Why we need a Shaw National Theatre
TICKETS: £2 members and £4 visitors (welcome); Doors 6.30pm for 7.00pm start – ends 9.30pm.
What is cancer and how can we control it?
What is cancer and how can we control it?; Cancer research is a vast worldwide enterprise yet there has been little improvement in patient outcomes over several decades. Clearly some bold new thinking is needed. Amid the frantic search for an elusive “cure” some basic questions are overlooked. Why is there cancer? What are its […]
Sunday Sermon – Ruby Wax: Sane New World.
Just announced!; The School of Life presents; We’re thrilled to announce the date of this sermon by Ruby Wax drawing on her acclaimed new bookSane New World.; More details will be posted soon.; Ruby Wax is a much-loved US-born comedian actor and writer based in the UK. Starting out as an actor at the RSC […]
The Rational Parliament – Debate
The Rationalist Association & The Good Thinking Society present The Rational Parliament This House agrees that genetic modification is a rational approach to meeting food demand. How do you feel about genetically modified food? Does your heart disagree with your brain? Come along to the first-ever sitting of the Rational Parliament to debate your views […]
Sunday Lecture – The Last Night: anti-work atheism adventure
The Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labour superfluous and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. Federico Campagna will discuss the rise to power of the […]
Sunday Lecture – Memory Wars
The Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; In the 1990s an epidemic of court cases involving allegations of childhood sexual abuse based on recovered memories swept through the United States. Memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus testified as an expert witness in many of them. In the early 70s Loftus published a series of landmark studies about the […]
Science and Pseudo-Science
Centre for Inquiry UK and Conway Hall Ethical Society present:; Chris French Andy Lewis (Quackometer) James Ladyman and Stephen Law; 11am “Parapsychology and Science”; Prof. Chris French (Goldsmiths Dept. of Anomalistic Psychology).; 12.00 “Pseudo-science and Bullshit”; Prof. James Ladyman. Former editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and author of Understanding Philosophy […]
Halloween Special: Ghosts Zombies and Vampires!
Centre for Inquiry UK The Skeptic magazine and Conway Hall Ethical Society present; Halloween Special: Ghosts Zombies and Vampires!; 10.30 Registration; 11.00 Deborah Hyde on vampires; 12.00 Chris French on ghosts; 1.30 Frank Swain on zombies; 2.30 Scott Wood on London ghosts; 3.30 END; Deborah Hyde: Vampires; “The Vampire has fascinated Western Europe from the […]
Ethics and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Proclinical and Sense present; PHARMABATE: Ethics and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Industry; Please join us for an open debate on the ethics and transparency in the Pharmaceutical Industry. All proceeds donated to the charity ‘Sense’ supporting deafblind children adults and their carers. The coordinators of this event are not affiliated to any organisation.; – Should […]