The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise
Friday, 9 October 2026 at 17:30
SOAS Senate House (SALT) / Alumni Lecture Theatre
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Friday, 9 October 2026
WiFi Wars Debug XXII
Friday, 9 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Steve McNeil, Rob Sedgebeer
Royal Institution Theatre, LondonEdward Enninful and Afua Hirsch: London in the 90s
Friday, 9 October 2026 at 18:30
Tate BritainSylvia Wynter Lecture: Onyeka Igwe and Alexander G. Weheliye
Friday, 9 October 2026 at 21:00
Speaker: Sylvia Wynter Lecture: Onyeka Igwe and Alexander G. Weheliye
Saturday, 10 October 2026
Monday, 12 October 2026
Immunology of the exposome
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 09:00
The Royal SocietyCANCELLED: Black British History: The Journey to Windrush
FreeMonday, 12 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryBlack British History: The Journey to Windrush
FreeMonday, 12 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryDriving climate resilience with data and AI
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: Parag Khanna, Shefali Khanna, Jonathan Pershing
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)The Enigma of Village Brawls in Southeastern China
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 17:00
TBCA new hypothesis about the resilience of the bilingual mind
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 18:00
Sustainable post-crisis development: the need for a human rights approach
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Agnès Callamard, Stuart Gordon
London School of EconomicsCan Europe Survive? And if so, How?
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Professor Garton Ash
Bush House, Strand Campus, London
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
The People's Emperor:The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III
FreeTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryFrom Perception to Physiology: How Attention Shapes Acute Immune Responses
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: From Perception to Physiology: How Attention Shapes Acute Immune Responses
Anti-social Business Models
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 17:00
Shaping the future: Europe's quest for technological leadership
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 17:15
Speaker: Philippe Aghion, Tim Besley, Daniel Chandler, Sara Hobolt, Larry Kramer
London School of EconomicsBook talk: 'Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System'
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 17:30
Main Building, SOAS / R101The Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be?
FreeTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Robin May, Steve Allen
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornThe architecture of entrapment: From climate-induced (im)mobility to lawfare
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30
Solving homelessness through partnership: philanthropy, finance, and social entrepreneurship
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Sarah Hopley, Jonathan Roberts, Lígia Teixeira
Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku BuildingBook talk: Twelve Days that Shook the Middle East
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Marwan Bishara, Stephen Sackur
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJInside the World of The Beatles, with Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon & Tom Holland
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon, Tom Holland
Conway Hall, Main Hall
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Delivering affordable rural homes: bridging research & practice
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 09:30
Memory under Conditions of Mass Destruction: Reflections from Gaza | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 12:45
The SPRC Lunchtime Seminar Series | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 12:45
Stolen! Theft in the archive: exhibition launch and lecture
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Jo Ellen Jacobs, Helen McCabe, Michael Schefczyk, Christoph Schmidt-Petri
LSE Library, Lionel Robbins Building, London School of Economics and Political ScienceCourts and Constitutions: Judicial Review 250 Years After Independence
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Prof David Feldman and Denis Edwards
UCL Laws‘Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum ...
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeCollections Focus: Crime Broadsides
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Guildhall LibraryRather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Kate Hill
Barnard's Inn HallThe Language of Crowds: Public Assembly and Embodied Force in India
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Dr Ajay Gandhi
Bush House, Strand Campus, LondonFrancis Crick Prize Lecture: Pathogens and the power of evolution
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:30
The Royal SocietyWeaponising dependency - the new world order
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Rory Stewart
London School of Economics and Political ScienceBasic Forms: Reimagining Public Space
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Päivi Raivio, Tim Gill
An Evening with Nick Park
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Nick Park
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DSPanel discussion: Do Russians support the war in Ukraine?
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: James Rodgers, Jana Bakunina, Åsne Seierstad, Howard Amos
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJCan We Reclaim Childhood from Big Tech?: Beeban Kidron & Sandi Toksvig
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Beeban Kidron, Sandi Toksvig
Conway Hall'Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure': Sara Nadal-Melsió in conversation with Esther Leslie
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: 'Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Figure': Sara Nadal-Melsió in conversation with Esther Leslie
14 October 202619:00—20:30
Thursday, 15 October 2026
The Turner Prize
FreeThursday, 15 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryA History of the World in Four Algorithms
FreeThursday, 15 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Sarah Hart
Binks Hall, St John's College DurhamGenerative AI, Agency, and the Imperative of Virtuosity: A Buddhist Perspective
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
TBCPrivacy and Deepfakes
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
Can We Learn to Be Human Again? Rescuing the Human from the Colonial Machine through Legal Education
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Nicole Moreham
UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EGWhere ideas begin: finding inspiration
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:30
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington GardensBook Talk: 'Peace Makers: Shaping the modern world - the men and women of the Foreign Office in WWII' by Lord Peter Ricketts
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:45
Speaker: Lord Peter Ricketts
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonTransmission as a Creative Act: Pluriversalizing contemporary art’s relationship/s to the past
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS and Online / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Lower Ground FloorIconic Women of the Hayward Gallery
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:45
Purcell RoomLeslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Corrêa do Lago, Antonio Patriota
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonInaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse?
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 21:30
Speaker: Inaugural Annual Ruth Adams Lecture: Is Music Getting Worse?