Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose
The videogame industry, now larger than the film and music industries combined, has a proven ability to challenge the status quo. Video gaming can put ethical dilemmas in the cross-hairs of philosophical thought. Games raise questions such as how should we be governed, and what does it mean to be a good or dutiful person? […]
The Young’uns
For almost 20 years The Young’uns have entertained audiences around the world. 3 time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners, the much loved trio from Stockton and Hartlepool have built a reputation for singing folk songs for the times we’re living in. Born from empathy, crafted with care and delivered with passion, the Young’uns songs […]
Life Lessons from Historical Women
*Please note that everyone wishing to join this event must register for a ticket in advance. Tickets will not be available to purchase on the door.* Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of the women whose lives and achievements have shaped our modern world. Comedian and author Eleanor Morton celebrates the not […]
The Politics of Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there is no such thing as a ‘normal’ brain. But society is still organised around neuronormativity, and autism is treated as a disease. […]
Public Art and Resistance in the City
What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? In this Ethical Matters talk, curator and anthropologist Rafael Schacter explores public art, citizenship, and the city today. His book, ‘Monumental Graffiti’ unpacks today’s iconoclastic moment, showing us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in—and […]
The Invention of Good and Evil
For nearly five million years, humans have been intertwined with morality, continually inventing and reinventing the concepts of Good and Evil. In this Ethical Matters talk, philosopher Dr. Hanno Sauer explores humanity’s fundamental moral transformations, from our earliest ancestors to the present day. At a time when it might seem that we’ve never disagreed more […]
Know Your Place
Society today will not give most of us the chance of a secure and fulfilling life. In this Ethical Matters talk, Faiza Shaheen presents a personal and statistical look at how our current system keeps us locked into an ugly hierarchy. It’s a powerful call for collective fighting to reinvent things as we want them […]
Books, Bones and Blasphemy
Join National Secular Society Historian Bob Forder for a fascinating walk through the streets of the City, following in the footsteps of London’s nineteenth century freethinkers, radicals and republicans. Discover the birthplace of The Freethought Publishing Company, and hear how its founders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant battled against church and state in their mission […]
The Road to Ethics: Freethinkers, Radicals and Non-conformists
Join guide Julie Chandler for a walking tour and discover some of London’s ethical history, from the birth of the Ethical Movement to the rise of radical freethinking. Hear the stories of some of the people who championed controversial causes such as religious, sexual and political freedoms, women’s rights and secular education – Quakers, the […]