The stories of literature in language teaching: Research and teaching tensions
Free
Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Amos Paran
UCL Institute of Education
London Talks
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Wednesday, 23 September 2026
The road to COP32: setting the African agenda for climate action
Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Amal-Lee Amin, Oriana Bandiera, Auguste Tano Kouamé, Vera Songwe, Nicholas Stern (Chair)
London School of EconomicsPanel discussion: The Age of AI-assisted Conflict
Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Nabih Bulos, William Christou
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJCosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe
FreeWednesday, 23 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Professor Chris Lintott
Conway Hall, Holborn
Thursday, 24 September 2026
In-Person Only: History and Treasures of Guildhall Library
FreeThursday, 24 September 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryIdeas of Exile, Refugees and Displacement in the Ancient and Modern Mediterranean
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 15:00
Speaker: Ideas of Exile, Refugees and Displacement in the Ancient and Modern Mediterranean
24 September 2026, 14:00to25 September 2026, 13:15Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World
FreeThursday, 24 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Helen Czerski
Barnard's Inn HallPreserving women's publishing histories: editing women in the archives
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Dr Madeline Clements, Ayesha Kurim, Sulema Jahangir
LSE Library, Lionel Robbins Building, London School of Economics and Political ScienceInnovation and energy for a sustainable future
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Praveer Sinha, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen
London School of EconomicsSPIRALS (Stanford Psychological Impact, Risk, And LLM Safety)
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Jared Moore
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), Denmark Hill Campus, LondonCarlo Rovelli: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Carlo Rovelli
Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, London, N1 2UNCarlo Rovelli: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Carlo Rovelli
Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, London, N1 2UNOmar El Akkad in Conversation
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Omar El Akkad
Queen Elizabeth HallThe Age of Change
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Jeremy Hunt, Dr. Angela Spatharou
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AGThe Age of Change
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Jeremy Hunt, Dr. Angela Spatharou
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AGShipping on the Road to Net Zero: Lessons from Maritime History
FreeThursday, 24 September 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Stig Tenold
King's Building, Strand Campus, London
Friday, 25 September 2026
Festival of Astronomical Ideas
FreeFriday, 25 September 2026 at 11:00
Gresham CollegeDiscourse: Physics and philosophy: On the equality of all things
Friday, 25 September 2026 at 18:20
Speaker: Carlo Rovelli
Royal Institution Theatre, LondonPandora's Box: The Living Archive of Feminist Moving Image Culture, with a screening of The Long Road to the Director's Chair (Vibeke Løkkeberg, 2025)
Friday, 25 September 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Pandora's Box: The Living Archive of Feminist Moving Image Culture, with a screening of The Long Road to the Director's Chair (Vibeke Løkkeberg, 2025)
25 September 202618:30—20:30
Saturday, 26 September 2026
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Crack and the Boom
Saturday, 26 September 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
The story of birds: From the Jurassic to today
Saturday, 26 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Steve Brusatte
Royal InstitutionCuteCircuit: Talk and Demo
Saturday, 26 September 2026 at 18:30
Tate Modern
Sunday, 27 September 2026
Monday, 28 September 2026
Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History?
FreeMonday, 28 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Dr Anna Hájková
Barnard's Inn Hall'Unmanned and Unconventional - Chinese Maritime Strategy in the First Island Chain' with Dr Benjamin Blandin
Monday, 28 September 2026 at 18:15
Speaker: 'Unmanned and Unconventional - Chinese Maritime Strategy in the First Island Chain' with Dr Benjamin Blandin
The Hayekian case for wage flexibility in an AI economy
Monday, 28 September 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Jason Potts
Online public eventEclipsing the West? China's tech titans and the new global power shift
Monday, 28 September 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Vince Cable, Rebecca Fannin, Richard Davies (chair)
In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)International Assistance and the End of the War: Ukrainian Perspectives
Monday, 28 September 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Mikhail Alexseev
Bush House North East Wing, Room 1.03, Strand Campus, LondonPanel discussion: China's Global Strategy Under Xi Jinping
Monday, 28 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Dr Olivia Cheung, Steve Tsang, David Lubin
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
In-Person Only - Collection Focus: Advertising and Broadsides
FreeTuesday, 29 September 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryAI as Therapist? Intimacy Without Understanding
FreeTuesday, 29 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Matt Jones
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornIn Conversation with Alberto Musalem, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Tuesday, 29 September 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Alberto Musalem, Ricardo Reis
London School of EconomicsWhat’s in a Name? Lorca, Cinema, and the Allure of Personality
Tuesday, 29 September 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: What’s in a Name? Lorca, Cinema, and the Allure of Personality
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Psychosocial Postgraduate Student Conference
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Psychosocial Postgraduate Student Conference
30 September 202612:00—17:00Women of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature
FreeWednesday, 30 September 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Professor Marion Turner
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornDigital Intimacy: Young Women, Gendered Modernities and Aspirations in Inter-Asia
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 17:15
SOAS, University of London / Wolfson Lecture TheatreA lecture by François Villeroy de Galhau
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: François Villeroy de Galhau
LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholdersDo social media platforms make people happier?
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Cass R Sunstein
London School of EconomicsScreening + Q&A: Palestine 36
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Billy Howle, Leila Molana-Allen
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Ancient Korean Culture & Architecture
Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 12:00
Speaker: You Hong-june, Director of the National Museum of Korea.
Senate House, SOAS University of London / Senate Chamber (S219)Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language
FreeThursday, 1 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín
Barnard's Inn HallAmerica as a revisionist power (and what it means for the rest of the world)
Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Phillips O'Brien, Peter Trubowitz
London School of Economics (LSE)Book Talk: 'Asian Crucible: Globalisation, Geopolitics and the Contest for the Future' with Prof Nick Bisley
Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 19:15
Speaker: Book Talk: 'Asian Crucible: Globalisation, Geopolitics and the Contest for the Future' with Prof Nick Bisley
Friday, 2 October 2026
Drop in and draw
FreeFriday, 2 October 2026 at 18:00
The John Madejski Fine Rooms | Burlington HouseWitnessing War: Theatre's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (4 years on)
Friday, 2 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Witnessing War: Theatre's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (4 years on)
2 October 202618:00—20:00
Saturday, 3 October 2026
Vikki Heywood & Francis Spufford: Hidden London
Saturday, 3 October 2026 at 15:00
Speaker: Vikki Heywood, Francis Spufford
Purcell RoomSupercharged: The future of energy materials
Saturday, 3 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Saiful Islam
Royal Institution Theatre, LondonEmily St John Mandel: Exit Party
Saturday, 3 October 2026 at 19:45
Speaker: Emily St John Mandel
Purcell Room