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![In the Shadow & Light of the Archive: A Day Symposium]()
In the Shadow & Light of the Archive: A Day Symposium
In the Shadow & Light of the Archive: A Day Symposium
Through four different and thought provoking events the speakers and those attending the symposium will take part in a deep reflection on the meaning of the Institute’s work and history. Situated at its heart is the work to catalogue the Institute’s archive, what it means for this unique document of social history to be made publicly available for society at large and those of us working as Tavistock practitioners today.
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![Percy Bysshe Shelley: a literary and musical exploration of his humanism]()
Percy Bysshe Shelley: a literary and musical exploration of his humanism
Percy Bysshe Shelley: a literary and musical exploration of his humanism
John Webster will discuss 19th century Humanism through the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley: idealism, social conscience, political activism, romanticism and atheism, all in the hope for a democratic, pluralist and secular future.
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![Helping People feel Connected and Belonging]()
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![An Evening with Chris Bonington. A Life on the Edge]()
An Evening with Chris Bonington. A Life on the Edge
An Evening with Chris Bonington. A Life on the Edge
When Sir Chris Bonington started climbing, none of the 14 peaks that rise into the ‘death zone’ above 8000 metres had been conquered. In a career spanning six decades he has learnt what it takes to conquer fear, develop the skills to attempt the world’s most difficult peaks and adapt to its most uninhabitable places.
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![Why It’s Time for Doughnut Economics]()
Why It’s Time for Doughnut Economics
Why It’s Time for Doughnut Economics
Economics is broken. It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies. Can it be fixed? Only if it is transformed, argues Kate Raworth, with seven essential shifts in economic thought in order to make it fit for the 21st century challenges ahead.
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![Live Art Workshop: Over the Edge]()
Live Art Workshop: Over the Edge
Live Art Workshop: Over the Edge
For performance artists, dancers, visual artists, philosophers, sociologists, mathematicians, poets and others interested in creating new performance-based work. Participants may bring in pieces that they are working on, or use this workshop to begin new work. We’ll develop short performance pieces that can stand on their own, be joined together to create longer inter-related pieces, or serve as a springboard for full-length monologues, plays or other performative work.
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![No Gods No Masters: Compact Whole Weekend Course]()
No Gods No Masters: Compact Whole Weekend Course
No Gods No Masters: Compact Whole Weekend Course
This whole weekend course will look at some remarkable people and movements who spoke up and campaigned for progressive ideas and social change in London from the 1790s-1940s. David Rosenberg will tell their individual and collective stories, explore how they popularised their ideas, and influenced each other, visit sites of protest, and consider their lasting achievements.
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![a school of thought: thinking & language]()
a school of thought: thinking & language
a school of thought: thinking & language
Take part in a series of six interactive, collaborative workshops using a think-share-explore approach, which will encourage you to think, read, discuss and relate to different topics around the links between thinking and language.
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![The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth]()
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![Exploring Hygge: Celebrating the Simple Pleasures in Life]()
Exploring Hygge: Celebrating the Simple Pleasures in Life
Exploring Hygge: Celebrating the Simple Pleasures in Life
Psychologies Magazine and NOW Live events: Charlotte Abrahams, author of Hygge: A Celebration Of Simple Pleasures. Living The Danish Way, will explain why she thinks happiness and hygge are connected, and share her thoughts on how focusing on uncomplicated joys can help us live more contented lives.
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![TFL public consultation – Holborn Tube]()
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![Photography: Process, Theory & Practice Group – #3 Transform]()
Photography: Process, Theory & Practice Group – #3 Transform
Photography: Process, Theory & Practice Group – #3 Transform
Join a monthly photography meetup facilitated by Grace Gelder in the library at Conway Hall. Each session will begin with a presentation and discussion on a specific theme and then a short practical exercise. This group aims to create an inclusive space for people to share ideas, build a community, create new work and get the support and feedback that they wish to receive on a regular basis.
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![Fundamentalism: a Psychoanalytic Perspective]()
Fundamentalism: a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Fundamentalism: a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Much has been written about the, cultural, political and sociological aspects of fundamentalism. But why are some people attracted to fundamentalist beliefs? What kind of inner worlds do fundamentalists have? Why might they become violent? Richard Burgess presents a psychoanalytic viewpoint with its focus on the deeper causes of human behaviour.
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![Creating a happier world – with Jeffrey Sachs]()
Creating a happier world – with Jeffrey Sachs
Creating a happier world – with Jeffrey Sachs
Join Action for Happiness for an inspiring evening with Jeffrey Sachs as he explores the causes of happiness and unhappiness in modern Western culture and shares his vision for a better culture and a happier world.
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![Janice Perry – Not Just Another Pretty Face: a retrospective]()
Janice Perry – Not Just Another Pretty Face: a retrospective
Janice Perry – Not Just Another Pretty Face: a retrospective
Janice Perry laughs us through her 35+ years as an international performance artist and political satirist. Free-ranging from Pope to Pop, from Marilyn Monroe through a few Gulf Wars, High Fashion, Erotica, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Mapplethorpe’s naked men and Arts censorship. “One of the World’s Most Respected Performance Artists” said BBC Radio.
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![Dr Meg-John Barker: “How to Understand Your Gender”]()
Dr Meg-John Barker: “How to Understand Your Gender”
Dr Meg-John Barker: “How to Understand Your Gender”
In this presentation Meg-John Barker presents key ideas from their new book - with Alex Iantaffi - How to Understand Your Gender, many of which were also drawn on in the guidelines they've just written for therapists on this topic.
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![History of Philosophy 1]()
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![Classics of Moral Philosophy: Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature]()
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![Philosophers of Otherness 3: Irigaray, Kristeva, Butler]()
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![The Pre-Socratics]()
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![New Shakespeare and Philosophy]()
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![Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers of Epping Forest]()
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers of Epping Forest
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers of Epping Forest
Will Ashon, author of Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest will be at Conway Hall to discuss his journey out in to the edges of London.
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![The Business Plan for Peace: Making Possible a World Without War]()
The Business Plan for Peace: Making Possible a World Without War
The Business Plan for Peace: Making Possible a World Without War
Renowned peace expert Dr Scilla Elworthy will draw on research for her latest book to offer insights into the forces driving conflict and how these can be countered. She will present a costed business case for peace and suggestions for how everyone can help work towards it.
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![Wagner and Philosophy]()
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![Classics of Moral Philosophy: Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals]()
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![Philosophy of Love]()
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![Hermeneutics]()
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![The Fulham Opera Robert Presley Memorial Verdi Prize]()
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![Gendered Intelligence]()
Gendered Intelligence
Gendered Intelligence
What is gender? How do you know someone’s gender? What about those who feel or express their gender in ways that go against social norms? Who are trans people? And what does it mean to value and celebrate gender diversity in our society? These are the questions Dr Jay Stewart, CEO and co-founder of Gendered Intelligence, will pose.
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![Experiencing the Exclusive Brethren]()
Experiencing the Exclusive Brethren
Experiencing the Exclusive Brethren
In this talk, Rebecca Stott will tell of her family’s experiences within the Exclusive Brethren sect in the 1960s, and the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away. She will use her family story to consider the psychology of cults and totalitarian systems and the effects on second and even third generation survivors.
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![Creating Captivating Monologues and Micro-stories]()
Creating Captivating Monologues and Micro-stories
Creating Captivating Monologues and Micro-stories
This writing workshop will have you constantly creating as Sean Bruno (co-author of Creating Solo Performance), guides you through an eclectic mix of writing exercises (some clever, some technical, some ridiculous) designed to playfully invigorate your perspective and help you transform the most mundane observations into captivating story or monologue material.
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![The One-Stop-Shop for Mobile EU Citizens]()
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![LOTS]()
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![Brownell Trio]()
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![Ernestine Rose and T.H. Huxley on Atheism]()
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![LGBT Against the Sex Trade]()
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![e-PERFORMANCE: Publishing, podcasting and other alternative lives for your show]()
e-PERFORMANCE: Publishing, podcasting and other alternative lives for your show
e-PERFORMANCE: Publishing, podcasting and other alternative lives for your show
In this practical workshop, Sean Bruno & Luke Dixon will look how you can bring your performance, theatre piece or story to life through podcasting, blogging and digital publishing; and how you can use these mediums to create new work and discover new audiences.
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![Conway Hall Book Club]()
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![Reading Lacan’s Seminar 5: Formations of the Unconscious]()
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![Zelkova Quartet]()
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![How Racist Is The UK?]()
How Racist Is The UK?
How Racist Is The UK?
We are being joined by Camille Barton, who will explore the idea that racism is worst in countries such as the USA. She will speak about how this may also be a source of apathy and confusion when navigating these issues in a UK context. This talk will explore strategies to dismantle racism with a compassionate approach, utilising examples from Camille's time living and engaging in social justice work in the USA and the UK.
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![Thinking on Sunday: What role for Capitalism in the digital age?]()
Thinking on Sunday: What role for Capitalism in the digital age?
Thinking on Sunday: What role for Capitalism in the digital age?
Harry Shutt argues that Capitalism is now becoming as outmoded as feudalism had by around 1800, particularly in face of the accelerating technological change of the digital age. Just as the industrial revolution led to the emergence of Capitalism in the 19th century, so its dominance is now threatened by a new technological transformation and the sprouting of new forms economic and social organisation.
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![Mole taxidermy workshop]()
Mole taxidermy workshop
Mole taxidermy workshop
In these classes you will be introduced to the processes and techniques behind basic taxidermy. You will learn how to skin, prep, preserve, mount and position your animal. You can choose to mount it realistically or anthropomorphically (ie wearing clothes) and at the end of the day you can take your stuffed creation home to occupy pride of place on your mantelpiece.
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![State of the Browser 6]()
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![Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past]()
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past
*SOLD OUT*Returns only John Higgs on Watling Street. A road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth, of Chaucer, Dickens and James Bond. Along this route Boudicca met her end, the Battle of Bosworth changed royal history, Bletchley Park code breakers cracked Nazi transmissions and Capability Brown remodelled the English landscape.
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![Iraqis Living With Trauma in a War Zone & How to Cope With It]()
Iraqis Living With Trauma in a War Zone & How to Cope With It
Iraqis Living With Trauma in a War Zone & How to Cope With It
Tadhamun (Iraqi Women Solidarity) invites experts and health practitioners to discuss the impact of the continuing cycle of war and occupation upon the Iraqi population.
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![Alastair Creamer: How to find work that makes your heart sing]()
Alastair Creamer: How to find work that makes your heart sing
Alastair Creamer: How to find work that makes your heart sing
Creative thinker, consultant, coach and Eyes Wide Opened co-founder, Alastair Creamer on why we ask ourselves the wrong question with 'What do you want to do?'. We should instead focus on who we are, what drives us and what our unique story is, and, most importantly, on finding our 'why'.
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![Tippett Quartet & Emma Abbate (piano)]()
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