On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![No One Left Behind: IDAHOBIT 2024]()
No One Left Behind: IDAHOBIT 2024
Join Ted Brown and LGBT Humanists for a talk marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). Hear LGBT perspectives on phobia in the media, past and present, exploring this year's theme of 'No One Left Behind'.
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![The Price of Life: In Search of What We’re Worth]()
The Price of Life: In Search of What We’re Worth
In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything - including life itself. Exploring the final frontier in monetisation, Jenny Kleeman asks what we lose and what we gain be leaving the judgements that really matter up to cold, hard logic.
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![Abolish the Super Rich?]()
Abolish the Super Rich?
Record corporate profits don't trickle down to everyone else - pay stagnates for ordinary workers, food banks proliferate and public services collapse around us. Authors Grace Blakeley and Luke Hildyard ask: have we had enough of the super rich?
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![The Evolution of Nostalgia]()
The Evolution of Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. Agnes Arnold Forster's history of this complex, slippery emotion is a lens through which to consider our collective feelings of regret, dislocation and belonging.
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![The Grand Illusion: Fighting the Nazis with the Occult]()
The Grand Illusion: Fighting the Nazis with the Occult
Syd Moore explores WWII occultism including eclectic recruitment to the war effort, strange goings-on in Surrey and a ritual that allegedly took place in the New Forest in 1940 to repel Operation Sealion, Hitler’s plan to invade the British Isles.
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![Ethical Gaming: What We Are in Digital Worlds]()
Ethical Gaming: What We Are in Digital Worlds
When we make a video game, we can enter any world and be anyone. So why do the issues of the real world follow us into gaming? Dr Steph Rennick and games & tool developer Rami Ismail discuss how we can make gaming fairer and more equal for gamers and developers.
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![How Did We Talk Our Way out of the Stone Age?]()
How Did We Talk Our Way out of the Stone Age?
Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age.
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![Who Owns the Moon?]()
Who Owns the Moon?
In this Ethical Matters talk, leading philosopher and author AC Grayling examines the precedents set by recent history to ask: what should be done to avoid competition in space becoming conflict on earth?
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![The Passengers: An Oral History of Now]()
The Passengers: An Oral History of Now
Between October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices - people talking about their lives, needs, dreams, loves, hopes and fears. These testimonies tell the collective story of what it feels like to be alive in a particular time and place - the British Isles - here and now.
