Post Election Fever – Mending our Broken Democracy
The general election may well spew out a very DIS-United Kingdom? Our voting/parliamentary system is driving politics to the four winds of the UK. The worst possible – it does not incentivise or represent the voters or encourage female representation. The House of Lords conjures up actualities of anachronism and cronyism, a relic of times […]
The Art of Thinking – an exhibition of sketchbooks
the art of thinking (#sharing sketchbooks) Based in Conway Hall Library. Opening hours Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday – 10am-5pm An exhibition which aims to reveal the preliminary processes – through sharing a range of ways to record, explore, reflect and develop creative work. The Art of Thinking showcases the wide range of ways in which students […]
War: An Enquiry with A.C. Grayling
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In Search of Paul Robeson
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Perception Change
Perception Change. Think Different. Sam Moyo, founder of Morning Gloryville and all round visionary is coming to speak to us about why she thinks perception change is the thing for us to master in the modern world. She says: “It is no secret that we are living in a VUCA World – one that is […]
The ethical encyclopaedia – right and wrong in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. What are the ethical principles which have enabled its open community to produce the world’s largest compendium of knowledge? How are difficult questions of philosophy, politics and religion resolved? How are the truth and quality of the texts determined? This talk will illustrate the rights and wrongs […]
The Story of Scepticism
In this discussion, speaker Grant Bartley will look at classical sceptical arguments from Parmenides and Zeno, through to Descartes and Hume, to see how much we really know, and how much doubt can be reasonably cast on what we always thought we knew, from many different angles. But he’ll also ask just how useful is scepticism, […]
Psychologically Informed Environments: Therapeutic Regeneration
In this provocative talk Dr. Dean Whittington, author of Wrenching Open the Doors of Perception, Beaten into Violence and Psychologically Informed Environments (amongst others), talks about how to generate therapeutic regeneration of those groups previously written off. By returning to Adler’s breach with Freud, he critiques the current academic obsession of trying to locate various […]
Alongsideness in working relationships and as epistemology: What does alongsideness mean to me … and to you?
Alongsideness as epistemology is personal knowledge of relationship researched in relationship. The process creates and sustains relationships to enhance alliances between all involved for generating individual knowledge about how to live purposeful lives. As practitioner researcher in mental health and research contexts I hold self-worth to be requisite for social interest in community action. Social […]