Extraordinary chemical experiments which shaped today's world
Saturday, 10 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Andrew Szydlo
Royal Institution
London Talks
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Saturday, 10 October 2026
Monday, 12 October 2026
Immunology of the exposome
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 09:00
The Royal SocietyCANCELLED: Black British History: The Journey to Windrush
FreeMonday, 12 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryBlack British History: The Journey to Windrush
FreeMonday, 12 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryDriving climate resilience with data and AI
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: Parag Khanna, Shefali Khanna, Jonathan Pershing
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)The Enigma of Village Brawls in Southeastern China
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 17:00
TBCA new hypothesis about the resilience of the bilingual mind
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 18:00
Sustainable post-crisis development: the need for a human rights approach
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Agnès Callamard, Stuart Gordon
London School of EconomicsCan Europe Survive? And if so, How?
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Professor Garton Ash
Bush House, Strand Campus, London
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
From Perception to Physiology: How Attention Shapes Acute Immune Responses
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: From Perception to Physiology: How Attention Shapes Acute Immune Responses
The People's Emperor:The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III
FreeTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryAnti-social Business Models
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 17:00
Shaping the future: Europe's quest for technological leadership
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 17:15
Speaker: Philippe Aghion, Tim Besley, Daniel Chandler, Sara Hobolt, Larry Kramer
London School of EconomicsBook talk: 'Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System'
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 17:30
Main Building, SOAS / R101The Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be?
FreeTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Robin May, Steve Allen
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornThe architecture of entrapment: From climate-induced (im)mobility to lawfare
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30
Solving homelessness through partnership: philanthropy, finance, and social entrepreneurship
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Sarah Hopley, Jonathan Roberts, Lígia Teixeira
Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku BuildingInside the World of The Beatles, with Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon & Tom Holland
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon, Tom Holland
Conway Hall, Main HallBook talk: Twelve Days that Shook the Middle East
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Marwan Bishara, Stephen Sackur
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Delivering affordable rural homes: bridging research & practice
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 09:30
The SPRC Lunchtime Seminar Series | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 12:45
Memory under Conditions of Mass Destruction: Reflections from Gaza | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 12:45
Stolen! Theft in the archive: exhibition launch and lecture
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Jo Ellen Jacobs, Helen McCabe, Michael Schefczyk, Christoph Schmidt-Petri
LSE Library, Lionel Robbins Building, London School of Economics and Political ScienceCollections Focus: Crime Broadsides
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Guildhall LibraryCourts and Constitutions: Judicial Review 250 Years After Independence
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Prof David Feldman and Denis Edwards
UCL Laws‘Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum ...
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeRather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Kate Hill
Barnard's Inn HallThe Language of Crowds: Public Assembly and Embodied Force in India
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Dr Ajay Gandhi
Bush House, Strand Campus, LondonFrancis Crick Prize Lecture: Pathogens and the power of evolution
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:30
The Royal SocietyWeaponising dependency - the new world order
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Rory Stewart
London School of Economics and Political ScienceAn Evening with Nick Park
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Nick Park
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSCan We Reclaim Childhood from Big Tech?: Beeban Kidron & Sandi Toksvig
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Beeban Kidron, Sandi Toksvig
Conway HallPanel discussion: Do Russians support the war in Ukraine?
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: James Rodgers, Jana Bakunina, Åsne Seierstad, Howard Amos
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJBasic Forms: Reimagining Public Space
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Päivi Raivio, Tim Gill
'Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure': Sara Nadal-Melsió in conversation with Esther Leslie
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: 'Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure': Sara Nadal-Melsió in conversation with Esther Leslie
14 October 202619:00—20:30
Thursday, 15 October 2026
The Turner Prize
FreeThursday, 15 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryA History of the World in Four Algorithms
FreeThursday, 15 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Sarah Hart
Binks Hall, St John's College DurhamCan 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 0EGGenerative AI, Agency, and the Imperative of Virtuosity: A Buddhist Perspective
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
TBCPrivacy and Deepfakes
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
Where ideas begin: finding inspiration
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:30
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington GardensBook 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 18:45
Speaker: Lord Peter Ricketts
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonTransmission 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 FloorIconic Women of the Hayward Gallery
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:45
Purcell RoomLeslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Corrêa do Lago, Antonio Patriota
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonInaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse?
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 21:30
Speaker: Inaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse?
Friday, 16 October 2026
Developmental Neurosciences Department Seminar Series - 16th Oct 2026
FreeFriday, 16 October 2026 at 15:00
Speaker: Dr Antonio Spagarino, Aswin Chari
Online via ZoomDiscourse: CERN - the past, present and future
Friday, 16 October 2026 at 18:20
Speaker: Mark Thomson
Royal Institution Theatre, LondonNussaibah Younis: Fundamentally
Friday, 16 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Nussaibah Younis, Pandora Sykes
Purcell RoomIn Conversation with Mariusz Szczygieł
Friday, 16 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Professor Stanley Bil
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ