School of Life: Who owns the future?
The School of Life presents; Who owns the future? Jaron Lanier in conversation with James Bridle; Jaron Lanier is a technology inventor and philosopher who has been dubbed the prophet of the digital age. He coined the phrases ‘Virtual Reality’ and ‘digital Maoism’. His last book You Are Not A Gadget was a hugely influential […]
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 […]