresham College
18:30
Smart Homes to Smart Risks: Understanding IoT Security and Privacy
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
May
7
13:00
Brunel Creates: SoundScapes- Day 2
Brunel University London
Phi-ML meets Engineering- From Random Projections to Neural Operators: Bridging Machine Learning and Numerical Analysis for Nonlinear PDEs
The Alan Turing Institute
14:00
Book Talk - The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma
King's College London
18:00
Theorizing “Global Criticality” and the Politics of Just Translation
King's College London
Making Memory Visible Through Photography
Gresham College
Friday
May
8
13:00
Brunel Creates: SoundScapes- Day 3
Brunel University London
14:30
Brunel Creates: The Threepenny Opera
Brunel University London
Saturday
May
9
13:00
Fantastic Fungi Festival (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Zombie Ant Fungus: The chemistry of control
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
May
11
18:00
Our idiot brain - 10 years of learning
The Royal Institution (Ri)
How Hard is too Hard? An Introduction to Complexity
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
12
16:00
Brunel Creates: 1533 Days
Brunel University London
18:00
Book Launch: A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment
King's College London
The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future?
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
13
12:00
Brunel Creates: Summer Shorts- Lino Print Workshop
Brunel University London
13:00
Celebration of Benjamin Zephaniah
Brunel University London
17:30
Michael Wayne - Understanding the British Crisis: 2008 to the present.
Brunel University London
18:00
Music of the Body
Gresham College
Thursday
May
14
13:30
Feminism in the Digital Age: What's next?
King's College London
16:00
Brunel Creates: Little Red Riding Hood
Brunel University London
17:15
A ‘proper object’ of charity?: British naval widows’ petitions, deservingness, and survival strategies, 1819-1847
King's College London
Saturday
May
16
18:00
The science of fermentation: How microbes turn food into flavour
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Sunday
May
17
16:30
Brunel Creates: Brunel Arts Diamond Alumni Showcase
Brunel University London
Monday
May
18
16:00
Brunel Creates: The Limbo Room
Brunel University London
18:00
Neutrinos, the Universe, and Everything
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Performance: a tentative unravelling, a commons
King's College London
Society and Survival During the Holocaust
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
19
12:00
Brunel Creates: Screen Walks
Brunel University London
14:00
Brunel Creates: Future Filmmakers Fesitval
Brunel University London
Wednesday
May
20
16:00
Brunel Creates: A Devised Piece - Theatre Making Performance
Brunel University London
18:00
Should We Manipulate People’s Emotions?
Gresham College
Thursday
May
21
13:00
Brunel Creates: Summer Shorts- Guitar Taster
Brunel University London
18:00
The White Knight: Ice
Gresham College
18:30
40th annual Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture at Westminster Abbey
King's College London
Friday
May
22
16:00
Brunel Creates: Acting as Critical Practice
Brunel University London
17:30
40th annual Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture at Keble College, Oxford
King's College London
Saturday
May
23
18:00
Quantum Paradoxes: From testing the multiverse to a tech revolution
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
May
25
18:00
Shrinking the laboratory: Engineering health for the bottom billion
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
May
26
13:00
Clinical and scientific challenges of delirium
King's College London
16:00
Brunel Creates: My Closing Statement
Brunel University London
18:00
Education – And Its Limits
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
27
12:00
Brunel Creates: Summer Shorts- Cyanotype Workshop
Brunel University London
14:00
Brunel Creates: Cultural Conversation -Knitting the 1920's
Brunel University London
16:30
Brunel Creates: Cultural Conversations- Rock Roots
Brunel University London
18:00
The Turing Lectures: Making AI (truly) sustainable - from environmental costs to social impacts
The Alan Turing Institute
The Turing Lectures: Making AI (truly) sustainable - from environmental costs to social impacts
The Alan Turing Institute
Going Global: Chinese Independent Documentary
Gresham College
18:30
Brunel Creates: Cultural Conversations- Arts, Place, and Resilience
Brunel University London
Thursday
May
28
11:00
Brunel Research Jamboree 2026
Brunel University London
16:00
Brunel Creates: House Rules
Brunel University London
17:00
The Monster in Your Path: The Private Life of Caste in India
King's College London
17:15
The war business: British shipping and the First World War
King's College London
18:00
Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change
Gresham College
Friday
May
29
12:00
Brunel Creates: Studio Brunel Theatre Festival
Brunel University London
18:20
Discourse: Photodynamic Therapy: Physicists and physicians unite to heal with light
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
May
30
10:00
Family Fun Day: Remarkable reactions
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Jun
2
18:00
Forging Better Futures for You and AI
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
3
13:00
Brunel Creates: Summer Showcase Lunchtime Concert
Brunel University London
19:00
Brunel Creates: Closing Night
Brunel University London
Pluto Isn’t a Planet
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
4
09:30
Brunel Research Showcase
Brunel University London
13:00
Phi-ML meets Engineering: Flexible and Resource-efficient Foundation Models for Scientific Applications
The Alan Turing Institute
18:00
Current Challenges to the US Constitution
Gresham College
Friday
Jun
5
18:00
WiFi Wars Summer Spectacular 2026
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Jun
8
18:00
Shock of the Nude: Pioneering Women Artists and the Cultural Politics of Modern China
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
9
13:00
From Mobiles to Meningitis: how understanding symptoms has supported public health advice
King's College London
18:00
The Shape of Knots: From DNA to Shoestrings and Solar Flares
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
10
17:30
David Tree – From Genes to Pedagogy & Lab to Learning
Brunel University London
Thursday
Jun
11
18:00
Higgs Lecture 2026: Nobel Laureate Professor Michel Mayor
King's College London
The Annual Dockrill Memorial Lecture: Technology and the Changing Nature of Covert Action
King's College London
Cicero In and On Political Crises
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
15
18:00
There Must be a Better Way: Thoughts on the Future of Family Law
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
17
18:00
The Morrigan: The Nightmare Queen
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
18
18:00
The Death of the Roman Republic?
Gresham College
Friday
Jun
19
18:00
Music of Sleep and Dreams
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
23
19:00
On the Nature of Time According to Modern Physics
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
24
18:00
The Future of Medicine
Gresham College
Monday
Sept
14
19:00
The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky
Gresham College

Data is sourced from following institutions:

The Alan Turing InstituteGresham CollegeQueen Mary University of LondonKing's College LondonThe Royal Institution (Ri)Brunel University London