Sunday Lecture – A Scientific Odyssey across America
In May 2012 Neil Denny embarked upon a month long 6614 mile road trip across America.; The journey was to produce a series of interviews which present a wide-ranging overview of science and skepticism from an American perspective. While Many in Europe consider America to be the home of conspiracy theories creationism and climate scepticism […]
Sunday Lecture – Multicultural Societies are the Future but Multiculturalism is at an End!
Multicultural Societies are the Future but Multiculturalism is at an End!; Professor Ted Cantle will suggest that multiculturalism no longer enjoys popular nor political support and suggests that we now have to adopt a new approach – interculturalism.; But this is not just a progressive re-branding – though that would help. More importantly multicultural policies […]
Sunday Lecture – The Menace of Science Without Wisdom
Nicholas Maxwell believes we are in a state of impending crisis. And the fault lies in part with academia. For two centuries or so academia has been devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and technological know-how. This has enormously increased our power to act which has in turn brought us both all the great benefits […]
The School of Life Sunday Sermon: Edmund De Waal on Tact
Join Edmund de Waal for a journey along the fine line that separates the tactful from the tactless.; The potter and writer Edmund de Waal is among the most subtle and eloquent of artists at work today. His international bestseller The Hare with the Amber Eyes (2010) is celebrated as one of the most extraordinary […]
Sunday Lecture – The History and Future of Bioethics
Since the late 1960s a new field of inquiry has grown up bioethics which examines the ethical social legal and policy issues arising in the life sciences and medicine. While several of the topics which are central to bioethics have a long history (notably abortion euthanasia and the ethical nature of the doctor-patient relationship) bioethics […]
Ulster Altruism: Hazlitt and Hutcheson
The Hazlitt Society Presents; The Annual Lecture: Ulster Altruism: Hazlitt and Hutcheson given by Terry Eagleton The eighth annual Hazlitt Society lecture at Conway Hall is given this year by Terry Eagleton the leading Marxist practitioner of literary theory and cultural studies.; He is a prolific writer whose output is a highly individual combination of […]
Sunday Lecture – Free Speech! Libel Reform in the last chance saloon
After 3 years and support from 100 civil society organisations and 60000 people the Libel Reform Campaign has secured a parliamentary bill to reform the law of libel. This huge achievement spurred on by the cause célèbre of Simon Singh Hardeep Singh and Dr. Pete Wilmshurst is testament to the ability of campaigns to make […]