JLF 2024 - Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality

This event took place on 9 June 2024. The information below is correct as of the publication date.

It’s back! JLF London returns to the British Library with a thrilling line-up of speakers including novelist Maggie O’Farrell, broadcaster Mishal Husain, historians William Dalrymple and Mary Beard and Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan. JLF London is a cross-cultural voyage bringing together a mix of literary narratives and inspirational speakers from around the world. As always, its caravan of writers and thinkers, balladeers and raconteurs, brings alive South Asia’s unique multilingual literary heritage at the British Library.