Lectures

Lectures are open to all and there is no charge for admission. However regular in person attendees are expected to be members of the society.
Lectures are usually held as detailed below

Time:
7:45pm for 8:00pm

Venue: 
In Person: Sorby Room, Wager Building, (formerly Geoscience),
The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading.
Use Car Park 8 (OS: SU 7336 7159, W3W: ///herbs.clap.type, Lat,Long: 51.4385775,-0.9459335)
Via Zoom: Members are sent the joining link by email.
Non-members wishing to join a zoom lecture can request this using the registration link when shown. Requests should always be made before 6pm on the previous day.
Check each lecture for actual venue.

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Forthcoming Lectures

All the forthcoming lectures for this year are listed below. If available posters for these lectures can be found via the poster link. Where an abstract is available a details link will be shown.
To see a list of past lectures click the button.
Lecture Archive

2025-10Monday 6 October 2025

Antarctica

Mark Easton
Non Members Registration
Event Details

2025-11Monday 3 November 2025

La Palma Volcanics

Prof Dougal Jerram
Event Details

2025-12Monday 1 December 2025

Cretaceous amber — frozen in time

Dr Ricardo Perez-de la Fuente ,  Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Event Details

2026-01Monday 5 January 2026

AGM and Members Evening



2026-02Monday 2 February 2026

Snowballs in the desert

Dr Ross Garden,  Reading Geological Society

Monday 2 March 2026

Presidential Address


Monday 13 April 2026

TBA


2026-05Monday 11 May 2026

Not So Simple – origin, evolution and ecology of the first vertebrate predators

Dr Duncan Murdock,  Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Event Details

Programme 2025

The programme for 2025 as currently proposed is also available as a pdf document.

Other programmes

Previous years programmes and other programme information can be found on the About us page.