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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.

Saturday
Mar
28
11:00
Family Fun Day: Spectacular Space! - SOLD OUT
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Mar
30
09:00
Music and AI hackathon for A-level students (computing / maths / music)
Queen Mary University of London
10:00
Holiday workshops: Loudspeakers and acoustics (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Build like Bucky (ages 12-14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Loudspeakers and acoustics (ages 7 - 8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Build like bucky (ages 15 - 18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
15:00
Turing-Roche Knowledge Share Series: Structured missingness - a review and current research directions
The Alan Turing Institute
Tuesday
Mar
31
09:15
AI for Science
The Alan Turing Institute
10:00
Holiday workshops: Architecture for plants (ages 7 - 8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Architecture for plants (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
17:00
Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes
King's College London
Wednesday
Apr
1
10:00
Holiday workshops: Code Breakers (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Fractal fun (ages 7 - 8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Fractal fun (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
17:00
Burton Lecture 2026: John Sutherland
King's College London
David Ludden Revisiting Richard Eaton’s The Rise of Islam, Bengal, and Agrarian Frontier
King's College London
18:30
The Partisan Necropolis: Film Screening and Q&A
King's College London
Thursday
Apr
2
10:00
Holiday workshops: Eureka! (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Crash testing (ages 12 - 14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Interpreting games (ages 12 - 14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:00
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 12-14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Maths in motion (ages 15 - 18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Practical Routes to Organisational Wellbeing: Falling Forward - Successes Missteps & Lessons Learned
King's College London
Tuesday
Apr
7
10:00
Holiday workshops: Speak like a scientist (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Skateboards to starships (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Bacterial Evolution (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: In a spin (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: In a spin (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
14:00
Turing-Roche festival: Exploring Health AI in Practice
The Alan Turing Institute
Wednesday
Apr
8
10:00
Holiday workshops: Skateboards to starships (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Measuring the Earth (ages 12 - 14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Forensics (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: STIXX shelters (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Measuring the Earth (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: STIXX shelters (ages 7 - 8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
17:30
Permanent Emergency: States of Exception and Democratic Erosion
King's College London
Thursday
Apr
9
09:30
Holiday workshops: LEGO WeDo (ages 7 - 8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
10:00
Holiday workshops: Intro to space science (ages 12 - 14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Electrical & electronic control (ages 9 - 11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
12:00
Holiday workshops: LEGO WeDo (ages 7 - 8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Electrical and electronic control (ages 12 - 14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:30
Metamorphosis: Small flies, big changes (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
14:00
Holiday workshops: LEGO WeDo (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Apr
10
09:30
Holiday workshops: LEGO Mindstorm (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
10:00
Holiday workshops: An expanding universe of knowledge (ages 15 - 18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Smart trains and smart tracks (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Apr
11
12:00
Animal Dissection Live
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Apr
13
18:00
The psychology of chess
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Introduction to Cosmology (Short Course) 2026
The Royal Institution (Ri)
"Unsquaring” the Square Mile: Connecting People with Opportunity
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
15
18:00
Music of the Mind
Gresham College
18:30
Royal Society Africa Prize Lecture: Unknown, Unseen, Unprotected: What bats reveal about hidden biodiversity in Africa
Royal Society
Thursday
Apr
16
17:30
Talk - The rise and characteristics of China's leadership in global environmental governance
King's College London
18:00
The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary 
Gresham College
Saturday
Apr
18
18:00
The science of cooking with Ben Ebbrell
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Apr
20
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
Why Do We Love?
Gresham College
18:30
David Attenborough Award and Lecture: The battle for reality
Royal Society
Thursday
Apr
23
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
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
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
17:00
Book Talk: Breaking the New Axis with Harry Halem
King's College London
19:00
The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky
Gresham College
Thursday
Apr
30
17:15
Before the Asiento: the English Atlantic slave trade from its origins through to 1713
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
00:00
Guy’s Hospital 300th Anniversary Celebrations
King's College London
18:00
Music, Death and Afterlife
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
6
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
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
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
18:00
The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future?
Gresham College
18:30
Bakerian Prize Lecture: Bioelectronics – technology interfaces with the human body
Royal Society
Wednesday
May
13
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
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)
Monday
May
18
18:00
Neutrinos, the Universe, and Everything
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Society and Survival During the Holocaust
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
20
18:00
Should We Manipulate People’s Emotions?
Gresham College
Thursday
May
21
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
17:30
40th annual Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture at Keble College, Oxford
King's College London
Monday
May
25
18:00
Shrinking the laboratory: Engineering health for the bottom billion
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
May
26
18:00
Education – And Its Limits
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
27
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
Thursday
May
28
11:00
Brunel Research Jamboree 2026
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
18:30
Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture: Hope in the shadow of unnatural extinctions
Royal Society
Friday
May
29
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
19:00
Pluto Isn’t a Planet
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
4
09:30
Brunel Research Showcase
Brunel University London
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
The Subversive Nude in Modern China
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
9
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
Tuesday
Jun
16
18:30
Royal Society Environment Prize Lecture: Feeding the world without costing the earth
Royal Society
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
Wednesday
Oct
14
18:30
Francis Crick Prize Lecture by Professor Kayla King
Royal Society
Thursday
Nov
12
18:30
Milner Prize Lecture delivered by Professor Johan Håstad
Royal Society

Data is sourced from following institutions:

The Alan Turing InstituteQueen Mary University of LondonKing's College LondonThe Royal Institution (Ri)Gresham CollegeRoyal SocietyBrunel University London