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 […]
Sunday Lecture – Our Public Relations their Propaganda: Engineering Consent in a Democratic Society
Although propaganda is at least as old as civilisation its modern political and corporate forms were only systematically developed in the United States around the time of World War One. This lecture will explore the reasons for its promotion there at that time and will give a historical account of some of the techniques elaborated […]
Sunday Lecture – Human rights: are women human enough to have human rights?
All too often women’s rights are ghettoised delayed or characterised as not exactly vital for human existence. Rights such as the right to education and health are “feminised” and many in the UK deny that these are fundamental human rights at all but merely aspirational policies. Women’s rights activists expose the outdated Cold War dichotomony […]
Sunday Lecture – What Every Parent Needs to Know about Steiner Schools
Andy Lewis covers the education debate with an introduction to Steiner Waldorf Schools and Academies.; With Michael Gove and the coalition approving new Steiner Schools to open under the Free School Programme it is timely to look closely at the origins and beliefs of Rudolf Steiner the founder of the occult movement of Anthroposophy. Steiner […]
Reflections On Loneliness – The Malaise of Our Time
Adlerian Society UK presents; Presented by Dr Chris Maddox; A basic postulate of Adlerian psychology is our interconnectedness our ’embeddedness’ and as H.S. Sullivan said “We are all more simply human than otherwise”. Yet a key problem at the heart of psychological problems is feelings of loneliness feeling ‘disconnected’. Concentrated in cities and towns human […]
Sunday Lecture: University Shambles
University Shambles: How to Ruin the Best University System in the World; Chris Rhodes talks about the policy and ethics of the current educational system in the UK and what the possible future will be for coming generations.; Government cuts rising tuition fees graduates debt-ridden and unemployed FE colleges becoming the new “new universities” the […]
When Prophecy Fails… Again!
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Dr David V Barrett takes a look at prophecies of the end of the world – from Jesus’ expected return to the coming Maitreya to Nostradamus to flying saucers – and at how prophets cover their embarrassment when nothing happens… again.; A former teacher intelligence officer and journalist Dr David […]