Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?
How we lost our green and pleasant land, and how to take it back. For centuries, England’s elite have covered up how they got their hands on millions of acres of our land, by constructing walls, burying surveys and more recently, sheltering behind offshore shell companies. But with the dawn of digital mapping and the […]
Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds
Professor John Harris has been working on the ethics of influencing evolution and indeed on the nature of “persons” since around 1973. His most recent and complete work on gene editing more narrowly, is John Harris “Germ line modification and the burden of human existence”, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Vol. 25 No 1 January […]
One World
One World is the creation of award-winning choir director/composer Helen Yeomans. It has been performed several times in the South West to critical acclaim and most recently in Hull as part of the 2017 City of Culture celebrations. Focusing on contemporary themes such as the environment, the global family, slavery, industrialization and social justice, One […]
It is (the Art of Resistance)
IT IS is an immersive interdisciplinary performance installation piece created by Lumia Shurong Liu, this multifaceted work combines architectural installation, visual projection, choreography and music live performance, it is the art of resistance bringing to life the narrative of millions of silent asylum seekers. The whole performance duration is 55 minutes, including 4 sections. REALITY […]
The Science of Living Longer
What causes ageing? How does it make us ill? Can we all extend our lives beyond 120 years in good health? What will it cost? If we could, would we want to? And if not, why not? The answers are both simple and more complex than you might think. Our wonderful speaker this week is […]
Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability
How do you rate your own intelligence? Chances are, the question makes you reflect on your experiences at school and perhaps especially on your exam results, even if you don’t believe school or exams are a genuine measure of mental worth. As mass public education systems were implemented in both Britain and the United States […]
Bridging the News Gap
Bridging the News Gap – Addressing the Democratic Deficit for Communities There’s a problem with our local news. In many areas, the capacity of local newspapers is withering and standards are declining. This is leaving a democratic deficit across many regions and making accountability a long-forgotten dream for many communities. But there are some organisations […]
Thinking on Monday: Vagina – A Re-Education
We urgently need to talk about women’s sexual and reproductive health, about our experiences of sex and pregnancy and pain and pleasure. Lynn Enright, author of Vagina: A Re-Education, does just that. From earliest childhood, girls are misled about their bodies, encouraged to describe their genitalia with cute and silly names rather than anatomically correct terms. In […]
Incendiary Words and Rebellious Campaigns: 1840-1890 and 1940-1990
A 6-week course, 6:30-8:30pm every Thursday 25 April – 30 May As part of the HLF-funded Victorian Blogging project, Conway Hall will be running an interactive 6-part evening course focusing on London’s radical and rebellious writers, pamphleteers, journalists and activists whose words challenged the status quo in several arenas between 1840-1890 – whether on women’s rights, […]