Catastrophe Ethics
An urgent, thought-provoking answer to the question we are all secretly asking: individually, how should we act in the face of the climate emergency? Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right […]
The Uncertain Science of Certainty
From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Today, in the face of ever-increasing disinformation, how we prove things – to ourselves and others – has never felt more urgent. But there is far more to proof than axioms, theories and scientific […]
Why We’re Getting Poorer
As the UK economy struggles along while the US seems destined for chaos, evaluating why we’re getting poorer has never seemed more relevant. Did you know that while we think of money as notes issued by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks? Did […]
Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation
If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today’s UK, what would their stories reveal? In this Ethical Matters talk, social scientist Danny Dorling gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britain’s most pressing issues. What do we miss when we focus only on the superrich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British […]
(Un)Kind: How ‘Be Kind’ Entrenches Sexism
Using the #JustBeKind trend of the 2020s as a starting point, Victoria Smith, author of the bestseller Hags, explores how traditional beliefs about women’s ‘kind’ nature have been repackaged for an age that remains dependent – socially, politically, economically – on female self-sacrifice while finding the concept outdated and essentialist. Looking at the various guises […]
Why do We Love True Crime?
True Crime has its fingerprints across our imaginations. Michael Boudet, host of podcast Sword and Scales said that 70% of listeners are women between the ages of 25-54. The audience of the All Killa No Filla podcast about serial killers is 80-85 per cent female. A 2010 study also found that women enjoy true crime […]
A Celebration of American Music
Conway Hall presents a night where music transcends boundaries, with Accademia dell’Opera and Amber Trust. Opera, jazz, and Broadway come together in a powerful celebration of music without limits. This charity fundraising concert draws a compelling connection between the impossible loves of Porgy and Bess and West Side Story with the timeless heartbreak of Italian […]
Viva Verdi with Renato Balsadonna
Accademia Dell’Opera Italia presents a standout concert of the open scenes from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, led by star conductor Maestro Renato Balsadonna. This grand celebration of Verdi’s operatic masterpieces will feature ten outstanding young artists performing some of opera’s most thrilling and emotional moments. From the heartbreaking arias of La Traviata to the […]
Midsummer Opera Gala
Join us for a luminous midday celebration of operatic excellence presented by the Accademia dell’Opera Italiana. Baritone and founder Massimo Modoni, together with pianist and co-founder Brian Hughes, return to the stage of Conway Hall with a sweeping programme of Italian operatic masterpieces. From Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, La Traviata and Otello, […]