Talks, Debates & Lectures taking place at Conway Hall
What can we learn from Holland about talking openly with our children about sex and relationships? Our expert line-up – BBC series Mimi On A Mission: Sex Ed producer Ida Bruusgaard, relationships and sex education teacher Jonny Hunt and Amsterdam-based journalist Mark Smith – will give parents their Netherlands-knowledge insight…
Learn how you can use the life-changing power of kindness to improve your life and help transform our world. Join us for an inspiring evening with Dr Kelli Harding and the Museum of Happiness to celebrate World Kindness Day.
We are gathering practitioners from across publishing, media, broadcast, performance and more to share ideas, answer your questions and help inspire and inform you.
The year grows darker. The London Fortean Society and friends return to the Haunted Landscape, our one-day symposium on the folklore, magic and monsters of the British Isles and beyond.
Authors, experts and researchers discuss the undead, fairies, witchcraft, witches and their familiars and magic of the common folk.
Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It is seen as meaning chaos and disorder — or even nothing at all. And yet, from Extinction Rebellion to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosophical and political movement is as relevant as ever.
Four speakers discuss and debate the most crucial issue of our times – climate change – and how we can address it, or whether we’re too late.
Champions of secularism throughout history include a wealth of brave and heroic individuals who defied authorities and established opinion to pioneer progressive ideas. One such individual was Richard Carlile. Join us to learn more about the life of Carlile, one of the most important figures in secularist history.
We are living in the midst of the sixth great extinction. With the clock ticking down, can the modern environmental movement continue to appeal to governments and corporations to change their ways? Or has the time for these tactics passed? If so, what tools are left that have a real chance to save the planet?
Wild Swans author Jung Chang presents a true story of love, war and betrayal: the lives of the Soong sisters, who each rose to the heights of power and left an indelible mark on modern China.
Take a journey in search of London’s lost rivers… Below the pavements, out of sight, a network of secret rivers pulses beneath the capital’s busy pavements. But while they may be hidden from view, clues remain, and this talk will show you how to find them.
DigitalXChange is back in London with two new speakers. Jann Kirchhoff from BMW Motorrad in Munich will talk About petrolheads and mobile apps while Alexander Hipp from N26 in Barcelona will tell us How we set up our team for Continuous Product Discovery at N26.
After her first Supreme Court victory, Gina Miller was asked how she could keep going at the cost of so much pain and aggravation. To her the answer was obvious: she’d been doing it all her life.
