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Lecture

Architecture as an Earth practice

Join the curators of the British Pavilion for the 2025 Venice Biennale as they present a compelling lecture-performance that expands on the exhibition’s central themes of repair, reparation, and resistance.

Lecture

Through Siam with a camera - John Thomson

In 1865 John Thomson travelled to Siam and photographed the King and his subjects creating a unique record of the country. This talk revisits the original negatives to see Siam as recorded by Thomson’s lens in 1865.

Lecture

Expanding our understanding of racism and anti-racist politics

This exchange brings together the authors of three books which endeavour to expand our comprehension of what racism is.

Lecture

Overnight adventures

Our speaker, Dan Richards, focuses on nocturnal stories past and present, beginning with the time he got benighted in the Swiss Alps, on the trail of his great grand aunt Dorothy Pilley’s mountaineering legacy, before going on to discuss the various adventures and journeys after dark which feature in his new book, Overnight.

Discussion

The hole in the ozone layer

Join us to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the most significant environmental discoveries of our time, the ozone hole.

Webinar

Digital twins for climate resilience

The Society and Ordnance Survey are collaborating on a lunchtime webinar series focusing on digital twins. This session will be focussed on digital twins for climate resilience.

Webinar

Digital twins in the transport sector #2 - 16 April

The Society and Ordnance Survey are collaborating on a lunchtime webinar series focusing on digital twins. This webinar will look at digital twins in the transport sector.

Lecture

Integrating maps and instruments in art

Kristina Chan will discuss her current art exhibition, Habitable Climes, which includes images of instruments in our Collections. Attendees will be able to see the instruments following the talk.

microlecture

Called by the Carpathians

Twenty years after first connecting with these mountains, Jeffrey Hartman returns to launch a rehabilitation program teaching snow sports to Ukrainian war veterans.

microlecture

Blue-eyed Sevan: struggles above and below the surface

As Tenny Adamian attempts a paddleboard circumnavigation of the largest lake in the Caucasus, its environmental challenge is revealed.

microlecture

Across Armenia

Katya Guryeva runs the Transcaucasian Trail, supported by her partner Jonas Wilcks as crew captain. Over 22 days, they learn what it really takes to complete a dream adventure as ambitious amateurs.

microlecture

Through Britain by thumb

Nico Lethbridge proves the forgotten art of hitchhiking is not dead, and that people-led travel uncovers remarkable things about a country and those who live in it.