America’s Undoing in the Middle East, with Kim Ghattas and Lyse Doucet
Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Kim Ghattas, Lyse Doucet
Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, Holborn, London WC1A 2TH
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Thursday, 5 November 2026
Friday, 6 November 2026
Environment, Resources and Representation in the Southwest and Northwest of the Qing Empire
Friday, 6 November 2026 at 09:00
SOAS, Main Building / C426hShow and Share: Tate's Public Records From The 90s
Friday, 6 November 2026 at 12:30
Tate BritainClosed Doors – On Citizenship Denial in Germany
Friday, 6 November 2026 at 19:15
Speaker: Closed Doors – On Citizenship Denial in Germany
Sunday, 8 November 2026
Monday, 9 November 2026
Groundbreakers: The Joy of Lists, Letters and Wills - Women in the Archives
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 18:00
Blockers: rebels in the deep state
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Michael Lewis
London School of EconomicsMarina Litvinenko on Russia, Putin and Resistance
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Marina Litvinenko, Gordon Corera
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RLMarina Litvinenko on Russia, Putin and Resistance
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Marina Litvinenko
Conway Hall
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Frida: The Making of an Icon: Exhibition Talk
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 at 13:00
Tate ModernA Mystery Still: Historical (Trans)Gender Variance & James “Miranda” Barry
FreeTuesday, 10 November 2026 at 13:00
Gresham CollegeBook launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 at 17:30
Main Building, SOAS / R101'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England': EK Myerson in conversation with Hope Doherty-Harrison
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: 'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England': EK Myerson in conversation with Hope Doherty-Harrison
10 November 202618:00—19:30Michael Faraday Prize Lecture: Life in the fast lane
FreeTuesday, 10 November 2026 at 18:30
The Royal Society
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Art, Poetry and the Great War
FreeWednesday, 11 November 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryThe Cost of Sustainability: Archaeology and Maritime Dispossession in the Eastern Mediterranean
Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: The Cost of Sustainability: Archaeology and Maritime Dispossession in the Eastern Mediterranean
11 November 202618:00—20:00Remembering Arnold Whittall (1935-2026): A celebration of his life and work
Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Remembering Arnold Whittall (1935-2026): A celebration of his life and work
Groundbreakers: A reading of 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile'
Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 18:00
Thursday, 12 November 2026
Monday, 16 November 2026
Tuesday, 17 November 2026
Korean Artist Lee Qoede After the Divide: Mexico, Socialism, and Another Modernism
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Gallery / BG01The Man Who Stole the Gods: A round table discussion on the looting and restitution of Khmer antiquities
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01Lines of Fire: Poetry of the Afro-Asian Writers' Movement
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 18:00
SOAS, Main Building / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant The Lives of Artists
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 19:00
Tate Britain
Wednesday, 18 November 2026
The Nawabs of Murshidabad under Colonial Rule: Political Interactions and Changing Status (1750–1850)
Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 17:15
SOAS, University of London / Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Paul Webley Wing)Book Talk: Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal
Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 17:15
SOAS, University of London / B104 (Gallery Building)Why Pubs Matter
Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Amit Singh, Lydia Wood
Brockway Room, Conway Hall (also virtual/livestreamed)
Thursday, 19 November 2026
Who gets to decolonise philosophy? Red Philosophy and the making of a new intellectual field in Hong Kong
Thursday, 19 November 2026 at 16:00
Brunei Gallery / B306The Improbable Austro-Japanese War
FreeThursday, 19 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Ian Stafford
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonIn-Person Only - Exhibition Launch: Penny Dreadfuls
FreeThursday, 19 November 2026 at 18:00
Guildhall LibraryPOSTPONED - Exhibition Launch: Penny Dreadfuls
FreeThursday, 19 November 2026 at 18:00
Guildhall LibraryLost Women of Science Conversations
FreeThursday, 19 November 2026 at 19:00
The Royal Society
Friday, 20 November 2026
Saturday, 21 November 2026
Monday, 23 November 2026
This Map is an Archive: Making and Sharing Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Gujarat
Monday, 23 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS, University of London / C 325, Main BuildingThe transnational impact on identity formation in theatre across the Chinese-speaking world
Monday, 23 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building / RG01Stephen Hawking: His life and work
Monday, 23 November 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Graham Farmelo, Daniel Baumann, Marika Taylor, Tim Hawking, Roger Highfield (chair)
Royal Institution Theatre, London
Tuesday, 24 November 2026
Frida: The Making of an Icon: Exhibition Talk
Tuesday, 24 November 2026 at 13:00
Tate ModernLondon’s Village’s: Bow and Mile End
FreeTuesday, 24 November 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryFive Years On: Royal Power and Reform in Thailand after the 2020 Youth Protests
Tuesday, 24 November 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01Sixteenth-century London dialect: how Londoners spoke in Sir Gresham’s time
FreeTuesday, 24 November 2026 at 18:00
Gresham College
Wednesday, 25 November 2026
Ethnographies of Dalit Life in the Songs of Gaddar - a talk by Prof Lisa Mitchell
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS, Main Building / C426The Non-Neutrality of Commodity Money: From a classical production economy to corporate cash hoards
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS University of London / B103Musical Myths and Miracles
FreeWednesday, 25 November 2026 at 18:00
LSO St Luke'sAn African History of Africa, with Zeinab Badawi
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Zeinab Badawi
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Thursday, 26 November 2026
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