Exploring heat in the open space or reimagining the open space through the heat lens?
Free
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: Shreya Banerjee
London Talks
176 upcoming talks, debates, and seminars in London
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Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Indian Courts and the Political Question
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Dr Aditya Sondhi
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonWhen the ladder breaks: Resilience, identity, and the path to empowerment
FreeWednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Victoria Showunmi (Speaker); Professor Li Wei (Chair); Prof Gary McCulloch (Introduction); Associate Professor Anne-Sophie Godfroy (Respondent); Professor Stephen D. Hancock (Respondent); Professor Uvanney Maylor (Respondent); Dave Neita (Poet)
How "Woke" is EDI?
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:00
Portcullis House / Macmillan Room2026 Laddie Lecture: Trade Mark Law, AI, and Sustainability
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Martin Senftleben
Economics of climate
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Juliano Assunção, Robin Burgess, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Rohini Pande, José A. Scheinkman, Catherine Wolfram, Jonathan Pershing
Old Theatre, Old BuildingSmarter than the storm
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Amitabh Kant, Siddharth Sinha, Nicholas Stern (chair)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)A city for all: leading climate transformation in an era of disinformation
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Anne Hidalgo, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Kate Gallego
London School of Economics and Political ScienceScreening + Q&A: Blackmail
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Aengus Lynch, James Clayton, Effie Webb
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJHow the Cosmos Explains Life On Earth, with Christophe Galfard
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 19:30
Conway HallIndie Night: June
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 19:45
Purcell Room
Thursday, 25 June 2026
James Corcoran: Scholarly writing for publication in "the Americas": A critical, plurilingual orientation
Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: James Corcoran
TBCThe city as a democratic frontier in an 'authoritarian age'
Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Femke Halsema, Sheila R. Foster, Avner de Shalit, Ben Rogers
LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders
Friday, 26 June 2026
CENTRE FOR LAW AND THE HUMANITIES, COSTAS DOUZINAS: RIGHTS RESISTANCE CRITIQUE: A CONFERENCE CELEBRATING THE WORK OF COSTAS DOUZINAS. 26 AND 27 JUNE 2026
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 10:00
Speaker: Peter Goodrich, Gil Leung, Adam Gearey, Ozan Kamiloglou, Julia Chryssostalis, Patrick Hanafin, Cormac Deane, Ceylan Yildiz, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Marcus De Matos, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Illan Wall, Jaco Barnard-Naude, Can Oztas, Joanna Bourke, Elena Psyllakou, Dionysis Mitropoulos, Costas Douzinas
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet StreetNew Currents in World Literature
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 11:00
Speaker: Wen-chin Ouyang, Anandi Rao
SOAS Gallery and Online / BG012026 LONDON CRITICAL THEORY FRIDAY PUBLIC PANEL #1
FreeFriday, 26 June 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: Jacqueline Rose (Chair), Mark Nash, Isaac Julien, Esther Leslie, Christina Varvia, Eyal Weizman
Birkbeck Clore Management CentreWitnessing War: Theatre's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (4 years on)
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Olga Danylyuk, Kasia Lech, Amanda Stuart Fisher, Polina Polozhentseva, Molly Flynn
Birkbeck Central, Bloomsbury CampusGary Hume in conversation with Martin Gayford
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Gary Hume, Martin Gayford
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington GardensDiscourse: The speed of life
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Anjali Goswami
Royal Institution TheatreListening Session: Everything Is Political
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Busayo Twins, Nubia Assata, Niles 'Asheber' Hailstones
Barbican Centre, Art Gallery, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSEverything Is Political: What Is The Future of Panafrica?
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Busayo Twins, Nubia Assata
Art Gallery, Barbican Centre
Saturday, 27 June 2026
Stories of Panafrica
Saturday, 27 June 2026 at 12:00
Speaker: Usifu Jalloh, Nii Kwartey Owoo, Endurance Steel Orchestra, Mahogany Carnival Design, IRIE! dance theatre, Fikayo Adebajo, Anthony Kalume, Keith Shiri, Stella B, Viva Msimang
Barbican Centre, Conservatory Terrace and Conservatory Well, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSCounterpoints Lecture with Elif Shafak
Saturday, 27 June 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: Elif Shafak
Queen Elizabeth HallMore info for Counterpoints Lecture with Elif Shafak
Saturday, 27 June 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: More info for Counterpoints Lecture with Elif Shafak
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday, 28 June 2026
Arab Film Club: An Afternoon of Shorts and Q&A
Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 15:00
Purcell RoomMore info for Arab Film Club: An Afternoon of Shorts and Q&A
Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 15:00
Speaker: More info for Arab Film Club: An Afternoon of Shorts and Q&A
Purcell RoomStage, Screen & Social Change with Compass Collective
Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Benedict Cumberbatch, David Harewood, Indira Varma, Juliet Stevenson, Toby Jones
Barbican Cinema 1, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSStage, Screen & Social Change with Compass Collective
Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 18:00
Monday, 29 June 2026
The human in the loop: relay literary translation and minoritised languages in the AI era
Monday, 29 June 2026 at 11:00
Speaker: Dr Darryl Sterk
SOAS Main Building, Room KLTFor the record: The physics of sound and music
Monday, 29 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Philip Ball, Helen Czerski, Trent Burton
Royal Institution TheatreBook Talk: Mother Tongue Tied: On Language, Motherhood & Multilingualism by Malwina Gudowska in conversation with Louise Rolland
Monday, 29 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Malwina Gudowska, Dr Louise Rolland
TBCPanel discussion: The Murderous Business of Energy
Monday, 29 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Alex Perry
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
King's Population Health Institute Vanguard Series: In Conversation with Professor Sir Sam Everington
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Professor Sir Sam Everington MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister, OBE, FRCGP
New Hunt's House Lecture Theatre 2, Guy's Campus, LondonLondon Book Launch: 'Another Sun' by Françoise Vergès and Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Françoise Vergès, Kevin Ochieng Okoth
Birkbeck Clore Management CentreAI and the Law: Kelsey Farish on AI's Legal Hotspots in the Screen Sector Media
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Kelsey Farish
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, CinemaSummer Science Exhibition Lates
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:00
The Royal Society'Compliments to the Chef'
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:00
Guildhall LibraryArtificial Intelligence and the Screen Sector: what does the law say?
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Kelsey Farish
Birkbeck, 43 Gordon SquareTalk: What does a black hole really look like?
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:20
Speaker: Dr Rahul Kumar Walia
Theatre 2, Royal SocietyPeople without history are dust: queer desire and the Holocaust
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Anna Hájková
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet StreetPanel: The World, the Universe and Us live: can science win the World Cup?
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:45
Speaker: Rowan Hooper, Dr Leonardo Bonetti, Dr Ian Graham, Dr Charlotte Cowie
Theatre 1, Royal SocietyIn conversation: The future we want
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 19:10
Speaker: Madhumita Murgia, Professor Alison Noble CBE FRS, Juliet Riddell
Theatre 2, Royal SocietyPanel: The Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026 shortlist celebration
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 20:20
Speaker: Alison Flood
Theatre 2, Royal SocietyPanel: The Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026 shortlist reveal
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 20:20
Speaker: Alison Flood, judging panel members
Theatre 2, The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Talk: The mystery of space fossils
FreeWednesday, 1 July 2026 at 10:30
Speaker: Dr Cyrielle Opitom
Theatre 2, Royal SocietyTalk: The invisible majority - how microbes rule the Earth
FreeWednesday, 1 July 2026 at 11:00
Speaker: Professor Mark Webber
Theatre 2, Royal SocietyTalk: Can you get music on the Moon?
FreeWednesday, 1 July 2026 at 11:30
Speaker: Dr Sheila Kanani MBE
Theatre 2, The Royal SocietyTalk: Can climate change drive infectious diseases?
FreeWednesday, 1 July 2026 at 12:00
Speaker: Dr Rory Gibb
Theatre 1 at the Royal SocietyPanel: Can emerging science beat cancer?
FreeWednesday, 1 July 2026 at 12:50
Speaker: Tulip Mazumdar (Chair), Professor Kenneth Long, Professor Pat Price, Professor Nguyen T K Thanh, Professor Martin Forster
Theatre 2, The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, United KingdomBook Conversations: 'How to Research like a Dog: Kafka's New Science' by Aaron Schuster
FreeWednesday, 1 July 2026 at 16:00
Speaker: Aaron Schuster, Heike Bauer, Maria Aristodemou, Elena Loizidou
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre