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Thursday, 15 October 2026

The Turner Prize
Free
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall Library
Art History
Leslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Corrêa do Lago, Antonio Patriota
King's Building, Strand Campus, London
History Geography
A History of the World in Four Algorithms
Free
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Sarah Hart
Binks Hall, St John's College Durham
Mathematics History Computing & AI
Book Talk: 'Peace Makers: Shaping the modern world - the men and women of the Foreign Office in WWII' by Lord Peter Ricketts
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Lord Peter Ricketts
King's Building, Strand Campus, London
History Politics Military & War
Can We Learn to Be Human Again? Rescuing the Human from the Colonial Machine through Legal Education
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Nicole Moreham
UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG
Law & Justice Education Philosophy
Designing for parental wellbeing: a new way to conceptualise wellbeing in our cities
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Georgina Blix, Cristina Garriga, Filippo Lodi, Almudena Sevilla, Katie Beck
MAR.2.04, Marshall Building
Architecture Medicine & Health Psychology
Generative AI, Agency, and the Imperative of Virtuosity: A Buddhist Perspective
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
TBC
Philosophy Computing & AI Religion
Privacy and Deepfakes
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
Law & Justice Computing & AI Human Rights
The republic of innovation: a new political economy of freedom
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Andrea Lorenzo Capussela, David Soskice, Leila Simona Talani, Valentino Larcinese
London School of Economics
Economics Politics Philosophy
Where ideas begin: finding inspiration
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:30
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens
Art Philosophy Psychology
Transmission as a Creative Act: Pluriversalizing contemporary art’s relationship/s to the past
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS and Online / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Lower Ground Floor
Art History Anthropology
Inaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse?
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Inaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse?
Music Philosophy
Iconic Women of the Hayward Gallery
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:45
Purcell Room
Art History Sex & Gender

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Sunday, 18 October 2026

Creating Beyond the Mainstream
Sunday, 18 October 2026 at 15:00
Speaker: Courttia Newland
Brockway Room, Conway Hall (Virtual event also available)
Literature Art Activism

London Talks

Thursday, 15 October 2026

The Turner Prize

Leslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil

A History of the World in Four Algorithms

Book Talk: 'Peace Makers: Shaping the modern world - the men and women of the Foreign Office in WWII' by Lord Peter Ricketts

Can We Learn to Be Human Again? Rescuing the Human from the Colonial Machine through Legal Education

Designing for parental wellbeing: a new way to conceptualise wellbeing in our cities

Generative AI, Agency, and the Imperative of Virtuosity: A Buddhist Perspective

Privacy and Deepfakes

The republic of innovation: a new political economy of freedom

Where ideas begin: finding inspiration

Transmission as a Creative Act: Pluriversalizing contemporary art’s relationship/s to the past

Inaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse?

Iconic Women of the Hayward Gallery

Friday, 16 October 2026

Developmental Neurosciences Department Seminar Series - 16th Oct 2026

Local Voices, Living Words: exhibition launch, talk and guided tours

Discourse: CERN - the past, present and future

In Conversation with Mariusz Szczygieł

The Architecture of Lies – Panel Discussion

Nussaibah Younis: Fundamentally

Saturday, 17 October 2026

A coffee with Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie

Show and Share: Avant-Garde Ambassadors

Personal Statement Workshop

The ancient cosmos: The James Webb Space Telescope's new revelations

Ari Emanuel: An Evening with the Dealmaker Who Reshaped Hollywood

Sunday, 18 October 2026

Creating Beyond the Mainstream

Monday, 19 October 2026

Why Europe Needs to Take Back the Diversity Principle: From Humboldt and Mill to America's Diversity

Chinese Business in the UK: What’s Changing?

The Good Russian: In Search of a Nation's Soul

'Governor, Traveller, Scholar, Spy': Sir Cecil Clementi and the making of 'modern' Hong Kong

The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present (Symposium)

The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present

Did Neanderthals hum? The musicality of early humans

Centre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture

Reforming the British royal family: how the House of Windsor can survive the 21st century

From crisis to stability to what? Greece in a fragmenting world

The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove

Religion, Science, and Truth: where does Yoga fit within a context of contested and competing epistemes?

The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove

China Week Opening Keynote & Reception - BRICS, the G20 and China

Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Book Talk: 'We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West' with Dr Hanna Notte

Itinerant Sailors and Displaced Ayahs - The West India Docks During Wartime

The Purpose of Parahistory in Postsocialist Vietnam

The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights

EU Environmental Law at 50 – Legacy and Lessons for the UK

Can multilateralism survive the planetary crises?

The good, the black and the boujee: how black Britain became middle class

Russian active measures under Putin: how should Europe respond?

Book Launch "Demographic Anxieties" (Gala Rexer) | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London

Magic Beyond the Supernatural in Contemporary Art

The Battle for the Arctic and the New World Order, with Rana Foroohar and Gillian Tett