Open lectures

Environmental economist Dr Nesha Beharry-Borg explores how valuing Caribbean biodiversity as natural capital drives climate resilience and economic development, drawing on insights from international development finance.

This online event brings together two leading poetics scholars for presentations of new work, readings, and a conversation on the possibilities of poetry today. 

Join us for hands-on family fun! Play retro bank games and explore historic worksheets to see how money skills evolved from 1945 to 2000.

A Georgian human rights lawyer discusses the impact of recent democratic rollbacks, controversial 'foreign agent' laws, protest crackdowns, and halted EU accession.

Moving past generic mental health advice, Dr Zoe Billings presents Biological Wellbeing - a science-backed workshop on physical stress management. Used by the FBI and NHS, this session offers practical biology tools to protect your health and life.

Join Clare for a guided walk and talk to explore the folklore and history of native and naturalised plants growing in Britain and how humans have connected with them through the centuries.

'Don’t Blink' is an autoethnographic lecture using Doctor Who’s Weeping Angels to examine how British heritage, statues, and imperial racism haunt modern public spaces.

Explore Palestinian audio history with the Palestinian Sound Archive. This event features an introduction, short documentary, talk, DJ set, and vinyl/merch sales exploring music as resistance.

Join us to explore how engineers and entrepreneurs make decisions when the future is uncertain

Join experts and peers to discuss how to define, value, and create a fairer Britain in an interactive event inspired by Will Snell’s book, The Fair Necessities.

Meet the researchers behind York's work on cancer, and hear directly how their discoveries are changing outcomes for patients and families.

This lecture examines King Offa of Mercia (r. 757–796), who united most of southern England and reshaped governance. Drawing on coins, charters, and chronicles, it cuts through post-mortem criticism to reassess his pivotal medieval legacy.

The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

Join Tony Simons as he explores the fascinating history of the Derwent Valley Light Railway, from its original concept in 1899, to its opening in 1913, to its closure in 1981 and its subsequent revival as a heritage railway.

Writers Kym Deyn, Katherine Horrex and J.A. Mensah will speak about their experiences as New Writing North’s Jerwood Fellows, exploring how they have developed their practice and navigated the publishing industry. 

An online webinar presenting York and Sheffield research on how lifelong deafness remaps the brain to boost peripheral vision and motion detection.