Why Do We Need Empathy?
Free
Monday, 7 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Jane Shaw
Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn
Gresham College talks in London
30 upcoming talks
Gresham College has provided free public lectures since 1597.
Upcoming Talks
Why Do We Need Empathy? (Provost Lecture)
FreeMonday, 7 September 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeCello - 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 HallWhere 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, HolbornRather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Kate Hill
Barnard's Inn Hall‘Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum ...
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeA 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
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Melissa Lane, Quentin Skinner, Jane Shaw
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornThe Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present (Symposium)
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeThe 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