Upcoming Talks & Debates
Smoke Hole: Ancient Myths for Modern Times with Martin Shaw
Smoke Hole: Ancient Myths for Modern Times with Martin Shaw
Celebrated mythologist, author and wilderness guide Martin Shaw invites us to use ancient stories to help find ‘a commons for the imagination, a place to breathe deeper, feel steadier and become acquainted with rapture.’
In person | No Option
Ethical Matters:
A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
Ethical Matters:
A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home. Matt Kennard reveals the evidence and where to find the resistance.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters:
Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose
Ethical Matters:
Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose
The videogame industry, now larger than the film and music industries combined, has a proven ability to challenge the status quo. In this Ethical Matters talk, we explore what we can learn about goodness in games, with industry insiders Marijam Did and Daniel Griliopoulos.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
London Fortean Society:
Divination Day: Astrology, Tarot, Tomorrow and Us
London Fortean Society:
Divination Day: Astrology, Tarot, Tomorrow and Us
When the future is uncertain people have turned to occult and cosmic guidance in the forms of astrology, Tarot cards, phrenology and other ways of truth seeking. Join the London Fortean Society for a deep-dive into learning the future through magic and not-quite-science.
In person | No Option
London Fortean Society:
Cannibal Error: A Social History of the ‘Video Nasty’.
London Fortean Society:
Cannibal Error: A Social History of the ‘Video Nasty’.
In the early 1980s, the videocassette forever changed the face of home entertainment. All manner of films depicting unbridled sex and violence without any moderation were available to all viewers and horror films were perceived as a threat to society. David Kerekes discuses the social history of the Video Nasty.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters:
Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Ethical Matters:
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?
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters
Know Your Place
Ethical Matters
Know Your Place
Faiza Shaheen presents a personal and statistical look at how our current system keeps us locked into an ugly hierarchy. It’s a powerful call for collective fighting to reinvent things as we want them to be; finding hope and not staying in your place. This is how can change things.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Gresham College:
Touching the Sun
Gresham College:
Touching the Sun
Using results from NASA's Parker Solar Probe – the fastest moving human-made object ever – and ESA's Solar Orbiter, this spectacular lecture takes a new look at the mysteries of the Sun, and its effects on the Earth.
In person | No Option
Gresham College:
The Biggest Cosmic Map
Gresham College:
The Biggest Cosmic Map
Asteroids were for years considered 'celestial vermin' – objects which got in the way of more interesting fodder for astronomers. Now, they are central to our Solar System's story, the building blocks from which planets are made, and capable of telling us the history of the last five billion years.
In person | No Option