What's on
Browse our in-person and online events, including our Monday night lectures, regional events and teacher CPD sessions. You can also watch a selection of our past talks.
Everest 24
This exhibition will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition during which Man Bahadur and Lance-Naik Shamsherpun tragically died and George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared pushing for the summit.
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Beavers in Dorset: Dorset Wildlife Trust's Beaver Project
In this presentation, Stephen Oliver will tell the fascinating story of how the beavers have settled into their Dorset home and explain how these unique mammals can play a vital role in river ecology and nature-based solutions to flooding, pollution and species loss.
The resilience of Canada’s First Nation communities to climate change
Annette Salles explores how in Canada Indigenous knowledge and Western research combine to inform and support culturally appropriate adaptations to future climate change.
Geopolitical conflict
Join us for an evening where Sir John Sawers in conversation with Nicholas Crane will discuss geopolitical conflict in the context of climate change, great power rivalry and a constrained United Nations.
Precision in place-names: the problem of orthography at the Royal Geographical Society
Beth will explore how the Society tackled the question of how to spell place names in the late 19th century, highlighting the fundamental tensions between institutional authority and individual expertise.
Can geographers save the world?
How can geospatial data be used to put the world’s most vulnerable populations and habitats on the map so that we can save them?
Plastic pollution: the solutions
Members of the UK and Ireland Spill Association's Plastic Pollution Working Group (PPWG) discuss a number of the solutions to plastic pollution
Perceiving climate change: heat
How do scientists, artists and the wider public ‘notice’ climate change by witnessing changes in their perception of temperature and its effects in the world around us?
Wounded Tigris: a river journey through the cradle of civilization
Writer, broadcaster and explorer Leon McCarron shares stories from his incredible, beautiful and occasionally dangerous journey by boat along the full length of the river, recounted in his book Wounded Tigris: a river journey.
Everest: East side story
One hundred years after George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared near the top of Everest, Stephen Venables, the first British climber to reach the world’s highest summit without supplementary oxygen, will recount his own ascent in the light of the first pioneering attempts.
Annual International Conference opening plenary: mapping geography
Members are invited to attend the opening plenary conversation on mapping geography at this year's Annual International Conference 2024.
School member lecture: the changing city - alternative uses of urban space
This lecture will give an overview of the ideas, theories and case studies of how city places and spaces are developing, and how urban citizens are responding to that change with changes of their own.
Geographical journeys: microlectures
An informal evening of short illustrated talks packed with tales of adventure and discovery to entertain and inspire.