Talks

Cahal Moran delves into the key topics in economics – money, globalisation, inequality, climate change and growth – showing that what we think we know about these things is wrong, and teaching us what we really need to know.

Brockway Room | Virtual event

Art / Magic / Lore returns to Conway Hall this summer with an exploration down the lesser-trodden paths of wild folklore and myth. From pagan counterculture to queer folk tales, rebel villains and roadside magic, discover the thread of activism and resistance that runs through occult history.

In person | No Option

How far would you go in your search for certainty? And once you get there, how do you convince others? Adam Kucharski ranges across science, politics, philosophy and economics to explore how truth emerges - and why it falters.

Brockway Room | Virtual event

Authors Jess Davies and James Bloodworth discuss misogyny, the manosphere, and a world that is confusing for men and dangerous for women. How has this come about, how can women start to survive this, and how can we work together to make change?

Brockway Room | Virtual event

The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomes political theorist, writer, activist, independent curator and political educator, Françoise Vergès to Conway Hall as the keynote speaker for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation.

In person | Virtual event

Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions?

Brockway Room | Virtual event

We are diagnosed and treated for mental disorders more than ever, despite increasing evidence that environmental factors play a far greater role than biological ones. Marieke Bigg asks: how can we heal when psychiatry rests on the belief that mental distress is explained by brain structures, chemical imbalances and genetics?

Brockway Room | Virtual event

History is not the full story and half of it has never been told. Join us at Conway Hall for an afternoon of women’s history.

In person | No Option

In this talk, Rob Hopkins asks us to consider: what would the world look like if we all got to work imagining—and then building—a world we were deeply in love with?

Brockway Room | Virtual event

Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day. Helen King examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women's organs. Was the clitoris ever truly lost?

Brockway Room | Virtual event