2026 LONDON CRITICAL THEORY FRIDAY PUBLIC PANEL #1
Free
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: Jacqueline Rose (Chair), Mark Nash, Isaac Julien, Esther Leslie, Christina Varvia, Eyal Weizman
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
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Friday, 26 June 2026
Witnessing 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 TheatreEverything Is Political: What Is The Future of Panafrica?
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Busayo Twins, Nubia Assata
Art Gallery, Barbican CentreListening 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 8DS
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 Hall
Sunday, 28 June 2026
Arab Film Club: An Afternoon of Shorts and Q&A
Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 15:00
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 8DS
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 KLTBook 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
TBCFor the record: The physics of sound and music
Monday, 29 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Philip Ball, Helen Czerski, Trent Burton
Royal Institution TheatrePanel 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 CentreSummer Science Exhibition Lates
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:00
The Royal SocietyAI 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, CinemaArtificial Intelligence and the Screen Sector: what does the law say?
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Kelsey Farish
Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square'Compliments to the Chef'
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:00
Guildhall LibraryTalk: 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 reveal
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 20:20
Speaker: Alison Flood, judging panel members
Theatre 2, The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, United KingdomPanel: The Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026 shortlist celebration
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 20:20
Speaker: Alison Flood
Theatre 2, Royal Society
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 KingdomExhibition Talk: Tracey Emin: A Second Life
Wednesday, 1 July 2026 at 13:00
Tate ModernBook 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 CentreDave Eggers: Contrapposto
Wednesday, 1 July 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Dave Eggers, Nick Hornby
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday, 2 July 2026
Thames Tradesmen
FreeThursday, 2 July 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryProfessor Rosa Hoekstra - Inaugural Lecture
Thursday, 2 July 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Rosa Hoekstra
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), Denmark Hill Campus, LondonUncovering the Epstein Story
Thursday, 2 July 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Amy Wallace, Emily Maitlis
Conway Hall, Main Hall
Friday, 3 July 2026
Duncan Grant: life, loves and friendships
Friday, 3 July 2026 at 12:30
Tate Britain2026 LONDON CRITICAL THEORY FRIDAY PUBLIC PANEL #2
FreeFriday, 3 July 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: Esther Leslie (chair), Françoise Vergès, Costas Douzinas, Stephen Frosh, Kojo Koram, Jacqueline Rose
Birkbeck Clore Management CentreCynthia Cockburn and women building bridges
Friday, 3 July 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Joanna Lewis
LSE Library, Lionel Robbins Building, London School of Economics and Political ScienceLaw on Trial 2026: AI and the Future of the University - Panel Evening
FreeFriday, 3 July 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Fred Cowell, Rob Farrow, Chris Newfield, Savva Pistolas, Amanda Wilson
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet StreetFinding Employment in Professions related to Language(s) and Linguistics
Friday, 3 July 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Baldeep Hothi, Raisa McNab, Dr Russell Aldersson, City Lit panel on teaching modern languages and linguistics, Rob Playfair, Emmanouela Tsepi
OnlineListening Session: Generation(s) of Panafrica
Friday, 3 July 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Nate Agbetu, Dr Toyin Agbetu
Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Monday, 6 July 2026
In-Person Only: Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers - Valuation Day
FreeMonday, 6 July 2026 at 10:00
Guildhall LibraryInvisible Rainbows: The hidden physics of light
Monday, 6 July 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Alfredo Carpineti
Book talk: Vasily Grossman, From the Front Line
Monday, 6 July 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Robert Chandler, Luke Harding, Julian Evans
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Borders, Havens and Digital Spaces for Resistance: Black feminist lives in autoethnographic research
Tuesday, 7 July 2026 at 10:00
Speaker: Professor Geniece Crawford Mondé, Professor Ebonie Cunningham Stringer, Dr Jan Etienne
Bloomsbury, Birkbeck University of London, UKAgainst Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Diverse Intelligences
Tuesday, 7 July 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Michael Levin
Seminar Room 10, IoPPN Main Building and OnlineIn-Person Only: Collections Focus - From Parliamentary Crisis to Civil War
FreeTuesday, 7 July 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryRyan Gander in conversation
Tuesday, 7 July 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Ryan Gander, Kate Bryan
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens