Rachel Whiteread will give a lecture at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles on Wednesday, November 5th at 7 pm.

Five University of Glasgow professors are heading to New York to give a series of lectures at one of the world’s most prestigious universities.

Volcanoes and Pterodactyls are among the fare at the University of Leicester’s 50th anniversary party, Celebrate Leicester Day, on Saturday 26th April.

The humble telephone will be the topic of a public lecture by a world renowned expert on the study of humans through their use of language.

Sir Craig Reedie, member of the International Olympic Committee and a Director of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, will deliver the 2008 Institution of Civil Engineering Prestige Lecture at Dundee University.

The risk of asteroid impact will be just one of the topics discussed in Belfast next month when Queen's welcomes 650 of the world's leading space scientists and astronomers.

The 21st Annual Gary Long Memorial Lecture will be delivered by sculptor Shelley Spector on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 in conjunction with Spector's Challenge exhibition and preceding the 110th Annual Adult Student Members Exhibition. Ms. Spector's Challenge exhibition, in the gallery till the 15th of March, provides the opportunity to hear her speak about her work on site.

A double Pulitzer Prize-winning historian will be giving a lecture at Clare College tonight about how Islam radically altered the course of European history.

The advancement of human rights and equality in Wales is the focus of the next ICI Lecture to be held at Cardiff Business School.

The gay history of Cambridge University will be revealed in a public lecture this Wednesday at Lucy Cavendish College.

The Rt Hon. Peter Mandelson, European Commissioner for Trade, will give the 2008 Alcuin lecture at Cambridge University on Friday, 8 February.

Poet John Milton's revolutionary ideas about freedom will be discussed at a talk by Professor Quentin Skinner at the University this evening.