Book Launch: 'Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations: How the Alliance Weathers Crises' with Dr William D. James
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 12:00
Speaker: Dr William D. James
King's Building, Strand Campus, London
London Talks
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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
LIVESTREAM of Murray Seminar: Robert Brennan
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Robert Brennan
OnlineDesigning Robots, Designing Society: Opportunity or Automating Inequality?
FreeTuesday, 23 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Katie Winkle, Yvonne Rogers, Victoria Austin
UCL Computer Science, LondonMurray Seminar: Robert Brennan
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Robert Brennan
Birkbeck Central, BCB Conservatory (1)AI/ML in finance: advancing the future of financial markets
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 17:45
Speaker: Professor Álvaro Cartea, Peter Hafez, Dr James Hamp, Professor Luitgard Veraart
London School of EconomicsOne click films? The reality of AI filmmaking
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Faisal Attrache
Birkbeck 43 Gordon SquareAuthor talk: 'Ghost Season' by Fatin Abbas
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Fatin Abbas
SOAS Main Building, Kamran Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT)South Africa today: growth, employment, reform, and leadership
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Ann Bernstein, Andrés Velasco
London School of Economics, School of Public PolicyKing’s Experts Series – Brexit: Ten Years On
FreeTuesday, 23 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Jane Corbin, The Rt Hon. The Lord Kinnock, Professor Anand Menon, Dr Maeve Ryan, Dr Swati Dhingra
Strand Campus, King's College London (hybrid event with online livestream)Net zero strategies: from commitments to accountability in the real economy
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Vanessa Havard-Williams OBE, Kate McGrath, Peter Metcalfe, Alireza Modirzadeh, Carmen Nuzzo
London School of EconomicsOlivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Olivia Laing, Charlie Porter
The Mystery of Time in the Universe, with Jim Al-Khalili
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Jim Al-Khalili
What Should Humanity Want From AI? People, Technology, and the Future of Intelligence
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Mustafa Suleyman, Alain de Botton, Naomi Alderman
Carlo Rovelli: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Carlo Rovelli
Francis Fukuyama on the New World Order
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Francis Fukuyama, Martin Wolf
Adam Rutherford meets David Olusoga: The History in our DNA
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Adam Rutherford, David Olusoga
Raising Hare: An Evening with Chloe Dalton
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Chloe Dalton
Reporting From the Front Lines, with Lyse Doucet
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Lyse Doucet, Peter Frankopan
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Robert Peston
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Robert Peston, Jonny Dymond
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Michael Gove, Jonny Dymond
An Evening With Philip Pullman
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Philip Pullman
Ben Rhodes on Trump, Iran and The Future of America
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Ben Rhodes, Coco Khan
On the Nature of Time According to Modern Physics
FreeTuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS
Conway HallTechnologies for Imagining Otherwise
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
An Evening with John Humphrys and Justin Webb
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: John Humphrys, Justin Webb
The Age of Change
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Jeremy Hunt, Dr. Angela Spatharou, Kamal Ahmed
Uncovering the Epstein Story
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Amy Wallace, Emily Maitlis
Nicola Sturgeon on Power, Politics and the Future of Britain
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Nicola Sturgeon
How the Cosmos Explains Life On Earth, with Christophe Galfard
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Christophe Galfard
Technologies for Imagining Otherwise
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Elijah (Make The Ting), Lex Fefegha (Future Inventions Lab), Arda Awais (Identity 2.0), Sara Berkai (Ambessa Play)
The Lakeside Room, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSUnveiling Vermeer: The Man and his Masterpieces, with Andrew Graham-Dixon
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Zadie Smith: Dead and Alive
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Zadie Smith
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Exploring heat in the open space or reimagining the open space through the heat lens?
FreeWednesday, 24 June 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: Shreya Banerjee
Indian Courts and the Political Question
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Dr Aditya Sondhi
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonHow "Woke" is EDI?
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:00
Portcullis House / Macmillan RoomWhen the ladder breaks: Resilience, identity, and the path to empowerment
FreeWednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Victoria Showunmi (Speaker); Professor Li Wei (Chair); Prof Gary McCulloch (Introduction); Associate Professor Anne-Sophie Godfroy (Respondent); Professor Stephen D. Hancock (Respondent); Professor Uvanney Maylor (Respondent); Dave Neita (Poet)
2026 Laddie Lecture: Trade Mark Law, AI, and Sustainability
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Martin Senftleben
A city for all: leading climate transformation in an era of disinformation
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Anne Hidalgo, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Kate Gallego
London School of Economics and Political ScienceEconomics of climate
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Juliano Assunção, Robin Burgess, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Rohini Pande, José A. Scheinkman, Catherine Wolfram, Jonathan Pershing
Old Theatre, Old BuildingSmarter than the storm
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Amitabh Kant, Siddharth Sinha, Nicholas Stern (chair)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)Screening + Q&A: Blackmail
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Aengus Lynch, James Clayton, Effie Webb
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJHow the Cosmos Explains Life On Earth, with Christophe Galfard
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 19:30
Conway HallIndie Night: June
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 19:45
Purcell Room
Thursday, 25 June 2026
James Corcoran: Scholarly writing for publication in "the Americas": A critical, plurilingual orientation
Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: James Corcoran
TBCThe city as a democratic frontier in an 'authoritarian age'
Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Femke Halsema, Sheila R. Foster, Avner de Shalit, Ben Rogers
LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders
Friday, 26 June 2026
CENTRE FOR LAW AND THE HUMANITIES, COSTAS DOUZINAS: RIGHTS RESISTANCE CRITIQUE: A CONFERENCE CELEBRATING THE WORK OF COSTAS DOUZINAS. 26 AND 27 JUNE 2026
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 10:00
Speaker: Peter Goodrich, Gil Leung, Adam Gearey, Ozan Kamiloglou, Julia Chryssostalis, Patrick Hanafin, Cormac Deane, Ceylan Yildiz, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Marcus De Matos, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Illan Wall, Jaco Barnard-Naude, Can Oztas, Joanna Bourke, Elena Psyllakou, Dionysis Mitropoulos, Costas Douzinas
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet StreetNew Currents in World Literature
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 11:00
Speaker: Wen-chin Ouyang, Anandi Rao
SOAS Gallery and Online / BG012026 LONDON CRITICAL THEORY FRIDAY PUBLIC PANEL #1
FreeFriday, 26 June 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: Jacqueline Rose (Chair), Mark Nash, Isaac Julien, Esther Leslie, Christina Varvia, Eyal Weizman
Birkbeck Clore Management CentreWitnessing War: Theatre's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (4 years on)
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Olga Danylyuk, Kasia Lech, Amanda Stuart Fisher, Polina Polozhentseva, Molly Flynn
Birkbeck Central, Bloomsbury CampusGary Hume in conversation with Martin Gayford
Friday, 26 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Gary Hume, Martin Gayford
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens