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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.
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Putting the news on the map
Leading journalists and media watchers will place the stories of the week within the wider geographical landscape, making connections across environmental, political and social forces.
Glaciers and ice sheets in a warming world: impacts and outcomes
A UK UNESCO initiative reveals the disastrous loss of glaciers and their vital supply of water to mountain communities, and enhanced ice sheet melting that will accelerate coastal flooding world-wide.
Lessons from the wild: nothing grows in the comfort zone - Anna Dimitriadis
Growing up, Anna, a wildlife filmmaker, believed she had missed the age of exploration. However, the further she travelled, the more she realised the greatest mysteries lay somewhere entirely unexpected.
Lost, found and followed: remarkable tales from tracking wild animals
Biologist Lucy Hawkes reveals how cutting-edge animal tracking technology is transforming our understanding of some of the planet’s most exciting wild animals.
40 years of polar expeditions - what I have learned
Norwegian polar explorer Børge Ousland, will be speaking about his polar expeditions over the last 40 years, including his IceLegacy project, and the crossing of the North pole in the dark.
Following in the footsteps of Frank Hurley - Frans Lanting
Fascinated by Hurley’s work, Frans will discuss retracing his footsteps with a Kodak VPK camera, from South Georgia to Elephant Island and into the Wendell Sea, pitching a camp less than 50 miles from where Endurance was trapped in pack ice.
The future of the British countryside - Mary-Ann Ochota with Guy Shrubsole and Sue Pritchard
Broadcaster and CPRE President Mary-Ann Ochota FRGS explores some of the key moments in the history of our countryside, the wicked issues that we still need to address, and looks to the future of the British countryside.
Penguin pandemonium - Dr Peter and Lisa Fretwell
Peter and Lisa Fretwell will discuss penguin history, evolution, behaviours and habitats from their new book 'The Penguin Book of Penguins'.
Countries on the edge - Sir Michael Palin with Neil Ferguson
In conversation with director Neil Ferguson, Sir Michael Palin will reflect on processes of change witnessed in countries featured in recent documentary series: North Korea, Iraq, Nigeria, Venezuela and the Philippines.