{"title": "The Cost of Sustainability: Archaeology and Maritime Dispossession in the Eastern Mediterranean", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/64077", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/archaeology"], "description": "A public talk titled 'The Cost of Sustainability: Archaeology and Maritime Dispossession in the Eastern Mediterranean', given by Georgia Andreou, a Lecturer in Archaeology and Sustainability at the University of Southampton, with Kristin Hopper of Durham University responding. It examines how pursuing heritage and environmental sustainability affects local communities in the Eastern Mediterranean, using maritime heritage examples from Gaza and Cyprus, where rubble-management plans and underwater heritage projects raise ethical, political and environmental questions. The talk is facilitated by the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies at Birkbeck in partnership with the Palestine Exploration Fund and the Raphael Samuel History Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cost-of-sustainability-archaeology-and-maritime-disposse-80531/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/64077/the-cost-of-sustainability-archaeology-and-maritime-dispossession-in-the-eastern-mediterranean", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-tickets-2003047622359", "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. 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It is co-convened by Royal Museums Greenwich and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth. The conference brings new research on marginalised maritime communities and individuals to the forefront, including workers, makers, families, travellers, navigators and knowledge-keepers overlooked in archives and scholarship. People from all backgrounds, academic and non-academic, are warmly invited to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/conference-maritime-histories-from-the-margins-people-places-37284/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/conference-maritime-histories-margins-people-places-practices", "image": "https://noky.io/images/611a6bbca41bb79388ca8ea847147219d1cb99d7df33e9425818f356dd21db77-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Built Environment", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "North Kensington Library", "address": "Ladbroke Grove 108, W11 1PZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism/urban-development", "nature/environment"], "description": "\"The Built Environment\" is a public talk on flooding, drought and saving trees, part of the \"Our Eco Crisis\" series at North Kensington Library. It is hosted by Isis Amlak, a long-time local activist and campaigner for racial and social justice who sits on the board of the Octavia Foundation. Guests will speak about new development changes in the area and their effects, with recent local flooding that closed the Children's Library and the loss of mature plane trees in Holland Park among the concerns. 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It is run by Emily Falconer of the University of Westminster's School of Social Sciences together with Cavendish Living Lab community connectors Mariam Selim and Yumeng Yang, in partnership with the university's Centre for Social Justice Research. Drawing on focus groups with Korean, Caribbean, Italian, Chinese, Alevi and Jewish communities in London, it explores food practices that promote sustainability through low-waste cooking, preservation and adaptation, and argues that food is also a site of identity, belonging and exclusion in a global city. Attendees from outside the university are asked to reserve a spot by emailing the organisers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies-39998/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b46362028ab658f3f697265648b25fc60960aa4d871f82fa1b3fa9534e33e81b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vasilis Papageorgiou at Gasworks: In Conversation with Dr Marianna Tsionki", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Hellenic Centre", "address": "Paddington Street 16-18, W1U 5AS London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.humanitix.com/in-conversation-vasilis-papageorgiou", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "nature/environment"], "description": "An evening talk at The Hellenic Centre. Artist Vasilis Papageorgiou and curator Dr. Marianna Tsionki discuss his artistic practice, including the new sculptures he is developing during his residency at Gasworks, London, and key themes of his forthcoming 2027 exhibition at Leeds Arts University. His work explores relationships between the human body, architecture and landscape, tourism's impact on the environment, and the parallel exhaustion of the planet's resources and of people under contemporary life. 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It features Dr Lucas Lerchs, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, and is chaired by Dr Giovanna Astolfo. The research explores how everyday inhabitation processes of ecological reserves are co-produced and transformed by conditions of socio-ecological marginalisation. The talk is followed by a 30-minute screening of a documentary filmed in the periphery of São Paulo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-ecologies-of-the-marginalised-everyday-socio-environment-45822/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/nov/ecologies-marginalised-everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-sao-paulos-peripheries", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sustainability and behavioural change: a discussion", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "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/sustainability"], "description": "A public panel discussion on what a sustainable future requires, weighing incremental against transformative pathways and how large-scale pro-environmental behavioural change can be fostered. 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Attendees can join in person in the Malaysia Auditorium at the Centre Building or watch online via LSE Live.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sustainability-and-behavioural-change-a-discussion-80744/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/sustainability-behavioural-change", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24f1f7bf5680aba41a38cf8d2d88347fbe68cd174116e6d876e22d5681941d73-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present", "start": "2026-11-11T09:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T17:00:00Z", "place": "National Maritime Museum", "address": "Romney Road, SE10 9NF London", "price": "Adult: £60 | Member: £55 | Early Career Researcher/Student: £30", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.rmg.co.uk/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=RMGCON&c=MHCON", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/maritime"], "description": "A two-day interdisciplinary conference on marginalised maritime histories from around 1500 to the present. It is co-convened by Royal Museums Greenwich and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth. The conference highlights new research on communities and individuals historically underrepresented in maritime narratives, from workers and families to navigators and knowledge-keepers. The fee covers lunches, refreshments and an evening book launch for Black and Asian Seafarers: A Visual History.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/conference-maritime-histories-from-the-margins-people-places-39610/", "official_url": "https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/conference-maritime-histories-margins-people-places-practices", "image": "https://noky.io/images/611a6bbca41bb79388ca8ea847147219d1cb99d7df33e9425818f356dd21db77-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The rise of the global shadow fleet and the geography of flags of convenience", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Geographical Society", "address": "Kensington Gore 1, SW7 2AR London", "price": "£5.00 - £12.00", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://portal.rgs.org/event/book/FS041126", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/geopolitics", "history/maritime"], "description": "A discussion evening about the hidden fleet of ships reshaping the world's oceans, held in the Ondaatje Theatre at the Royal Geographical Society. 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The authors of From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland present their book, which challenges eco-modern and techno-solutionist approaches and links narratives of sustainability with colonial histories and uneven development, arguing that tech-driven transitions replicate exploitative patterns of imperial capitalism. Using Ireland as a focal point, they show the history and depth of the country's postcolonial dependency on multinational investment, especially US technology companies, including arms companies. The talk is accompanied by Roisin Agnew's short film Bog Communism, a micro short that is part film essay, part mock recruitment video, exploring resistance to data centres in Ireland via archive footage and Unreal Engine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-the-bog-to-the-cloud-dependency-and-eco-modernity-in-ir-70039/", "official_url": "https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/115/from-the-bog-to-the-cloud-dependency-and-eco-modernity-in-ireland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8fdf4caf823e00999a57f9ca49a5dc3f7c97d836e9f222a4fe22e37c1cd35f2f-1200.webp"}]}