Sunday Lecture – Rebels Infidels and Troublemakers
11.00 £3 on the door/free to members; Free Tea & Coffee will be available.
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their God Fathers
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Anabel Hernández discusses her work as an investigative journalist exposing the truth behind Mexico’s drug war and new book Narcoland – an explosive bestseller on Mexico’s drug cartels and the politicians and businesses that that enable them.; In Mexico officials put the number of deaths from drug violence at 70000 […]
Sunday Lecture – Being Good
Science teacher and ex-Muslim Alom Shaha author of the much acclaimed ‘Young Atheist’s Handbook’ talks about how to be good without God.; 11.00 £3 on the door/free to members.
Sunday Lecture – Unnatural Predators: More Folklore of Fear
The Vampire has fascinated Western Europe from the early 1700s but the tradition was a real part of Eastern European lives for a considerable time before that. In the last three centuries the icon has been taken up by art of all kinds – literature film and graphics – and it has had a lasting […]
Sunday Lecture – Inside Britain’s Creationist Schools
Jonny Scaramanga attended a fundamentalist Christian school in the ’90s where he learned that the Loch Ness Monster disproved evolution God disapproved of the NHS and homosexuals were an abomination to God. He talks about what students learn in these schools today and what we should do when the parent’s right to freedom of religion […]
Sunday Lecture: From Artificial Consciousness to Human Public Goods
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Academics as well as the lay public often hold that 1) artificial intelligence (AI) has yet to be achieved and 2) were AI to be achieved we would owe it ethical status as a moral agent and/or patient. In fact AI is ubiquitous in contemporary society providing us an excellent […]
Praying for the Poor or Preying on the Vulnerable?
Central London Humanist Group presents; Patricia Rogers – Praying for the Poor or Preying on the Vulnerable?; Patricia Rogers discusses the work of religious international development NGOs. Patricia is currently a trustee and Vice Chair of the BHA.; Patricia read maths at Cambridge. She has worked in Nigeria Pakistan India Zambia Zimbabwe Nepal in maths […]
Sunday Lecture: The Skeptical Bobby
The Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Skepticism and critical thinking isn’t just about UFOs bad pharma and Creationism. After leaving school Stevyn gained places at both art and catering colleges but turned them down and instead accepted a drunken £50 bet with his homicide detective father that he could survive six months as a police […]
Sunday Lecture: The Rise of the Machines
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Bryan Appleyard talks about our relationship with machines – specifically the move from machines that aim to improve the human condition to machines that aspire to change human nature. Bryan Appleyard will talk about our relationship with gadgets today and how that might develop in the future. He will also […]