School of Life Sunday Sermon: Will Alsop on Boredom
Will Alsop the most playful of contemporary architects shows us the potential of creative boredom.; ‘Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.’ – Walter Benjamin; There’s a boring bit in the process of painting a picture where you’re left watching the paint dry. If you keep painting over wet gloss before […]
Vicky Bond: Religious Slaughter – Is it an Animal Welfare Issue?
The Central London Humanist Group (CLHG) Presents…; A talk by Vicky Bond from Compassion in World Farming (CIWF); Halal meat is increasingly being served in restaurants hospitals and work canteens in Britain. Should we be concerned about how religious slaughter affects the welfare of farm animals?; Vicky Bond is from Compassion in World Farming which […]
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 […]