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Monday, 19 October 2026

The Good Russian: In Search of a Nation's Soul
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Jana Bakunina
Bush House North East Wing, Room 1.03, Strand Campus, London
Literature Politics Anthropology
'Governor, Traveller, Scholar, Spy': Sir Cecil Clementi and the making of 'modern' Hong Kong
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 17:00
TBC
History Geography Politics
The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present
Free
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Melissa Lane, Quentin Skinner, Jane Shaw
Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn
Philosophy History Language
The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present (Symposium)
Free
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham College
Philosophy History Language
Did Neanderthals hum? The musicality of early humans
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Steven Mithen
Royal Institution
Music History Biology
From crisis to stability to what? Greece in a fragmenting world
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Alexis Papahelas, Vassilis Monastiriotis
London School of Economics (LSE), on campus
Politics Economics Geography
Centre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture
Free
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Commissioner Magnus Brunner, Professor Andrea Biondi
Law & Justice Politics
Reforming the British royal family: how the House of Windsor can survive the 21st century
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Andrew Lownie
London School of Economics
Politics Law & Justice History
China Week Opening Keynote & Reception - BRICS, the G20 and China
Free
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Jim O'Neill, Gemma Chenger Deng
Bush House, Strand Campus, London
Politics Economics Geography
Religion, Science, and Truth: where does Yoga fit within a context of contested and competing epistemes?
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS University of London / Khalili Lecture Theatre
Philosophy Religion Medicine & Health
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Michael Gove
Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HA
Economics Politics Business
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Michael Gove
Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HA
Economics Politics Business

London Talks

Monday, 19 October 2026

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

The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present (Symposium)

Did Neanderthals hum? The musicality of early humans

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

Centre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture

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

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

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

The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove

The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove

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

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

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

Can multilateralism survive the planetary crises?

Russian active measures under Putin: how should Europe respond?

Magic Beyond the Supernatural in Contemporary Art

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

Listening Session + Q&A : Where is Austin Tice?

Michael Lewis: Blockers

Michael Lewis on Musk, Trump and the Deep State

Wednesday, 21 October 2026

London’s Villages: Deptford

RA Schools open day

'Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity', Coleen Morgan (Carena Seminar)

Book Discussion | Becoming Agarwal: The Manufacture of a Close-Knit Mercantile Caste

“Japanese cozy fiction”, does it make sense?

Why Is There Music?

Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2026

European Security Strategy: Geopolitics, Defence, and Economic Power

Breaking Barriers, Making Leaders: Women, Law and the Future of Global Finance

Building a Successful International Maritime Court: Lessons for International Commercial Justice

Easting the west: theorizing the postliberal conjuncture from China

A collectivist, economic perspective on AI

Thursday, 22 October 2026

Law and the Political Economy of Climate Adaptation

Barbon and the First Fire Insurance

'Move Fast and Innovate Things: Agile Procurement in the Ukrainian Defence Technology Space' with Dr Elena Davlikanova and Chris Pool

Between History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives

The Naval War in the Baltic, 1914-1915

Plato on Truth, Lies and Power

Architecture on Stage: Walters and Cohen

Slow Looking: Jameisha Prescod on Frida Kahlo

Palestine. The expansion of the Prison Web

Talk 90sto Me Normski, Vinca Petersen & Poulomi Desai

An Evening with Pachinko author Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon

An Evening with Pachinko author Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon