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Forthcoming Lit&Phil Events

This page lists this season's Lit&Phil events - you can also download a summary here.

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.

  • Lit&Phil members' 2025Annual Members' Meeting

    • 29 Sep 2025
    • 18:40 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    Hansom HallPhoto: Alan Murray-Rust / Hansom Hall, Belvoir Street / CC BY-SA 2.0

    The Annual Members' Meeting, is open to all members of the Lit&Phil.

    The meeitng will start at 6:40 PM.

    Further details to follow
    The Annual Members Meeting will take place in Hansom Hall, beginning at 6.40pm. The meeting will be the first of the 2025 - 2026 season. 

    The Annual Members' Meeting is an opportunity to hear about, and discuss, the Society’s business and plans for the 2025/26 season, as well as any other matters which members wish to raise.

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  • What has Leicester done for Nature? Celebrating Leicestershire Natural History and Historians Past and Present.

    • 13 Oct 2025
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100
     

    The President's Address

    Hazel Graves

    Further details to follow


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  • Rural Britain’s Colonial Histories: Country Walks through Hidden Histories of Empire

    • 27 Oct 2025
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    To be given by:

    Professor Corinne Fowler MA PhD, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage, Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

    Details to follow.

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  • To be confirmed

    • 10 Nov 2025
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    To be given by:

    Professor Bryan Williams, Chair of Medicine Population Science & Experimental Medicine, UCL, and Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, British Heart Foundation.

    Details to follow.

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  • Conversation and Civilization in the work of Jane Austen.

    • 8 Dec 2025
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    The Arthur and Jean Humphreys Lecture

    To be given by:

    Dr Elizabeth Eger PhD, Reader Emerita English Department, Kings College London.

    Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth

    Details to follow.

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  • Lecture Sponsored by the University of Leicester

    • 12 Jan 2026
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    Details to follow.

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  • Lecture Sponsored by Loughborough University

    • 26 Jan 2026
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    To be given by:

    Dr Nana Siaw-Badu BEM, CEO of Badu Sport

    Details to follow.


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  • Lecture Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry

    • 9 Feb 2026
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    Details to follow.


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  • Lecture Sponsored by De Montfort University

    • 23 Feb 2026
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    Details to follow.


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  • Tectonic evolution of the Himalaya and Karakoram mountains

    • 23 Mar 2026
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    To be given by:

    Professor Mike Searle PhD, Worcester College, Professor of Earth Sciences Worcester College University of Oxford

    The Geology Section Joint Lecture

    Details to follow.


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  • The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool – 150 years young

    • 13 Apr 2026
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    To be given by:

    Sandra Penketh MA, Director of Collections & Research, National Museums Liverpool.

    Joint Lecture with the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery

    Details to follow.


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  • Nearly forty years in the field with Sir David Attenborough

    • 27 Apr 2026
    • 19:30 - 21:00
    • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
    • 100

    To be given by:

    Dr Alastair Fothergill OBE, CEO of Silverback Films.

    The F.L. Attenborough Lecture

    Details to follow.


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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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