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, London
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Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Itinerant 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 / RG01The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
FreeTuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Phillip Ayoub
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornEU Environmental Law at 50 – Legacy and Lessons for the UK
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:00
Magic 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
Can multilateralism survive the planetary crises?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
SOAS Gallery Building / BGLTRussian 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 PolicyThe 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 EconomicsHow Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Tim Marshall
Raising Hare: An Evening with Chloe Dalton
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Chloe Dalton
The 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 2THListening 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 1QJElif Shafak: In One Brief Moment All Eternity
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Elif Shafak, Gaby Wood
Michael 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 HallAn Evening with Pachinko author Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Min Jin Lee, Nicola Dinan
James McAuley: The Making of Holocaust Memory
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: James McAuley
A New History of Our Future, with Peter Frankopan
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Peter Frankopan
The Threat of Capitalism without Democracy, with Martin Wolf
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Martin Wolf
Zadie Smith: Dead and Alive
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Zadie Smith
An African History of Africa, with Zeinab Badawi
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Zeinab Badawi
America’s Undoing in the Middle East, with Kim Ghattas and Lyse Doucet
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Kim Ghattas, Lyse Doucet
An Evening with Rachel Cusk: Life of M
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Rachel Cusk
Instant Classics: LIVE! With Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Mary Beard, Charlotte Higgins
The Age of Becoming
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Jim Al-Khalili, Juan Bernabé-Moreno, Kamal Ahmed
An Evening with Karl Ove Knausgaard: Arendal
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dan Jones
Marina Litvinenko on Russia, Putin and Resistance
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Marina Litvinenko, Gordon Corera
An Exclusive Evening with Strangers author Belle Burden
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 20:30
Speaker: Belle Burden
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
RA Schools open day
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens and digital livestreamLondon’s Villages: Deptford
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall Library'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, LondonIndia's Youth Movement: Labour, Economy, and Development
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 17:00
Online via Zoom“Japanese cozy fiction”, does it make sense?
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Breaking 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, LondonSociety for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2026
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: R. Jay Wallace
Somerset House East Wing, 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, LondonBuilding 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—17:00The Naval War in the Baltic, 1914-1915
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Mark Harris
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonBecoming Agarwal: The Manufacture of a Close-Knit Mercantile Caste
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 17:15
SOAS, University of London / Alumni Lecture Theatre (Paul Webley Wing)Plato on Truth, Lies and Power
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham College