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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.

 

 

 

ExhibitionHistoric black and white photograph of two explorers taking photographs in a snowy mountainous environment.

Everest through the lens

Another chance to see the Society's exhibition marking the centenary of the early Everest expeditions. Explore how Captain John Noel's films shaped the public's imagination of Everest, while obscuring the vital role of local intermediaries.

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Lecture

Geographical journeys: microlectures

An evening, chaired by Mary-Ann Ochota, packed with tales of adventure and discovery to entertain and inspire. Discussion encouraged afterwards in the Map Room.

£5.00 - £12.00
Lecture

Informing action: Esmond B. Martin lecture

As one of this year’s Esmond B. Martin RGS Prize recipients, Dr Jake Wall will talk about his work mapping and visualising the GPS data from collared African elephants across the continent.

Lecture

The study of landscapes of extraction

Dr Tom Greeves discusses the study of landscapes of extraction, focusing on the region between Dartmoor to West Penwith.

Lecture

Reimaging our urban spaces as future green spaces

Chris Rodgers will explore the different legal and cultural concepts of an urban common, illustrated by examples from research that includes Mousehold Heath in Norwich.

£0.00 - £5.00
Lecture

Wildly different: how five women reclaimed nature in a man’s world

Sarah Lonsdale recounts five trailblazing women’s adventures across the globe, challenging for their right to work helping to save the Earth’s wild places.

£0.00 - £2.00
Lecture

The Mappa Mundi project: changing the world by changing how we view it

Inspired by a map of the world made in 1300 by German nuns, Sandi Toksvig is looking to reassess how we chart what we know.

Monday night supper

Monday night lecture supper - 14 April

Stay for supper on the 14th April at the Society after our Monday night lecture and meet other members and their guests.

£42.00 - £42.00
Lecture

Lough Neagh an ecosystem in peril?

The UK's largest freshwater lake is turning green. Richard Buchanan explores if we are doing enough to rescue this ecosystem in peril.

Conference

Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak 60 million years in the making

Reunion events for members and their guests of the original geographical and caving survey of the Gunung Mulu National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site by the Sarawak Forestry Department and the Society in 1977-1978.

Lecture

Mulu: a remarkable rainforest mountain in Sarawak

Dr Paul Chai, the senior forest botanist on the survey of the Gunung Mulu National Park by the RGS and the Sarawak Forestry Department in 1977-1978 gives an update on the park, highlighting past and future research opportunities for those visiting the magnificent limestone caves and tropical forests of this legendary UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Monday night supper

Monday night lecture supper - 28 April

Stay for supper on the 28th April at the Society after our Monday night lecture and meet other Members and their guests.

£42.00 - £42.00
Lecture

Using Rights of Nature to protect rainforest and paramo grassland ecosystems in Ecuador: a new paradigm for effective conservation

Dr Mika Peck will explain how how Rights of Nature principles are being used to empower local communities in defending valuable wildlife habitats from exploitation.

£0.00 - £5.00