Sunday Lecture – The Need to Offend
Nick Cohen speaks on freedom of speech censorship and the need to offend.; From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the advert of the Web everywhere you turn you are told that we live in age of unparalleled freedom. From the revolution in Iran that wasn’t to the Great Firewall of China and the […]
Britain’s Sexual Revolution
THIS IS A SPECIAL MEETING TO MARK THE INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA. (IDAHO).; The period commonly associated with sexual revolution in Britain – roughly between 1965 and 1970 – saw what the historian Hera Cook calls an “astonishing pace of change”. This talk will underscore the significance of this half of the decade […]
101 People To Meet Before You (Or They) Die
Hosted by Dan Schreiber co-creator of BBC Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity long serving QI Elf and author of the infamous but unpublished book “Brian Blessed For Beginners”.; Welcome to “101 People To Meet Before You (Or They) Die” the first in a brand new series of live comedy nights that introduces you in […]
Sunday Lecture – Understanding Human
The Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Omar has been in touch with human pain and suffering since very early in life. After being in two wars and one violent uprising in Iraq he finally escaped to London in 1996 as a refugee. He now works in London as a physician and a trainee psychiatrist. Murad […]
Sunday Lecture: Is philosophy relevant in a scientific age?
Clio Bellenis argues for the use of philosophy in science which should not be discarded as an irrelevance.; Having been initially sceptical of the value of philosophy in an age of empiricism Clio changed her mind after some years studying the subject.; When Prof. Brian Cox dismissed philosophy (as he actually does with everything but […]
Sunday Lecture – Preventative medicine? Are screening tests about science or politics?
Dr Margaret McCartney talks about the ethics and politics of medical screening and whether it is necessary.; Welcome to the world of sexed-up medicine where patients have been turned into customers and clinics and waiting rooms are jammed with healthy people lured in to have their blood pressure taken and cholesterol smear test bowel or […]
Can science solve every mystery?
Centre for Inquiry UK and Conway Hall present
Sunday Lecture: Agents of Reason – John Issitt
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Agents of Reason. The demand for fair political representation – from the French Revolution to the Treason Trials of 1794.; From July 1794 London’s radicals and dissenters once again pressed for fair representation. The hero of Agents of Reason is Jeremiah Joyce who liaised between the reform societies and distributed […]