Sunday Lecture – ‘Just Suppose’
Just Suppose’; A film written and presented by Michael Lawrence.; The soul intention of ‘Just Suppose’ is to provoke: serious thought; soul searching; questioning of the Christian wisdom passed down to us by our ancestors and promoted as viable by our authority figures – teachers parents clergy – and hopefully; extremely lively debate.; ‘Just Suppose’ […]
The Shaw Society: T.F Evans Award
The Shaw Society presents The T.F Evans Award 2013 An evening to celebrate the results of the Shaw Society / T F Evans Award 2013, with a presentation to the winner of the award and a performance of the winning entry. Tickets: £2 members £4 guests. On the door Doors: 7pm for 7.30pm – ends […]
The Evil Hallucination – Phantom of Brain or Mind?
The Adlerian Society UK presents.; ‘The Evil Hallucination – Phantom of Brain or Mind?’ presented by Albyn Leah Hall; “I awoke surrounded by brown and black cats who tried to suffocate me. Fortunately the pope appeared to shoo them away. He sat by my bedside and told me that my husband was being unfaithful.’ This […]
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
All Yesterdays present; Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals; The speakers will be signing copies of their new book “All Yesterdays: Speculation & Science at the Frontiers of Reconstructing Extinct Animals” which will be available on the night.; Doors open at 6:30 and the talks start at 7. Ticket price is […]
Sunday Lecture: One Law for All
Anne Marie Waters is spokesperson for the One Law for All Campaign. She campaigns against Sharia and religious Laws as she believes they represent a sacrifice of the rights of women in the name of legal and cultural relativism. She is a law graduate with a strong interest in family law and human rights and […]
Stefan Dickers on George Jacob Holyoake
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; George Jacob Holyoake was a leader of the Victorian Secular movement imprisoned for Blasphemy in 1842 for an off the cuff reply at a lecture. Holyoake was also a Chartist campaigner for Co-operation Free Speech and a Free and Untaxed Press he was also an early feminist but he fell […]
Sunday Lecture – The Invention of Jesus
The Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; After the Romans adopted Christianity in the fourth century the Church had an unrivalled opportunity to spread its message – and a big problem how to make the texts to conform with what it then wanted people to believe.; In effect it chose to forge its own records.; Peter […]
What Does Europe Want?
Istros Books & Philosophy Now presents; A discussion between Srecko Horvat (the co-author) and Costas Douzinas Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.; ‘’The Slovenian madman and a charismatic Croatian philosopher joined by the most dangerous Greek Politician offer an analysis of the European deadlock in a way that is […]
Common Sense in the Material World
The Adlerian Society UK presents; ‘Common Sense in the Material World’ (or Too Many Ghosts in the Machine) presented by Paul Lindeman; Our society our culture in fact the world is changing so rapidly that what was once reliable and predictable and reassuringly consistent is no longer so. Those people who are regular observers of […]