What's on
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.
RGS Explore Weekend 2025
Book your tickets for this year's RGS Explore Weekend. Connect with leading explorers and field practitioners, and learn everything you need to make your expedition a success.
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Rude or robust? Rehabilitating a 19th-century Gujarati chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
Join speakers John P Cooper and Kumail Rajani as they discuss their interpretation of the 19th-century Gujarati chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from the Society's Collections.
Environmental justice and climate action: victims of the ‘war on woke’?
Professor Laura Pulido explores how the 'war on woke' promoted by dominant figures in the US Republican Party is harming climate action and environmental justice in the US and far beyond.
How our virtual world impacts our physical world
Oliver Cronk explores the profound and often overlooked geographical and environmental implications of our expanding digital world.
Beyond the beach: rethinking holidays in a warming world
As the climate crisis accelerates, how should we think about our holidays in a more conscious and responsible way? This panel asks what it means to take a good holiday today and explore how our leisure choices shape the world, and what a fairer, more sustainable holiday culture might look like.
The big AI debate: the future of generative AI in higher education
Come along to a light-hearted debate on the role of generative AI in teaching and learning at university level.
The next crisis: what we think about the future
Danny Dorling unpacks polling data and shows that our global crises are often very different from what’s in the headlines, and that we need to take these issues very seriously.
Richard Dawkins – DNA and the evolution of life
Join Richard Dawkins for a ground-breaking exploration of the power of DNA and what it can reveal about the deepest patterns of evolution.
Zen in the art of geography
The RGS Neville Shulman Challenge Award was created 25 years ago to support ambitious expeditions. Neville Shulman CBE, explorer and writer, will explain his philosophy behind the programme. The 2023 recipients of the Award, Karolina Gawonicz and Michal Lukaszewicz will give a richly illustrated account of their 60-day unsupported canoe expedition across the Barren Lands of Canada.
Monday night lecture supper - 27 October
Stay for supper at the Society on 27 October after our Monday night lecture and meet other members and their guests.
Postgraduate insights webinar: making the most of your supervisor
Come along to this interactive one hour webinar to learn tips and techniques for managing your relationship with your PhD supervisor.
University geography society networking
This event is a great opportunity to meet other students who are actively involved in running geography societies at their universities. You’ll hear short presentations from our different teams, outlining the work we do to promote student engagement with geography and to strengthen the links between societies nationwide.
Canoeing 1,000 miles across the Barren Lands
During their 60-day long unsupported canoe crossing that straddles over 1,000 miles, the expedition filmed local fauna as well as their own proceedings to produce a documentary highlighting the importance of preservation of these lands in their natural state.