Arab Film Club: An Afternoon of Shorts and Q&A
Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 15:00
Purcell Room
London Talks
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Sunday, 28 June 2026
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 CentreSummer 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 SquareAI 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, CinemaTalk: 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 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 ScienceFinding 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
OnlineLaw 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 StreetListening 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 GardensAn Evening with David Sedaris
Tuesday, 7 July 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: David Sedaris
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
Four dimensions of presidential leadership in South Africa: From Mandela to Ramaphosa
Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 12:00
SOAS, University of London / B204 (second floor, SOAS Gallery Building)Frida: The Making of an Icon: Exhibition Talk
Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 13:00
Tate ModernChristopher Wren & the City Churches
FreeWednesday, 8 July 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryWhose AI Is It Anyway? Data, Sovereignty, and the Geopolitics of Intelligence
Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 18:30
Can we be rich again? The extraordinary potential of Britain's economy
Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Jeremy Hunt
London School of EconomicsPanel discussion: How Gaza Changes Everything
Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Antony Loewenstein, Leila Molana-Allen
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJAnish Kapoor in Conversation with Darian Leader
Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Anish Kapoor, Darian Leader
Queen Elizabeth Hall