Free online university events
Lectures, seminars and talks from universities around the world that you can join from home, free and open to everyone.
Many universities stream their public lectures or run them on Zoom or Teams. Some are online only; others take place in a lecture theatre and are streamed at the same time, so you can choose how to attend.
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498 upcoming events you can join online
Coming up
Events 1–20 of 498, soonest first
Tuesday 27 October
- 3:00 PM-6:00 PM in LausanneIn person and online
MAMCS : Who writes the code? Algorithms, software, creativity, and reliability in the age of AI
EPFL · BCH 2103
The Mary Ann Mansigh Conversation series focuses of non-strictly technical topics of cultural interest for the simulation and modelling community.
- 8:00 AM-9:00 AM in CaliforniaIn person and online
Pediatric Grand Rounds (CME): When Governments Swipe Left: Australia’s Social Media Policy
Office of Pediatric Education · Center for Academic Medicine, Grand Rounds Room, 453 Quarry Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
When Governments Swipe Left: Australia’s Social Media Policy
- 3:00 PM-4:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
SPC Seminar – Plasma – Farhat Beg (UCSD)
Space Physics, Atmospheric physics, Plasma Physics · Blackett Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom
Speaker: Farhat Beg (UCSD)
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in ProvidenceOnline
Advance RI-CTR Implementation Science Seminar Series: Dani Adams, PhD
Advance-CTR
Join us for this 6-part series exploring implementation science, its methodology, and application. Local and national experts will share talks on implementation strategies, economic evaluation in…
- 4:00 PM-6:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
Beyond crisis: Reimagining “education and international development” for climate and debt justice
University College London · Room 777, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom
Join us for the first “Contemporary Global Challenges in Education and Justice” seminar series at the Centre for Education and International Development.
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in BostonOnline
CSAIL FORUM with Jacob Andreas: Training Language Models to Talk About Themselves
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Training Language Models to Talk About Themselves
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in RaleighOnline
From Farm to Fashion
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
During Red and White Week, join the Wilson College of Textiles and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences on Tuesday, Oct. 27, for a webinar exploring the growing impact of hemp across…
- 4:45 PM-5:45 PM in the UKIn person and online
IoO Seminar Series with Steve Fliesler
University College London · IoO Main Lecture Theatre - UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, 11-43 Bath Street, London, EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom
Title: Keeping an Eye on Cholesterol Pathway Defects: Lessons from Animal Model Studies.
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in ChicagoIn person and online
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
BSD · Billings Hospital, Room P-117
Demetre C. Daskalakis, MD, MPH
- 1:00 PM in ProvidenceIn person and online
JCB Reads: Tatiana Seijas on American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City
John Carter Brown Library · Virtual.
Join us on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 1 p.m. as the JCB Reads series continues! Launched during the 2024-5 academic year, JCB Reads offers former JCB fellows the opportunity to share their recent…
- 12:00 PM in MinneapolisOnline
When did the Middle Ages come to an end? Mentality, Superstition, and the Modern Mind
College of Liberal Arts
Are modern humans really as enlightened as we think, or are we far more “medieval” than we care to admit? Join Professor Anatoly Liberman (Dept of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch) for a Dark…
- 12:30 PM in ChicagoIn person and online
Book Talk - North: The Future of Post-Climate America
Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation · 1155 E. 60th Street, Room 101, Chicago IL
Climate change is already influencing how and where people live.
- 1:30 PM in Washington, DCOnline
Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Dr. Azamat Azarov (University of Central Asia) explores how climate change is reshaping natural resources and agrarian life in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn region, combining environmental analysis with…
- 6:00 PM-8:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
Growing Up with AI
University of Strathclyde · University of Strathclyde
A two-hour interactive workshop for parents, guardians and educators. We will start with a short introduction on what we currently know about children's AI use, then move into three…
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in BoulderIn person and online
When AI Becomes a Confidant: Responsibility and Accountability When Chatbots Cause Harm
University of Colorado Boulder · Wolf Law, Room 207, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, CO 80309
AI chatbots and companion technologies are rapidly moving beyond simple tools for finding information or completing tasks: people turn to them for friendship, emotional and mental health support and…
- 6:30 PM-8:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
Geography and the wealth of nations
London School of Economics and Political Science · In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)
What can Adam Smith’s insights reveal about global economic change? This lecture explores the enduring impact of exploration, trade, geography, and globalisation on prosperity.
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in CaliforniaIn person and online
Australia’s new social media legislation: the world is watching
Tech Impact and Policy Center · Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad, Studio S40 - bring your Stanford ID card/mobile ID to enter the building, Stanford, CA 94305
Join the Tech Impact and Policy Center on October 27th from 12PM–1PM Pacific for a seminar with Susan Sawyer
- 7:00 PM-8:00 PM in the UKOnline
Brunel Writers Talking: Jamila Gavin
Brunel University of London
As part of Brunel's Writers Talking series, Jamila Gavin, Winner of the Nero Book Awards Children's Fiction Category joins us in conversation.
- 12:00 PM-1:00 PM in CaliforniaOnline
CSCS Community Series: "Parsing Perplexion- Studying the Role of Sleep Dysfunction in Postoperative Delirium" with Miles Berger, MD, PhD
Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Please join us for this month's Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences Community Series:
- 7:00 PM-9:00 PM in the UKIn person and online
Making sense of the many Chinas: a dialogue between Xiaolu Guo and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
SOAS University of London · Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT), Paul Webley Wing
As different as Xiaolu Guo's personal, story-driven Everyday Tang is from historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom's Everything You Wanted to Know about China, both are short new books by versatile authors, and…
Recently held
The kind of online events universities open to the public. These have finished.
- Tue 27 OctPast event"Houses of health" and monastic infirmaries: communal health in premodern South and Southeast Asia · SOAS University of London
- Tue 27 OctPast eventBeyond the Usual Suspects: New Voices for Women, Peace and Security · King's College London
- Tue 27 OctPast eventBSHS Dissertation Defense | Siena C. Napoleon MPH · Brown University
- Tue 27 OctPast eventComputation in State Space: What Populations Do That Single Neurons Don't · University of Fribourg
- Tue 27 OctPast eventLunch Hour Lecture (online) - Solving ageing · University College London
Where these events come from
- Stanford University (69)
- Brown University (37)
- University College London (23)
- EPFL (21)
- Rice University (21)
- University of Chicago (21)
- Cornell University (15)
- Imperial College London (15)
And 48 more universities: see them all in the catalogue.