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 […]
Laura Schwartz on Mrs Harriet Law
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Harriet Law Infidel Feminist; Harriet Law was a deeply unrespectable woman. Freethinker feminist and socialist she abhorred religion condemned the institution of marriage and was the only woman on Karl Marx’s First International. A newspaper editor lecturer and Secularist activist in Victorian Britain her life and work were remarkable.; Dr. […]
School of Life Sunday Sermon: Hussein Chalayan on Fitting In
Fashion Designer Hussein Chalayan explores the beauty and advantages of not fitting in.; I think the experience of feeling isolated of not fitting in creates the urge to explore. —Hussein Chalayan We’re social animals: we need to belong. And if we want to belong we’d better fit in. Or at least that’s what we learn […]
Adlerian Society – Shared Histories Common Philosophies
Adlerian Society London Lecture:; ‘Shared Histories Common Philosophies: To what extent did Adler and Montessori influence each other’s thinking?’ Kirsty Wadsley Alfred Adler and Maria Montessori shared more than just their year of birth (1870). This interactive lecture will explore: the parallels between their philosophies of education and children’s development; their shared professional history; and […]
What is the most important issue facing feminism today?; SOLD OUT
A New Statesman Centenary Debate; What is the most important issue facing feminism today?; British women have made incredible progress in the last 100 years from getting the vote to passing the Equal Pay Act. So what’s next? Join the New Statesman’s crack squad of feminist bloggers to discuss the question. Should we be campaigning […]
How Equal Are Men & Women?
VisConPro Ltd presents How Equal Are Men & Women? A panel debate between three feminists and a conservative A lively panel debate on the equality of men and women with Vanessa Feltz Cristina Odone Catherine Marcus and Demetri Marchessini in front of a live audience. The members of the panel have firmly held views and […]