Conferences & Events

Registration for the UK Preterm Birth conference covers all lunch and coffee breaks for two days at QMUL. If you would like to attend the evening reception and conference dinner, you will need to purchase a separate ticket. Further details about the conference programme at https://pretermconference.com/

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The Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London is hosting the annual conference of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), taking place from 2–4 September 2026. TaPRA 2026 will bring together scholars and artists for three days of working group sessions, panels, and plenary events across Queen Mary’s Mile End campus. The TaPRA Gallery, where attendees can exhibit practice-based research, will unfold in BLOC, a new, state-of-the-art gallery, studio, and cinema space. An expansive social and artistic programme will run throughout the conference, drawing on the Department of Drama’s strong connections to London’s East End and the Live Art sector. For those unable to attend the conference in person, online participation will be available.

The conference will feature the latest developments in position sensitive radiation detectors from leading researchers around the world, and across a wide range of scientific disciplines. The conference has a strong multidisciplinary emphasis, and encourages cross-fertilisation and transfer of ideas between researchers working in many fields. In person participation is important. The PSD conference takes place every 3 years, with the first edition held in September 1986.

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The Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London is hosting the annual conference of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), taking place from 2–4 September 2026. The conference dinner will be held on the evening of 3 September The Octagon, the last remaining building of QMUL’s historic People’s Palace. Dinner will include a welcome drink, appetizer, entrée, and light dessert. There will be a cash bar as well entertainment.

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The course will provide an introduction to the principles of pragmatic trials, including their design and analysis.  It will introduce strategies to optimise trial conduct, including consent, recruitment and data collection and highlight the importance of patient and community involvement. Participants will have an opportunity, in facilitated sessions, to work up an outline protocol for a pragmatic trial.

This introductory course would be suitable for early/mid-career researchers working in clinical research in academia or the NHS. It is open to those working across a range of research roles, including trial or data managers, principal / chief investigators etc, and does not require detailed knowledge of statistical methods.

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This conference revisits contemporary strategies of deletion as both instruments of power and practices of resistance, refusal, and, more radically, negation. Across disciplines, scholars have examined how digital regimes erase particular memories, histories, subjectivities, and forms of labour, while artists and activists have developed creative strategies to rupture or perforate the relentless proliferation of images, sounds, and texts.

Bringing together media scholars, artists, archivists, and activists, the conference explores how these opposing dynamics can be understood and contested. Rather than treating deletion as a lost or merely technical operation, we ask how it might regain critical relevance under contemporary conditions. Our aim is to collectively reflect on, and experiment with, the infrastructures, methodologies, and epistemologies through which deleting can once again operate as a meaningful cultural and political act.

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Gravity, Entanglement and Entropy

Conference Chairs: Dr.Tarek Anous ,Prof. Ginestra Bianconi

Gravity, Entanglement and Entropy is a one-day LMS conference bringing together leading researchers in mathematics, theoretical physics, quantum information, and cosmology to explore some of the deepest questions about the nature of the universe. The event will focus on the emerging connections between gravity, quantum entanglement, and entropy—ideas that are reshaping our understanding of spacetime, black holes, and the foundations of quantum gravity.

The conference will highlight recent advances in holography, black hole physics, quantum information theory, experimental tests of quantum gravity, and modern cosmology. As new theoretical frameworks and observational data continue to challenge established ideas, researchers are increasingly investigating whether gravity itself may emerge from fundamental information-theoretic principles.

Registration

Registration is now open for both in-person and hybrid participation. The conference fee is £30 for in-person attendance and £20 for hybrid attendance. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

As an LMS Conference, a limited number of travel and participation grants will be available to support early career researchers and researchers from Scheme 5 countries. Childcare support arrangements will also be available. For information regarding financial support, eligibility, or childcare arrangements, please contact the conference organisers directly by email [Ginestra Bianconi (g.bianconi@qmul.ac.uk), Tarek Anous (t.anous@qmul.ac.uk)]

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We all love a good rom-com, and who does it better than The Bard? Join Residential Life for a free trip to see Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. We’ve only got limited spaces for this event so get your ticket today!

Your ticket purchase includes a £5 deposit, which will be refunded upon attending the event. If you can no longer make it, please email residentiallife@qmul.ac.uk at least 24 hours in advance. We won’t be able to issue a refund for a no-show or late cancellation.

This event is for residents of QM halls only and you will need to show your Residents’ Rewards Card to join the event. Please don’t purchase a ticket if you don’t have a Residents’ Rewards Card. Not yet picked up your card? Following this link to find out how to get yours today: 

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Registration is open to attend this year’s annual meeting of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society, taking place from 2–4 September 2026 at Queen Mary University of London’s Lincon’s Inn Fields campus in central London. The event brings together postgraduate students, early career scholars, and established and independent scholars working on different aspects of Arthurian studies, from the Middle Ages up to the present day.

Registration includes refreshments and snacks on all three days, a short wine reception on Wednesday 2 September, lunch on Thursday 3 September, and an optional excursion on Thursday afternoon. An optional conference dinner on Thursday 3 September is available to book at an additional cost.

If booking an excursion, then please select ONE of the two options given below. Both excursions will run from 2-4pm on Thursday 3 September. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Please note that this event is open to members of the British Branch of the Arthurian Society, and to those wishing to join the Society. Find out how to join here. Dr Jaclyn Rajsic, the conference organiser, is very happy to support non-members with their applications for membership so that they may attend the 2026 British Branch meeting. We warmly welcome any researchers who wish to join the British Branch and the International Arthurian Society.

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