Public Events
The School's extensive programme of events offers our national subject communities opportunities to disseminate their research to the widest possible audience.
Each year over 68,000 participants from around the world attend over 1,800 events - from seminars, lectures and workshops to major international conferences in the humanities and related social sciences.
The majority of our events are free and open to everyone and do not require advance booking.
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of English Studies |
British Academy Literature Week 'Turning the Page' Venue: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Sculptor Justin Rowe explores his love of books in this mini-exhibition at the British Academy. In a digital age, … |
Other | |
| 10:00 | Warburg Institute |
Classifying Content: Photographic Collection and Theories of Thematic Ordering Focusing on the theory and the practice of thematic ordering, this workshop will compare the intellectual projects that have informed some of the major photographic collections of Western Art in … |
Warburg Institute |
| 10:30 | Institute of Commonwealth Studies |
Conference on ‘The Legacy of Empire’ The aim of the conference will be to look at the legacy of empire through the eyes of high profile speakers from states that were former British dependencies and who had … |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, first floor) |
| 14:00 | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies |
The European Public Prosecutor: Coming Soon To A Country Near You? The European Union Act 2011 requires a referendum in the UK before we can appoint an EPP here; but other member states may do so without our participation. Why would they … |
IALS |
| 14:00 | Human Rights Consortium |
A license to drill? Social resistance to unconventional gas activities: is Australia’s present Britain’s future? Unconventional gas (UG) activities are rapidly expanding in Australia with a predicted 40,000 wells to be developed in the state of Queensland alone. Community concern over the potential contamination of groundwater, … |
The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
| 14:00 | Institute of Commonwealth Studies |
A license to drill? Social resistance to unconventional gas activities: is Australia’s present Britain’s future? Unconventional gas (UG) activities are rapidly expanding in Australia with a predicted 40,000 wells to be developed in the state of Queensland alone. Community concern over the potential contamination of groundwater, … |
The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
| 16:30 | Institute of Classical Studies |
ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar TBC |
Room 243 (Senate House) |
| 17:00 | Institute of Musical Research |
Performance in the studio CMPCP/IMR performance/research seminar Open to the public, free of charge; no booking required |
Room 104 (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
The Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520: Peace Conference or War Game? Venue: Queens House, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NFPlease note: this session starts at 18:00 |
to be confirmed |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
English Middle Class Women's Participation in Sport: Dress and Gender Relations, c. 1851-1875 |
Room G35 (Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Historical Research |
Women at War. French Prisoners in England and Family Relations in the Eighteenth Century |
Room G37 (Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Classical Studies |
Roman Art Seminar To be confirmed Mondays at 5.30pm in Room G3 of the Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square/2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place) |
11 Bedford Square Room G3 |
| 18:00 | Institute of English Studies |
British Academy Literature Week 'Yeats's Mother Tongue' Venue: The Irish Embassy, 17 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7HR Yeats's life in Bedford Park, Bloomsbury, Ashdown Forest, Oxford, Sussex and Kent and his work for the BBC and on … |
Other |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17:00 | Institute of Philosophy |
Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar: Desires Locally Satisfied |
Room 243 (Senate House) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
East End immigrant songs in Yiddish Please note: this session has been cancelled. It is hoped to hold it in the next academic year. |
Room 103 (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Triers, ejectors and the Cromwellian church Please note: this session takes place in the Gordon Room, G34, on the ground floor. |
Room G34 (Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Material movements and a sense of place: Sir Thomas Puckering's household, 1620 Mark and Catherine's paper will be related to their publication, The Household Account book of Sir Thomas Puckering of Warwick, 1620: Living in London and Midlands (Dugdale Society vol.45, 2012) |
The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Encounters and exchanges: photography in exploration |
Room 104 (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Ten Rillington Place and the Politics of the Backstreet Abortionist in Modern Britain, 1949-1971 This paper addresses the social, cultural and political history of the backstreet abortionist in post-war Britain, focusing on the formulation of the role within the Timothy Evans case (1950). Timothy Evans … |
Room 102 (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of English Studies |
Roman Jakobson: Poetry of Self, City, Sign and Form Gareth Farmer (University of Bedfordshire): 'Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetry, a Form of Self' Veronica Forrest-Thomson's poetry was always produced in complex dialogue with a variety of poetic and critical theory. Her poems can … |
Room 246 (Senate House) |
| 18:00 | Institute of English Studies |
British Academy Literature Week 'What can those who teach and study Shakespeare learn from those who perform his plays - and vice-versa?' Venue: The UnderGlobe, Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside, London SE1 9DT Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University) and … |
Other |
| 19:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
Landholding and Law in the early Islamic State (7th and 8th centuries CE) Venue: The Court Room, Senate House, 1st floor |
The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Institute of English Studies |
Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place ‘Shifting Territories’ will consider the recent wave of new nature writing and poetry which goes beyond traditional representations of landscape to venture into borderlands, edgelands and urban environments: a development which … |
Institute of English Studies |
| 10:30 | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies |
How to get a PhD in Law: Preparing yourself for the vivas. Getting yourself known - presenting skills, publishing your work, and networking. MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend this specially tailored day of presentations and networking opportunities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Topics to include: Preparing yourself for the … |
IALS |
| 14:00 | Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies |
Women's Writing in the 21st Century (CCWW Seminar) Convenors: Marie Carrière (Alberta) and Gill Rye (IGRS)All welcome (please contact Gill Rye to attend) This cross-cultural seminar will gather scholars working on current tendencies, turns, and manisfestations in contemporary women's … |
Room G35 (Ground Floor) |