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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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Moving mountains: intrepid women climbers and the peaks named in their honour
Join Rosemary Brown for a Be Inspired afternoon lecture to hear about nine extraordinary women mountaineers from the 18th century until present day.
The Missing Lynx Project: the return of lynx to England?
Dr Deborah Brady will explore the feasibility of returning lynx to a habitat patch in northern England and southern Scotland through a reintroduction in Northumberland.
40 years of polar expeditions - what I have learnt
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.
Monday night lecture supper - 9 November
Stay for supper at the Society on 9 November after our Monday night lecture and meet other members and their guests.
Global Governance: an A Level journey
The North West regional committee's annual schools lecture by Professor Emma Mawdsley.
To Lhasa and beyond: Thomas Manning and the making of early British sinology
This Be Inspired talk by Dr Edward Weech reassesses Thomas Manning’s distinctive place in the early history of British Sinology.
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.
School Member Lecture: How can biogeomorphology contribute to a nature-positive future?
Our Autumn School Member Lecture with Professor Gemma Harvey on natural processes for support nature recovery and the delivery of ecosystem services.
Making sense of authoritarianism
From her book 'The Trouble with Freedom' Melissa Butcher discusses how social, cultural and political divisions opened up America to an authoritarian leader, and the implications for politics in the UK.
Beyond the map: living geography on 'Race Across the World'
Contestants on Race Across the World, Geography Teacher Andrew Clifford and his daughter Molly, reflect on their adventures travelling from Palermo to Mongolia.
Major Alexander Gordon Laing and the Timbuktu Mission
In this Be Inspired afternoon talk, Henrietta Butler FRGS commemorates Major Alexander Gordon Laing’s infamous Saharan feat on his bicentenary.
Norwich and Norfolk school microlectures
Shortlisted pupils from local schools present short talks on a broad range of critical geographical issues. Please come along to support them and hear the authentic voices of today’s young people.