On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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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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![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.
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![Battle for the Museums: Fighting Back Against Cultural Colonialism]()
Battle for the Museums: Fighting Back Against Cultural Colonialism
Museums can be both a valuable educational and cultural resource, and perpetrators of cultural colonialism, gatekeeping, and theft. In this Ethical Matters talk, we explore the underlying dark nexus of capital, art and power―and radical resistance movements fighting fiercely for exhibition spaces that serve today’s public.
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![Why is Tomorrow’s Technology Still Not Here?]()
Why is Tomorrow’s Technology Still Not Here?
For decades we’ve delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, with flying cars and bionic humans. Why are we living in a future that is more flat-pack than jet-pack? Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. Nicole Kobie asks: why are these innovations always out of reach?
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![The Science of Being Social]()
The Science of Being Social
When we form meaningful bonds with others, our wounds heal faster, we shake off infections more quickly and our blood pressure drops. Greater connection can fuel creativity, increase our financial stability and enhance our work productivity. As David Robson shows, we can all benefit from the laws of connection.
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![Queer Histories in Love and War]()
Queer Histories in Love and War
Explore the hidden histories of love and desire, particularly for those on the fringes of society, as we delve into the lives of overlooked LGBTQ+ figures with writer and journalist Luke Turner and bestselling author Wendy Moore.
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![The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation]()
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation
By 1950, 50,000 people had been deemed ‘defective’ and detained for life under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Sarah Wise pieces together the lives irrevocably changed by this devastating legislation and how early twentieth-century attitudes to class, gender and disability resulted in a nationwide scandal.
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![Free to Speak: Protest and Survive]()
Free to Speak: Protest and Survive
The government's Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act is a severe threat to protest and freedom of expression. Civil rights barrister Owen Greenhall alongside writer and activist Shanice Octavia McBean examine the effects of the Act and ask what can be done.
