Ben Evans

London Lectures

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

Monday
Jan
6
09:00
Paediatric respiratory medicine (Online)
Imperial College London
10:00
The Future of Physics: Presentations from Lecturer and Senior Lecturer Candidates – Day 1 of 4
Imperial College London
Tuesday
Jan
7
11:00
TBA
Imperial College London
12:30
Stress Less Yoga with Move Imperial
Imperial College London
IDE Seminar Series – Dr Cécile Tran-Kiem
Imperial College London
19:00
Who’s Afraid of Robots?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
8
00:00
Lost and Found
Imperial College London
10:00
The Future of Physics: Presentations from Lecturer and Senior Lecturer Candidates – Day 2 of 4
Imperial College London
12:00
Mastering the MBA Application Process
Imperial College London
12:30
Faculty of Medicine Staff Rounds – Dr James Howard [NHLI] | Professor Richard Festenstein [Brain Sciences]
Imperial College London
17:30
My academic random walk towards building networked systems
Imperial College London
Professor Barbara Barrett - Inaugural lecture
King's College London
19:00
The Modern Goddess
Gresham College
20:00
Stress Less Yoga Retreat with Frankie Arpino
Imperial College London
Thursday
Jan
9
16:00
Annual Physics Schools Lecture: Where does all the quantum go?
King's College London
17:15
Nelson’s Pathfinders: Hydrography and the Triumph of British Sea Power 1793-1823
King's College London
19:00
Writing a British Constitution
Gresham College
Monday
Jan
13
13:00
Is regulation keeping up with changing use of online digital communications
Brunel University London
15:00
Careers in engineering biology
Royal Society
18:30
Vulture capitalism
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tuesday
Jan
14
13:00
Polycrisis and cross-border governance. A glimpse from Italian borderscapes
Birkbeck, University of London
"First, Do No Harm": the Nocebo Effect in Science & Clinical Care
King's College London
18:30
Israel: what went wrong?
Birkbeck, University of London
19:00
Science-Based Targets, Greenwashing and Brownscraping: Net Zero in the Private Sector
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
15
17:00
KJuris: George Letsas 'The Return of Legal Status'
King's College London
17:30
Vassil Girginov: Sustainable Sport – An Impossible Theorem?
Brunel University London
20:00
Touching the Sun
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
16
09:00
Food Thinkers - From the horse’s mouth: why UK politicians have failed to tackle obesity and improve the nation’s health
City, University of London
18:00
How optimists change the world
Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
20:30
Breaking the Fourth Wall of Sound: The Paradox of Screen Music
Gresham College
Friday
Jan
17
18:00
Dissertation Showcase: People, Work and Organizational Psychology
Birkbeck, University of London
19:00
Programme Launch 2025: Ri behind the scenes
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Jan
18
19:00
The science of imagination
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Jan
20
15:00
Reading Group: Environment and History (January)
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity
Birkbeck, University of London
Dangerous guesswork in economic policy
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
How the future began
The Royal Institution (Ri)
The Hidden Risks of "I Know Something You Don't"
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jan
21
13:00
Determinants of access-based corruption for higher education: evidence from post-Communist Countries
Birkbeck, University of London
18:00
Counting the cost of bowling alone
Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
18:30
Leadership or drift: what's next for US foreign policy?
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Wednesday
Jan
22
16:45
Inaugural Lectures: Professors William Man & Krish Menon
King's College London
18:00
Inaugural lecture with Professor Catharine MacMillan
King's College London
18:30
One picture, one thousand words: pictorial storytelling in China's foreign policy
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
The art of uncertainty: living with chance, ignorance, risk, and luck
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Thursday
Jan
23
17:15
Staying afloat – managing mission creep during the Royal Navy’s intervention in the Baltic, 1918-1919
King's College London
18:00
Economic development in the 21st century
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
18:30
The cost of borders
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
EVENT CANCELLED: Confronting the climate and development challenge
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
How the human brain thinks about itself
Royal Society
19:00
Writing Laws: Hammurabi to Solon
Gresham College
Friday
Jan
24
18:00
The Landscape of Criminalization for Environmental Offences
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
Pandemonium: Films By Humphrey Jennings
Birkbeck, University of London
19:00
Neuromorphic computing for science
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Jan
25
19:00
Engineering a swarm
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Jan
27
18:00
Martin Luther King Day Lecture: Confronting Racism in Health
King's College London
18:30
Power to the people
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tuesday
Jan
28
13:00
Terrorism and Tax Morale
Birkbeck, University of London
The evolutionary origin of near-death experiences
King's College London
18:30
From liberal peace to new Cold War? Turbulence and conflict in the 21st century
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The Value of Public Space
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
29
16:30
‘It’s like you’re an activist’: Sustainable Teaching Practices in a Music Outreach Project in Southwark
King's College London
18:30
The making of child Holocaust survivors
Birkbeck, University of London
Has neoliberalism failed? Reflections on Western society
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Green Immunity – How Do Plants Fight Infection?
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
30
08:30
'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #3
Birkbeck, University of London
18:00
Creativity in Education: A Perfect Storm or Time for Change
City, University of London
18:30
Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
How confident can we be that international arbitration remains fit for purpose in 2025?
King's College London
19:20
Discourse: Thinking slowly about uncertainty
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Jan
31
18:00
Plan 75 (directed by Chie Hayakawa, 2022, Japan)
Birkbeck, University of London
Honey, AI and Camping Out in The Cloud Forest
Birkbeck, University of London
Saturday
Feb
1
14:00
How to kill an asteroid (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
The world's first planetary defence test
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Feb
3
18:30
Sustainability and prosperity in the age of ecological scarcity
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Trust Issues: When Financial "Experts" Have Other Plans
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
4
13:00
Fast and Curious: 'The Swiss Development Puzzle'. The Institutional Roots of the Success of Industrialization
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
Does class inequality still matter? The Great British Class Survey ten years on
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
5
16:30
South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene
King's College London
16:45
Inaugural Lectures: Professor Michael Antoniou
King's College London
Thursday
Feb
6
17:15
The RNLI at Dunkirk and the Little Ships Myth
King's College London
18:00
Wronged! Reversals of victimhood as acts of power
Birkbeck, University of London
34th Runciman Lecture
King's College London
18:30
Racism, anti-racism and the politics of popular culture
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’
Gresham College
Sunday
Feb
9
19:00
Who moved the tortoise? Live podcast recording
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Feb
10
18:00
'The Art of Uncertainty' in conversation with Sir David Spiegelhalter
King's College London
Tuesday
Feb
11
13:00
The politics of information capacity in Europe and the Americas: A historical analysis of parliamentary debates
Birkbeck, University of London
The biological, psychological and social: expanding FND formulation and opportunities for intervention
King's College London
18:30
Is there a new Washington consensus?
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Why Does Britain Have a Water and Sewage Crisis?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
12
18:30
Power, freedom, and justice: rethinking Foucault
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Thursday
Feb
13
18:00
The Future of Legal Practice: Net Zero and the Climate Imperative Across Legal Disciplines
King's College London
Wages for housework
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
18:30
Trans* lives, histories and activism
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Friday
Feb
14
18:00
Women At War: Valeria Sarmiento's Lines Of Wellington
Birkbeck, University of London
Saturday
Feb
15
19:00
The quantum smart city
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Feb
18
13:00
The effect of age-dependent minimum wage on health: evidence from the UK
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
Climate capitalism: can market-based solutions save the planet?
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The UK’s Generational Wealth Gap
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
19
18:00
Science and snacks: Escaping the enemy
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
The last human job: AI, depersonalization and the industrial clock
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The Return of the Horned God
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
20
14:00
Fuel the future
The Royal Institution (Ri)
17:15
‘In the name of God’. The journal of the voyage made to the Levant by three warships under the command of John Acton in the years 1750-51
King's College London
18:30
The hidden victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus
Gresham College
Saturday
Feb
22
11:00
Family Fun Day: Food, glorious food!
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Feb
24
18:30
The Centre of European Law 50th Annual Lecture
King's College London
Peak injustice: solving Britain's inequality crisis
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
An introduction to cosmology 2025 (short course)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
A scientist's guide to health, ageing and death
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Feb
25
13:00
The Role of Regulation in Contemporary Industrial and Innovation Policies: a Review
Birkbeck, University of London
18:00
From the high seas to corporate boardrooms: Suzanne Heywood in conversation
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
PHURI Workshop - Effective Medical Data Visualisation
Queen Mary University of London
19:00
Data: A Love Story for the Ages
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
26
17:00
Wheatstone Lecture 2025: Professor Hagan Bayley
King's College London
17:30
Monica Degen: Passionate Cities: Why Urban Experiences Matter
Brunel University London
18:30
Making national climate action investable: why and how?
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
20:00
The Biggest Cosmic Map
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
27
18:30
The lost Marie Curies
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All?
Gresham College
Friday
Feb
28
19:20
Discourse: Do we have a standard model of cosmology?
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Mar
1
14:00
DNA time travel
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
Historic genomes: Using ancient DNA to uncover the past
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Sunday
Mar
2
19:00
An Evening of Unnecessary Detail
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Mar
3
18:30
Beyond disaster capitalism: taming corporate power in an age of instability
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tuesday
Mar
4
13:00
War and Women's Rights
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
Artificial intelligence, intellectual property and the creative industries
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
5
17:30
Paresh Date: Filtering out the noise
Brunel University London
18:30
Citizens as cultivars: democratic values in paddy fields and universities
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Thursday
Mar
6
17:15
Failing to prepare for the unexpected’: British defence policy in the late Cold War and the Royal Navy’
King's College London
18:30
Wronged: the weaponization of victimhood
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek
Gresham College
Friday
Mar
7
09:00
Festival of Education
Queen Mary University of London
Monday
Mar
10
18:30
Epistemic pluralism and climate change
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Beyond the wheelchair: Transforming Paralympic sport
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Mar
11
13:00
The Link between ESG and financial performance
Birkbeck, University of London
Feline brains on fire: neuropsychiatric observations from the International Feline Encephalitis Study Group
King's College London
18:30
Rethinking good technology: feminism, AI and ethical futures
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Wednesday
Mar
12
18:00
Erased: a history of international thought
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
18:30
In conversation with Maurice Saatchi
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Banned Books and Freedom of Expression
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
13
18:30
Assisted dying - what should we think?
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
20:00
Just Ask The Axis: Jimi Hendrix Unpicked
Gresham College
Friday
Mar
14
18:30
The Bob Emergency, dir. Jon Bois (2019, 94 mins)
Birkbeck, University of London
Saturday
Mar
15
19:00
The modern world through mathematical models
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Mar
17
18:30
Social justice and health equity
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tuesday
Mar
18
13:00
Does Institutional Co-optation Encourage Popular Engagement with the Regime? Experimental Evidence from China
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
The mysterious art and science of doing good
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The Turbulent Brain: Rhythms and Waves
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
19
18:30
On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The Case for Basic Income
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
20
10:00
'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar/Live Event #5
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
The diffusion of soft technologies during and after WWII
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Friday
Mar
21
19:00
Wifi Wars Debug XVIV
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Mar
24
18:30
Rethinking John Rawls and justice
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tuesday
Mar
25
13:00
Industry Organization and Industrial Policy. Learning from a variety of experiences
Birkbeck, University of London
EMDR for FND
King's College London
18:30
Wealth in people
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
26
17:30
Atanas Ivanov: From Hobby to Research Field
Brunel University London
18:00
Gendered peace through international law
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
18:30
War crimes talk: does it help or hinder peace?
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
How Do Vaccines Work?
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
27
18:30
From menarche to menopause: how reproductive histories shape women's health
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Architecture of Enslavement, Colonialism and Independence: The Story of James Fort in Accra
Gresham College
Friday
Mar
28
19:20
Discourse: A mathematician's journey for social justice
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Mar
29
12:00
For Your Inspiration: Medical marvels
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Mar
31
18:00
How stars built our world
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
Agents of change? The challenges of understanding empowerment through international development
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tuesday
Apr
1
18:30
Global dignity and seeing others: political and environmental recognition compared
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Wednesday
Apr
2
18:00
Modern Druids
Gresham College
1940s lessons for modern macro models
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Thursday
Apr
3
18:00
2025 ICPR Annual Lecture: 'Reimagining the Courtroom'
Birkbeck, University of London
18:30
The ins and outs of sustainable supply chains
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
The LGBT+ Showstopper: ‘I Am What I Am’
Gresham College
Saturday
Apr
5
13:00
Climbing the rainforest: science from the treetops (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Climbing the rainforest: science from the treetops (evening)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Apr
7
18:00
Setting the body clock to the right time
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Apr
8
17:00
Science and snacks: Droplet mechanics
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
How Surveillance Works
Gresham College
Thursday
Apr
10
17:00
Science and snacks: Hormone evolution
The Royal Institution (Ri)
17:15
King’s Navy: Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and the Rise of American Sea Power, 1897-1947
King's College London
18:00
What Rights and Duties are Missing from the U.S. Constitution?
Gresham College
Friday
Apr
11
13:00
Messy science (Family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Apr
12
18:00
How to grow a house
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Apr
14
18:00
Moms on Mars
The Royal Institution (Ri)
The 2025 Annual Lord Mayor's Event
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
23
19:00
Asteroid Adventures
Gresham College
Thursday
Apr
24
17:15
Labour, Legend, and Living History: Clyde ‘puffers’, 1857-2024
King's College London
18:00
Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt?
Gresham College
Saturday
Apr
26
13:00
Let there be light! (Family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Why does light exist?
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Apr
29
18:00
Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture?
Gresham College
Thursday
May
1
19:00
From Thin Air: Minimalist and Process Music from Africa to Arvo Pärt
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
7
18:00
Do Computers Get Sick? How Humans and Computers Fight Viruses
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
13
18:00
The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
14
18:00
The 6th Biennial Dorothy Edgington Lectures and Graduate Workshop
Birkbeck, University of London
Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Gresham College
Friday
May
16
18:00
ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS
Birkbeck, University of London
Tuesday
May
20
08:30
Historicising the Image
Queen Mary University of London
14:00
Imagining Justice
Queen Mary University of London
18:00
The Moral Case for Stealing Data
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
21
08:30
Imagining Nature
Queen Mary University of London
14:00
Imagining Lives
Queen Mary University of London
Thursday
May
22
17:15
Reimagining the Bombay Grab: Fighting and trading across the Indian Ocean
King's College London
18:00
Taking the Constitution into the Classroom
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
28
19:00
A New Sky
Gresham College
Thursday
May
29
18:00
From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
2
18:00
Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
4
18:00
Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
5
18:00
Lawgivers in Modern Revolutions
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
9
18:00
The 2025 Gray's Inn Reading
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
10
18:00
Carbon Takeback: How We Will Stop Fossil Fuels from Causing Global Warming
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
11
18:00
The Future of Immunity
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
12
19:00
Illuminating the Dark Side of the Moon
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
16
18:00
Outsmart the System: How Psychology Hacks Your Money Decisions
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
17
18:00
The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
18
18:00
The 2025 Annual Provost's Lecture
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
23
19:00
Limitarianism and Capitalism
Gresham College
Thursday
Aug
14
09:00
Does the World Need a Government?
Birkbeck, University of London

Data is sourced from following institutions:

Imperial College LondonThe Royal Institution (Ri)Gresham CollegeKing's College LondonBrunel University LondonRoyal SocietyLondon School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)Birkbeck, University of LondonCity, University of LondonRoyal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and CommerceQueen Mary University of London