These specialist lectures and events include artists' talks and debates with internationally renowned speakers and performers. Advance booking is recommended for these events.

Talks and discussions usually last an hour and a half or two hours.

Book online using the direct links on individual pages listed below. Alternatively call 020 7887 8888.

Grouped series:

• The Status of Difference Wednesday 12 November 2008 – Thursday 31 December 2009
• Conversation Pieces : Fresh Perspectives on Tate Britain's Collection Wednesday 10 December 2008 – Thursday 10 December 2009
• Anthropologies of the Present Tuesday 27 October 2009 – Tuesday 19 January 2010

Full list of events:

• Art in Focus: November   Sunday 1 November – Monday 30 November 2009   free
• Art in Focus: December   Sunday 1 November – Monday 30 November 2009   free
• Don't look Back: Radical thinkers and the arts since 1909   Thursday 26 November 2009
• The William Blake Congregation   Saturday 28 November 2009   free
• Anthropologies of the Present: Kojin Karatani: The End of Capitalism?   Tuesday 8 December 2009
• Conversation Pieces : Laura Oldfield Ford: Visions of the Apocalypse   Wednesday 9 December 2009
• Art in Focus: January   Friday 1 January – Sunday 31 January 2010   free
• Anthropologies of the Present: Susan Buck-Morss: Universal History   Tuesday 19 January 2010