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Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![Bitch: Sex, Evolution & the Female Animal]()
Bitch: Sex, Evolution & the Female Animal
A revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Zoologist, author and broadcaster, Lucy Cooke, introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species.
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![How Great Novels Help Us Change]()
How Great Novels Help Us Change
What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And what can we learn about death from Virginia Woolf? Josh Cohen explores how, through the experiences of its characters, literature can show us ways to be wiser, more open and more self-aware.
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![Other Loves: Asexuality & Bisexuality]()
Other Loves: Asexuality & Bisexuality
Life is never truly binary, love maybe even more so. Join us for a conversation on other ways of other ways to live and love with asexual activist Yasmin Benoit and Dr Julia Shaw, author of Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality.
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![They Call it Love: The Politics of Emotional Life]()
They Call it Love: The Politics of Emotional Life
Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function. In this talk, Alva Gotby investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labour, how it is organised, and how it might change.
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![Homo Sapiens Rediscovered]()
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens? And how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? Paul Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology, and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
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![Bad Data]()
Bad Data
Our politicians make vital decisions and declarations every day that rely on official data. But should all statistics be trusted? Georgina Sturge draws back the curtain on how governments of the past and present have been led astray by figures littered with inconsistency, guesswork and uncertainty.
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![How To Disagree]()
How To Disagree
Ian Leslie reveals the secrets of how to disagree – without fighting – and shows how mastering the techniques of productive disagreement can transform every aspect of our lives.
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![Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic]()
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic
Archivist Victoria Jenkins presents her major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive. This talk offers in-depth exploration of the occult and its relationship to art and culture including witchcraft, alchemy, secret societies, folklore and pagan rituals, demonology, spells and magic, para-sciences, astrology and tarot.
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![Museums That Make a Difference]()
Museums That Make a Difference
Museums are there to educate us, to broaden our vistas of the world. But can some help us to change the world for the better? We invite two radical museums and archives to discuss their visions, ethos and logistics of making a place that makes a difference.
