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Friday

Mar 28

16:00

The Esther tradition and Reformation in medieval and early modern Europe

Postgraduate Certificate in Neurodiversity Coaching; Information Session

16:30

History East: A Festival of History at Queen Mary, University of London

16:45

The purim tradition with Q&A

17:00

Making sense of Sustainable Investing: A review of the motivations, approaches, and datasets.

Saturday

Mar 29

11:30

Conversations About Death

Tuesday

Apr 1

14:00

'WHAT IS LIBERAL FASCISM': A two-day masterclass with Slavoj Zizek

18:00

The looming global financial crisis: time to re-think development and democracy 2.0

Wednesday

Apr 2

09:00

A conversation with Nicholas Kristof

16:00

Modern Druids

Thursday

Apr 3

12:00

Professor David Edwards: Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways

15:00

Crick Lecture | John Diffley

17:00

AA Book Group

The LGBT+ Showstopper: ‘I Am What I Am’

18:00

African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return.

2025 ICPR Annual Lecture: 'Reimagining the Courtroom.' Delivered by Professor Jessica Jacobson

17:30

Life with two X chromosomes

Saturday

Apr 5

16:00

Medieval Historians in Conversation

Monday

Apr 7

17:00

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Tempest

Tuesday

Apr 8

16:00

How Surveillance Works

Wednesday

Apr 9

13:00

Unlock Your Career in Bioinformatics: Live Q&A with Dr. Irene Nobeli

16:00

A World Remade by Decolonization?

Thursday

Apr 10

13:30

WHO’s work on climate change and health in Africa and the politics of health in the global climate agenda

15:00

Crick Lecture | Roderick Mackinnon

16:00

What Rights and Duties are Missing from the U.S. Constitution?

18:00

Professor Tanya Serisier's Inaugural Lecture - Speaking Out About Sexual Violence: Researching Public Survivors Before and After MeToo

Saturday

Apr 12

09:30

The Working Communities of Mill Road and East Cambridge

Monday

Apr 14

11:00

Ambedkar's birthday: open archives + tour

12:00

Online Info Session: Postgraduate Social Research Programmes

16:00

The 2025 Annual Lord Mayor's Event

Wednesday

Apr 23

17:00

Asteroid Adventures

Thursday

Apr 24

15:00

Crick Lecture | Caroline Hill

16:00

Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt?

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

Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture?

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

Wednesday

Apr 30

15:00

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

16:00

Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World

Thursday

May 1

15:00

Crick Lecture | Sadaf Farooqi

18:00

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

17:30

Dirty Old River

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

Friday

May 2

16:30

Lecture 1 - The Beating Heart

17:00

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

Tuesday

May 6

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

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: Overcoming challenges in the pandemic

16:00

Do Computers Get Sick? How Humans and Computers Fight Viruses

16:30

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

Thursday

May 8

16:00

How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding

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

Tuesday

May 13

14:00

Prayer in a distracted world

16:00

The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia

16:30

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

17:00

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

Wednesday

May 14

11:00

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

16:00

Modern Pagan Witchcraft

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

Thursday

May 15

08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #6

09:00

Political Studies Association (PSA) Sport and Politics Conference

16:00

Oil, Decolonisation, and the Future of the Climate Emergency

The Role of Fungi in Solving Planetary Crises

Friday

May 16

18:00

ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS

Tuesday

May 20

14:45

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

16:00

The Moral Case for Stealing Data

17:00

The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs

18:00

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

Wednesday

May 21

09:00

Teaching and Learning Conference 2025

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

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

Wednesday

May 28

16:30

Viruses, vaccines, and the written word

17:00

A New Sky

Thursday

May 29

12:00

Beyond Neoliberalism Conference 2025

16:00

From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers

18:00

Keynote Panel: Creating the New Economy

Friday

May 30

09:00

Light: a colourful history

Monday

Jun 2

16:00

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

Wednesday

Jun 4

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

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

Monday

Jun 9

16:00

The 2025 Gray's Inn Reading

18:00

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

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

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

18:00

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

Wednesday

Jun 11

16:00

The Future of Immunity

16:30

Seeing the unseen: the pursuit of personalised cancer treatment

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

Monday

Jun 16

16:00

Outsmart the System: How Psychology Hacks Your Money Decisions

Tuesday

Jun 17

14:00

Uses of Scripture

16:00

The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion

Thursday

Jun 19

08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #7

15:00

Environment and History Reading Group (June 2025)

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

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 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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Light: a colourful history

The Royal Society

May 30

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

The Royal Society

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Free exhibition showcasing the collections of the Royal Society.

This new exhibition takes you on a colourful journey into the nature of light. It explores groundbreaking experiments in optical science, drawing on the archives and library of the Royal Society's collection, and highlights how these discoveries have shaped our everyday lives.