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Conway Hall Ethical Society presents:
The Abolition of Aging?
If we choose to prioritise this project, there’s a high probability that comprehensive, affordable, reliable therapies for human rejuvenation will be available by 2040. People everywhere, on the application of these treatments, will, if they wish, stop becoming biologically older.
In this provocative talk, David Wood reviews the ethical dilemmas and opportunities arising. He will urge society to embrace a project for “The abolition of aging” (the title of his recent book), which could change humanity forever.
Find out more »Central London Humanists presents:
Gambling, the most addictive drug?
Pro-gambler, Rumit Somaiya, talks about his vice and whether gambling is an addiction or unethical.
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The Penultimate Curiosity: Science, Religion and the Big Questions
The Penultimate Curiosity sets out to answer one of the most profound questions about the development of human thought: why is it that throughout the long journey from cave painting to quantum physics what we now refer to as ‘science’ and ‘religion’ have been so closely entangled?
Find out more »Sunday Assembly London presents:
Sunday Assembly – Death
Come and join us for a Sunday Assembly all about Death!
Find out more »Ideas Roadshow & Conway Hall Ethical Society presents:
London Thinks – A Critical Conversation with Onora O’Neill
Join us for an intimate evening with Baroness O’Neill as she embarks on a wide-ranging discussion with Ideas Roadshow host Howard Burton on her academic career, philosophical evolution, and the vital public role for philosophy and philosophical thinking.
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Are Law Courts Biased Against Defendants?
In 1963, Donald Rooum was charged with carrying an offensive weapon, but the prosecuting officer made a mistake in planting the evidence, and in working to save his own skin Donald accidentally initiated the celebrated “Challenor case”, a conspiracy among police officers to discredit nonviolent demonstrators. Donald still asks, “Are Law Courts Biased Against Defendants?”
Find out more »Adlerian Society UK presents:
Trauma, Connection and Recovery
This illustrated lecture will describe how traumatic events can shatter our sense of connection and belonging, and how enabling reconnection of mind, body and relationships is essential for recovery.
Find out more »Centre of Pan African Thought presents:
Myth of the Hyper Sexual Black Man
In this debate we ask our panel to explore if black males are accustomed to hyper-sexuality and infidelity to ensure they fulfil their basic evolutionary desire to reproduce. Or is this rhetoric propaganda?
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Religious Education – where it’s been, what it is doing and where is it going?
The story of Religious Education is one inhabited by Gods and Demons. The different political and ideological camps know all too well who is and is not on their side.
John Holroyd will discuss some of the key moments in the recent history of Religious Education in Britain, and some of the current and projected causes of concern and sources of hope for this vital aspect of a child’s education.
Find out more »Paul Johnson presents:
Going to Strasbourg: Book launch
Book launch for “Going to Strasbourg: An Oral History of Sexual Orientation Discrimination and the European Convention on Human Rights”.
Find out more »Conway Hall Ethical Society & London Fortean Society presents:
Phil Hine – A Phallic (K)night
In this talk, Phil Hine examines the life of Richard Payne Knight. the key themes of “A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus” and its republication in the nineteenth century as both erotic and ethnographic text.
Phil Hine is an independent researcher and occult practitioner, he has been writing and lecturing on esoteric themes and practices for over thirty years.
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Understand Contemporary Society – Insights from the World Expert in Evolutionary Biology
Robert Trivers, ‘arguably today’s most original thinker in evolutionary theory’ (Richard Dawkins) joins the how to: Academy to apply the theories of evolutionary biology to some of the most complex issues of society and identity in the contemporary world.
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Susie Dent on Tribes
Join Britain’s best-loved word expert for a whirlwind tour of our modern tribes, from firefighters to flight attendants.
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The Comedy of Life – With Jela Krečič and Slavoj Žižek
Nigel Warburton and Slavoj Zizek join Jela Krecic to discuss her new novel, ‘None Like Her’, a hapless tale of the fruitless search for a perfect partner.
Find out more »Adlerian Society UK presents:
Positive Discipline in the Home, Adlerian Principles for Parents
Recent research tells us that children are “hardwired” from birth to connect with others, and that children who feel a sense of connection to their community, family, and school are less likely to misbehave. To be successful, contributing members of their community, children must learn necessary social and life skills. Join us for an evening to discuss power struggles, sibling conflict, morning and bedtime hassles, and respectful and effective tools to replace shouting, nagging, bribing and punishment.
Find out more »Ideas Roadshow & Conway Hall Ethical Society presents:
London Thinks – A Critical Conversation with Roger Penrose
Celebrated theoretical physicist Sir Prof Roger Penrose speaks with Ideas Roadshow host Howard Burton on the current and future state of theoretical physics in keeping with his latest book, Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe.
Find out more »London Fortean Society presents:
The Haunted Landscape: British Folklore and Ghosts
As the days darken the London Fortean Society explores the folklore, ghosts and curses of the British Isles with the one-day symposium ‘The Haunted Landscape’. Authors, experts and researchers discuss ghosts, strange beasts and magic. From a talking mongoose to soul birds, moving megaliths in the landscape to witch marks in old buildings; fairy lore and ghosts.
Join us at Conway Hall to learn that the green and pleasant land we abide in has dark, strange and chilling other side.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd & Conway Hall presents:
An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail
The team behind Festival of the Spoken Nerd are putting on their biggest Evening of Unnecessary Detail so far; In collaboration with Conway Hall…
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London Thinks – A Critical Conversation with John Elliott
Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus at Oxford University joins Ideas Roadshow host Howard Burton to discuss Spain, Catalan separatist movements past and present, and the life of a historian.
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Conway Memorial Lecture 2016 – Lawrence Krauss
The Conway Memorial Lecture 2016: Lawrence Krauss – Hidden Realities: The Greatest Story Ever Told.. So Far
Find out more »Storythings presents:
The Story 2017
The seventh The Story conference returns to Conway Hall on Friday, February 17th, 2017.
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