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.
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A night on the extinction express
Join award-winning conservationist Sacha Dench on a journey flying alongside Bewick’s swans from Russia to the UK by paramotor. Find out why we need conservation efforts without borders and, as Sacha calls it, an MI5 for nature.
An elephant never forgets
A behind-the-scenes, illustrated talk from Sophy Roberts about her new Sunday Times bestseller, A Training School for Elephants, which weaves past and present in travels that take her from Iraq to India, the DRC and Tanzania, finishing up at a convent with an elephant on Lake Tanganyika.
The library of lost maps
James Cheshire spent three years uncovering the treasures of a long-forgotten map library for his book The Library of Lost Maps. Sharing the contents of this archive, he will reveal the power of maps and their makers to transform our world.
The North Pole: the history of an obsession
Join explorer Erling Kagge to hear tales of wild imaginings, broken hearts, melting ice, and life dreams achieved at 50 degrees below. The legends, motivations, physical challenges and the nature of exploration at large.
Environmental justice and climate action: victims of the ‘war on woke’?
Professor Laura Pulido explores how the 'war on woke' promoted by dominant figures in the US Republican Party is harming climate action and environmental justice in the US and far beyond.
Zen in the art of geography
The RGS Neville Shulman Challenge Award was created 25 years ago to support ambitious expeditions. Neville Shulman CBE, explorer and writer, will explain his philosophy behind the programme. The 2023 recipients of the Award, Karolina Gawonicz and Michal Lukaszewicz will give a richly illustrated account of their 60-day unsupported canoe expedition across the Barren Lands of Canada.
Bound by water: linking Amazonian diversity and climate vulnerability
In this lecture, National Geographic Explorers Julia Tavares and Thiago Silva will explore how they are combining cutting-edge methods in plant morphology and functional ecology, environmental monitoring, drone remote sensing and 3D laser scanning (LiDAR) to address a central question: How are different Amazonian forests being affected by climate change?
Revisiting the Dolgarrog dam disaster after 100 years
On 2 November 1925, a catastrophic flood swept through Dolgarrog village in north Wales, depositing enormous boulders and killing 16 people. In 2025, what have we learnt from this flood disaster?
These are a few of our favourite things
Nicholas Crane and experts on the Society's team take us through their hidden highlights of the Collections, showcasing how these can help tell new histories of travel, geography and exploration.
Predicting the ocean: a view from the Menai Strait
Britain is surrounded by ocean. But how does it function? Here Professor Tom Rippeth will examine how, over the past 2 millennia, we have pieced together nature's clues to better understand it.
Debt trap nation: family homelessness in a failing state
Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. The lecture by Professor Katherine Brickell and Professor Melanie Nowicki will take audience members inside these issues.
Monday night lecture with the Rt Hon the Baroness May of Maidenhead
Former Prime Minister and geography graduate, Baroness May, will be giving the closing lecture of the autumn series.