The Forum - radio programme recording
Wednesday 15 October at 18.45
A recording of the BBC World Service programme presented by Bridget Kendall taking ideas across boundaries: scientific, creative and geographic.
Booking & tickets: Free but must be booked in advance and can only be booked online
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Venue: Royal Geographical Society with IBG, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR
Razing the rainforests
21st century challenges event
Wednesday 22 October at 19.00
Join a panel of international experts including Warren Evans, World Bank Director of Environment and Simon Counsell, Director of the Rainforest Foundation discussing the challenge of how best to conserve the world’s rainforests.
Booking & tickets: Society Members £10; non-Members £15
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Venue: Royal Geographical Society with IBG, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR
Annual EGR Taylor lecture
‘For those in peril on the sea’: marking and mapping of the Scottish seas before 1787 by Dr Alison Morrison-Low, National Museums Scotland
Tuesday 28 October at 18.30
Joint event with SNR, Hakluyt Society and RIN, telling how the Scots presented their local maritime dangers to mariners, from early times until the first lighthouse at Kinnaird Head, in 1787.
Booking & tickets: Lecture and supper £25 (cheque made payable to RGS-IBG). 
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Trade-v-Aid: Young Members debate
Thursday 30 October at 19.00
Join a panel of experts discussing whether the answer to debt reduction is to boost the flow of aid and create
a trade system which is fairer for all.
Booking & tickets: £5, open to all.
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Chair: Matt Smith (Chair of the Young Members Committee)
Panel:
- Gareth Thomas MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
- Geoffrey Dennis, Chief Executive CARE International
- Giles Bolton, Author of Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor
- Full biographies here
Discovering people with Brian Blessed
Tuesday 4 November at 19.00
Join Libby Purves talking to Brian about his mountaineering career including his attempts to climb Mount Everest as well as his trek on foot to the magnetic North Pole and his expedition into the jungles of Venezuela.
Booking & tickets: Society Members £10; non-Members £15
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Migration, skills and the job market
21st century challenges event
Tuesday 11 November at 19.00
Join a panel of international business experts including Philippe Legrain, author of Immigrants: Your country needs them, discussing the growing challenge that businesses are facing with changing European & global workforce patterns in the 21st Century.
Booking & tickets: Society Members £10; non-Members £15
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Venue: The Auditorium, The Willis Building, 51 Lime Street, EC3M 7DQ
Un-natural hazards: the cultural geology of risk: living in a risky geological world by Dr Iain Stewart
Lecture (Hammersmith)
Tuesday 25 November at 18.30
Physical exposure to floods, hurricanes, earthquake or volcanic eruptions is an important part of what makes individuals and communities hazard prone, but more important is people’s lack of capacity to avoid, cope with, and recover from natural threats.
Booking & tickets: Free but admission by ticket only from Mike Ashby
+44 (0) 845 638 5800
Venue: Edward Latymer Theatre, Latymer Upper School, 237 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9LR
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