On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural]()
Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural
Ben Machell uncovers the archives of psychic researcher Tony Cornell and his investigations into ghosts, poltergeists and psychic powers. Between 1950 and 2010 he became perhaps the world's most prolific investigator of psychic phenomena and paranormal events. Ben is in conversation with artist and researcher Sarah Sparkes.
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![The Migration Question]()
The Migration Question
Who are the migrants? Do they steal our jobs? Do border controls improve security? Are open borders desirable? Through empirical research including original surveys and interviews, Leila Simona Talani and Matilde Rosina suggest new thinking to the migration question.
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![Trans Joy Matters]()
Trans Joy Matters
Trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and love. Caroline Litman and T. C. Oakes-Monger invite us to explore how trans lives, and trans joy, matter.
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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.
