Escape and Escapism – Art and the GDR

Veronica Forrest-Thomson at Girton

The Creative Freelancer’s Experience

GLOBAL CULTURES: EXPERT TASTES 15 NOV 2025

Clarendon Lecture Series 2025 - 2026: Science, Technology and the Constitution of Modernity

RDI Address 2025

The New Black Film Collective: DSA Screenings

Palestine on film

Cities and Human Rights

King's Population Health Institute Vanguard Seminar: Howard Bauchner

Phoebe Giannisi in conversation with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings

Can Democracy Survive War? The Ukrainian Experience

Reclaiming Pluralism: Lessons from South Africa for a Divided Britain by Ebrahim Rasool

Leadership in the Era of Quantum and AI

Bilingual myths: Where they come from and what we know

The Later Years: Organisation, Independence and Peace of Mind

Debating the role of nuclear weapons in the 21st century and the challenge of democratic resilience

Inaugural Lecture with Professor James Lee

Milner Prize Lecture: How to spot and debunk misleading content

EVENT CANCELLED: Is the US still a democracy? Authoritarian populism in the Trump era

Women in Science: historical perspectives

Anti-colonialism, Abolition and the Nationalist Backlash

Robotics in Education and Healthcare

Public Policing and Private Security: Insights from the UK

Capital (cultural); Appropriation; Debt/borrowing

Realism, Surplus, Mourning

I’ll Make Me a World: The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Black History | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London

Cinematic cartography

Money Awards for Breach of Fiduciary Duty

NKVD Files: on the Margin of the Holocaust

Temptation of Influence

How racism reclaimed its identity

Britain in a changing world

Gender and the law: how law matters to gender or how gender matters to law?

Fixed: why personal finance is broken, and how to make it work for everyone

Japonisme Across Time: From 19th Century Inspirations to Contemporary Visions

Giver of Life: The Holy Spirit in the Nicene Creed

Discussing 'Bad Language'

NHLI Athena SWAN Lecture – Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu

Inaugural Lectures: Professors Elizabeth Davies & Simon Pitchford

Encounters with Slapstick and Sympathy: Falling Down

The hypocrisy trap: how changing what we criticise can improve our lives

Professor Sam Norton - Inaugural Lecture

David Kohn Architects: Stages

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Reflections on Seven Years as its President

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2025 - Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829

Is there a Trump doctrine? Making sense of US foreign and security policy since Trump’s return to the White House

Acting up: Using the power of your presence

Infrastructures of Kindness in the Context of Migrant Arrival

NIHR Cambridge BRC Public event on infants, children & young people (CYP) research

2025 Annual Uehiro Lectures: Reproductive Rights (Lecture 3/3)

Francis Spufford on Faith and Imagination

Public Policy Lecture 2025: Public policy in the age of disruption

Encounters with Slapstick and Sympathy: Slosh

CLP - The 'ideal mother,' Family Law and Domestic Abuse

Is a faith shaped peace only powerful for the 1930s, not 2030s?

In Conversation on Escalation: Applying Deterrence Concepts to Space

Lines drawn by empire: displacement, belonging, and borders

World Children’s Day: digital futures for children – children’s rights under pressure in the digital environment

What happened in the first second of the universe?

Trees Through Time

Prep time for the next giant solar storm

Behind the Bench: Tackling Antibiotic Resistance

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Looking Back, Looking Ahead: An Assessment of 25 Years under the UN Trafficking Palermo Protocol

God and Science: A Seminar of Contemporary Viewpoints

The Inaugural Joan Reece Lecture 2025

Keble Debate with Sir Rufus Norris, Artistic Director of the National Theatre (2015-2025)

Free Radicals - In conversation with Mike Jay

Listening to Landscape book launch

Discover John Taverner: A Study Afternoon

How do we fix climate change?

AI, technology and society: shaping the future together

Webinar for NEW CPD Courses: Working Therapeutically with Children and Young People, Mother-infant Observation

SECRETS AND LIES: DOES MORE TRANSPARENCY MAKE FOR BETTER POLITICS?

The Divided Mind - A new way of thinking about mental health

Shards; Collage; Contagion

Discovering our Collections through Artists' Books

Beyond Interpretation Judicial Authority in the Face of Unjust Norms

Designing Sound, Sculpting Gesture

Scholars' Library: Robert McGill on 'Simple Creatures'

Scholars' Library: Robert McGill on 'Simple Creatures'

Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography

Becoming AI – Your Journey to Assimilation?

Archive of Prefiguration: Writing Spatial Futures

King's Business School Alumni Club Launch in Beijing

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #9

Inaugural Lectures: Professors Sheeba Irshad & Shaihan Malik

Professor Anthony Vernon - Inaugural Lecture

Prisoners of Our Own Device

How technology meets business: the role of networks in the development of innovation

Professor of Poetry lecture: Rhyme as Experiment/Rhyme as Alchemy

Invisible

Biblical Interpretation: The Twelfth-Century Norman View

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Dr Melissa Sands- Title TBC

Hecate: Mistress of Magic

The Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May and William Morris with Suzanne Fagence-Cooper

The political riskiness of public policy messaging on corruption

Where Is China Heading under Xi Jinping?

The Politicisation of Local Integration Policy-Making in Western European Small and Medium-sized Towns and Rural Areas

Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Emilia Onyema and Lutz Oette (College of Law)

AAxCCS Propositions: Counter World-building in Speculative Capitalism

An Evening with Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE PC: in conversation with Professor David Latchman CBE

Anaesthesia

‘Nature spoke to her’: women scientists in the Royal Society

Virginia Davis on "Life of William of Wykeham" by Robert Lowth

Sick Architecture

Seminar 6: Powering the Future: How Sustainable and Scalable are Emerging Energy Solutions?

Buddhist Archaeology and the Silk Roads

BSL Interpreted Tours of Expecting

Launch of Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam

Museum Closure in the UK 2000–2025: an invitation

Photobiography

Centre for Law and Humanities, Book Launch Roundtable, Bernard Keenan, Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks (MIT Press 2025), Birkbeck Central Room 308.

Liquidity; Intoxication; Haunting

Affordable Housing and Climate Change

writing with: transversal stories and voices

Growing healthier adult bodies: Lessons from rainforest communities

Costs and consequences of immunity

Characterising homes for the energy transition

Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Dr Mishal Pate in conversation with Prof Blanca Rodriguez

From Mars with Love: Postcards from 50 Years of Exploring The Red Planet

Flora Indica: Recovering the lost histories of Indian botanical art

CLP - Is Environmental Law Hopeful?

The Year Ahead at the Ashmolean, with Xa Sturgis

DPhil student talks

Welcoming Cities: How newcomers shape urban policy making (book launch)

Crick Lecture | Professor Giles Yeo

Lights Up and Audio Described Tours of Expecting

'Voice-parts and voice-types in Tudor England'

Handle with Care: Conversations Through Objects

32nd Annual Roger W.H. Sargent Lecture

Donald Trump and the Death Penalty

Hacking Worldbuilding

Plant Evolution through the Lens of Plant Microfossils

Akram Khan in conversation

Written in the stars: Astronomy weekend at Newnham - celebrating remarkable astrophysicist Dr Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Celebrating 125th anniversary of eminent astrophysicist Dr Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Astronomy at Newnham.

The Living Bible of the Ethiopean Jews

The Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art Annual Lecture 2025

A Celebration of Black Women Theologians in Britain

At the heart of vulnerability: plaques, patients and the pursuit of purpose

No Mediation Privilege as yet. Why not?

Life, Death and Judgement in the Art and Times of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516)

Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg and Professor Julia Sallabank

Economics and Artificial Intelligence

Applicant Drop-In Session

Music of Light and Colour

Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting

How to build a heart at 180 BPM

Authenticating Hacked and Leaked Data

Why Do We Grieve?

CLP - Artificial Intelligence and the Trouble for Authorship

Foundations

Mahāyāna Without the Concept of Mahāyāna: Evidence From an Early Kharoṣṭhī Manuscript from Gandhāra

An Ocean of Air

Leeuwenhoek Prize Lecture by Professor Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FMedSci FRS

Crafting Order

The Shape of Shells: She Sells Self-Similar Spiral Seashells on the Seashore

COPD and the idea of justice

LATE at Kettle's Yard

Mithras: Master of Mystery

CLP - Family Memory and the Official History Machine

Media

The Inevitability of Mannerism

The Family Forum

Coming to Terms

Will You Be AI’s Pet?

Supporting SMEs: real economic effects

Alien Earths: What Makes Us Special?

Self

EU Values, liberal dialogue, and the changing role of the Court of Justice of the EU

Death Investigation: What Do Coroners Do?

Clifford Paterson Prize Lecture by Professor Philipp Kukura FRS

The Capacity of Power

Lee Miller's Indelible Images

State and Economy

CLP - Against Pro Tanto Wrongs in the Theoretical Armature of Criminal Liability

Making Equality

The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives

Salty tales: impacts of salinity in the subsurface

2026 Bentham Association Presidential Address and Dinner

Michael Faraday Prize Lecture: This is not the AI we were promised

Self and Society

The Ground We Stand On

The Sense of Beauty

Exclusive Members' Event – Egyptian Statuettes

Work, Out of Reach

Thinking in water systems

Music of Earth and Space

Self vs. Society

CLP - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs): Technology, Finance, and the Law

Democratic Form

The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical?

From concept to clinic: how algorithms commute

Why Do We Hate?

Royal Society Rising Star Africa Prize Lecture delivered by Professor James Okwe Chibueze

CLP - Legally Speaking: Understanding Gender and Sex in the Shadow of Law

Oligarchs and Their Discontents

Bridget: Goddess and Saint

The Death of Athenian Democracy?

Born Supremacy – AI as a Pale Shadow of Real Humanity

The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots

CLP - Model Law? Template Legal Culture and the Global Production of Environmental Law

A Living Planet

The Annual Lady Mayor's Lecture

A World Without Work

Music of the Mind

Royal Society Africa Prize Lecture delivered by Professor Ara Monadjem

Taming AI

Why Do We Love?

The Shape of Tiles: Regular and Irregular, Hard and Soft

The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky

Music, Death and Afterlife

Dionysus: Lord of Misrule

How Hard is too Hard? An Introduction to Complexity

The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future?

Bakerian Prize Lecture by Professor John Rogers FRS

Music of the Body

Should We Manipulate People’s Emotions?

The White Knight: Ice

Education – And Its Limits

Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change

Forging Better Futures for You and AI

Pluto Isn’t a Planet

The Shape of Knots: From DNA to Shoestrings and Solar Flares

Music of Sleep and Dreams

Cicero In and On Political Crises

The Annual Gray's Inn Reading 2026

Royal Society Environment Prize Lecture by Professor Andrew Balmford FRS

The Morrigan: The Nightmare Queen

The Death of the Roman Republic?

On the Nature of Time According to Modern Physics

Scholars' Library: Dr Brian Wong on 'Moral Debt'

Francis Crick Prize Lecture by Professor Kayla King