Sex Advice – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dr. Meg John Barker on ‘How to have a threesome without having a threesome: Sex Advice – the good, the bad and the ugly’ In this presentation, Meg John Barker describes her recent analysis of popular sex advice books, websites, and newspaper problem pages. Much sex advice is based on three common assumptions: 1. That […]
School of Thought: The Feminists
School of Thought: The Feminists – A bite-sized introduction to feminism at the Bloomsbury Festival. Everyone is a feminist now, celebrities and politicians even wear t-shirts proclaiming it, but what does feminism mean and why does it matter? The facts on the ground are confusing. On the one hand, girls are getting higher marks at […]
London is Changing: Regeneration, Gentrification and Redevelopment
Join Iain Sinclair, John Rogers, Tom Bolton and Helen Parton for a discussion about London, how it is changing, how that affects us and what can be done about it. Anger on the streets of Brixton, protests on the streets of Norton Folgate: the anger at changing neighbourhoods and the desire to preserve London’s historical […]
Ethics & Politics
Join us in this informal meeting where we will discuss the future events that we are planning with GlobalNet21 on “Ethics & Politics”. This will be an informal discussion where we can look at what we mean by ethics and politics. We can also use it as a planning session for our two events in […]
Humanist & Islamic Values: Back to the Enlightenment? – Jim Al-Khalili & Ziauddin Sardar in Conversation
A unique opportunity to hear and participate in an event which brings together two important figures with Islamic and Humanist perspectives on the modern world. There will be plenty of time for questions and for informal dialogue. Chair: Innes Bowen, author of Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent: Inside British Islam Prof Jim Al-Khalili is President of […]
From Jesus & Mo to Charlie Hebdo – Chris Moos
Chris Moos from the London School of Economics, Student Union Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Student Society. Chris was at the centre of a row about free speech in 2013 and was ‘banned’ from wearing Jesus and Mo T-Shirts by LSE’s Student Union. He also writes for the Huffington Post, was nominated for the Irwin Prize for Secularist […]
Hierarchy and the Political Economy
To kick-off our new season of Thinking on Sunday lectures, we have an inspiring event by one of London’s most original thinkers. Inequality, oppression, corruption, war and the destruction of nature are products of the Political Economy shaped to benefit the Structural Elite, and rooted in the hierarchical structure of society. Hierarchy has emerged from man’s domination of nature, ultimately enabling […]
50 Shades of Pleasure: The Role of BDSM & Fetish in Sex
Dominic Davies on “50 Shades of Pleasure: the role of BDSM & Fetish in sex” This talk by Dominic Davies, one of the UK’s leading clinical sexologists and “sexperts” on alternative sexualities and sexual practices will explore • BDSM Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism (SM). • What people get from BDSM/Kink sex. […]
Cosmic Genome Quizzicals
The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome is proud to present the first of the Cosmic Genome Quizzicals, London’s largest science quiz night, live at Conway Hall. Covering the entire scientific spectrum from biology brain busters to chemistry conundrums, science news to science history and everything in between, come and test your science knowledge! Whether […]