Why Do We Need Empathy? (Provost Lecture)
Free
Monday, 7 September 2026 at 18:00
Gresham College
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31 upcoming talks
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Upcoming Talks
Why Do We Need Empathy?
FreeMonday, 7 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Jane Shaw
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornCello - In Search of a Voice
FreeWednesday, 9 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Dr Kate Kennedy
Barnard's Inn HallThe Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky
FreeMonday, 14 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Professor Chris Lintott
Conway HallCracking the Whip: Strings, Chains, and Dinosaurs
FreeTuesday, 15 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Alain Goriely FRS
Barnard's Inn HallIs the HIV Pandemic Over?
FreeWednesday, 16 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Matt Higgins
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornThe Myth and Promise of the U.K. Jury Trial
FreeThursday, 17 September 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeThe Future of Creativity
FreeTuesday, 22 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Daniel Susskind
Barnard's Inn HallCosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe
FreeWednesday, 23 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Professor Chris Lintott
Conway Hall, HolbornCarbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World
FreeThursday, 24 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Helen Czerski
Barnard's Inn HallFestival of Astronomical Ideas
FreeFriday, 25 September 2026 at 11:00
Gresham CollegeWhere is Queer Love in the Shoah History?
FreeMonday, 28 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Dr Anna Hájková
Barnard's Inn HallAI as Therapist? Intimacy Without Understanding
FreeTuesday, 29 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Matt Jones
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornWomen of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature
FreeWednesday, 30 September 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Professor Marion Turner
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornShakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language
FreeThursday, 1 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín
Barnard's Inn HallWhat is the Purpose of Yoga: Transcendence or Transformation?
FreeMonday, 5 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Professor Sir Jim Mallinson
Barnard's Inn HallOur Sovereign Soil
FreeTuesday, 6 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Ian Mudway
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornWhat Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century
FreeWednesday, 7 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Volker Remmert
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornThe Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be?
FreeTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Robin May, Steve Allen
Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn‘Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum ...
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeRather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Kate Hill
Barnard's Inn HallA History of the World in Four Algorithms
FreeThursday, 15 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Sarah Hart
Binks Hall, St John's College DurhamThe 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, HolbornThe Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights
FreeTuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Phillip Ayoub
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornWhy Is There Music?
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
LSO St Luke'sPlato on Truth, Lies and Power
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeRethinking Deterrence for a Disrupted World
FreeTuesday, 27 October 2026 at 18:00
Mercers' HallAround the World with Indian Cinema
FreeWednesday, 28 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeGuantanamo on the Euphrates: What Next for Detainees in Syria?
FreeThursday, 5 November 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeThe Future of Medicine
FreeMonday, 14 December 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Robin May
St John's College, Durham