A vibrant academic community
Birkbeck is a vibrant centre of academic engagement and excellence, and our students have the opportunity to take part in a range of intellectual and cultural activities, including attending lectures and talks by high-profile speakers and commentators from around the world.
Recent examples include:
- leading public intellectual Professor Slavoj Žižek
- well-known historians Professor Joanna Bourke, Professor Orlando Figes and Professor Simon Schama
- Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News and Media
- world-class speakers on molecular biology research Sir John Skehel, FRS and Professor Gabriel Waksman
- acclaimed novelist Sarah Waters (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009)
- the former Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen
- Professor of Crystallography at Birkbeck, Helen Saibil, FRS
- renowned historian and Birkbeck President, Professor Eric Hobsbawm
Find out more
- Visit our events calendar
- Check out the Birkbeck Youtube channel
