On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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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.
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![The Lost Girls of Autism]()
The Lost Girls of Autism
The history of autism is male. It is time for women and girls to enter the spotlight. Renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into the emerging science of female autism.
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![The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age]()
The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age
At a time when more and more people in the Western world are moving away from organised religion, what does spirituality look like? Abi Millar explores our post-religious world and asks: can we embrace ritual in our own lives even if we are wary of religion?
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![Sexpectations: Single and Thriving]()
Sexpectations: Single and Thriving
Around 40 per cent of UK adults are single at any one time. Far from being a transitional state between relationships, singledom offers freedom, self-discovery, and self-determination. However, there are challenges, both social and economic.
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![Sexpectations: Messy Modern Love]()
Sexpectations: Messy Modern Love
Artist Philippa Found’s Lockdown Love Stories project emerged during the early days of the pandemic. Through anonymous submissions, people shared their unfiltered stories. From exes to being single, hookups to breakups, dating, situationships, friendships, and relationships, these aren’t love stories; they’re stories about love.
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![Adventures in the Electroverse: The Story]()
Adventures in the Electroverse: The Story
Martyn Ware, founding member of The Human League and Heaven 17, is in conversation with Glenys Adelusi, Programmes Manager at Conway Hall, to discuss the story behind his Adventures in the Electroverse exhibition.
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![Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age]()
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age
The interwar period was a golden age of the uncanny. Tahra Bey took 1920s Paris by storm as an ‘Oriental’ missionary. Dr Dahesh harnessed Western science to create a pan-religious faith in Lebanon. Author Raphael Cormack explores how these forgotten two mystics reflected the desires and anxieties of the troubled age.
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![Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation]()
Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation
Danny Dorling gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britain’s most pressing issues. What do we miss when we focus on the superrich and the most deprived? Why are most British parents on below-average income? How can we reverse the trends leaving all children worse off than their parents?
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![Women and the Far Right]()
Women and the Far Right
We are in a new age of terror, with self-radicalising, hard-to-categorise individuals planning violence. Each one caught by the British state tells us something about British society. Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back.
