Sunday Lecture: Do you really know how you feel?
Conway Hall Ethical Society presents; Main Hall; Everybody understands what emotions are don’t they? They are feelings inside sort of. They are what we feel when we are happy and sad and stuff. There’s nothing to them. With a little more thought it seems obvious they are something that evolved for some reason to draw […]
Controversial Issues
In the Controversial Issues Discussion Series a member of Conway Hall Ethical Society presents a topic or viewpoint that has caused or is likely to cause disagreement in the public. This is followed by a brief Q&A leading to open discussion.; The views expressed will not necessarily be those of the Society.; Meetings will be […]
Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class
The Shaw Society Presents..; Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class; Bernie Dukore talks about his book Bernard Shaw: Slaves of Duty and Tricks of the Governing Class and how it relates to the works of George Bernard Shaw.; About the Author Bernard F. Dukore is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts […]
Sunday Lecture – Adventures with the Enemies of Science
Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist when he asked himself a simple question. Why don’t facts work? Why that is did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth in spite of the evidence […]
Ahlam Akram: Why are Women’s Rights Not Universal?
The Central London Humanist Group present; Ahlam Akram: Why are Women’s Rights Not Universal?; On 9th October 2012 15 year old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head in Pakistan by Taliban gunmen simply for campaigning for education rights for girls. In Britain in 2013 women still can’t be Bishops should they wish to be […]
Sunday Lecture – Epigenetics: The Missing Link in the Nature/Nurture Dichotomy?
We have known for many years that the environment (nurture) communicates with our genetic information (nature) to create the great complexity of life on earth and of human health and disease in the widest senses. In the past few years scientists have begun to unravel the molecule mechanisms underlying this relationship. These are critically dependent […]
The Science of Discworld
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Sunday Lecture: Money Austerity and the Financial Crisis
Ken MacIntyre discusses why money is one of the most brilliant of social inventions and yet paradoxically for something so familiar and essential for day-to-day existence one of the least understood.; Attention has focused on money and the financial system since the start of the global financial crisis in 2007. Yet governments central banks and […]
GALHA Public Meeting
Homosexuality is not Un-African: A talk by Yesimi Ilesanmi.; Fri 10th Jan 2014. 19.30; Yemisi Ilesanmi will talk about her book ‘Freedom To Love For All: Homosexuality is Not Un-African’.; Yemisi a Nigerian campaigner living in the UK is a human rights activist an author a poet and sometimes moonlights as a plus size model. […]