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The World According to Physics with Jim Al-Khalili
The World According to Physics with Jim Al-Khalili
In this evening lecture, Jim Al-Khalili will discuss the fundamental concepts of space, time, energy, and matter, and then describes the three pillars of modern physics - quantum theory, relativity, and thermodynamics - showing how all three must come together if we are ever to have a full understanding of reality.
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The World of AI-Powered Creativity
The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Arthur I Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans - and someday will surpass us. This is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.
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Lates: Synaptic Symphonies
Lates: Synaptic Symphonies
Sunday Assembly Lates is back! Zoe Cormier, a science communicator raised in the music industry, will explain how and why humans are able to create music. Did it give us an evolutionary advantage? Why have all civilisations throughout history made music? And why don't other animals understand music?
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Tailleferre Ensemble Celebrate International Women’s Day
Tailleferre Ensemble Celebrate International Women’s Day
The Tailleferre Ensemble will play a concert of wind music by women to mark International Women’s Day, and explore the variety of music composed by women since the Suffragette movement through to today.
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Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 1
Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 1
In a fundraiser for our "affordable for all" Sunday Concerts series, our Director of Music Simon Callaghan, concertmaster Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and leading cellist Ashok Klouda traverse the trios of Beethoven.
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My Life in Outer Space – An Astronaut’s Story of Invention Kathryn Sullivan In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes
My Life in Outer Space – An Astronaut’s Story of Invention Kathryn Sullivan In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes
She is the first American woman to walk in space – a pioneering NASA scientist and astronaut living and working at the final frontier. Now she joins us to tell her astonishing story.
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The Primadonna Prize Award
The Primadonna Prize Award
Join the Primadonnas and some very special guests for a unique night of literature, drama and poetry as we announce the winner of the first ever Primadonna Prize, with Lemn Sissay, Joanne Harris and Neil Hegarty. Followed by Notes To The Forgotten She-Wolves performances from Winsome Pinnock, Athena Stevens and Catherine Mayer.
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Paying it Forward
Paying it Forward
Gulwali Passarlay’s journey to the UK, as told in his autobiography, "The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half The World", shaped his future and inspired an insatiable determination and commitment to raise awareness and make a difference for other refugees by co-founding the charity organisation My Bright Kite.
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Amit Yahav: Piano Recital for Safe Passage UK
Amit Yahav: Piano Recital for Safe Passage UK
Internationally acclaimed pianist Amit Yahav presents a programme of music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin in aid of Safe Passage UK, a charity that aims to help refugee children find legal routes into the UK.
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Free Verse: The Poetry Book and Magazine Fair
Free Verse: The Poetry Book and Magazine Fair
Free Verse celebrates the vitality of contemporary poetry in the UK – it’s a day full of sales and conversation, where publishers and promoters of every scale and stripe display and sell their work directly to the public.
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Exhibition: Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Exhibition: Urban Claims and the Right to the City
* Until 19 Mar * This photographic exhibition focuses on how grassroots urban activists and professionals in London and Salvador da Bahia express issues of urban rights and inequalities, explored through texts and photos. It is the outcome of a research collaboration between Just Space, Lugar Comum and University College London.
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Ethical Matters: People Like Us – Social Mobility, Inequality and Making It in Modern Britain
Ethical Matters: People Like Us – Social Mobility, Inequality and Making It in Modern Britain
The single greatest indicator of what your job will be is the job of your parents. Power and privilege are concentrated among the 7% of the privately educated population. Hashi Mohamed tell his story of social mobility and inequality - and a searching analysis of what needs to change.
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Leadership is Language — How to Empower Your Team Through Better Communication
Leadership is Language — How to Empower Your Team Through Better Communication
‘David Marquet is the kind of leader who comes around only once in a generation… His ideas and lessons are invaluable’ – Simon Sinek
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The Ethics of Debt and Finance
The Ethics of Debt and Finance
A philosopher aims to clarify the concept of debt so we can find better answers to important moral and political questions. How can we resist the stratification of society into a creditor caste and a debtor caste?
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The 1944 Education Act and its legacy
The 1944 Education Act and its legacy
The National Secular Society’s Secular Education Forum chair Keith Sharpe's talk will look at the history of the 1944 Education Act, its impact and its legacy for the role of religion in state schools today.
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Thinking On Sunday: Witch Hunts Today
Thinking On Sunday: Witch Hunts Today
Harmful practices due to belief in witchcraft have seen a huge increase in the past six years both globally and in the UK and Kirsty Brimelow QC and author and campaigner Syd Moore have joined forces to expose this phenomenon.
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Third Stuart Hall Public Conversation: Resistance
Third Stuart Hall Public Conversation: Resistance
The Third Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation explores the theme of resistance in the context of our present social and political upheavals, featuring guest speakers Jack Shenker, Bahia Shehab and Nikki Yeoh.
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Instrumental ensemble leadership workshop with Martyn Brabbins
Instrumental ensemble leadership workshop with Martyn Brabbins
A workshop from Making Music, the UK’s organisation for leisure-time music groups. Observe Martyn Brabbins, Music Director of the ENO, as he guides five conductors in rehearsing a leisure-time orchestra.
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Conway Hall Annual Ethical Gala
Conway Hall Annual Ethical Gala
Conway Hall is Where Ethics Matter. At our inaugural Ethical Gala – a celebration of what our charity does - guest speakers including Catherine Mayer, Martin Rowson, Safia Minney and John Hegley will each talk briefly on an interesting, ethical subject.
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Unfinished Journey Concert: United Strings of Europe with Héloïse Werner
Unfinished Journey Concert: United Strings of Europe with Héloïse Werner
The United Strings of Europe and the beguiling soprano Héloïse Werner present Unfinished Journey, a programme reflecting on the refugee with works by composers with immigrant backgrounds from Germany, Lebanon, Argentina and New Zealand.
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In Response
In Response
* Until 17 Mar * This exhibition features 22 visual essays from graphic design students at Chelsea College of Arts. Each essay is a personal critical response to the issues and ideas of different Victorian pamphlets held in Conway Hall's library collections. They cover issues such as feminism, racism, disability, futurism and speculation.
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Reweirding: Car Park Life
Reweirding: Car Park Life
Gareth E. Rees believes that the retail car park has as much mystery, magic and terror as any mountain, meadow or wood. He’s out to prove it by walking the car parks of Britain, journeying across the country from Plymouth to Edinburgh.
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Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime with Sean Carroll
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime with Sean Carroll
"Carroll leads you so gently and comfortably into his quantum world that you quickly forget you are being given access to the most profound ideas about the nature of reality." – Jim Al-Khalili
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Pre-concert Talk | Breaking New Ground: Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
Pre-concert Talk | Breaking New Ground: Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill returns to Conway Hall to give a FREE pre-concert talk about the evening's programme.
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