Ben Evans

London Lectures

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

Wednesday
Sept
16
08:45
Americas@UCL200 Conference
University College London (UCL)
09:00
America at 250 Study Day
British Library
Introduction to Self-Publishing
British Library
10:00
International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 2026
The Alan Turing Institute
11:00
​​Long-term health conditions in adolescents​
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Humanities Summit: Policy, Advocacy and Place
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Drawing as Knowledge: Practice, Theory and History
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Refugee Academics and their Networks (RCGAES and GfE Conference)
School of Advanced Study, University of London
BRICS and the future of global power
Chatham House
12:00
Records of human experience: The value and vulnerability of refugee archives
The National Archives
15:00
Mechanics of embankment breaching by overtopping. Lessons learned from laboratory scale models and numerical simulations
Imperial College London
Illustration Awards Talk with Stephen Smith
Victoria and Albert Museum
17:00
Women making it with Glasgow Women’s Library
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
17:30
Beyond rearmament: Europe’s defence crisis as a knowledge problem
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
18:00
Is the HIV Pandemic Over?
Gresham College
19:00
Polar lecture: finding of Shackleton's Endurance
Royal Geographical Society
Thursday
Sept
17
09:00
The Heart of Equity
University College London (UCL)
Money and Violence
University College London (UCL)
11:00
SPC Seminar – Space – Dr. Emma Davies (GeoSphere Austria)
Imperial College London
Voices of Justice: transforming communication in policing and criminal justice settings
The British Academy
RUSI Journal Special Issue on The Future of the Global Financial System
Royal United Services Institute
12:00
Modal Migration, Maqām Beyond Nation
SOAS University of London
Crick Lecture | Mariya Moosajee
The Francis Crick Institute
: Structural and Chemical Biology | Chris Parker
The Francis Crick Institute
12:30
COW Seminar
Imperial College London
13:00
MAGIC Seminar – Egor Yasinsky (Bordeaux)
Imperial College London
Lunchtime Lecture: A Century within a Millennium: How the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Became a Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
13:30
Botswana's future: Vice President Gaolathe on economic resilience amid global uncertainty
Chatham House
16:00
US at 250: Separation vs. concentration of power – America’s enduring constitutional debate
Chatham House
17:00
Book Talk: 'British Statecraft and the Baltic Sea Region: A Documentary History' with Dr Hugo Bromley and Prof Brendan Simms
King's College London
17:30
America Now! A Special Relationship?
British Library
18:00
The Myth and Promise of the U.K. Jury Trial
Gresham College
Friday
Sept
18
12:00
Artificial Humanity? Generative AI, Culture and Human Subjectivity
SOAS University of London
: Neuroscience seminar | Ulli Bayer
The Francis Crick Institute
14:00
Ilẹ̀ Mọ Wa - The Land Knows Us
University College London (UCL)
Captivating cartography at The National Archives
The National Archives
16:00
Exploring your inner selves: UCL collaborates with JAGA-NSF for young people of African heritage
University College London (UCL)
18:30
Online Talk: The Age of Responsibility: Rethinking Digital Futures
Victoria and Albert Museum
Friday Late: Awakenings
Victoria and Albert Museum
Saturday
Sept
19
08:30
Hazlitt Society Day School and Lecture 2026
University College London (UCL)
13:00
The Age of Responsibility: Rethinking Digital Futures with The Lumen Prize
Victoria and Albert Museum
13:30
Blood, guts and nasty cuts (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
You don't know what you're m ss ng: The hidden data shaping our behaviour
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Sunday
Sept
20
09:00
Open House 2026
Royal Society
11:00
Searching for wellness
The British Academy
Harsh Gujral: Live in London
Royal Geographical Society
Monday
Sept
21
09:00
Royal Institution Youth Summit 2026
The Royal Institution (Ri)
11:00
Delivering Autonomous Defence Systems: From Innovation to Operation
Royal United Services Institute
Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions
Royal United Services Institute
Cyber Espionage in the Age of US-China Competition
Royal United Services Institute
16:00
Is the Middle East entering a new era of regional security with the Mecca Pact?
Chatham House
18:00
A Life in Human Rights – the story of Amnesty International
British Library
Tuesday
Sept
22
07:30
3rd International Conference on Dialogues in Competition Law & Economics
University College London (UCL)
09:00
Symposium on Childhood Rare Disease
University College London (UCL)
Agency between Biology and Philosophy
University College London (UCL)
11:00
Max Hastings: The end of WWII
Royal Geographical Society
13:00
Zambia's 2026 election: A test of democratic resilience
Chatham House
How will young voters shape Morocco’s political future?
Chatham House
14:00
Beyond Freedom and Slavery: The Classical Confucian conception of status
City St George's, University of London
Food Thinkers - Regenerative agriculture and the farming policy landscape: Reflections on a decade of Groundswell with John Cherry
City St George's, University of London
16:00
What to learn from Russia's State Duma elections
Chatham House
18:00
The Future of Creativity
Gresham College
Poulomi Basu: Ecdysis artist talk and book launch
Victoria and Albert Museum
Wednesday
Sept
23
11:00
Webinar: Terrorist Use of Hybrid Threat Finance Networks
Royal United Services Institute
12:00
: Structural and Chemical Biology Seminar | Juliette Fedry
The Francis Crick Institute
: Immunology Seminar | Osamu Takeuchi
The Francis Crick Institute
AI for Biological Discovery Seminar | Professor Caroline Uhler
The Francis Crick Institute
Sip of Science: Sixth Formers Special
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
Uzbekistan: assessing 10 years of rule under Mirziyoyev
Chatham House
15:30
“The Relentless Eye”: Combined prosodies of film and verse in Tony Harrison’s film poetry
University College London (UCL)
16:30
The stories of literature in language teaching: Research and teaching tensions
University College London (UCL)
17:00
The road to COP32: setting the African agenda for climate action
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Cosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe
Gresham College
The amazing Annamites: where the wild things hide
Royal Geographical Society
Thursday
Sept
24
11:00
Introduction: Reframing access to our colonial medical photograph collection
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Hot Topic event on Autonomous Vehicles and Delivery Robots: Innovation or Public Safety Problem?
Institution of Engineering and Technology – London
12:00
Crick Lecture | Rachel Edgar
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
Phi-ML meets Engineering - Physics-informed discovery of non-smooth dynamical systems from trajectory data
The Alan Turing Institute
14:00
Ideas of Exile, Refugees and Displacement in the Ancient and Modern Mediterranean
Birkbeck, University of London
16:00
Vision and intelligence: learning from human vision to shape the future of AI
University College London (UCL)
17:00
Shipping on the Road to Net Zero: Lessons from Maritime History
King's College London
Preserving women's publishing histories: editing women in the archives
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Opening: EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life
Goldsmiths, University of London
17:30
SPIRALS (Stanford Psychological Impact, Risk, And LLM Safety)
King's College London
Innovation and energy for a sustainable future
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
18:00
Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World
Gresham College
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
18:15
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
18:30
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
18:45
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
19:00
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
19:15
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
19:30
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
19:45
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
20:00
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
20:15
Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect
Wellcome Collection
Friday
Sept
25
09:00
SPROCKET Systems Practice Seminar 1: Choice and Choosables
University College London (UCL)
11:00
Festival of Astronomical Ideas
Gresham College
The life of a microplastic: from creation to contamination — and potential solutions
Institution of Engineering and Technology – London
14:00
The V&A’s British Galleries – 25 Years On (In-person)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Tyranny and oppression in the English and Welsh workhouse, 1780–1930
The National Archives
15:45
"Broken English" Screening and Q&A at Goldsmiths College, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
18:20
Discourse: Physics and philosophy: On the equality of all things
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Sept
26
11:00
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: On freedom
Royal Geographical Society
18:00
The story of birds: From the Jurassic to today
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Sept
28
11:00
Human health: Challenges and opportunities
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
14:00
The Lake Chad Basin: Restoring regional security cooperation
Chatham House
17:00
International Assistance and the End of the War: Ukrainian Perspectives
King's College London
'From Drones to Buoys and the Use of Civilian and Paramilitary Auxiliaries' with Dr Benjamin Blandin
King's College London
17:15
American Writers’ Week: Joyce Carol Oates
British Library
17:30
Eclipsing the West? China's tech titans and the new global power shift
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
The Hayekian case for wage flexibility in an AI economy
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
How Westminster Works ... and Why it (Still) Doesn't.
Queen Mary University of London
18:00
Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History?
Gresham College
19:00
American Writers’ Week: Alison Bechdel
British Library
23:00
EPICo Conference 2026
British Library
Tuesday
Sept
29
11:00
After the revolutions: The outlook for South Asia’s Gen Z-inspired governments
Chatham House
16:30
Can human rights and international law prevail?
University College London (UCL)
17:00
200 Years of Women’s Health at UCL
University College London (UCL)
Rethinking AI: Entrepreneurship and technology for social good
University College London (UCL)
Why is cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death in the world?
Queen Mary University of London
17:15
American Writers’ Week: Armistead Maupin
British Library
17:30
In conversation with Alberto Musalem, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
18:00
AI as Therapist? Intimacy Without Understanding
Gresham College
An American in London: A Celebration of Alison Lurie
British Library
19:00
American Writers’ Week: Rabih Alameddine
British Library
Wednesday
Sept
30
08:00
EPICo Conference 2026
British Library
11:00
Talking About Egg Donation Within Donors’ Own Families: UK Identity-Release Donors’ Communication With Their Children
City St George's, University of London
12:00
Psychosocial Postgraduate Student Conference
Birkbeck, University of London
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Gautam Dey
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
Metadata management in the real world webinar: Help shape the development of our metadata training
University College London (UCL)
Women of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature
Gresham College
17:00
A lecture by François Villeroy de Galhau
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
17:15
American Writers’ Week: Jeanine Cummins
British Library
17:30
Do social media platforms make people happier?
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
American Writers’ Week: Daniel Kraus
British Library
Thursday
Oct
1
11:00
A Knight’s tale: Chasing antibiotic resistance with Professor Gwen Knight
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
AMR global policy
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
12:00
Generations – Unveiling the Evolving Cultural Values of Nigerian Diaspora in the UK
SOAS University of London
Sip of Science
The Francis Crick Institute
Crick Lecture | Kikuë Tachibana
The Francis Crick Institute
12:05
Martino Tirimo (piano)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
16:30
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
University College London (UCL)
17:15
American Writers’ Week: Viet Thanh Nguyen
British Library
18:00
Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language
Gresham College
19:00
EPICo Conference 2026
British Library
Friday
Oct
2
11:00
New Nordic Voices: A Contemporary Film Festival
University College London (UCL)
12:00
: Neuroscience Seminar | Aman Saleem
The Francis Crick Institute
16:00
EPICo Conference 2026
British Library
17:00
Architectures of Climate
University College London (UCL)
17:15
American Writers’ Week: Katie Kitamura
British Library
18:00
Witnessing War: Theatre's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (4 years on)
Birkbeck, University of London
Saturday
Oct
3
11:00
Conversations about Death
Wellcome Collection
18:00
Supercharged: The future of energy materials
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Sunday
Oct
4
11:00
Dan Jones: Castles – A fortified history of the world
Royal Geographical Society
Monday
Oct
5
12:00
Crick Cancer Symposium 2026
The Francis Crick Institute
The cell cycle: exploring conservation and divergence in life's engine
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
What is the Purpose of Yoga: Transcendence or Transformation?
Gresham College
16:30
First Monday – Forbes 30 Under 30 panel
University College London (UCL)
17:00
AI, Advocacy and the judiciary (Panel Discussion)
University College London (UCL)
American Overthrow: Moscow’s Endgame in Its Long War with Washington
King's College London
18:00
Art cure: The science of how the arts transform our health
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Oct
6
11:00
Conservation by Design: Technology & the Future of Wildlife Protection
Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
Back from the Brink: Saving Species, Inspiring Hope
Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
Beyond dichotomisation: Efficient estimation of response rates using continuous outcomes
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
From Silos to Statecraft: Whole-of-Government Cyber Deterrence in Europe
Royal United Services Institute
12:00
Who do we trust when it comes to vaccines?
University College London (UCL)
Economy, institutions and gender: two talks on Taiwan’s development
SOAS University of London
16:00
US at 250: Interest vs. principle – the debate about America’s values
Chatham House
17:30
Chapter: Once Upon a Book
British Library
18:00
The Life Scientific: Chris Packham
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Our Sovereign Soil
Gresham College
18:30
The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now
Birkbeck, University of London
Wednesday
Oct
7
11:00
Causal inference in four British cohort studies
University College London (UCL)
Beyond belief: How evidence shows what really works
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
11:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Thiemo Fetzer
City St George's, University of London
12:00
The Brazilian Elections After the First-round Results: What Now?
University College London (UCL)
AI for Biological Discovery Seminar | Professor James Zou
The Francis Crick Institute
Sip of Science
The Francis Crick Institute
14:00
The Effect of Explicit Prior Judgment Elicitation on Belief Change
City St George's, University of London
16:45
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Sheila Singh
King's College London
17:00
Beno Rothenberg Memorial Lecture 2026: From Mine to Masterpiece
University College London (UCL)
17:30
AI and the Future of Work: Are We Becoming More Like Machines?
King's College London
18:00
What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century
Gresham College
19:30
A Norman stitch-up? The story behind the Bayeux Tapestry
The National Archives
Thursday
Oct
8
04:15
E²: Everyday engineers
Institution of Engineering and Technology – London
11:00
Crafting social generations: Discovering entelechies of intimacy
University College London (UCL)
A historical analysis of mental health policymaking in Singapore
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Inclusion of people with disabilities in sexual health: An analysis of national sexual health guidelines in the United Kingdom
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The Atlantic Brief: US and European Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence
Royal United Services Institute
15:30
Spotlight on Science: Childhood allergies
City St George's, University of London
17:00
Marks of a Maker: In conversation
University College London (UCL)
Book launch: How Alex Bloom Built Radical Secondary Education in Post-war London
University College London (UCL)
Prize Money in Nelson’s Navy
King's College London
18:00
PEN Pinter Prize 2026: Jacqueline Rose
British Library
Friday
Oct
9
11:00
The Wealth of Nations at 250: understanding prosperity and development in the modern world
The British Academy
14:00
John Blanke: the Black Tudor trumpeter and the reimagining of history
The National Archives
16:30
A LUTA CONTINUA: A Conversation on Art, Law and Constitutionalism
University College London (UCL)
18:00
WiFi Wars Debug XXII
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Elders, 2046: For Living and Dying Otherwise
Wellcome Collection
The Wordsworth Lecture: The Poetry That Changed The World
British Library
19:00
The Sylvia Wynter Lecture: Onyeka Igwe and Alexander G. Weheliye
King's College London
Saturday
Oct
10
08:00
Annual Chinese Teaching Conference 2026
University College London (UCL)
13:00
Elders, 2046: For Living and Dying Otherwise
Wellcome Collection
18:00
Extraordinary chemical experiments which shaped today’s world
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Elders, 2046: For Living and Dying Otherwise
Wellcome Collection
Monday
Oct
12
11:00
Not only but also: Disability as a multi-dimensional experience
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
17:00
A new hypothesis about the resilience of the bilingual mind
University College London (UCL)
Tuesday
Oct
13
16:00
Anti-social Business Models
University College London (UCL)
17:00
Natural Property Rights (CUP, 2025)
University College London (UCL)
18:00
The Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
14
09:00
Get Published
British Library
11:00
Falling in love with the somatosensory (and visual) system
City St George's, University of London
11:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Johanna Rickne
City St George's, University of London
12:00
In-person Lunch Hour Lecture - Student London: 200 Years of Student Life in the Capital
University College London (UCL)
Ancient DNA Lates
The Francis Crick Institute
17:00
Courts and Constitutions: Judicial Review 250 Years After Independence
University College London (UCL)
17:30
Francis Crick Prize Lecture: Pathogens and the power of evolution
Royal Society
18:00
Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
15
11:00
Decentring race to make sense of social suffering
University College London (UCL)
12:00
Crick Lecture | Bonnie Bassler
The Francis Crick Institute
: Host and pathogen seminar | Sébastien Gagneux
The Francis Crick Institute
17:00
Privacy and Deepfakes
University College London (UCL)
Leslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil
King's College London
Reckoning or rhetoric: Is now the time for reparative justice on the global stage?
Chatham House
17:30
Book Talk: 'Peace Makers: Shaping the modern world - the men and women of the Foreign Office in WWII' by Lord Peter Ricketts
King's College London
A History of the World in Four Algorithms
Gresham College
Friday
Oct
16
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Sophia Davidson & Kim Jacobson
The Francis Crick Institute
: Development and Stem Cells Seminar | Bernat Corominas-Murtra
The Francis Crick Institute
14:00
Icons of Conquest: Bayeux Tapestry and Domesday Book
The National Archives
18:20
Discourse: CERN - the past, present and future
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Oct
17
13:30
The animal queendom (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
The ancient cosmos: The James Webb Space Telescope's new revelations
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
19
12:00
Why Europe Needs to Take Back the Diversity Principle: From Humboldt and Mill to America's Diversity
University College London (UCL)
Making in Biomed Symposium 2026
The Francis Crick Institute
17:00
qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker
University College London (UCL)
18:00
Did Neanderthals hum? The musicality of early humans
The Royal Institution (Ri)
The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present
Gresham College
God Save the Queens!
British Library
18:30
Centre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture
King's College London
Tuesday
Oct
20
12:00
Watchdogs of Democracy: The Transformation of the Mexican Press - an Insider’s Perspective
University College London (UCL)
13:00
Book Talk: 'We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West' with Dr Hanna Notte
King's College London
14:00
Writing and identity in the age of AI: A higher education perspective
University College London (UCL)
17:00
EU Environmental Law at 50 – Legacy and Lessons for the UK
University College London (UCL)
17:30
Book Launch "Demographic Anxieties" (Gala Rexer)
University College London (UCL)
18:00
The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
21
11:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Paolo Pinotti
City St George's, University of London
12:00
China-Latin America Relations in the Era of the Donroe Doctrine
University College London (UCL)
: Cancer Seminar | Giorgio Scita
The Francis Crick Institute
Crick Crash Course: How the fly helps us to understand health and disease
The Francis Crick Institute
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Emmanuel Derivery
The Francis Crick Institute
15:00
MCCI Connect: China and the changing geopolitics of global communication
City St George's, University of London
15:30
'Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity', Coleen Morgan (Carena Seminar)
Birkbeck, University of London
17:30
Cooling Without Air Conditioning: Passive Design Lessons from Traditional Islamic Architecture
British Library
18:00
Breaking Barriers, Making Leaders: Women, Law and the Future of Global Finance
King's College London
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2026
King's College London
Why Is There Music?
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
22
11:00
From rescue to reform: Building a child protection system in Punjab, Pakistan
University College London (UCL)
Female Leaders in Engineering: Inspiring the Next Generation
Institution of Engineering and Technology – London
12:00
Does racism affect risk of psychosis?
University College London (UCL)
Law and the Political Economy of Climate Adaptation
University College London (UCL)
Crick Lecture | Nate Goehring
The Francis Crick Institute
Sip of Science
The Francis Crick Institute
14:30
Between History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives
Birkbeck, University of London
17:00
The Latin American Diaspora in London
University College London (UCL)
The Naval War in the Baltic, 1914-1915
King's College London
18:00
Palestine. The expansion of the Prison Web
Birkbeck, University of London
Plato on Truth, Lies and Power
Gresham College
Beans in Britain: Fact and Fiction
British Library
Friday
Oct
23
09:00
Reimagining Edward Elgar: Past, Present and Future
British Library
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Joanna Groom
The Francis Crick Institute
: Neuroscience seminar | Jan Siemens
The Francis Crick Institute
14:00
Beyond 1066: the legacy of the Norman Conquest
The National Archives
18:15
Dynasties in Dialogue: The Tang, the Qing, and China Today
British Library
Saturday
Oct
24
18:00
An Evening of Unnecessary Detail
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
26
12:00
From Papers to People: Social Media for Research Impact
City St George's, University of London
18:00
How Do We Speak About Central-Eastern Europe Today?
University College London (UCL)
19:00
Global fusion developments: The race for power
The Royal Institution (Ri)
How True Stories Make Us Care
Gresham College
Tuesday
Oct
27
05:00
Britain and beyond: discovering Islamic heritage
Royal Geographical Society
10:30
Time Travel Club: music through history
The National Archives
13:00
Solving ageing
University College London (UCL)
17:00
Book Talk: 'Minutes of Empire Dutch West India Company Politics, 1618–1648' with Prof Alexander B. Bick
King's College London
19:00
Rethinking Deterrence for a Disrupted World
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
28
13:00
Rethinking Memory: An Embedded Computational Framework for Understanding Human Cognition
City St George's, University of London
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Morten Ravn
City St George's, University of London
18:00
Building Healthier: Panel Discussion
University College London (UCL)
Harold Moody Lecture 2026/2027
King's College London
19:00
Around the World with Indian Cinema
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
29
11:00
Time Travel Club: musical adventures
The National Archives
12:00
My child is one in a million: What influences parents hesitant to vaccinate their children?
University College London (UCL)
Crick Lecture | 2026 Honess Lecture - Zhijian "James" Chen
The Francis Crick Institute
Sip of Science
The Francis Crick Institute
15:00
The Bartlett Africa Heritage Symposium
University College London (UCL)
Friday
Oct
30
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Joanne Konkel
The Francis Crick Institute
Yugoslavism and its migrations: new directions in Yugoslav studies
British Library
How to Build a Library
British Library
14:00
Witch hunts and real lives
The National Archives
18:00
Inaugural Lecture Series 2026 - 27: Professors Eleanor Knox and James Millen
King's College London
19:20
Discourse: How to get a molecule to obey you
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Oct
31
11:00
Tales of the Weird – An Autumnal Festival
British Library
14:30
ShRIek: The spooky science of the paranormal (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
ShRIek: The spooky science of the paranormal
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Nov
2
12:00
Molecular Haemopoiesis 29
The Francis Crick Institute
19:00
The Einstein Telescope: Discovery and diplomacy
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Nov
3
12:00
Physical health in four British cohort studies: Measurement, research and access
University College London (UCL)
17:00
Psychiatrist, Pharmacist, Executioner: The social life of acute behavioural disturbance
Birkbeck, University of London
18:00
2026 Judicial Institute Annual Lecture - What’s in an anniversary?
University College London (UCL)
US midterm elections 2026: what happens next?
Chatham House
18:30
Croonian Prize Lecture: Advances in computational protein design
Royal Society
19:00
What History is NOT
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
4
12:00
Sip of Science
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
Understanding the 2026 US Midterms: A Post-Election Analysis
University College London (UCL)
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Alberto Prati
City St George's, University of London
16:00
Daniell Lecture 2026: Polymer colloids rock!
King's College London
18:00
Book launch: Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law
University College London (UCL)
18:30
German, Jewish, British? Histories of Exile and Emigration
Birkbeck, University of London
19:00
Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz
Gresham College
19:30
Gunpowder Plot – punishing the plotters
The National Archives
Thursday
Nov
5
16:00
CIMR debates in Public Policy - Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe
Birkbeck, University of London
17:00
More than Venice's Successor: Rethinking the Austrian Navy in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
King's College London
17:30
Student cultures and identities in song: Recovering the British university songbook tradition
University College London (UCL)
19:00
Guantanamo on the Euphrates: What Next for Detainees in Syria?
Gresham College
Friday
Nov
6
12:00
: Neuroscience seminar | Eero Castrén
The Francis Crick Institute
: Immunology Seminar | Marc Dalod
The Francis Crick Institute
: Development and Stem Cells Seminar | Gord Fishell
The Francis Crick Institute
Saturday
Nov
7
14:30
How to build a chocolate bridge (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
The neuroscience of sadness
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Nov
9
10:30
US Politics Today
British Library
13:30
US Politics Today
British Library
17:00
Spotlight on Science: Why is your blood pressure important?
City St George's, University of London
Tuesday
Nov
10
14:00
“A Mystery Still”: Historical (Trans) Gender Variance and James “Miranda” Barry
Gresham College
18:30
Michael Faraday Prize Lecture: Life in the fast lane — What the past tells us about evolution under pressure
Royal Society
19:00
Building with Magnets: The Mathematics of Repulsion and Attraction
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
11
09:00
Iraq Initiative Conference 2026
Chatham House
12:00
AI for Biological Discovery Seminar | Professor Marinka Zitnik
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
What Can Primates' Responses to Death Tell Us About Cognition and the Evolution of Emotion?
City St George's, University of London
19:30
This Little World: a New History of Tudor and Stuart England
The National Archives
20:00
Our Sun, Our Star
Gresham College
Thursday
Nov
12
12:00
Sip of Science
The Francis Crick Institute
: Host and pathogen seminar | Yaw Bediako
The Francis Crick Institute
Crick Lecture | Philippa Matthews
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
How should we collect data on sex and gender identity?
University College London (UCL)
14:00
How Did Our Garden Grow? The History of Hatton Gardens
Gresham College
18:00
Managing Conflict in the Foothills of Potential Disputes
University College London (UCL)
18:30
Milner Prize Lecture: Highlights from 40 years of Complexity Theory
Royal Society
Friday
Nov
13
09:00
The art and science of creative AI
University College London (UCL)
10:30
US Politics Today
British Library
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Florent Ginhoux
The Francis Crick Institute
: Neuroscience seminar | Adil Khan
The Francis Crick Institute
13:30
US Politics Today
British Library
17:00
Practices of Care in an Italian Eating Disorder Clinic: Rethinking Food, Family and Ethics
University College London (UCL)
18:00
For Your Inspiration: Into the wild
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
The Pen: Simon Garfield in Conversation with Jeremy Deller
British Library
Saturday
Nov
14
14:30
Tomorrow: It's not a question of when, but where! (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
How to grow a quantum computer
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Nov
16
12:00
Crick Translational Research Symposium
The Francis Crick Institute
18:30
The Conquest of Knowledge: Translation and Civilization from Antiquity to the Renaissance
British Library
19:00
The new normal: how weather whiplash is shaping our lives
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Nov
17
10:00
Competition policy conference 2026
Chatham House
18:00
Marks of a Maker: The stories coffins tell us
University College London (UCL)
Wednesday
Nov
18
12:00
: Cancer Seminar | Jacky Goetz
The Francis Crick Institute
Sip of Science: Ancient DNA Special
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
In-person Lunch Hour Lecture - The Architectural History of UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus
University College London (UCL)
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Tobias Broer
City St George's, University of London
14:00
Love's Transcendence in the Poetry of John Donne, George Herbert and RS Thomas
Gresham College
19:00
Speaking Through Othello: Black Performance and the Training of Feeling
Gresham College
Pride and Prejudice
British Library
19:30
In conversation with Amy Jeffs – Arthur
The National Archives
Thursday
Nov
19
09:30
Keeping your curriculum broad and balanced: Celebrating the arts and humanities in primary schools
University College London (UCL)
Keeping Your Curriculum Broad and Balanced: Celebrating the Arts and Humanities in Primary Schools
British Library
12:00
The emerging Eco-Social Union: Multilevel governance, solidarity and the just transition
University College London (UCL)
17:00
The Improbable Austro-Japanese War
King's College London
18:00
Does English law on relational contracts require legislative reform?
University College London (UCL)
18:30
The Conquest of Knowledge: Translation and Civilization from Antiquity to the Renaissance
British Library
19:00
Life, Death and Bubbles: The Story of Earth’s Nitrogen
Gresham College
Friday
Nov
20
08:45
UK-EU ‘RESET’
King's College London
10:30
Young Adult Crime Fiction Fest
British Library
12:00
: Development and Stem Cells Seminar | Joost Gribnau
The Francis Crick Institute
: Immunology Seminar | Chiara Romagnani
The Francis Crick Institute
17:30
The UK Regulatory Framework Post Brexit: ‘Law Unbound’?
King's College London
Saturday
Nov
21
19:00
The future of AI is tiny and physical
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Nov
23
10:30
Young Adult Crime Fiction Fest
British Library
12:00
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2026
The Francis Crick Institute
18:00
The War Against Law: What's wrong with common good constitutionalism
University College London (UCL)
18:30
The Conquest of Knowledge: Translation and Civilization from Antiquity to the Renaissance
British Library
19:00
Resistance: A History of Disability in Britain
British Library
Tuesday
Nov
24
19:00
Sixteenth-Century London Dialect: How Londoners Spoke in Sir Thomas Gresham’s Time
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
25
08:00
Chatham House Berlin conference 2026
Chatham House
13:00
Rearticulating Neo-Developmentalism: a Conjunctural Analysis of Agrarian State Capitalism in Bolivia
University College London (UCL)
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Meredith Crowley
City St George's, University of London
18:00
Inaugural Lecture with Professor Sylvie Delacroix
King's College London
19:00
Musical Myths and Miracles
Gresham College
Thursday
Nov
26
10:00
Share this event SPROCKET Systems Practice Seminar 2: Systems Tools - Complex Care Transitions
University College London (UCL)
12:00
The mahalla or the market: Masculinity, urban transformation and neighbourhood sociality in Tashkent
University College London (UCL)
Sip of Science: Ancient DNA Special
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
Learning by Surprise
University College London (UCL)
18:00
From Agreement to Adjudication: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Good Friday Agreement
University College London (UCL)
18:30
The Life Cycle of a Holiday
Gresham College
Friday
Nov
27
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Renaud Du Pasquier
The Francis Crick Institute
: Development and Stem Cells Seminar | Jan Zylicz
The Francis Crick Institute
: Neuroscience seminar | Jennifer Linden
The Francis Crick Institute
14:00
The MI5 Archive: Official Secrets
The National Archives
19:00
Irish Writers' Weekend: Maggie O'Farrell
British Library
Saturday
Nov
28
11:00
Irish Writers' Weekend
British Library
Sunday
Nov
29
11:00
Irish Writers' Weekend
British Library
Monday
Nov
30
19:00
The Romantic History of Copyright
Gresham College
Christie: The Writer's Writer
British Library
Tuesday
Dec
1
19:00
AI as Muse? Creativity, Provocation and Human Ownership
Gresham College
Wednesday
Dec
2
13:00
Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America
University College London (UCL)
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Bram de Rock
City St George's, University of London
Thursday
Dec
3
12:00
Queer lives in post-socialist China: Power, resistance and inequality
University College London (UCL)
: Host and Pathogen seminar | Eva Frickel
The Francis Crick Institute
Crick Lecture | Stephen O'Rahilly
The Francis Crick Institute
12:30
Getting started: An introduction to four British cohort studies
University College London (UCL)
17:00
Constellating Care: Listening to Intergenerational Harm in Decolonial Healing Practice
University College London (UCL)
17:30
Mother Cabrini’s secondary schools, 1880–1930: A global history of education
University College London (UCL)
19:00
Can We Have a World Without Pain?
Gresham College
Christie Around the World
British Library
Friday
Dec
4
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Rejane Rua
The Francis Crick Institute
Monday
Dec
7
19:00
Offence and the Future of Courtesy
Gresham College
Top Ten Christie Killings... In Reverse Order
British Library
Tuesday
Dec
8
19:00
Shakespeare Now: Creativity and Controversy
Gresham College
Wednesday
Dec
9
12:00
: Cancer seminar | Tuomas Tammela
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
Two Systems of Inequality Reproduction in Latin America
University College London (UCL)
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Camille Terrier
City St George's, University of London
16:30
An inquiry into the love of learning
University College London (UCL)
19:00
How to See the World As a Child Sees It
Gresham College
19:30
A sweet history of cake and Christmas
The National Archives
Thursday
Dec
10
09:00
H.R. McMaster, President Trump's former National Security Advisor, discusses America's future security challenges
Chatham House
12:00
Careless bordering: Photovoice accounts from refugees and people seeking asylum in northwest England
University College London (UCL)
18:30
On Ecocide
University College London (UCL)
19:00
An Evening with Labi Siffre
British Library
Monday
Dec
14
18:30
The Future of Medicine
Gresham College
Tuesday
Dec
15
13:00
The National Interest and the Future of Internationalism
University College London (UCL)
Wednesday
Dec
16
19:00
The Maths of Christmas
Gresham College
Friday
Jan
8
12:00
: Host and pathogen seminar | Ewen Harrison
The Francis Crick Institute
: Immunology Seminar | Gosia Trynka
The Francis Crick Institute
Wednesday
Jan
13
19:00
Can Weight-Loss Medicines Cure Obesity?
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
14
12:00
Crick Lecture | Peter Ratcliffe
The Francis Crick Institute
14:00
Can You Be Your Own Therapist?
Gresham College
Sunday
Jan
17
12:00
A History of the Catwalk
Victoria and Albert Museum
Tuesday
Jan
19
19:00
Play it Again Ludwig: Waves, Strings, and the Stradivarius
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
20
12:00
: Cancer Seminar | George Poulogiannis
The Francis Crick Institute
19:00
Do Machines Make Music?
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
21
12:00
Crick Lecture | Scott Lowe
The Francis Crick Institute
13:00
Courts as Leaders in Private International Law
University College London (UCL)
Tuesday
Jan
26
10:00
SPROCKET Systems Practice Seminar 3: Running Workshops with Young People
University College London (UCL)
19:00
The Internet and the First Fight for Free Culture
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
27
12:00
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Robbie Loewith
The Francis Crick Institute
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Angelique Acquatella
City St George's, University of London
20:00
The Chaotic Solar System
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
28
12:00
Crick Lecture | Steve Wilson
The Francis Crick Institute
19:00
Dance of the Droplets: Earth’s Freshwater Carousel and How It Is Changing
Gresham College
Friday
Jan
29
09:00
Leading in to the future: The teaching profession in a digital age
University College London (UCL)
Tuesday
Feb
2
19:00
AI as Companion? From Digital Pets to Simulated Empathy
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
3
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Jeanne Hagenbach
City St George's, University of London
Thursday
Feb
4
12:00
Crick Lecture | Eve Marder
The Francis Crick Institute
19:00
One Gay Man's Accidental Creation of the Modern Tattoo Industry
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
9
19:00
The Great Green Mirage
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
10
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Tinghua Yu
City St George's, University of London
19:00
Big Little Lives: Recovering the Histories of Everyone Else
Gresham College
Friday
Feb
12
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Yeonseok Chung
The Francis Crick Institute
Tuesday
Feb
16
19:00
Journalism as a Public Good
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
17
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Sascha O Becker
City St George's, University of London
Thursday
Feb
18
12:00
Crick Lecture | Ricard Solé
The Francis Crick Institute
: Host and pathogen seminar | Lucas Boeck
The Francis Crick Institute
19:00
Language Revitalisation and the (In)Visibility of Indigenous Languages
Gresham College
Friday
Feb
19
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Almudena Ramiro
The Francis Crick Institute
Tuesday
Feb
23
19:00
How Urgently Do We Need New Antibiotics?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
24
12:00
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Michaela Müller-McNicoll
The Francis Crick Institute
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Marie Claire Villeval
City St George's, University of London
Monday
Mar
1
12:00
Stemness, Regeneration and Immunity: from development to therapy 2027
The Francis Crick Institute
Tuesday
Mar
2
19:00
AI as a Jeeves? The Dream of Seamless Help
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
3
09:00
Security and defence conference 2027
Chatham House
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Arun Advani
City St George's, University of London
20:00
Cloudy, with a Chance of Orange Rain
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
4
12:00
: Host and pathogen seminar | Ervin Fodor
The Francis Crick Institute
19:00
Energy, Energy, Everywhere: Tapping into Earth’s Natural Energy Systems
Gresham College
Tuesday
Mar
9
19:00
How to Draw a Straight Line? The Mathematics of Linkages
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
10
09:00
Climate and energy summit 2027
Chatham House
19:00
What Is Talent? Nature, Nurture, and the Myth of the Muse
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
11
12:00
Crick Lecture | Bruno Lemaitre
The Francis Crick Institute
Monday
Mar
15
10:00
SPROCKET Systems Practice Seminar 4: Social Network Analysis
University College London (UCL)
Tuesday
Mar
16
19:00
AI and the Second Fight for Free Culture
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
17
12:00
: Genes to Cells Seminar | David Gershlick
The Francis Crick Institute
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Miguel Ferreira
City St George's, University of London
14:00
Going to the Playhouse with Shakespeare
Gresham College
19:00
The Practices and Politics of Film Subtitles
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
24
13:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Nicos Savva
City St George's, University of London
Thursday
Mar
25
12:00
Crick Lecture | Ivan de Araujo
The Francis Crick Institute
Wednesday
Mar
31
11:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Ursina Schaede
City St George's, University of London
Friday
Apr
2
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Joan Yuan
The Francis Crick Institute
Wednesday
Apr
7
11:30
Research Seminar in Economics: Hannah Zillessen
City St George's, University of London
Friday
Apr
9
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | David Thomas
The Francis Crick Institute
Monday
Apr
12
18:00
The 2027 Annual Lord Mayor's Event
Gresham College
Tuesday
Apr
13
18:00
The Prisons Memory Archive in the North of Ireland
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
14
18:00
How Versatile are Therapeutic Antibodies?
Gresham College
Friday
Apr
16
12:00
: Immunology Seminar | Bruno Silva-Santos
The Francis Crick Institute
Tuesday
Apr
20
18:00
AI As Co-Worker? Shared Agency and the Dynamics of Collaboration
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
21
18:00
What is Jazz?
Gresham College
23:00
British Conference of Undergraduate Research
Queen Mary University of London
Thursday
Apr
22
12:00
: Host and pathogen seminar | Florence Margottin-Goguet
The Francis Crick Institute
Tuesday
Apr
27
18:00
A Balancing Act: Dice, Dominos, Turtles and the Gömböc
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
28
12:00
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Julien Duxin
The Francis Crick Institute
18:00
From Deficit to Difference: How Neurodiversity Shapes Language Use
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
5
19:00
Cosmic Collisions
Gresham College
Thursday
May
6
18:00
Managed by Microbes: Our World’s Dependence on Invisible Life
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
11
18:00
Rethinking Copyright in the Age of AI
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
12
18:00
New Light Through Old Windows – Modern Literary Adaptation, from a Writer’s Perspective
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
18
18:00
Can We End Malaria?
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
19
18:00
Loops, Leverage and the SEND Crisis
Gresham College
Thursday
May
20
18:00
Language and Reconciliation: The Mapping of Ireland and Brian Friel's Drama Translations
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
25
18:00
The Polluter Never Pays
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
26
09:00
SPROCKET Systems Practice Seminar 5: Causal Loop Diagramming
University College London (UCL)
12:00
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Sean Munro
The Francis Crick Institute
18:00
Archives, Cultural Heritage and Film History in the Digital Age
Gresham College
Thursday
May
27
12:00
: Host and pathogen seminar | Joleen Masschelein
The Francis Crick Institute
Tuesday
Jun
1
18:00
Staying Afloat: Thinking About Sinking
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
3
18:00
New Molecules on an Old Planet: How Pollution Clashes with the Earth System
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
7
18:00
Shakespeare and the Shrinking Canon
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
8
18:00
AI as Just Another Fork in the Cutlery Box
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
9
18:00
The Future of Music: New Branches on the Evolutionary Tree of Music
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
14
18:00
The Gray's Inn Reading 2027
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
15
18:00
Creativity and the Limits to AI
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
16
19:00
What's New in Space?
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
24
19:00
The Sir Thomas Gresham Annual Lecture 2027
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
30
12:00
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Genevieve Thon
The Francis Crick Institute
Tuesday
Jul
13
09:00
SPROCKET Systems Practice Seminar 6: Stock-and-Flow Modelling and Simulation
University College London (UCL)
Wednesday
Jul
21
12:00
: Genes to Cells Seminar | Olivier Duss
The Francis Crick Institute

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