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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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Helping nature to become resilient to climate change
As conditions get rapidly warmer, Andy Lester explores how we can create a climate-resilient landscape.
Children's lecture: secrets of the Unknown Adventurer
Follow in the footsteps of the renowned Unknown Adventurer on a thrilling journey into jungles, oceans, mountains and hidden worlds! Discover wild stories and sketchbook secrets and after the talk, enjoy squash, biscuits and fun activities, including exploring our giant floor map!
Monday night lecture with the Rt Hon the Baroness May of Maidenhead
Former Prime Minister and geography graduate, Baroness May, will be giving the closing lecture of the autumn series.
Monday night lecture supper - 8 December
Stay for supper at the Society on 8 December after our Monday night lecture and meet other members and their guests.
Fiesta: a journey through festivity
Travel writer Daniel Stables explores some of the highlights of the cultural explorations he encountered on the journeys that underpin his narrative travel book 'Fiesta'.
On thin ice: a life in the Antarctic
Professor Dame Jane Francis will combine talking about her own life in polar research with insights into cutting-edge research now being done in Cambridge on the threat to the Antarctic ice shelf. The talk will be followed by wine and canapes.
Driven by the monsoons
Using archaeology, Barry Cunliffe explores the origins of the modern connected world through historic trade routes crossing the Indian Ocean.
Anthony Jenkinson and the mystery of Aru Sultan
This Be Inspired talk by Nick Fielding explores the mystery of the Aru Sultan, a young woman brought to England by merchant adventurer Anthony Jenkinson in the 16th century.
Conservation in action - Susanna Handslip, Aldo Kane, Declan Burley and Vianet Djenguet
Join the team from Apple TV’s 'The Wild Ones' for a behind the scenes look at the challenges of raising awareness about the world’s most critically endangered animals and the role of television in achieving positive change.
Confronting flood risk and climate change
Peter Doktor will explain the approach being taken to develop the Broadland Futures Initiative, which aims to improve the resilience of people, places, and the environment to flooding.
Asgard Legacy - Niall McCann
In an expedition led by Founder’s Medal recipient Colonel Patrick Baird, Mount Asgard was first climbed in 1953. Seven decades later, Niall and Finn McCann attempted to follow in their grandfather’s footsteps.
The Raleigh Club - Deborah Ireland
This Be Inspired talk looks at the history of the Raleigh Club and its remarkable members.