On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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Intangible Value: The Future of Art & Money
Fortunes have been made and lost in crypto coin and NFTs. Are they the future for art and money or a confidence trick and a polluting black economy enabler? Experts Dr. Larisa Yarovaya and Becks Perfect mine to the bottom of the meaning and ethics of intangible value online.
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Do I Have a Normal Mind?
Sarah Chaney presents the surprising history of how the very notion of the ‘normal’ came about, how it shaped us all, often while entrenching oppressive, colonialist values. Along the way she challenges why we ever thought it might be a desirable thing to be..
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The Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Monsters and Ghosts
The Haunted Landscape calls again with demons in the landscape, kings sleeping beneath the ground and the ghosts that have followed us through all of human history. Watch these talks and short films on the folklore of Britain and beyond.
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Mistress Ethics
Victoria Brooks offers an unflinching look at the lived experience of the mistress. Here she is recast as a potentially loving, free, intimate 'other' woman. She asks what happens when we opt for an ethics of sexual kindness and learning from mistresses, both straight and queer.
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Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
More than one-fifth of children want to become influencers and it’s easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet’s attention? The reality is much murkier: Symeon Brown exposes the fraud, exploitation, bribery, and dishonesty at the core of the influencer model.
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The Generation Myth
Are you bored or annoyed by the clichés about you and your generation? Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z—we like to define people by when they were born, but Bobby Duffy, explains why we shouldn't.