On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![The Evolution of Nostalgia]()
The Evolution of Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a social and political emotion, vulnerable to misuse, and one that reflects the anxieties of the age. Agnes Arnold Forster's history of this complex, slippery emotion is a lens through which to consider our collective feelings of regret, dislocation and belonging.
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![The Grand Illusion: Fighting the Nazis with the Occult]()
The Grand Illusion: Fighting the Nazis with the Occult
Syd Moore explores WWII occultism including eclectic recruitment to the war effort, strange goings-on in Surrey and a ritual that allegedly took place in the New Forest in 1940 to repel Operation Sealion, Hitler’s plan to invade the British Isles.
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![Ethical Gaming: What We Are in Digital Worlds]()
Ethical Gaming: What We Are in Digital Worlds
When we make a video game, we can enter any world and be anyone. So why do the issues of the real world follow us into gaming? Dr Steph Rennick and games & tool developer Rami Ismail discuss how we can make gaming fairer and more equal for gamers and developers.
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![How Did We Talk Our Way out of the Stone Age?]()
How Did We Talk Our Way out of the Stone Age?
Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age.
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![Who Owns the Moon?]()
Who Owns the Moon?
In this Ethical Matters talk, leading philosopher and author AC Grayling examines the precedents set by recent history to ask: what should be done to avoid competition in space becoming conflict on earth?
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![The Passengers: An Oral History of Now]()
The Passengers: An Oral History of Now
Between October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices - people talking about their lives, needs, dreams, loves, hopes and fears. These testimonies tell the collective story of what it feels like to be alive in a particular time and place - the British Isles - here and now.
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![Stem vs. Humanities: The Necessity of Aesthetic Education]()
Stem vs. Humanities: The Necessity of Aesthetic Education
UK schools are prioritising STEM subject (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) over art classes. Laura D'Olimpio asked what is lost when art education is removed?
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![Beyond the Hype: Inside Science’s Biggest Media Scandals From Climategate to Covid]()
Beyond the Hype: Inside Science’s Biggest Media Scandals From Climategate to Covid
Do you remember the ‘Climategate’ email leak? Or the ‘Frankenfood’-style headlines about GM foods? What about the time the government sacked its own science advisor for challenging drug laws? Fiona Fox takes us behind the scenes of some of the most contentious stories in science over the past two decades.
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![Cancel Culture and the Culture War: Truth and Consequences]()
Cancel Culture and the Culture War: Truth and Consequences
Hardeep Matharu, editor at Byline Times, and Joe Twyman, director at Deltapool discuss cancel culture and the culture war, where it’s from, who benefits from perpetuating the idea of a culture war and what the cultural landscape may be like if they persists.
