Philosophers of Otherness 2: Girard, Ricoeur, Derrida
Summer Term 2017, Mondays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 24th April Course Tutor: Keith Barrett. ‘We are all responsible for everyone else – but I am more responsible than all the others’ wrote Dostoyevsky. We will explore the ideas of three contemporary thinkers who argue that the character of our existence is truly defined […]
Philosophy of Science
Summer Term 2017, Tuesdays, 15:00 – 17:00, ten weeks starting 25th April Course Tutor: Anja Steinbauer. Physicist Richard Feynman once mused that “Science is imagination in a straitjacket.” – The course addresses the following questions (and more!): What is science? What is the relationship between philosophy and science? What does it mean that there are […]
Explaining Human Behaviour
Summer Term 2017, Tuesdays, 11:00 – 13:00, ten weeks starting 25th April Course Tutor: Anja Steinbauer. Why did the chicken cross the road? This course will introduce several different approaches to explaining human behaviour, including philosophy, genetics, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. We will critically discuss their usefulness and apply them to examples of behaviour such […]
An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail
SOLD OUT The team behind Festival of the Spoken Nerd are putting on their biggest Evening of Unnecessary Detail so far. In collaboration with Conway Hall, it’s a comedy and science variety night with more unnecessary detail than ever before. To make room for all the extra unnecessary detail, several required details have had to go. So come along […]
Spreading Humanism to South Asia
Babu Gogineni talks about Spreading Humanism to South Asia. Babu Gogineni was the Director of International Humanist & Ethical Union (IHEU), London from 1997 – 2013. His career spans organization development, people empowerment, social activism & public communication. Starting at 17, Babu has worked over 30 years in cultural, commercial and not-for-profit organizations and movements, […]
Sharing
Come and join us and chief sharer, Benita Matofska on an extraordinary journey into the Sharing Economy (a system built around the sharing of human and physical resources — think cars, goods, skills…).Benita is a global award-winning social entrepreneur, innovator and public speaker. She is a worldwide expert, speaker, writer and consultant on the Sharing […]
An Afternoon of Chamber Music
Join London Gay Symphony Orchestra for a free afternoon concert with tea, cake and chamber music in London’s glittering West End. After a sell-out chamber concert in Cologne a few months back, we’re spoiling home audiences with an impromptu reprise as part of our ongoing 20th Anniversary celebrations. Expect quartets, nonets, and bijou musical ensembles of […]
GN21 Voice Workshop – Visioning The Future
Join us for a GN21 Voice Workshop to discuss our future vision of the world we live in and how we might make a difference. What is our vision and what can we do to turn those ideas into action and have an impact? GlobalNet21 engages us all on many issues that are topical at […]
A Night To Restore Sanity
Sick of too much fear-mongering, uncertainty and general unease in the world today? Well for one night only we will be dispelling all that with a ton of comedy, a bit of music and who knows what else. Stealing an idea from American political comedian Jon Stewart, tonight is purely to cheer you all up, […]