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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

From Thin Air: Minimalist and Process Music from Africa to Arvo Pärt

Friday

May 2

14:30

Social Entrepreneurship in Conflict & Post-Conflict Settings

16:00

O'Donnell Lecture 2025: The Morrigan Revisited

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

18:00

Ekphrasis

17:30

The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’

Saturday

May 3

14:00

True Cut: Biopsies from the hidden heart of healthcare

Tuesday

May 6

10:00

Margherissima

13:00

Meet the Artist: Joy Labinjo

Are Doctrines Empirically Verifiable? Theology, Theory, and the Human Sciences

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

Margherissima Opening Reception

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

Narrating the Self: from Montaigne to Instagram

Simone Natale - Projecting Life Onto Machines

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

10:00

Never Not None

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

Do Computers Get Sick? How Humans and Computers Fight Viruses

"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

17:00

Extraordinary Pools

18:00

The Man Who Painted his House

17:30

The death and life of the center-left

Thursday

May 8

11:00

Conflict Brokers: How Local Politicians Make or Break Insurgencies

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

Friday

May 9

15:00

Conversations with the Past: Writing Workshop

17:00

Screening and discussion: Jon Jost and Ian Christie

16:30

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

18:00

Writing Queer Performance

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

16:00

The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia

17:00

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

16:00

Beyond Pax Americana

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

OLEM: Yolande Lyne-Stephens and the creation of a Cambridge church & AGM

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

16:00

Modern Pagan Witchcraft

16:30

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

17:00

Asking, Looking, Playing, Making

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

From Las Vegas to Rome

Crick Lecture | Hao Wu

16:00

Oil, Decolonisation, and the Future of the Climate Emergency

The Role of Fungi in Solving Planetary Crises

18:00

Manuscript Stories: Unconventional Women in the History of Travel Writing

19:30

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

All at Sea: Ports, islands and climate crises

Friday

May 16

16:30

The actual most dangerous speech in the UK

18:00

ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS

18:30

POETRY PERFORMANCE by A.C. Hello, Contemporary Performer, Artist and Poet

Monday

May 19

12:30

The Inconsistencies of AI Futures

18:00

Changing the record: how people use(d) paperwork to make their world

17:30

Conscience incorporated: pursuing profits while protecting human rights

Tuesday

May 20

13:00

Volcanoes: Reflections of Heaven or Hell?

14:45

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

16:00

The Moral Case for Stealing Data

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

Thursday

May 22

15:00

Environment and History Reading Group (May 2025)

16:00

Taking the Constitution into the Classroom

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

17:00

A Maker of Chocolate and Bibles: Francis Fry’s Collecting, Correcting and Cataloguing

16:30

Viruses, vaccines, and the written word

17:00

A New Sky

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

16:00

From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers

17:30

Curious Cures: In-Conversation with the Curator

18:00

Keynote Panel: Creating the New Economy

17:30

The Land Remembers

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

18:00

In Vitro: The Fertility Industry Medieval and Modern. Matthews Lecture, 2025

Monday

Jun 2

12:00

Careers in space

16:00

Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps

17:30

Bakerian Prize Lecture: How mathematicians are helping art historians and art conservators

Tuesday

Jun 3

13:00

Applying Christian Values to a Genetic Age

16:00

Oxford Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis: Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play

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

17:00

Hidden in Plain White: Aztec Articulations of Catholic Lessons

16:00

Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins

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

15:00

Crick Lecture | Manuel Serrano

15:30

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

16:00

Lawgivers in Modern Revolutions

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

11:00

Coexistence: workshopping positive visions for humans and wildlife

16:30

The right to a liveable planet

Monday

Jun 9

16:00

Democracy and International Criminal Justice in the Fragile World of the Rule of Law

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

16:00

Carbon Takeback: How We Will Stop Fossil Fuels from Causing Global Warming

16:15

‘It’s like you’re an activist’: Sustainable teaching practices in a music outreach project in London

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

13:00

Extractivism and research impact: how to build authentic collaborations wtih non-academic/community partners

16:00

The Future of Immunity

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

17:30

Illuminating the Dark Side of the Moon

Friday

Jun 13

16:30

Maps of home: Imagining sanctuary now

Monday

Jun 16

16:00

Outsmart the System: How Psychology Hacks Your Money Decisions

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

16:00

The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion

17:00

How children, scientists, and AI systems learn

Thursday

Jun 19

08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #7

15:00

Environment and History Reading Group (June 2025)

16:00

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters

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

10:45

The Gresham Festival of Musical Ideas

Saturday

Jun 21

10:00

Projects Review 2025

14:00

Wesley House - Living Stones Open Day

Monday

Jun 23

17:00

Limitarianism and Capitalism

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?

Monday

Oct 6

17:30

Ferrier Prize Lecture: Unravelling the molecular basis of Huntington's disease

Friday

Oct 17

16:00

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

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Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters

Oxford University

June 19

4:00 pm

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Natasha Trethewey, United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014) and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will deliver the 2025 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters. The event will be followed by a drinks reception and book signing.