Talks and readings in London on Wednesday 4 November

From Dancer to Doctor: queer health research talk.

Research in Focus: Biting Flies, a talk by Maria Dragoi.

Lydia Corbett: My Dance With Picasso, artist talk.

People's Emergency Briefing: film on the climate crisis.

Talk with Annabelle Aventurin on film preservation as care.

Cracking the code: how HTLV embeds itself in our DNA.

Eden at Dawn: Karim Kattan's queer novel, with Tareq Baconi.

Conversations by IF: AI triage, ten years of IF.

Resonance Open Mic Poetry Night: read one poem of yours.

Magnifica Humanitas: Talk on AI and Pope Leo's encyclical.

Voices of democracy: music, readings and discussion.

Open mic for poetry and performance, guest Cia Mangat.

Ronan McGreevy launches the lost memoir of Seán Lemass.

Kim Ghattas and Clarissa Ward: The Best Kind of American.

BIS Evening Lecture: a trip to SpaceX's Starbase, Texas.

Dr Amoret Whitaker: solving murders using insects.

Shaping Stories, Inspiring Minds: Carnegie medals at 90.

John Simpson: The Leaders and Lunatics Tour, live talk.

Thames Valley Climate Change & Sailing: Tim Reader speaks.

Decolonizing Money: talk with Julio César Linares.

Jawdance: spoken-word night with open mic and resident DJ.

Glorious city in the sea: an art history of Venice.

Themed Seminar Autumn 2026: what makes a sentence true.

Talk on sustainability careers for geography students.

Co-opting Cells for Mechanosensation: talk by Dr Mangione.

Metamorphoses: Rosa Somerville on Kneebone's sculptures.

Aleksandar Bošković on the forgotten women of anthropology.

Manila Mingler: cocktails and talk with Tyler Brûlé.

Fatigue at sea: seminar and Q&A on the IMO's role.

Pupillage at the Specialist Bar: panel on media and tax law.

Malhotra and Currie on ambition.

Talk by Greg Lee on faith and enjoying life.

Launching a News Club Network: talk with Gail Bradbrook.

The Conch: works in progress with Georgina Hill and more.

Celebrating History: The 1926 pilgrimage, an online talk.

Esoteric Book Club: Maugham's 'The Magician'.

Club Hunni Academy: Logic1000 in conversation and Q&A.

CA London: the fight against the Barbary Pirates.

Poetry Group: read your favourite poem aloud.

Adult Fiction Reading Group on modern and classic fiction.