Senate House Library and the Institute of Historical Research Library will give history buffs a thrilling Halloween experience at their fifth History Day on 31 October. This unique event for undergraduate and postgraduate students, early-career researchers and anyone interested in history, brings together libraries, archives and history organisations from London and beyond. Items relevant to Halloween will be highlighted.
The 'Boissonnas and Egypt' conference will present different perspectives on the context of 1920s Egypt in relation to Boissonnas’s work and explore wider debates around photography and cultural geography. The conference will be followed by a private view of the Boissonnas in Egypt exhibition from 17.30-19.30.
From Blade Runner, Siri and sexbots, to the writings of Jules Verne, HG Wells and Asimov’s I, Robot, it can feel like the lines between science and science fiction are becoming increasingly blurred. How far away is modern tech from catching up with visions of the future previously only imagined in science fiction? What are the real and imagined implications of artificial intelligence on society and our everyday lives?
This November Springer Nature is proud to partner with the Economic and Social Research Council to invite you to their launch of the 15th annual ESRC Festival of Social Science. Looking at the important role of research beyond academia, the speakers will be discussing how research can address real-world challenges including climate change, economics, race, migration, social health and interdisciplinarity.
China’s future matters. But as Xi Jinping pursues the dream of a new order at home and abroad, the West is struggling to understand the nature of what is proving to be a bigger idea with wider implications for the world. Is China now a civilisational advance, drawing on millennia of political thought and a hundred years of trial and error?
You are invited to the launch of a book that uniquely combines local economy, community engagement and changing neighbourhoods. The publication explains the reasoning behind experiments conducted over the past 18 months in Barcelona, Berlin, Antwerp and London and captures valuable lessons for community activists, policy makers, researchers, planners as well as local business people.
The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite staff from Knowledge Quarter organisations to the next in our series of private breakfast views. It will be on this occasion hosted at the British Museum. KQ staff and partner organisations will have the opportunity to have an exclusive look at Scythians warriors of ancient Siberia, the British Museum's new blockbuster exhibition.
When did you last spend an enjoyable afternoon thinking about tax? Now you can make that dream a reality! You are invited to an afternoon of informative fun and tax saving ideas with Green Accountancy. Come and join the party and you'll get to know your SEIS from your LLPs. And take away a great story about the taxation of grants to share with your friends.
Join the Royal College of Physicians for a special free evening event devoted to the remarkable Sir Thomas Browne. Hear a talk on the famous 17th century polymath by leading expert Dr Kevin Killeen, and take the final opportunity for a late visit to the acclaimed exhibition 'A cabinet of rarities': the curious collections of Sir Thomas Browne’.
EIT Digital would like to invite you to Intelligent Mobility: the future of transport. This year’s event will explore how Intelligent Mobility (IM) will affect the transport industry and will address wider societal trends – including a growing and ageing global population, climate change, the rapid depletion of our traditional energy resources, and increasing urbanisation.
