Lectures
Lectures are open to all and there is no charge for admission. However regular attendees are expected to be members of the society.
Lectures are usually held as detailed below.
The University of Reading,
Whiteknights, Reading.
Use Car Park 8
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
Monday 2 October 2017
Australia - SE Asia collision
The Wallace Line and Wallacea
Prof Robert Hall, Royal Holloway College
Details
Monday 6 November 2017
Shale Gas
Prof Alastair Fraser, Imperial College
Monday 4 December 2017
The Cretaceous world: chalk seas in a Greenhouse world
Prof Andrew Gale, University of Portsmouth
Monday 8 January 2018
AGM and Members Evening
Social Evening, AGM and member's presentation: Roger Lloyd – GA Field meeting in China
Monday 5 February 2018
Permian mass extinction
Prof Michael Benton, University of Bristol
Monday 5 March 2018
Presidential Address
Fogo, Cape Verde Islands
Prof Peter Worsley, University of Reading
TBS
Monday 14 May 2018
North Atlantic Igneous Province:
the East Greenland Geological Expedition, 1966
Prof David Bell
Monday 4 June 2018
Evening Geological Ramble
Monday 2 July 2018
The control of geology and climate change on 2 millennia of English viticulture
Prof Richard Selley, Imperial College
Monday 6 August 2018
Evening Geological Ramble
Lecture in conjunction with September long field trip
Monday 1 October 2018
The Last British Ice Sheet
Dr Bethan Davies, Royal Holloway College
Monday 5 November 2018
Volcanoes, encounters through the ages
Prof David Pyle, University of Oxford
Monday 3 December 2018
The Geology of London
Diana Clements, Geologists' Association