London Engineering & Tech Careers Fair 2019
Ever considered a career in engineering or technology? Looking for some opportunities for when you finish school or college? Or, perhaps you are already in your career and are looking for a change? We also welcome group registrations from schools, colleges and academies. Our exhibitors will be ready and waiting to tell you all about […]
LFFW | Bookfair
Along with a fantastic events programme, London Festival of Football Writing will also be hosting a bookfair, with a whole host of publishers, magazines, fanzines and other football brands selling their merchandise. Confirmed stallholders for the bookfair include: Bandy and Shinty Caricom Dinkit Eighteen86 Floodlit Dreams Football Editions by NotOnSunday Howler Jeff Brookes Kickaround Legends […]
New Statesman Podcast Live – with Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush
Join Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, and more New Statesman guests to discuss Brexit, local election results and the state of British politics Spring has started but we’re not out of the long political winter of madness, badness and universal discontent quite yet. Brexit is up in the air, local elections are around the corner and nobody knows […]
Crazy Talk: a comedian’s take on mental health
Join us for an entertaining evening with award-winning comedian Juliette Burton as she shares her heart-warming perspective on mental health. We can’t tell from the outside what people are going through inside. So it’s vital that we talk openly about our feelings and state of mind. But how? Having lived with mental health issues for […]
Boring IX
The Boring Conference is a one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked – subjects often considered trivial and pointless, but when examined more closely reveal themselves to be deeply fascinating. Nothing of any importance will be discussed. The event is a waste of time and money. There are lots of […]
Lord Browne: How to Make the Future
Fans of Steven Pinker and Yuval Noah Harari ought not to miss this eloquent blueprint for building a brighter future from Britain’s most farsighted and philosophical engineer, Lord Browne. Civilisation is founded on the human urge to make things. But today’s unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to […]
This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic
In The Taming of the Shrew, is Katherine and Petruchio’s relationship crackling with sexual tension, or lovelessly enforced by patriarchal violence? Is A Midsummer Night’s Dream a hymn to marriage, or does wife-swapping, sexual masochism and bestiality win the day? Is PTSD a condition of Coriolanus or of the play itself? For Oxford’s Emma Smith, […]
World Bee Day comes to London
Conway Hall, the Embassy of Slovenia and Bee Midtown are hosting an event in celebration of World Bee Day. Over 30 hives from around the world will have stands presenting products distinctive to their region including honey – in all its varieties – pollen, propolis, royal jelly and wax, as well as honey-based products including […]
Edwin Curley on Spinoza, Enlightenment and Religious Liberty
What can Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) teach us about how to manage the ferocious divisions of identity, culture, ideology, and faith that riddle our politics today? Join us for a public lecture by world-renowned philosopher, Edwin Curley, Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan. — Edwin Curley is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University […]