Audience sat in the Ondaatje Theatre at the Society.

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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.

 

 

 

ConferenceRGS Director Joe Smith welcomes attendees in the Ondaatje Theatre during the Explore 2024 opening address.

RGS Explore Weekend 2025

Book your tickets for this year's RGS Explore Weekend. Connect with leading explorers and field practitioners, and learn everything you need to make your expedition a success.

£95.00 - £125.00

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Webinar

Professional Pathway to Chartered Geographer for employers - October

Join this webinar in October to find out more about how employers can support their staff on the Professional Pathway to Chartered Geographer.

Lecture

The High North: reflections on an opening Arctic

Dr Steve Aiken has led operational patrols beneath the ice and advised the Ministry of Defence research on defence and security matters in the High North. He reflects on this increasingly contested part of the world.

Non-Society event

Marie Kondo – How to live

The internationally beloved author and organiser returns to How To Academy to share new ideas for living wisely and well, drawn from the ancient traditions of Japanese culture.

Exhibition

Earth Photo: Haldon

Visit Haldon Forest Park to see a stunning selection of the selected and winning images from this years competition.

Exhibition

Earth Photo: Alice Holt

Visit Alice Holt Forest to see a stunning selection of the selected and winning images from this years competition.

Exhibition

Earth Photo: Dalby

Visit Dalby Forest to see a stunning selection of the selected and winning images from this years competition.

Lecture

Rude or robust? Rehabilitating a 19th-century Gujarati chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden

Join speakers John P Cooper and Kumail Rajani as they discuss their interpretation of the 19th-century Gujarati chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from the Society's Collections.

Lecture

Environmental justice and climate action: victims of the ‘war on woke’?

Professor Laura Pulido explores how the 'war on woke' promoted by dominant figures in the US Republican Party is harming climate action and environmental justice in the US and far beyond.

Lecture

How our virtual world impacts our physical world

Oliver Cronk explores the profound and often overlooked geographical and environmental implications of our expanding digital world.

£3.00 - £6.00
Discussion

Beyond the beach: rethinking holidays in a warming world

As the climate crisis accelerates, how should we think about our holidays in a more conscious and responsible way? This panel asks what it means to take a good holiday today and explore how our leisure choices shape the world, and what a fairer, more sustainable holiday culture might look like.

£5.00 - £12.00
Workshop

The big AI debate: the future of generative AI in higher education

Come along to a light-hearted debate on the role of generative AI in teaching and learning at university level.

Lecture

The next crisis: what we think about the future

Danny Dorling unpacks polling data and shows that our global crises are often very different from what’s in the headlines, and that we need to take these issues very seriously.