Upcoming Talks & Debates
Ethical Matters:
Abolish the Super Rich?
Ethical Matters:
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 if we have had enough of the super-rich?
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Humanists UK:
No One Left Behind: IDAHOBIT 2024
Humanists UK:
No One Left Behind: IDAHOBIT 2024
Join us for a talk to mark 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’.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters:
The Price of Life: In Search of What We’re Worth
Ethical Matters:
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 by leaving the judgments that really matter up to cold, hard logic.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters:
Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation
Ethical Matters:
Extreme Britain: Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation
Misogyny and ‘toxic masculinity’ are increasingly implicated in radicalisation. Through interviews with leaders and their followers, Elizabeth Pearson explores the emergence of extreme misogyny and masculinities. Understanding the men and women involved in extreme movements will better equip us to counter them.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Unmasked:
Music and Neurodivergence
Unmasked:
Music and Neurodivergence
Sometimes ADHD, autistic and OCD people want to just lose themselves in music, be it at home, at a club or at a sweaty gig. Join DJ Mahnoor and musician and music journalist James McMahon as they share their love of music and how it works with their neurodivergence.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Gresham College:
First light: Revealing the Early Universe
Gresham College:
First light: Revealing the Early Universe
Join Gresham Professor of Astronomy and BBC Sky at Night presenter, Chris Lintott, as he returns to the theme of how insight is derived from observations, and considers the cosmic microwave background.
In person | No Option
Ethical Matters:
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation
Ethical Matters:
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation
By 1950, 50,000 people had been deemed ‘defective’ and detained for life under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Through painstaking research, award-winning historian Sarah Wise pieces together the lives irrevocably changed by this devastating legislation and how early twentieth-century attitudes to class, gender and disability resulted in a nationwide scandal.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
London Fortean Society:
Conspiracy Theory and Culture
London Fortean Society:
Conspiracy Theory and Culture
Join us and James Ball, Professor Chris French, Professor Karen Douglas, Brent Lee and Jonn Elledge for a deep dive into conspiracy theory and culture. The history, the people and the dangers of a conspiracy mindset.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters:
The Science of Being Social
Ethical Matters:
The Science of Being Social
When we form meaningful bonds with others, our wounds heal faster, we shake off infections more quickly and our blood pressure drops. Greater connection can fuel creativity, increase our financial stability and enhance our work productivity. As David Robson shows, we can all benefit from the laws of connection.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
London Fortean Society:
Art / Magic / Lore
London Fortean Society:
Art / Magic / Lore
Art, magic and folklore cross over and over again making new forms of creativity and lore. Join us at Conway Hall for talks on making new traditions, love magic, lost woman artists, radical Morris Dance and much more.
In person | No Option