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.
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.
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Zen in the art of geography
The RGS Neville Shulman Challenge Award was created 25 years ago to support ambitious expeditions. Neville Shulman CBE, explorer and writer, will explain his philosophy behind the programme. The 2023 recipients of the Award, Karolina Gawonicz and Michal Lukaszewicz will give a richly illustrated account of their 60-day unsupported canoe expedition across the Barren Lands of Canada.
Monday night lecture supper - 27 October
Stay for supper at the Society on 27 October after our Monday night lecture and meet other members and their guests.
Canoeing 1,000 miles across the Barren Lands
During their 60-day long unsupported canoe crossing that straddles over 1,000 miles, the expedition filmed local fauna as well as their own proceedings to produce a documentary highlighting the importance of preservation of these lands in their natural state.
Omani frankincense from antiquity to innovation
Explore the captivating story of Oman's iconic frankincense trees at the 8th Oman Natural Heritage Lecture (ONHL), brought to you by The British Omani Society with the kind support of Amouage
Sustainable polar science for a changing climate
In this event, we will explore emerging sustainable technologies we can use to monitor and predict environmental change in polar regions.
A history of polar exploration in 50 objects - Stamford
Writer, biographer and researcher Anne Strathie shares stories of objects from key periods in polar exploration history, from Cook’s circumnavigations in the 1770s to the aviation age of the early 1930s.
Welcome home: postcards from the field
Short talks from recently returned expeditions and field research projects – hear what they did and the lessons they learned. Followed by a chance to meet, connect, and celebrate their work.
The geographies of resistance and re-existence
Dr Ana Laura Zavala Guillen will present her body of work describing the geographies of resistance and re-existence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Bound by water: linking Amazonian diversity and climate vulnerability
In this lecture, National Geographic Explorers Julia Tavares and Thiago Silva will explore how they are combining cutting-edge methods in plant morphology and functional ecology, environmental monitoring, drone remote sensing and 3D laser scanning (LiDAR) to address a central question: How are different Amazonian forests being affected by climate change?
Monday night lecture supper - 3 November
Stay for supper at the Society on 3 November after our Monday night lecture and meet other members and their guests.
Beyond geograhy: enabling place-based change for future generations
Ian Richardson explores how stewardship of river catchments can contribute to environmental stability.
Traveller into unknown lands
Hilary Bradt will cover her experiences travelling to remote and lesser-known locations, by hitchhiking and bus, before the days of mass travel. She will reflect on the experience of starting a guidebook series introducing travellers to places less visited and her thoughts on sustainable travel in today’s very different environment.