The Story 2013
The Story is returning to The Conway Hall, London, on Friday, February 22th, 2013 for inspiring talks and interesting stuff. The Story 2013 will again be a celebration of everything that is wonderful, inspiring and awesome about stories, in whatever medium possible. We’ll have stories that are written, spoken, played, described, enacted, whispered, projected, orchestrated, performed, […]
Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective
Adlerian Society London present:; HERTHA ORGLER MEMORIAL LECTURE; ‘Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective’ Anthea Millar Trauma is an experience of powerlessness when our physical and/or psychological integrity is threatened. Traumatic events can overwhelm and disrupt our normal systems of connecting seeking control and having meaning in life and may be experienced as the ultimate sense […]
School of Life: Why design matters – Alice Rawsthorn talks with Beatrice Gallilee
The School of Life presents; Why design matters – Alice Rawsthorn talks with Beatrice Gallilee; If voters in Palm Beach County in 2000 hadn’t found the design of its new ballot cards confusing Al Gore might have become the 43rd President of the United States of America rather than George W Bush. Design has the […]
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 […]