The Boring Conference
SOLD OUT The Boring Conference is taking place this year on the 7th May. Tickets will go on sale at 1pm on Friday 25th March. The Boring Conference is a one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked; subjects often considered trivial and pointless, but when examined more closely reveal themselves […]
What if Everyone was on Benefits?
With the row over benefits cuts to the disabled and the poor in the UK, and the resignation of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith. What’s the future of the social security system? Is there a better way? Universal Basic Income (UBI), an unconditional, non-withdrawable income paid to every citizen, has […]
Li Fraumeni Syndrome UK Conference
The first UK event bringing together people with Li Fraumeni Syndrome and related conditions, researchers and clinicians. A chance to find out first hand about the latest research, to make new friends and help build a strong and vibrant community for people with LFS. In addition to speakers and a panel discussion, lunch and refreshments […]
Gender Identity – A Critical Examination
SOLD OUT The idea of Gender Identity is currently enjoying a significant amount of social, political and cultural momentum. An active and highly vocal political movement has emerged around the ideas that at least some, and possibly all, individuals possess something called a “Gender Identity”, that this is often the site of political marginalization and […]
Are Young Men all Messed Up?
Eminent Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, Philip Zimbardo, claimed last year that boys are increasingly lost in bedrooms behind computer screens. He blames this on absent parents and schools that don’t do what they did when he was a lad. He says “Boys have never been self-reflective. They are focussed on doing and acting; […]
Are We Owed a Living?
Unconditional (or Universal) Basic Income (UBI) replaces the biblical saying ‘He who will not work, shall not eat’ with ‘He who does not eat, cannot work’. What are the origins of the work ethic and was it ever really ethical? While we are bombarded with political fuming about ‘strivers’ vs ‘skivers’ and accolades to ‘hard […]
Is the End of Religion Nigh?
In recent years, more and more commentators have questioned what used to be a given: that modernization and industrialization would inevitably lead to the decline of religion. They point instead to a resurgence of religion and the emergence of so-called ‘post-secular societies’. At the same time, though, people are identifying themselves as non-religious in increasing […]
Stephen Trombley: Wise Words
In a rare visit to the UK, Emmy award winning director, Stephen Trombley, will talk about the philosophy of everyday life. Stephen Trombley will mine the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for observations that reflect the seriousness, the joy and the strangeness of human existence, counterpointing these words of wisdom with […]
Cosmic Genome’s ‘The Quest For Wonder’ screening
The Quest For Wonder stars Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince and their puppet counterparts. The show will be a fun-filled caper through the world of science that is sure to delight both children and adults alike. With scenes filmed at Conway Hall and the Science Museum, ‘The Quest for Wonder’ follows the puppets as they […]