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Conway Hall & Bloomsbury Festival presents:
Thinking on Sunday: Gandhi and Non-violence – Dr Shahrar Ali
Using Gandhi’s teachings as inspiration, what is the meaning of nonviolence as a form of political action and how does it work? Dr Shahrar Ali characterises and assesses what is as much of a legitimate question of our times as it was in his day. He will also explore the question of whether violence can coexist with nonviolence as part of an all-embracing account of political action.
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Conway Hall & Bloomsbury Festival presents:
Modern Slavery in the UK – Kathryn Cronin
Barristers Kathryn Cronin and Louise Hooper of Garden Court Chambers discuss slavery in Britain today.
Who are the victims, where do they come from, how are they recognised and what are we doing about it?
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Conway Hall & Bloomsbury Festival presents:
Viewing Post-Independent India from the Outside – Dr Sanjukta Ghosh, Rani Singh, Gary Raymond and Janine Shroff
In this India-UK year of culture, how is changing India reflected in journalism, arts and performance based collaborative projects?
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Conway Hall & Bloomsbury Festival presents:
Four Conversations: A United Kingdom? – Scotres
This in-the-round event brings together four speakers to ask each other how they perceive the United (or Disunited) Kingdom. Each speaker will have an association with either England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland and each will have varying specialisms. They will bring to the conversation a variety of constitutional standpoints.
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Conway Hall & Bloomsbury Festival presents:
Why is my Curriculum Colonial? Decoloniality as Education – Simmi Dullay, Oana Parvan, Gitanjali Pyndiah & Nydia Swaby
Black Consciousness feminist cultural producer Simmi Dullay, PhD researchers Oana Pârvan (Goldsmiths) and Gitanjali Pyndiah (Goldsmiths) with Nydia Swaby (SOAS) bring their art praxis and research to discuss the commonality and differences in knowledge production of the global South, decolonization and the presence of the colonial knowledge systems inherited as residues of 500 years of European colonization.
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Bee Midtown & Conway Hall presents:
Will Brexit be good or bad for business in London?
The launch Midtown Big Ideas Exchange with the biggest issue of the moment – Brexit. Looking at the legal, political and financial implications for London-based businesses, how can we navigate this changing landscape?
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London Black Atheists presents:
A Night with James Baldwin
The Astonishing Legacy of a Legendary Black Atheist and Civil Rights Activist with speaker Dr Michelle Asantewa.
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Conway Hall Ethical Society presents:
Why We Tell Stories – and How We Live Them Out
Why do we tell stories? And why, most particularly do we tell the same ones over and over again in different forms (Jaws, for instance, is essentially a rewriting of…
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ModMag presents:
The Modern Magazine 2017
It’s with great pleasure that we can announce our annual editorial conference, The Modern Magazine will be returning this autumn for another jam-packed day of talks from designers, editors and publishers.
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IRIS presents:
Islam and the West: Irreconcilable Differences?
Must there be a dissonance between Western traditions and the Islamic faith? If so, how does this manifest itself? And if not, then have we in Britain reached a point where we need to say so?
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Conway Hall Ethical Society & London Fortean Society presents:
Uri Geller And Metal-Bending: Fact, Fiction or Fakery?
One of the greatest and strangest phenomena of recent times is the rise of Uri Geller and the belief that minds can bend metal. This special presentation by Ian Rowland, with live demonstrations, tells the whole story from a unique perspective.
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how to: Academy presents:
how to: A Radical Economic Plan to Change the World
In this talk Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will outline a radical new plan to fix global capitalism and create a new economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment and Zero Carbon Emissions.
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Humanism UK, New Horizons in British Islam & Conway Hall presents:
Islam & Atheism: Irreconcilable Enemies?
Are Muslims and humanists/atheists, irreconcilable enemies? Looking beyond the simple belief/unbelief divide, where are there fundamental differences? Where is there common ground? What can Muslims and atheists do to help make our plural society work better?
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Rhinegold LIVE presents:
Tasmin Little performs at Rhinegold LIVE
Tasmin Little has firmly established herself as one of today’s leading international violinists. She has performed on every continent in some of the most prestigious venues of the world and…
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Conway Hall Ethical Society & GlobalNet21 presents:
Transforming Education – A New Manifesto for Education
This will be the first of a series of four meetings we will be holding with Conway Hall on Transforming Education for the 21st Century. With the emergence of the…
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