On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![Seeing Truth in Museums]()
Seeing Truth in Museums
Seeing Truth in Museums brings together artists, curators and Indigenous knowledge holders to offer critical perspectives on visual and material culture historically collected for museums in situations of unequal power, in often violent and/or coercive circumstances, during the British colonial era.
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![A Secret History of Thinking on Paper]()
A Secret History of Thinking on Paper
In this Ethical Matters talk, Irving Finkel, founder of The Great Diary Project, and Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, will delve into the profound role diaries and notebooks have played in documenting personal histories and preserving cultural heritage.
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![Know Your Place]()
Know Your Place
Society today will not give most of us the chance of a secure and fulfilling life. In this Ethical Matters talk, Faiza Shaheen presents a personal and statistical look at how our current system keeps us locked into an ugly hierarchy.
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![The Burnout Paradox: Breaking Free]()
The Burnout Paradox: Breaking Free
Burnout is often described as the defining feeling of the post-pandemic world – but why are we all so exhausted? Anna Katharina Schaffner combines insights from science, medicine, literature, and philosophy to examine the causes and history of burnout.
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![Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose]()
Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose
Games critic Marijam Did and game writer and designer Daniel Griliopoulos discuss how videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist and reactionary agendas, and gaming’s huge influence can be harnessed for good.
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![Ethical Matters & Bloomsbury Festival: How Crowds Made the Modern World]()
Ethical Matters & Bloomsbury Festival: How Crowds Made the Modern World
What happens when we come together with strangers? And why are those in power so desperate to keep us apart? In this Ethical Matters talk, Dan Hancox asks if it is time to rethink our long-held assumptions about crowd behaviour and psychology, and the part crowds play in our lives.
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![Stuart Hall Foundation: Autumn Keynote: Catastrophe & Emergence with Professor Robin D.G. Kelley]()
Stuart Hall Foundation: Autumn Keynote: Catastrophe & Emergence with Professor Robin D.G. Kelley
The Stuart Hall Foundation invites historian and writer Professor Robin D.G. Kelley to respond to the theme of their 2024 programme Catastrophe & Emergence. Professor Kelley examines this current conjuncture, trace the histories constituting it, and consider the political and creative possibilities that might emerge from what was.
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![Boris Johnson: What Happened to Serious Politics?]()
Boris Johnson: What Happened to Serious Politics?
What do the falls, rises, scandals, controversies and parties tell us about Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson? Who is he, and what does his particular brand of celebrity, chaos and contempt say about British Politics today? In this Ethical Matters talk, two very different Boris biographers join us to discuss the turbulent former Prime Minister.
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![UnMasked: The Politics of Neurodiversity]()
UnMasked: The Politics of Neurodiversity
In the latest UnMasked talk at Conway Hall, writer Jodie Hare argues it is time to redefine the politics of who we are. She explores how we might commit to building a world where we can all thrive, one that works to combat discrimination based on race, class, gender, and disability.
