Conversations with the Past: Writing Workshop

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Wednesday

Apr 23

18:30

Connecting Threads: Tactile Social History with Lynn Setterington

Thursday

Apr 24

13:00

Meet the Artist: Karen McLean

15:00

Crick Lecture | Caroline Hill

16:00

Unmet mental health needs of young adults: scalable solutions

17:00

Palaeontology’s Contribution To Understanding Our Climate Crisis

19:30

STAG: DNA testing (and not testing) among donor conceived young adults

Friday

Apr 25

17:30

HOME

Monday

Apr 28

13:00

The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: ‘Art, Nature and Science: Imagining Other Worlds’ with Brian Eno and Kim Stanley Robinson

16:00

A Guide to Mastering Your Money and Managing Your Finances as a Freelancer by Underpinned (for Freelancers)

Public services in the age of populism: how do we fix the NHS and NHS productivity?

Tuesday

Apr 29

14:00

Anglican and Catholic Synodality

16:00

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh's Inaugural Lecture: ‘Catalysing the Data-enabled Transformation of Health - Globally’

16:15

Designing Sound: Toward a History of Amplification

16:30

The discovery of ReNU syndrome

Wednesday

Apr 30

14:30

Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture

15:00

Scholars' Library: Sara Bronin on 'Key to the City'

16:00

Natural tilings: from hard rock to soft cells - Gábor Domokos

17:00

Celebrating AA Files

18:15

What does it mean to be human in the age of AI?

18:30

Traits and Traces: A Leach Family Legacy with Shelley Lockwood

Thursday

May 1

10:00

British History Today: a conference

14:00

Meet the Artist: Kimathi Donkor

Circular Summer: Upcycle Your Wardrobe

14:45

Migration & The Arts

15:00

Crick Lecture | Sadaf Farooqi

16:00

Hacking the Body: How Virtual Reality is Revolutionising our Understanding of Human Vision and Shape

18:00

'British History from the Middle of Nowhere', Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)

Opening reception: Cursed Objects in Museum Shops

17:30

Dirty Old River

Friday

May 2

14:30

Social Entrepreneurship in Conflict & Post-Conflict Settings

16:00

Who cares about deltas? Growth vs. culture vs. climate change

16:30

Robert Wedderburn: Anti-racist solidarity and the life of Britain’s most radical Black abolitionist

Lecture 1 - The Beating Heart

Tuesday

May 6

10:00

Never Not None

13:00

Meet the Artist: Joy Labinjo

13:30

Strachey Lecture: The Lean Theorem Prover/Will computers prove theorems?

15:00

FoNS Neurodiversity Week: Keynote: Heather Logan – Autism in STEM

16:00

Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott

17:30

Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography

18:00

On rowing: Jenna Armstrong and Cath Bishop in conversation

Nature's Memory:Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums

Simone Natale - Projecting Life Onto Machines

Narrating the Self: from Montaigne to Instagram

A Story is a Deal: A conversation on narrative, identity and status with Will Storr

17:00

The Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies by Tima Bansal - 'Designing the future: Applying systems thinking to corporate practice."

18:30

Crafting Resistance: An Evening with Common Threads Press

Wednesday

May 7

12:00

Athena Lecture 2025: Overcoming challenges in the pandemic

13:00

Nelder Fellow Lectures: Professor Huyen Pham

13:30

Prof Eric Kemp-Benedict - Classical-evolutionary technological change

16:00

"AI and Peacemaking: Rethinking Conflict Resolution in the Digital Age" Discussion Panel

16:30

Rethinking prostate cancer: my pursuit of the truth through surgical research

16:45

Humans As Ultra-Cooperative Great Apes

18:00

The Man Who Painted his House

17:30

The death and life of the center-left

Thursday

May 8

13:00

FoNS Neurodiversity Week: Neurodiversity in Focus: Listening, Learning, and Designing for Success

15:30

Inside the Cauldron: Film Screening

14:45

Migration and the arts of co-production: urban mobilities and carceral London

16:00

How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding

16:15

Hans Keller's 'Group functioning of a string quartet'

16:30

Samira Ahmed in conversation

17:30

The power of data: ethics, politics, and public interest

19:00

All at Sea: Ports, islands and climate crises

Friday

May 9

15:00

Conversations with the Past: Writing Workshop

16:30

Professor of Poetry Lecture: ‘Repetition is a Form of Change', An Oblique Strategy in Poetry

18:00

Writing Queer Performance

18:30

Screening and discussion: Jon Jost and Ian Christie

19:00

The Netherhole Martyr

Saturday

May 10

09:30

Hooke Park Open Day

Monday

May 12

13:00

Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall

16:00

Growth and regulation in the age of populism: the Financial Conduct Authority’s challenge in getting regulation right

18:00

Dr. Joanne Gray: Powering Workplace Proactivity Book Launch

17:30

The corporation in the 21st century

Tuesday

May 13

09:00

Nelder Fellow Lectures: Professor Huyen Pham

11:00

AI for Cybersecurity: Joint Seminar with BDSS and Birkbeck

13:00

From reversal of fortune to economic resurgence: a comparative study of industrialization and leadership

14:00

Prayer in a distracted world

17:00

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon

16:30

Rhodes Film Fora: 'Daughters of Chibok' & 'The Mothers of Chibok'

18:00

The Ronald Tress Memorial Lecture - "Economic Growth Through Education: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

17:00

‘Breaking Ground’ and Beyond: A Century of Women and Geology at OUMNH 1813-1914

17:30

Neoliberalism and social justice? Reconciling Adam Smith and John Rawls

19:30

The Einstein Vendetta

Wednesday

May 14

11:00

Expanding Technological Indicators for Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability (CIMR debates in Public Policy) - Hybrid: Online and In-person

The Co-Production of Health Research ECR Network Reading Group

13:00

Lili Brik and the New Soviet Woman: A Lunchtime Talk with Anastasia Skoybedo

12:00

Nelder Fellow Lectures: Professor Huyen Pham

13:30

Dr Lilit Popoyan - Prevention first vs. cap-and-trade policies in an agent-based integrated assessment model with GHG emissions

16:30

Making things that move us: a gaming lens on design, motivation, and everything else

18:00

Public lecture

The 6th Biennial Dorothy Edgington Lectures and Graduate Workshop

17:00

The corporation in the twenty-first century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong.

18:30

Developing the Garden for House and Garden Visitors Alike: Climate Resilience and Biodiversity with Anna's Flower Farm

17:30

Apprenticeship and economic growth in early modern England

Thursday

May 15

08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #6

09:00

Political Studies Association (PSA) Sport and Politics Conference

14:45

Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations

15:00

Crick Lecture | Hao Wu

16:00

The Role of Fungi in Solving Planetary Crises

19:30

Brewing the past: A journey into history through beer and film

Friday

May 16

16:30

The actual most dangerous speech in the UK

18:00

ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS

Monday

May 19

17:30

Conscience incorporated: pursuing profits while protecting human rights

Tuesday

May 20

14:45

Documenting the Amazon: Film screening and Q&A with film director Fernando Segtowick

18:00

The Murray Memorial Lecture 2025 with Neil MacGregor, a Fellow of Birkbeck

17:00

The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs

17:30

Lie theory, deformations and their impact on life sciences and beyond

Teens, sexting and image-based sexual abuse: a child rights approach

19:30

The Man Who Painted His House Film Screening at All Saints Church

Wednesday

May 21

09:00

Teaching and Learning Conference 2025

13:30

Dr Andrew Jackson - Macro-financial dynamics in energy transitions: a stock-flow consistent, input-output approach

16:30

The relentless sun: how do we live with severe space weather?

18:00

Professor Elena Loizidou's Inaugural Lecture: Dreams to a better world

17:30

Stability is overrated: towards a dynamic liberalism

Critique is the critique of power

Thursday

May 22

15:00

Environment and History Reading Group (May 2025)

16:30

Crohn's & Colitis Open Evening

18:00

Frontiers of Climate Litigation

Friday

May 23

16:30

The Unhinged Presidency: Donald Trump's Attacks on the Constitution

Tuesday

May 27

16:00

Designing Sound, Sculpting Gesture

16:15

'The Greatest American Rock Band'

Wednesday

May 28

16:30

Viruses, vaccines, and the written word

18:30

The Arts and Crafts movement in Manchester: An Untold Story with Barry Clark

Thursday

May 29

12:00

Beyond Neoliberalism Conference 2025

15:00

Crick Lecture | Ronald D Vale

17:30

Curious Cures: In-Conversation with the Curator

18:00

Keynote Panel: Creating the New Economy

17:30

Michael Faraday Prize Lecture 2024

Friday

May 30

09:00

Light: a colourful history

17:00

Curator Tours: Cursed Objects in Museum Shops

16:30

Attacks on Knowledge

Monday

Jun 2

17:30

Mathematicians helping art historians and art conservators

Tuesday

Jun 3

18:00

Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Black Feminist Theory, Intersectionality and Collaboration: The Global Challenge to Decolonising Higher Education

Wednesday

Jun 4

13:30

Prof Benjamin Moll - The trouble with rational expectations in heterogeneous agent models: A challenge for macroeconomics

18:00

Social Sciences Festival 2025 - How do we Champion Aid, Reparations and Social Justice in a New World?

Thursday

Jun 5

09:00

Revitalising Peace Theologies for Today: A Multi-Faith Peace Conference

15:15

The Spirit that Crosses Borders

15:30

Handle with Care: The Oldest Translations of the Bible in English

18:00

Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Food Politics: Belonging, Identity, and Sustainability

Professor Elisa Raffaella Ferrè's Inaugural Lecture - Prisoners of Gravity: How Gravity Shapes Our Brain and Behaviour

Friday

Jun 6

16:30

The right to a liveable planet

Monday

Jun 9

16:30

Prosecuting the Powerful: Steve Crawshaw in conversation

18:00

Shadows of her

Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Co-produced Research in the Justice System: Questions, Challenges and Opportunities

Birkbeck Science Week 2025 - "How The Brain Invents Your Reality" with Dr. Daniel Yon

Tuesday

Jun 10

14:00

The ecumenical Feast of Creation

16:00

Do aliens exist and are they trying to find earth? Nobel Prize winner Professor Didier Queloz speaks about his career journey and discovering new planets

15:30

The British Imperial Way of Warfare

18:00

Professor Pedro Gomes's Inaugural Lecture: Economics and its "Sins of Omission"

Birkbeck Science Week 2025 - Imaging the invisible: capturing complexity across scales in Natural Science

Wednesday

Jun 11

16:00

First Light: the dawn of stars and galaxies

16:30

Seeing the unseen: the pursuit of personalised cancer treatment

18:00

Birkbeck Science Week 2025 - Machine Commands: Society in the Age of AI

17:00

Digital Fossils: Using X-ray to Uncover Secrets of the Past

Thursday

Jun 12

18:00

Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Carceral Diagonalism: The Punitive Safety Politics Linking Left and Right Anti-gender Mobilisations in Britain

Professor Sanjib Bhakta's Inaugural Lecture - TB or Not TB? The Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance: Molecules, Machines & Mechanisms

Friday

Jun 13

16:30

Maps of home: Imagining sanctuary now

Monday

Jun 16

17:15

Steering Change - Reflections on the Political Challenges of Advancing Active Transport

Tuesday

Jun 17

10:30

Ridley Hall Theology Conference 2025

14:00

Uses of Scripture

Thursday

Jun 19

08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #7

15:00

Environment and History Reading Group (June 2025)

19:30

Library Late

20:00

Fertility Matters at Work...and here's why

Friday

Jun 20

09:00

London Conference in Critical Thought 2025

Saturday

Jun 21

10:00

Projects Review 2025

14:00

Wesley House - Living Stones Open Day

Wednesday

Jun 25

13:00

Environmental Education Across Disciplines

Thursday

Jun 26

09:00

New Perspectives on Law and Literature, Malet Street Room G16.

19:00

Performance and In Conversation with artist Anne Tallentire

Wednesday

Jul 2

16:30

Sir Ernst Chain Lecture 2025: A tale of two antibodies

Friday

Jul 4

17:00

Nature Needs You!

Tuesday

Jul 8

19:30

William Tudor’s Cambridge Circus

Wednesday

Jul 9

08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #8

Thursday

Aug 14

09:00

Does the World Need a Government?

Friday

Oct 17

16:00

New ways of working (and what that means for us as humans)

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Conversations with the Past: Writing Workshop

Birkbeck

May 9

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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How can we use nature to explore our own history? This is a writing workshop using prompts from nature that help writers to think about ways to uncover the past. It’s a chance to use documents from the archives to explore inspiring vivid storytelling, from medicinal plants to water, from magic to contested pasts. Writers Tatum and Katie offer readings and practical exercises to concentrate the mind on finding lyrical, textural and sensory detail while exploring stories from the past. This workshop will allow writers to explore an added depth to their work, down even to sentence structure itself.