A coffee with Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie
Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 11:00
Speaker: Ben Okri, Rosemary Clunie
John Madejski Fine Rooms | Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
London Talks
328 upcoming talks, debates, and seminars in London
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Saturday, 17 October 2026
Personal Statement Workshop
Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 11:00
Speaker: Personal Statement Workshop
17 October 202610:00—12:00Show and Share: Avant-Garde Ambassadors
Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 11:00
Tate BritainThe ancient cosmos: The James Webb Space Telescope's new revelations
Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Royal Institution Theatre, LondonAri Emanuel: An Evening with the Dealmaker Who Reshaped Hollywood
Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Ari Emanuel
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Sunday, 18 October 2026
Monday, 19 October 2026
Why Europe Needs to Take Back the Diversity Principle: From Humboldt and Mill to America's Diversity
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 13:00
Chinese Business in the UK: What’s Changing?
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Chinese Business in the UK: What’s Changing?
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'Governor, Traveller, Scholar, Spy': Sir Cecil Clementi and the making of 'modern' Hong Kong
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 17:00
TBCThe Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present (Symposium)
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeThe Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Melissa Lane, Quentin Skinner, Jane Shaw
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornDid Neanderthals hum? The musicality of early humans
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Steven Mithen
Royal InstitutionFrom 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 campusCentre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Commissioner Magnus Brunner, Professor Andrea Biondi
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 EconomicsChina Week Opening Keynote & Reception - BRICS, the G20 and China
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Jim O'Neill, Gemma Chenger Deng
Bush House, Strand Campus, LondonReligion, 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 TheatreThe 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 3HAThe 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
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Book Talk: 'We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West' with Dr Hanna Notte
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Hanna Notte
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonItinerant Sailors and Displaced Ayahs - The West India Docks During Wartime
FreeTuesday, 20 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryThe Purpose of Parahistory in Postsocialist Vietnam
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01EU Environmental Law at 50 – Legacy and Lessons for the UK
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:00
The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
FreeTuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Phillip Ayoub
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornThe good, the black and the boujee: how black Britain became middle class
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Symeon Brown, Aamna Mohdin, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Coretta Phillips
London School of EconomicsRussian active measures under Putin: how should Europe respond?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Oleksandr V. Danylyuk, Jack Watling, Alexander Evans
LSE School of Public PolicyCan multilateralism survive the planetary crises?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
SOAS Gallery Building / BGLTMagic Beyond the Supernatural in Contemporary Art
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Tate ModernBook Launch "Demographic Anxieties" (Gala Rexer) | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London
FreeTuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Osama Tanous, Ghada Majadli, Ala Sirriyeh, Patricia Hamilton, Chair: Seth Anziska
Listening Session + Q&A : Where is Austin Tice?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJThe Battle for the Arctic and the New World Order, with Rana Foroohar and Gillian Tett
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Rana Foroohar, Gillian Tett
Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, Holborn, London, WC1A 2THMichael Lewis: Blockers
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Michael Lewis
Royal Festival HallMichael Lewis on Musk, Trump and the Deep State
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Michael Lewis, Elizabeth Day
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
London’s Villages: Deptford
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryRA Schools open day
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens and digital livestream'Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity', Coleen Morgan (Carena Seminar)
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: 'Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity', Coleen Morgan (Carena Seminar)
21 October 202615:30—17:00Book Discussion | Becoming Agarwal: The Manufacture of a Close-Knit Mercantile Caste
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Dr Ujithra Ponniah
Bush House, Strand Campus, LondonWhy Is There Music?
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
LSO St Luke'sEuropean Security Strategy: Geopolitics, Defence, and Economic Power
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: European Security Strategy: Geopolitics, Defence, and Economic Power
Macadam Building, Room MAC 604, Strand Campus, LondonSociety for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2026
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: R. Jay Wallace
Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus, LondonBreaking Barriers, Making Leaders: Women, Law and the Future of Global Finance
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Prabha Kotiswaran, Bonnie Y Chan
Bush House, Strand Campus, London“Japanese cozy fiction”, does it make sense?
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Building a Successful International Maritime Court: Lessons for International Commercial Justice
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Easting the west: theorizing the postliberal conjuncture from China
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:15
Speaker: Chenchen Zhang
London School of EconomicsA collectivist, economic perspective on AI
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Michael I. Jordan, Maximilian Kasy, Milan Vojnovic
London School of Economics
Thursday, 22 October 2026
Law and the Political Economy of Climate Adaptation
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 13:00
Barbon and the First Fire Insurance
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall Library'Move Fast and Innovate Things: Agile Procurement in the Ukrainian Defence Technology Space' with Dr Elena Davlikanova and Chris Pool
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 15:00
Speaker: Dr Elena Davlikanova and Chris Pool
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonBetween History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 15:30
Speaker: Between History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives
22 October 202614:30—17:00