Science Week 2026: The Invisible Hand - In conversation with Professor Matthew Longo
Tuesday, 16 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Matthew Longo, Dr Silvia Seghezzi
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
Birkbeck talks in London
27 upcoming talks
Upcoming Talks
E. P. Thompson in Italy: Reception, Translation, and Class as a Historical Problem
Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 14:30
Speaker: Gianmaria Brunazzi
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet StreetScience Week 2026: Space-Filling Curves - From Surprising Geometry to Practical Uses in Computing
Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Dr David Weston
Birkbeck Clore Management CentreHistory at the 'End of History': Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialism
Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Toby Green
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet StreetProfessor Akane Kawakami's Inaugural Lecture: Transhuman Tokyo in Millennial Writing and Film
Thursday, 18 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Akane Kawakami
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, basement lecture theatre B01CIMR Debates in Public Policy: Global digital platforms and national competitiveness
Friday, 19 June 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Grazia Ietto-Gillies, Dario Guarascio, Fred Guy, Simona Iammarino, Ron Smith (Discussant), Nicola Searle (Chair)
OnlineASK ME FOR THOSE UNBORN PROMISES THAT MAY SEEM UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN
Monday, 22 June 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: ASK ME FOR THOSE UNBORN PROMISES THAT MAY SEEM UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN
22 June 202619:00—20:30LIVESTREAM of Murray Seminar: Robert Brennan
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Robert Brennan
OnlineMurray Seminar: Robert Brennan
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Robert Brennan
Birkbeck Central, BCB Conservatory (1)One click films? The reality of AI filmmaking
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Faisal Attrache
Birkbeck 43 Gordon SquareJames Corcoran: Scholarly writing for publication in "the Americas": A critical, plurilingual orientation
Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: James Corcoran
TBCCENTRE 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 Street2026 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 CampusBook 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
TBCLondon 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 CentreArtificial 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, CinemaPeople without history are dust: queer desire and the Holocaust
FreeTuesday, 30 June 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Anna Hájková
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet StreetBook 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 Centre2026 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 CentreFinding 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 StreetBorders, 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, UKBritish and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026: Space and Place in Jewish Studies
Monday, 13 July 2026 at 09:00
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street, Birkbeck, University of LondonPalestine. The expansion of the Prison Web
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Dr. Stéphanie Latte Abdallah
OnlineCIMR debates in Public Policy - Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe
Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 16:00
Speaker: Prof. Slavo Radosevic, Prof. Rainer Kattel, Dr. Nahed Ahmed
TBC