No More Children
This event is part of the Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018. I have been feeling more and more restricted lately by other people’s desires, other people’s believes and frameworks. I’ve been feeling pressure to do with the language I use to express myself, a language which comes from a heteronormative, patriarchal discourse. I don’t mind children, […]
Cognitive Symbol Mechanics: Alchemy for Creative Problem Solving
This event is part of the Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018. Can alchemy be used for creative problem solving? This hands-on symbol development workshop with the investigates. Alchemy is a confidence trick, parting rich patrons from their funding, hence obliquely transmuting base metals into gold. Real magic. Thus alchemy is also class war: a redistributive inversion […]
What happened to the Revolution?
This event is part of the Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018. Most of our time is spent having to resist attacks on all fronts – bosses, the government, and all the general injustices of society. But many of us hold in our hearts a hope for a completely different society. Isn’t it time we put Revolution […]
No Gods, No Masters
This event is part of the Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018. Religious belief is still very strong in the world today, despite predictions that it would disappear with science and the development of a secular society. For many people, this is not a problem- we should be tolerant of the beliefs of others. After all, these […]
Mustard: Knowledge for What?
This event is part of the Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018. The Mustard Project documents the campus activism of May 1968 at the University of Essex, as large numbers of students and staff at the university (not four years old at the time, and still under construction) abandoned regular business and declared a ‘Free University’. The […]
LGBT Humanists – A Campaigns Update
Join LGBT Humanists at Conway Hall on 8 June, where we will hear from Richy Thompson, Director of Public Affairs and Policy at Humanists UK. Richy has been campaigning for humanist causes for over a decade. He is a former member of the advisory group of the Sex Education Forum, on the steering groups of […]
A Day on Wellbeing
A full day of talks on the latest, innovative solutions for emotional, psychological and social wellbeing at Birkbeck, University of London. What role do your dreams play in keeping you sane? Can the science of compassion help explain, and offer solutions to some of the common mental health problems we face today? What really causes depression […]
Conway Hall Book Club – Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic
With two independent publishers – Istros Books and Peter Owen – and a wonderful library on our premises, we thought it a good time for a new literary initiative: a monthly book club for members and friends, where we discuss some of the titles produced by our resident publishers, as well as the occasional guest sessions hosted by […]
Sounds For Syria
The London Syrian Ensemble are a collective of some of the Damascus Conservatoire’s finest musicians, now based in the UK, and Conway Hall have donated their beautiful wood-panelled space in Holborn for the Ensemble to perform during Refugee Week. Their sound mixes traditional Middle Eastern instruments – oud (lute), ney (flute), kanun (zither) –with violins, violas, double bass, percussion, and guest […]