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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The rise and rise of the French Riviera
Jim Ring traces the story of the Riviera back to the British aristocrats who discovered it in the late 18th century, and identifies the qualities that have enabled the Cote d’Azur to stay ahead of the pack.