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Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Françoise Vergès: There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present]()
8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Françoise Vergès: There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present
As part of their inaugural event of the 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground, The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed political theorist, writer, activist, independent curator and political educator, Françoise Vergès to Conway Hall as the keynote speaker for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation.
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![Chelsea Green: How to Fall in Love with the Future]()
Chelsea Green: How to Fall in Love with the Future
There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—quantum threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in.
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![Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies]()
Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day. Helen King examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women's organs. Was the clitoris ever truly lost?
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![No Such Thing as Normal]()
No Such Thing as Normal
We are diagnosed and treated for mental disorders more than ever, despite increasing evidence that environmental factors play a far greater role than biological ones. Marieke Bigg asks: how can we heal when psychiatry rests on the belief that mental distress is explained by brain structures, chemical imbalances and genetics?
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![Catastrophe Ethics]()
Catastrophe Ethics
Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions?
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![Why do We Love True Crime?]()
Why do We Love True Crime?
Why is real-life crime stories such a successful part of popular culture? Why are women so drawn to histories of violence? Authors Kate Summerscale and Hallie Rubenhold discuss the hold that narratives of crime and murder have over us, their work and views on true crime culture.
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![Surviving the Manosphere]()
Surviving the Manosphere
Authors Jess Davies and James Bloodworth discuss misogyny, the manosphere, and a world that is confusing for men and dangerous for women. How has this come about, how can women start to survive this, and how can we work together to make change?
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![The Uncertain Science of Certainty]()
The Uncertain Science of Certainty
How far would you go in your search for certainty? And once you get there, how do you convince others? Adam Kucharski ranges across science, politics, philosophy and economics to explore how truth emerges - and why it falters.
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![Why We’re Getting Poorer]()
Why We’re Getting Poorer
Cahal Moran delves into the key topics in economics – money, globalisation, inequality, climate change and growth – showing that what we think we know about these things is wrong, and teaching us what we really need to know.
