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of modern thinking since 1835

Forthcoming Lit&Phil Events

This page lists this season's Lit&Phil events.

Click here for the Natural History Section events. 

The Geology Section has a separate website: www.charnia.org.uk/

Scroll to the end of the page for past events.

The 2025 - 2026 season of lectures has now finished.

We look forward to a new season which starts on the 28th September 2026 with the Annual Members Meeting followed by a concert by the Chamber Ensemble of the Bardi Wind Orchestra. 

Highlights of the new programme will be published here by the end of May and the full programme will be published in early summer.

No events available.

Past events

27 Apr 2026 Nearly forty years in the field with Sir David Attenborough
13 Apr 2026 The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool – 150 years young
23 Mar 2026 Tectonic evolution of the Himalaya and Karakoram mountains
9 Mar 2026 What have Insects ever done for us?
23 Feb 2026 “Prophets of Doom”: Environmental Stigma in a Leicester Periphery.
16 Feb 2026 AI and the transformation of business
9 Feb 2026 Plastic: Saviour or Destroyer of the Planet?
26 Jan 2026 The BADU Way: Unlearning and New Learning
8 Dec 2025 A Sense of Place in Austen's Fiction and Letters: Why No Single Biography of her Work and Life Suffices
24 Nov 2025 The Neanderthals - not so different from ourselves? New evidence from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan.
10 Nov 2025 The Leicester Medical School – Influencing half a century of Academic Cardiovascular Medicine in the UK and beyond
27 Oct 2025 Rural Britain’s Colonial Histories: Country Walks through Hidden Histories of Empire
13 Oct 2025 What has Leicester done for Nature? Celebrating Leicestershire's Natural History and Historians Past and Present.
29 Sep 2025 Lit&Phil 2025 Annual Members' Meeting, followed by a music concert
28 Apr 2025 Writing the Roman Empire: from Leicester to the Sahara and back again - Professor David Mattingly
7 Apr 2025 Rewilding – how we can heal our land - Isabella Tree
24 Mar 2025 Recent discoveries from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset - Dr Steve Etches
17 Mar 2025 Conserving Canterbury Cathedral - Jonathan ‘Jo’ Deeming
10 Mar 2025 The making of Plant Atlas 2020, from field to folio - Dr Oli Pescott
24 Feb 2025 Doing Science in the Age of Photography - Professor Kelley Wilder
10 Feb 2025 The Culinary Chemist: Out of the Lab and into the Tent - Dr Josh Smalley
27 Jan 2025 From ‘It’s the Sun Wot Won it!’ to ‘Is This The TikTok election?’: ‘Real Time’ General Election News Analysis in Retrospect (1992-2024) - Professor David Deacon
13 Jan 2025 Reaching for the Stars - Dame Maggie Aderin Pocock
2 Dec 2024 Pantomime is Never What it Used to Be - Professor Katherine Newey
18 Nov 2024 How I came to write ‘This Sporting Life: Sport & Liberty in England 1760-1960’ (OUP 2020) - Professor Robert Colls
4 Nov 2024 What’s in a Name? - Gautam G Bodiwala
28 Oct 2024 The beautiful links between mathematics and literature - Professor Sarah Hart
7 Oct 2024 Beer, bribes, and brawling: an accurate representation of elections in Victorian England? - Mr Nigel Siesage
30 Sep 2024 Lit&Phil members' 2024 Annual Members' Meeting

Summaries of Lit&Phil lectures from previous years are available in the Transactions.

Listings of Lit&Phil events in the recent past are given below.

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