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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.

Monday
Aug
10
09:00
Holiday workshops: A Question of Taste (Year 12 & 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
10:00
Holiday workshops: Digital Designs to Physical Products (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: STIXX shelters (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: STIXX shelters (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshop: Digital Designs to Physical Products (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Aug
11
10:00
Holiday workshop: Bacterial evolution (Year 10 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Intro to coding for girls (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Smart Cities Lab (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Intro to coding (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Aug
12
10:00
Holiday workshops: What are the odds? (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Around the world in 8000 seconds (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshop: Forensics (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
12:00
ARK Special Seminar - Translational Longevity
King's College London
13:15
Holiday workshops: How things get carried away (Year 10 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Around the world in 8000 seconds (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Aug
13
09:30
Holiday workshops: Kitchen Lab (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
10:00
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Crash testing (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
12:00
Holiday workshops: Kitchen Lab (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Aug
14
10:00
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Speak like a scientist (Year 10 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Architecture for plants (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Architecture for plants (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Aug
17
10:00
Holiday workshops: Introduction to robotics week (Year 11 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Maths and Medicine (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Electrical & electronic control (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Maths and Medicine (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Electrical and electronic control (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Aug
18
10:00
Holiday workshops: Advanced STIXX Shelters (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Advanced STIXX Shelters (Year 10 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Aug
19
10:00
Holiday workshops: Intro to space science (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Paper Folding and Problem Solving (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: To the Fourth Dimension and Beyond (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Aug
20
10:00
Holiday workshops: Magnetronics - Cracking the Code (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Introduction to evolution (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Magnetronics - Cracking the Code (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Introduction to evolution (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Aug
21
10:00
Holiday workshops: Micro:bits - Sensing the Body through AI (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Magnets and motors (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: The Great Malteser Heist (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Micro:bits - Sensing the Body through AI (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: The Great Malteser Heist (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Aug
24
10:00
Holiday workshops: Skateboards to starships (Year 10 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Invention and Design (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Magic of Computer Science (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Invention and Design (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Magic of Computer Science (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Aug
25
10:00
Holiday workshops: Colour chemistry (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Mathematical murders and mysteries (Year 10 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Engineering and Machines (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Skateboards to starships (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Engineering and Machines (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Aug
26
10:00
Holiday workshops: Where maths meets maps (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Codes and ciphers (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshop: Colour Chemistry (Year 10 - 13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: LEGO Mindstorm (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Maths, maps, and adventures (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Codes and ciphers (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
Masterclass: Conversation with Stanley Kwan
King's College London
Thursday
Aug
27
10:00
Holiday workshops: Polygons, Flexagons and Topology (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: How to Win at Game Shows (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Lego Mindstorms (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshop: Forensics (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: From Fair Games to Fractals (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: How to Win at Game Shows (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
15:30
Mathematical Colloquium: Weierstrass Bridges by Alexander Schied
King's College London
Friday
Aug
28
10:00
Holiday workshops: Exploring the Solar System (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Playing with proof (Year 10 -13)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Patterns and predictions (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshop: Extract your own DNA (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:00
Holiday workshop: Extract your own DNA (Year 5 and 6)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Exploring the Solar System (Year 3 and 4)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Measuring the Earth (Year 7 - 9)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Sept
3
13:00
Phi-ML meets Engineering - Physics-informed discovery of non-smooth dynamical systems from trajectory data
The Alan Turing Institute
Monday
Sept
7
18:00
An introduction to quantum theory 2026 (short course)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
The ecosystem of life underground
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Why Do We Need Empathy?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Sept
9
18:00
Cello - In Search of a Voice
Gresham College
Saturday
Sept
12
18:00
The science of Star Trek
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Sept
14
18:00
JBS Haldane Lecture 2026: Genetic discoveries illuminating justice
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky
Gresham College
Tuesday
Sept
15
18:00
Cracking the Whip: Strings, Chains and Dinosaurs
Gresham College
Wednesday
Sept
16
10:00
International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 2026
The Alan Turing Institute
18:00
Is the HIV Pandemic Over?
Gresham College
Thursday
Sept
17
18:00
The Myth and Promise of the U.K. Jury Trial
Gresham College
Saturday
Sept
19
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)
Monday
Sept
21
09:00
Royal Institution Youth Summit 2026
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Sept
22
18:00
The Future of Creativity
Gresham College
Wednesday
Sept
23
19:00
Cosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe
Gresham College
Thursday
Sept
24
10:00
Decarbonisation of Industrial Baking and Cooking
Brunel University London
18:00
Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World
Gresham College
Friday
Sept
25
11:00
Festival of Astronomical Ideas
Gresham College
15:00
Class of 2016/17 Reunion
Queen Mary University of London
18:20
Discourse: Physics and philosophy: On the equality of all things
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Sept
26
18:00
The story of birds: From the Jurassic to today
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Sept
28
18:00
Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Sept
29
17:00
Why is cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death in the world?
Queen Mary University of London
18:00
AI as Therapist? Intimacy Without Understanding
Gresham College
Wednesday
Sept
30
13:00
Women of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
1
18:00
Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language
Gresham College
Saturday
Oct
3
14:00
Prism break (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Supercharged: The future of energy materials
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
5
13:00
What is the Purpose of Yoga: Transcendence or Transformation?
Gresham College
18:00
Art cure: The science of how the arts transform our health
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Oct
6
18:00
The Life Scientific
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Our Sovereign Soil
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
7
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
Friday
Oct
9
18:00
WiFi Wars Debug XXII
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Oct
10
18:00
Extraordinary chemical experiments which shaped today’s world
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Oct
13
18:00
The Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be?
Gresham College
19:00
Writers Talking: Sarah Perry
Brunel University London
Wednesday
Oct
14
18:00
Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History
Gresham College
18:30
Francis Crick Prize Lecture: Pathogens and the power of evolution
Royal Society
Thursday
Oct
15
17:30
A History of the World in Four Algorithms
Gresham College
Friday
Oct
16
18:20
Discourse: CERN - the past, present and future
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Oct
17
18:00
The ancient cosmos: The James Webb Space Telescope's new revelations
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
19
18:00
Centre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture
King's College London
The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present
Gresham College
Tuesday
Oct
20
18:00
The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
21
18:00
Why Is There Music?
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
22
18:00
Plato on Truth, Lies and Power
Gresham College
Saturday
Oct
24
10:00
Family Fun Day: Spooky science
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
An Evening of Unnecessary Detail
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
26
19:00
An introduction to particle physics 2026 (short course)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Global fusion developments: The race for power
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Oct
27
19:00
Writers Talking: Jamila Gavin
Brunel University London
Rethinking Deterrence for a Disrupted World
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
28
19:00
Around the World with Indian Cinema
Gresham College
Friday
Oct
30
19:20
Discourse: How to get a molecule to obey you
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Oct
31
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
19:00
The Einstein Telescope: Discovery and diplomacy
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Nov
3
18:30
Croonian Prize Lecture delivered by Dr David Baker
Royal Society
19:00
What History is NOT
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
4
16:00
Daniell Lecture 2026: Polymer colloids rock!
King's College London
19:00
Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz
Gresham College
Thursday
Nov
5
19:00
Guantanamo on the Euphrates: What Next for Detainees in Syria?
Gresham College
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
19:00
Writers Talking: Benjamin Wood
Brunel University London
Tuesday
Nov
10
14:00
“A Mystery Still”: Historical (Trans) Gender Variance and James “Miranda” Barry
Gresham College
19:00
Building with Magnets: The Mathematics of Repulsion and Attraction
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
11
20:00
Our Sun, Our Star
Gresham College
Thursday
Nov
12
14:00
How Did Our Garden Grow? The History of Hatton Gardens
Gresham College
18:30
Milner Prize Lecture delivered by Professor Johan Håstad
Royal Society
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
19:00
The new normal: how weather whiplash is shaping our lives
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Nov
18
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
Thursday
Nov
19
19:00
Life, Death and Bubbles: The Story of Earth’s Nitrogen
Gresham College
Saturday
Nov
21
19:00
The future of AI is tiny and physical
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Nov
24
19:00
Sixteenth-Century London Dialect: How Londoners Spoke in Sir Thomas Gresham’s Time
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
25
18:00
Inaugural Lecture with Professor Sylvie Delacroix
King's College London
19:00
Musical Myths and Miracles
Gresham College
Thursday
Nov
26
18:30
The Life Cycle of a Holiday
Gresham College
Monday
Nov
30
19:00
The Romantic History of Copyright
Gresham College
Tuesday
Dec
1
19:00
AI as Muse? Creativity, Provocation and Human Ownership
Gresham College
Wednesday
Dec
2
19:00
Writers Talking: Brunel’s Big Read with Claire Lynch.
Brunel University London
Thursday
Dec
3
19:00
Can We Have a World Without Pain?
Gresham College
Monday
Dec
7
19:00
Offence and the Future of Courtesy
Gresham College
Tuesday
Dec
8
19:00
Shakespeare Now: Creativity and Controversy
Gresham College
Wednesday
Dec
9
17:00
Intercalated degrees Q&A Online Session (9 December)
Queen Mary University of London
19:00
How to See the World As a Child Sees It
Gresham College
Monday
Dec
14
18:30
The Future of Medicine
Gresham College
Wednesday
Dec
16
19:00
The Maths of Christmas
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jan
5
17:00
Intercalated degrees Q&A Online Session (5 January)
Queen Mary University of London
Friday
Jan
8
08:00
Intercalated degrees science fair (online)
Queen Mary University of London
Wednesday
Jan
13
19:00
Can Weight-Loss Medicines Cure Obesity?
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
14
14:00
Can You Be Your Own Therapist?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jan
19
19:00
Play it Again Ludwig: Waves, Strings, and the Stradivarius
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
20
19:00
Do Machines Make Music?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jan
26
19:00
The Internet and the First Fight for Free Culture
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
27
20:00
The Chaotic Solar System
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
28
19:00
Dance of the Droplets: Earth’s Freshwater Carousel and How It Is Changing
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
2
19:00
AI as Companion? From Digital Pets to Simulated Empathy
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
4
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
19:00
Big Little Lives: Recovering the Histories of Everyone Else
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
16
19:00
Journalism as a Public Good
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
18
19:00
Language Revitalisation and the (In)Visibility of Indigenous Languages
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
23
19:00
How Urgently Do We Need New Antibiotics?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Mar
2
19:00
AI as a Jeeves? The Dream of Seamless Help
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
3
20:00
Cloudy, with a Chance of Orange Rain
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
4
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
19:00
What Is Talent? Nature, Nurture, and the Myth of the Muse
Gresham College
Tuesday
Mar
16
19:00
AI and the Second Fight for Free Culture
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
17
14:00
Going to the Playhouse with Shakespeare
Gresham College
19:00
The Practices and Politics of Film Subtitles
Gresham College
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
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
Tuesday
Apr
27
18:00
A Balancing Act: Dice, Dominos, Turtles and the Gömböc
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
28
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
18:00
Archives, Cultural Heritage and Film History in the Digital Age
Gresham College
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

Data is sourced from following institutions:

The Alan Turing InstituteThe Royal Institution (Ri)King's College LondonGresham CollegeBrunel University LondonQueen Mary University of LondonRoyal Society