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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.

Wednesday
Feb
4
20:00
Alien Earths: What Makes Us Special?
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
5
13:00
Median nerve stimulation in tic disorders
King's College London
16:00
Fields of Glass: Labour Regimes, Techno-Science and Biopolitics in Agrifood Value Chains
Queen Mary University of London
18:00
Triumphing over Incredible Obstacles in Life and Art
King's College London
Small Things, Big Stories: Approaching Byzantine Society through Prayer Book Manuscripts
King's College London
19:00
Death Investigation: What Do Coroners Do?
Gresham College
Monday
Feb
9
13:30
Talk - The struggle for Hong Kong: A decolonisation lens
King's College London
19:00
Pictures from Afghanistan: Are we making the same mistakes?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
10
14:00
[HCC Seminar Series]: More Difficult to Measure
King's College London
18:00
The Darker Side of the Middle Ages
King's College London
19:00
Lee Miller's Indelible Images
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
11
16:45
Inaugural Lectures: Professor Shahram Kordasti
King's College London
17:00
Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam
King's College London
Wheatstone Lecture 2026: Sir John Pendry
King's College London
19:00
Peacebuilding through the Visual Arts
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
12
17:15
The Flying Squadron’: the Crimean War in the Sea of Azov campaign, May-November 1855
King's College London
18:15
A Medieval Saint in the Modern World: Oswald of Northumbria in Words and Music
King's College London
Friday
Feb
13
17:00
The Shape of Shells: She Sells Self-Similar Spiral Seashells on the Seashore
Gresham College
Monday
Feb
16
14:00
Talk - China watches back: Chinese public opinion on international relations
King's College London
17:15
Donald Trump’s Second Presidency and European Security
King's College London
18:30
The Hennessy Lecture: Kate Adie CBE
Queen Mary University of London
Tuesday
Feb
17
18:00
The Digital Agricultural “Revolution”: Resisting Surveillance Agriculture in Majority World
King's College London
19:00
The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
18
14:00
[WiS Seminar Series]: Complexity, Interpretability, and Trust. Lessons from Quantitative Finance
King's College London
16:45
Inaugural Lectures: Professors Afshan Malik & Richard Russell
King's College London
18:00
More than a Place: Centre for Studies of Home Annual Lecture 2026
Queen Mary University of London
19:00
Climate Risk and Insurance
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
19
17:00
Book talk - Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea
King's College London
19:00
The Ground We Stand On
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
24
15:15
King's Factor Lecture: Vibrating plates and salt patterns
King's College London
18:00
2026 MN Srinivas Lecture by Surinder S. Jodhka: Reading ‘Rampura’, The Remembered Village, in the times of Hindutva
King's College London
19:00
Work, Out of Reach
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
25
16:00
Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention
Queen Mary University of London
16:45
Inaugural Lectures: Professors Debashis Sarker & Hiva Fassihi
King's College London
19:00
Music of Earth and Space
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
26
17:15
Jorge Juan’s British-style Navy: An 18th Century experiment in technology transfer
King's College London
19:00
That's Not Funny: The Ethics of Satire
Gresham College
Friday
Feb
27
19:20
Discourse: Discovering what exoplanets are made from
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Mar
2
15:00
University Refugee Week 2026: Higher Education at the Margins of Crisis
King's College London
18:00
Following the Money: European Integration Through Law – or Against?
King's College London
Tuesday
Mar
3
14:00
[WiS Seminar Series]: Real-Time Physics-Based Haptic Interaction in VR - From Vibration to Force Feedback
King's College London
19:00
The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
4
17:30
Ageing on the Periphery: How Place and Social Structures Shape Inequalities in Later Life
King's College London
19:00
Why Do We Hate?
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
5
18:00
Inaugural Lecture with Professor Oana Stefan
King's College London
19:00
Oligarchs and Their Discontents
Gresham College
Friday
Mar
6
13:00
Dental Alumni Weekend 2026
King's College London
19:00
WiFi Wars Debug XXI
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Mar
10
19:00
Bridget: Goddess and Saint
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
11
16:45
Inaugural Lectures: Professors Gilbert Fruhwirth & Lara Roberts
King's College London
Thursday
Mar
12
17:15
Maritime Security: A Global Challenge that Should Not be Ducked
King's College London
19:00
Invisible Contributions: Gender, Misattribution and the Matilda Effect
King's College London
The Death of Athenian Democracy?
Gresham College
Saturday
Mar
14
19:00
Ri Demo Team and friends: Stunning science!
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Mar
17
19:00
Born Supremacy – AI as a Pale Shadow of Real Humanity
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
18
17:00
YTL Centre Annual Lecture 2026: L.A. Paul
King's College London
20:00
The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
19
19:00
Guantánamo on the Euphrates? Syria in a Time of Opportunity
Gresham College
Friday
Mar
20
17:45
KCLEA Annual Lecture: Almost a Lifetime Leading Changes across Engineering
King's College London
Saturday
Mar
21
14:30
Magical Mercury (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
A journey into consciousness
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Mar
23
19:00
A Living Planet
Gresham College
Tuesday
Mar
24
19:00
Unauthorised Deepfakes and Digital Replicas: Time for Reform?
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
26
17:15
The Prince Royal of Denmark's Yacht (1785): Maritime History Mysteries and an Art History Rediscovery
King's College London
Friday
Mar
27
19:20
Discourse: Holography and levitation: Advances in multisensory sound
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Mar
28
11:00
Family Fun Day: Spectacular Space!
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Apr
9
13:30
Metamorphosis: Small flies, big changes (family)
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)
The Annual Lady Mayor's Lecture
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
15
18:00
Music of the Mind
Gresham College
Monday
Apr
20
18:00
The living lab above: Science of the sky
The Royal Institution (Ri)
A World Without Work
Gresham College
Tuesday
Apr
21
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
Friday
Apr
24
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)
Tuesday
Apr
28
18:00
The Shape of Tiles: Regular and Irregular, Hard and Soft
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
29
19:00
The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky
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
18:00
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
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
Wednesday
May
13
18:00
Music of the Body
Gresham College
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
Saturday
May
23
18:00
How real is the past?
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
18:00
Education – And Its Limits
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
27
18:00
Going Global: Chinese Independent Documentary
Gresham College
Thursday
May
28
18:00
Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change
Gresham College
Friday
May
29
18:20
Discourse: Photodynamic Therapy: Physicists and physicians unite to heal with light
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
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
Thursday
Jun
11
18:00
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

Data is sourced from following institutions:

King's College LondonGresham CollegeQueen Mary University of LondonThe Royal Institution (Ri)