Events
Inaugural Lectures
Every year we celebrate our newly appointed professors by holding inaugural lectures. This gives our professors the opportunity present to their colleagues, friends and families about their work to date, current research and future plans.
Languages in a Global World
Languages in a Global World is held annually and brings together local Modern Foreign Language teachers and their GCSE and A-level students, University of Exeter alumni, and current staff and students of languages and international cultures at the University.
Creative Dialogues
‘Creative Dialogues’ is a series of exclusive ‘in-conversation’ events hosted by the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, showcasing a range of high-profile speakers who are leaders in their respective fields across the creative industries and Humanities.

Sunday, 01 November 2026 - Monday, 30 November 2026
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Hybrid Book Forum with John Minford: Ch’ing 情: A Chinese Book of Love
The Global China Research Centre is delighted to invite you to a hybrid book forum with Professor John Minford 閔福德 on his new anthology, Ch’ing 情: A Chinese Book of Love (Reaktion Books, 2026).
Fri 06 November, 202612:00 PM - 2:00 PM Seminar Room 1, Digital Humanities Lab, Queen’s Building, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter
Other events Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
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Egenis seminar: Digital Dementia: The Futures of Ageing and Artificial Minds
Egenis seminar (hybrid) with James Rupert Fletcher (University of Bath)
Mon 09 November, 20263:15 PM - 5:00 PM Susan Kelly Seminar Room, Byrne House, Streatham Campus
Seminars Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences
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Buddha's life as a Byzantine best-seller - with a little help from Arab meditation
Centre for the Study of Islam Monday Majlis Series
Mon 09 November, 20265:00 PM - 6:30 PM Online
Lectures Centre for the Study of Islam
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Unity, Struggle, Victory: The Revolutionary World of Iranian Students
The latest exhibition launch in the IAIS Street Gallery
Wed 11 November, 20262:00 PM - 3:30 PM IAIS LT2
Exhibitions Institute of Arab and lslamic Studies
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Egenis Annual Lecture: Re-thinking the Relationship Between Organism and Environment
Egenis Annual Lecture (hybrid), hosted by LSI, with Professor Sonia Sultan (Wesleyan University and Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University)
Wed 11 November, 20263:30 PM - 5:00 PM LSI Seminar Rooms, Streatham Campus
Seminars Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences
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Elena Sandoval, Alex Pryor and Alan Outram: Horses be Lazy (or the not so nomadic pastoralists of Prehistoric Kazakhstan): the PastLost Project's Latest Strontium Isotope Results.
A HumAnE Research Centre Lecture
Wed 11 November, 20264:30 PM - 5:30 PM Laver 218
Lectures, Research events, Seminars Archaeology and History
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The need for the ICJ genocide case against Israel and its geo-political implications for South Africa
An IAIS Visiting Speaker Event with Dr Oscar van Heerden
Wed 11 November, 20264:30 PM - 6:00 PM IAIS LT2
Lectures Institute of Arab and lslamic Studies
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Digital GELT (Global Englishes Language Teaching) Colloquium
Call for Abstracts Global Englishes Language Teaching Early-Career Researchers’ Colloquium
Fri 13 November, 20268:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Colloquium Centre for Research in Language and Literacies
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Egenis seminar: Juxtaposing versus Linking Research Materials: Thinking through the ethical implications of different metaphors for knowing
Egenis seminar (hybrid) with Dr Carries Friese (LSE)
Mon 16 November, 20263:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Seminars Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences
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Magic in interaction: Occult practices in Ottoman Bosnia
Centre for the Study of Islam Monday Majlis Series
Mon 16 November, 20265:00 PM - 6:30 PM Online
Lectures Centre for the Study of Islam