In Spite of Christianity
NSRN Annual Lecture Dr Matthew Engelke ‘In Spite of Christianity: Humanism and Its Others in Contemporary Britain’ What do we talk about when we talk about religion? What do we recognize as essential and specific to any given faith and why? In this lecture I address these questions by drawing on fieldwork among humanists in […]
Sunday Lecture: The Rise of the Laptop Lizards
Stories of ‘Miracle Cures’ and other health claims occur because of marketing claims made – often without evidence – for products on the Internet. It’s been a short time since the Advertising Standards Authority started to regulate such claims.; In that time the Nightingale Collaboration has given the Advertising Standards Authority possibly their most serious […]
Jared Diamond: life lessons from traditional societies
The School of Life presents; In the affluent West there is a tendency to assume that we know more about how to live well than traditional cultures. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning researcher and thinker Jared Diamond argues that while the West has achieved global dominance due to specific environmental and technological advantages Westerners do not […]
Sunday Lecture: When is certainty justifiable?
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Karl Popper would say that certainty is never justifiable. But there is a worthwhile line of thought in Wittgenstein to the effect that some doubts would make your whole intellectual world fall apart. Broadening the theme to certainty about ethical and political matters and the question of justification for rigid […]
Acting in Shaw
The Shaw Society presents; Actors Roger Ringrose and Emily Holden give insiders insight to the pleasures and challenges of acting in the Shavian drama; Distinguished actors share their experience of bringing to performance many of the seminal characters and situations of 19th and 20th century drama.; Doors 19.00 Start 19.30 pm – until 21.30pm; TICKETS: […]
Sunday Sermon – Dan Pearson on Commitment
The School of Life presents; Dan Pearson on Commitment; People and plants are not so different. —Dan Pearson; It’s been four decades since Dan Pearson first fell in love with a seed catalogue as a small child. Now he’s achieved the highest plaudits of his discipline we might expect his fascination to wander. So why […]
Stephen Law – The Evil God Challenge
The Central London Humanist Group presents; Stephen will be talking about his “Evil God Challenge” which he has used in debates with various theists including William Lane Craig and also about new ideas in the philosophy of religion that he’s been working on.; Stephen is the editor of the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal Think. […]
Playful 2013
Mudlark presents Playful 2013 A one-day conference all about games play design interaction behaviour and everything else that comes from playing about. It’s a boss day full of smart silly mouth-watering and brain-broadening things. A sticker-book of brilliant thinking designed to make you want to Make Stuff. Doors open at 9:00am for a 10:00am start […]
Bernard Shaw’s Other Island: the presence of Ireland at Shaw’s Corner
THE SHAW SOCIETY presents; Bernard Shaw’s Other Island: the presence of Ireland at Shaw’s Corner; At first glance there is little of Ireland in the Hertfordshire home of one of that country’s greatest writers yet look a little deeper and you will find the presence of Shaw’s birthplace throughout the house. This talk will explore […]