Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies | Sunday 8th December
As innovations in military technologies race toward ever-greater levels of AI and autonomy, Dr Elke Schwarz reframes the debates around automation and violent technologies.
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Thinking on Sunday was launched as a new series of events with different themes to the Sunday Lectures. These interesting and stimulating sessions have a talk or presentation followed by Q&A, debate and discussion. The speakers are experts in their field, and/or have a passion for subject. Especially popular with our ethical society members, Thinking on Sunday is open to the public and promises to motivate and nourish the mind!
December 2019
January 2020
Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place | Sunday 12th January
Criss-crossing the British Isles with a haul of statistics, charts and equations, Stuart Newman’s Britain by Numbers vividly bringing our nation to life in new and unexpected ways by showing who lives here, where we work, who we marry, what crimes we commit and much else besides.
What We Need To Do Now: Towards Net Zero Carbon Emissions | Sunday 26th January
Chris Goodall shows the route to a society that emits no carbon dioxide but is also fairer, healthier and more content than at present.
February 2020
Thinking On Sunday: Witch Hunts Today | Sunday 9th February
Harmful practices due to belief in witchcraft have seen a huge increase in the past six years both globally and in the UK and Kirsty Brimelow QC and author and campaigner Syd Moore have joined forces to expose this phenomenon.
Among the Women of Isis | Sunday 23rd February
Why did women join ISIS? What is the line between victim and collaborator? Azadeh Moaveni discusses an intimate account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their lives behind and join the Islamic State.
March 2020
Rankings That Rankle | Sunday 8th March
We are obsessed with status. Annual awards and league tables of universities, liveable cities and national happiness reflect this obsession. But how valid are these rankings?
April 2020
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Feminism, Interrupted – Disrupting Power | Sunday 19th April
Reclaiming feminism from the clutches of the consumerist, neoliberal model Lola Olufemi shows that when ‘feminist’ is more than a label, it holds the potential for radical transformative work.
May 2020
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Murdoch – The Man Who Owns the Media | Sunday 3rd May
Tom Roberts traces the life of the Murdochs, how Rupert Murdoch’s view of the world was formed, and assesses its impact on the media that influences our politics today.
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Idea of the Brain – A History | Sunday 31st May
This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge.
June 2020
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Ethical Case for Basic Income in a Pandemic | Sunday 14th June
Today in one the richest countries in the world, 60% of households in poverty have people in jobs, inequality is the highest it has been for 100 years, climate change threatens our extinction and automation means millions are forced into a life of precarity. The solution? Basic Income, says Guy Standing.
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Display It Like You Stole It – Museums and Ethics | Sunday 28th June
It’s well past time for museums to be honest about their acquisitions history and how objects arrive in their collections in the first place. Alice Procter seeks to resist triumphalist nostalgia with art history. How did the narratives of Empire come into being? Who controls them?
July 2020
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Acts Against God – A Short History of Blasphemy | Sunday 12th July
Professor David Nash explores the crime of blasphemy: as an act of individuals but also as a widespread and constant presence in cultural, political and religious life.
Conway Hall is closed but we are working to reopen | Thursday 16th July
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Please support us • #DoorsOpen #SaveOurVenues | Thursday 16th July
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