{"title": "2026 Australia Studies Institute Reese Lecture: Vannessa Hearman, \"In the hands of ordinary people: Australia’s changing relationship with Indonesia and Tim…", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration", "history"], "description": "The 2026 Reese Memorial Lecture, a talk by Associate Professor Vannessa Hearman of Curtin University, hosted by King's College London's Australia Studies Institute. She presents her new book 'The Good Sea' and examines how East Timorese resistance, asylum seekers and ordinary Australians shaped Australia's relationship with Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The lecture, honouring historian Dr Trevor Reese, is given by an emerging scholar in history or political science. It takes place in the Nash Lecture Theatre at King's College London's Strand Campus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-australia-studies-institute-reese-lecture-vannessa-hear-36786/", "official_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/2026-reese-lecture", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9fa9af59ca6f1b3eb3be0fd9a974b0341f638721f54bea0dfab19b5e56182f99-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Book Talk - Korean Youth Migration to Australia", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/migration", "society/migration"], "description": "A book talk presenting a study of Korean youth migration to Australia since the late 19th century. The author, Jay Song of the Australian National University, discusses the book's history of 150 years of people-to-people relations between Australia and South Korea, with each chapter opening an individual migrant's story from 1876 to today. The event is organised by the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and is free, open to the public, and held in person and online.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-talk-korean-youth-migration-to-australia-43651/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-korean-youth-migration-australia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a8977bcbc5d34b11a4b7a78d1fc216068fc3e8395b6e54cf5d7b911d5b1f1bd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e938b9debef8b95d6129d3c305ce4e2fbad2471ae52b2b6be8eef06b5002bc31-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Homelands research seminar series: Welcome to Guantánamo!", "start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["community/refugees"], "description": "Welcome to Guantánamo! is a research seminar with a lecture by Christian Kobluk, a Polish/Burundian essayist, writer and human rights activist. Drawing on NGO reports, first-hand observations and refugee testimonies, he examines conditions in Poland's migrant detention centres following the refugee crisis at the country's eastern border. The lecture offers a critical perspective on detention, border control and human rights in contemporary Europe. Kobluk is the author of A Zone of Nonbeing: A Black Pole's Reflections on Racism in Poland and a former refugee rights advisor to a member of the Polish Parliament.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-welcome-to-guantanamo-40001/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-welcome-to-guantanamo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c49e6522fa72e5e67b75e26f23d17b29031f46d0b866026234cd66c35987cdb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "IGHI Special Lecture 2026: Global Challenges, Human Solutions", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/humanitarian"], "description": "A special lecture hosted in person and online, open to all with advance registration. Dr Christos Christou, a surgeon and former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières from 2019 to 2025, discusses how medicine, leadership and politics intersect in real humanitarian settings, drawing on his work with MSF during crises including Ebola and COVID-19. The Institute of Global Health Innovation, one of Imperial College London's global challenge institutes, is behind the lecture, which is introduced by Professor the Lord Ara Darzi. The talk also looks at where academic institutions can contribute to humanitarian medicine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ighi-special-lecture-2026-global-challenges-human-solutions-74067/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213463/ighi-special-lecture-2026-global-challenges-human-solutions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bedfc8984c5a29d014c9fd68eb0bf33fde754c8abbc982bcb706a7229e9aa57f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Remembrance: A Call to Mind", "start": "2026-11-01T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T16:00:00Z", "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cutty-sark/book-launch-black-asian-seafarers-visual-history", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/memorial", "history"], "description": "Remembrance: A Call to Mind is a day of performances, films, talks and workshops marking Remembrance Day at the National Maritime Museum. It is organised in partnership with Ally Musthan from Matglen Veterans Hub and dance artist Teal Darkenwald, and broadens the conversation around Remembrance. Through creative expression, shared experiences and activities, it brings stories, lived experiences, mental health perspectives and performance into the Museum. The event is suitable for all ages and highlights how conflict, memory and resilience continue to shape lives today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/remembrance-a-call-to-mind-37278/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/remembrance-call-mind", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72fe453c4caec99cc8116506e606c10b1db332cd0f05f9bd981088ca9e034f01-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/how-sustainable-or-unsustainable-chinas-miracle-growth-dengs-reforms", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/human-rights"], "description": "A seminar on state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region of China and how it reaches global supply chains from apparel to renewable energy. Organised by the SOAS China Institute, it features Professor Laura T. Murphy, a scholar of forced labour at Sheffield Hallam University and Senior Associate at CSIS, chaired by Professor Rachel Harris of SOAS. The talk examines how the government manufactures vulnerability among Indigenous citizens to justify its actions, and how corporations use discourses of 'urgency' and 'complexity' to shelter their complicity. The event is free and open to the public, though registration is required, and will not be recorded or live-streamed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manufacturing-vulnerability-in-the-uyghur-region-state-impos-43662/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/manufacturing-vulnerability-uyghur-region-state-imposed-forced-labour-and-crisis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/123c3dd9f29d68dd4f08d93891c30fc51d4202e666bddfc9acae0efb79a01595-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'", "start": "2026-11-10T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/let-record-show-storytelling-genocide-and-palestinian-liberation", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/media"], "description": "A book launch for 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power', hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute and the SOAS South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London. The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. Attendance is free but registration is required, with seating allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-kno-43667/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a3032d06453f61472b5faf6331ace0c9f76c3a2e2be8952a7d176992e71c768-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In conversation with Sri Mulyani Indrawati", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "This year's SPP Annual Lecture is an in-person and online public conversation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It features Sri Mulyani Indrawati, former Minister of Finance of Indonesia, in conversation with Professor Andrés Velasco, and is chaired by Professor Tony Travers CBE. The discussion draws on her extensive experience in public policy and economic leadership, including strengthening Indonesia's economic stability, sustaining growth, creating employment, and reducing poverty and inequality. The event is hosted by the School of Public Policy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-conversation-with-sri-mulyani-indrawati-74268/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/events/2026-27/spp-annual-lecture-2026-in-conversation-with-sri-mulyani-indrawati", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7dc5403a65d6d219a9d5e99b06d7195151a8f81af9ee6e9f5f12977ba584a07d-1200.webp"}]}