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![Victorian Blogging Wikipedia Edit-a-thon]()
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![Monument for Chelsea Manning]()
Monument for Chelsea Manning
Monument for Chelsea Manning
*Every Tue • Wed • Thu until Oct 2019* Monument for Chelsea Manning is on temporary loan to Conway Hall Library and is an ongoing project by artist John Reardon. Reardon is artist in residence in the Politics Department at Goldsmiths, London.
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![Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook]()
Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook
Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook
Conway Hall, Antiuniversity Now and the London Anti-fascist Assembly (LAFA) invite you to join author Mark Bray, who will talk about the growing threat of global fascism and discuss possible directions towards building a coordinated, strong and sustainable antifascist movement.
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![Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds]()
Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds
Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds
Professor John Harris has been working on the ethics of influencing evolution and indeed on the nature of “persons” since around 1973. In this talk he will argue that we have good reasons to embrace revolutionary technologies in germ line modification, including CRISPR/CAS9 and MRT.
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![Five Secrets to Happy Children]()
Five Secrets to Happy Children
Five Secrets to Happy Children
An evening discussion session, looking at 5 aspects of parenting that will help those with care of children to develop strategies that work to build respect, resilience, independence and resourcefulness – all essential qualities and strengths needed both in parents and children to make raising children an experience where everyone feels good!
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![Crazy Talk: a comedian’s take on mental health]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability]()
Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability
Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability
How do you rate your own intelligence? In these three short talks Dr Michael Collins, Dr Sara Lyons and Dr Natasha Periyan will discuss how novelists such as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain think about intelligence both in and out of the classroom.
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![One World]()
One World
One World
One World is new choral theatre written by award-winning songwriter Helen Yeomans. The show illuminates the crossroads at which the human race presently stands and how we relate to each other and our environment. Powerful, fresh and uplifting. “One of the most moving musical events I have ever experienced”.
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![This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic]()
This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic
This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic
What does Romeo and Juliet say about #MeToo? Or Julius Caesar about Donald Trump? Michael Pennington, Natascha McElhone, Jonathan Forbes and Oxford’s Emma Smith star in a dazzling tribute to the greatest playwright of the 21st or any other century.
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![New Statesman Podcast Live – with Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush]()
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![Truth, Love and Clean Cutlery]()
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![Robert Hugill in Focus]()
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![Sunday Assembly]()
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![Boring IX]()
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![Exploring Mindfulness and Voices]()
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![Moving On]()
Moving On
Moving On
*Ends 31 May 2019* In this collection of pieces Shankland explores isolation, both physically and emotionally. 'Moving On' is a question not a given as figures and scenes are often static, seemingly disconnected from the environment or paused in daily routines that are hampered or impossible to achieve. All the while there is tension and buckling in the fabric reinforcing the idea of turmoil and conflict. As voyeurs we watch and wait.
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![Finding Acceptance: LGBT and Apostasy]()
Finding Acceptance: LGBT and Apostasy
Finding Acceptance: LGBT and Apostasy
In this discussion panel event from Faith to Faithless, survivors who have escaped these abuses and are now living free from harm will talk of their experiences. Experts who work with victims will also raise awareness of these highly sensitive issues.
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![Winston Churchill – How to Walk with Destiny]()
Winston Churchill – How to Walk with Destiny
Winston Churchill – How to Walk with Destiny
Everyone thinks they know the real Winston Churchill. But now his biographer Andrew Roberts has uncovered new sources – including the private diaries of King George VI – that reveal this towering figure as we’ve never seen him before.
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![Edwin Curley on “Spinoza, Enlightenment, and Religious Liberty”]()
Edwin Curley on “Spinoza, Enlightenment, and Religious Liberty”
Edwin Curley on “Spinoza, Enlightenment, and Religious Liberty”
What can Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) teach us about how to manage the ferocious divisions of identity, culture, ideology, and faith that riddle our politics today? Join us for a public lecture by world-renowned philosopher, Edwin Curley, Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan.
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![Edwin Curley on Spinoza, Enlightenment and Religious Liberty]()
Edwin Curley on Spinoza, Enlightenment and Religious Liberty
Edwin Curley on Spinoza, Enlightenment and Religious Liberty
What can Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) teach us about how to manage the ferocious divisions of identity, culture, ideology, and faith that riddle our politics today? Come to this public lecture by world-renowned philosopher, Edwin Curley, Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan.
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![Hiro Takenouchi Mozart Finale]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: London Housing – Corruption and Crisis]()
Thinking on Sunday: London Housing – Corruption and Crisis
Thinking on Sunday: London Housing – Corruption and Crisis
Despite a widespread acceptance that we are living through a housing crisis, little seems to be being done to improve the living conditions of Londoners. George Turner discusses what is driving London's housing market to dysfunction and reveals how the house building industry has managed to exploit the crisis in order to turn an enormous profit.
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![Womens’ Theatre in the 1970s and 80s]()
Womens’ Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
Womens’ Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
Come and celebrate womens’ theatre in the 1970s and 80s with an illustrated talk with extracts from performances of the period. Part of Feminism in Camden in the 1970s and 80s, an exhibition of posters curated by Susan Croft.
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![Feminist Film of the 1970s and 80s]()
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![Feminist Film of 1970s & 1980s]()
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![Incendiary Words and Rebellious Campaigns: 1840-1890 and 1940-1990]()
Incendiary Words and Rebellious Campaigns: 1840-1890 and 1940-1990
Incendiary Words and Rebellious Campaigns: 1840-1890 and 1940-1990
A free 6-week course by David Rosenberg focusing on London’s radical and rebellious writers, pamphleteers, journalists and activists whose words challenged the status quo in several arenas between 1840-1890 and their counterparts 100 years later between 1940-1990.
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![Fundamentalism Rising: Humanism Under Threat in India and Bangladesh]()
Fundamentalism Rising: Humanism Under Threat in India and Bangladesh
Fundamentalism Rising: Humanism Under Threat in India and Bangladesh
There may be a long-term global trend toward humanism, but in some regions of the world there's a reverse trend, with an alarming rise of religious and nationalist fundamentalist groups. Come and join this discussion about the rise of Islamist and Hindutva fundamentalism in Bangladesh and India respectively, with Narendra Nayak, Bonya Ahmed and Andrew Copson.
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![The Scientific Truth About Diets]()
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![how to: Make Your Ideas, Products and Brands Triumph]()
how to: Make Your Ideas, Products and Brands Triumph
how to: Make Your Ideas, Products and Brands Triumph
An unmissable talk by Rory Sutherland, the acclaimed Behavioural Economist and – with 6.5m views – a TED Talk superstar, on how your ideas, products and brands can triumph in defiance of logic
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![Thinking on Monday: Vagina – A Re-Education]()
Thinking on Monday: Vagina – A Re-Education
Thinking on Monday: Vagina – A Re-Education
We urgently need to talk about women's sexual and reproductive health, about our experiences of sex and pregnancy and pain and pleasure. In this Thinking-on-Monday talk, Lynn Enright, author of Vagina: A Re-Education, does just that.
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![Simon Callaghan and Clíodna Shanahan: Sunday Concerts Fundraising night]()
Simon Callaghan and Clíodna Shanahan: Sunday Concerts Fundraising night
Simon Callaghan and Clíodna Shanahan: Sunday Concerts Fundraising night
An evening of piano duet classics from by Irish pianist Clíodna Shanahan and Sunday Concerts Director of Music Simon Callaghan, with a chance to hear a charming set of miniatures by Cécile Chaminade, alongside Schubert, Mozart and Ravel. Funds raised will support the continuation of the concert series.
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![Sunday Assembly LATES: Let’s Talk About Drugs]()
Sunday Assembly LATES: Let’s Talk About Drugs
Sunday Assembly LATES: Let’s Talk About Drugs
The third Edition of the Sunday Assembly LATES series is coming to Conway Hall this April. And to keep in line with the more risqué subjects we are tackling in this series - It's all about drugs! Join Stephen Reid, Co-Founder of the UK Psychedelic Society, for a captivating evening.
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![GynaeComedy]()
GynaeComedy
GynaeComedy
Get ready for an evening of laughing at things we shouldn’t laugh at and plenty of vagina banter all whilst raising awareness of gynae cancers. Following last year’s remarkable sell-out success, women’s cancer charity, The Eve Appeal, is holding their second, annual GynaeComedy night.
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![The Psychic Life of a Child is a Wonderful Thing]()
The Psychic Life of a Child is a Wonderful Thing
The Psychic Life of a Child is a Wonderful Thing
In this lecture Dr Christine Parker reflects on her experience as head-teacher leading, then co-leading, a dynamic ‘Girls' Chat Group’ of three 10-11-year-old girls, who grappled with questions related to anti-discriminatory practice and social justice, and over time girls led an anti-racism and anti-bullying campaign in schools.
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![Attend, While I Unfold a Parable – a W.S. Gilbert Play Reading]()
Attend, While I Unfold a Parable – a W.S. Gilbert Play Reading
Attend, While I Unfold a Parable – a W.S. Gilbert Play Reading
A chance to hear W.S. Gilbert’s rarely performed 3 act farce, Tom Cobb or, Fortune’s Toy, which was first premiered in 1875. The play will be read by members of the Society taking the parts including 2 of our Vice Presidents in leading roles.
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![You Are What You Read – With Jodie Jackson]()
You Are What You Read – With Jodie Jackson
You Are What You Read – With Jodie Jackson
Join Jodie Jackson for an inspiring evening to mark the launch of her ground-breaking new book You Are What You Read. Jodie Jackson will explain the impact the news has on our mental health and show us how we can take a more constructive approach to our media diet.
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![Dante Quartet & Alexander Boyd]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: Denial, Denialism and Post-Denialism – Why is Speaking Truth so Difficult?]()
Thinking on Sunday: Denial, Denialism and Post-Denialism – Why is Speaking Truth so Difficult?
Thinking on Sunday: Denial, Denialism and Post-Denialism – Why is Speaking Truth so Difficult?
How does denialism work and why is post-denialism replacing it? And how can they be combatted? In this talk, Keith Kahn-Harris, author of Denial: The Unspeakable Truth, argues that a solution will only be possible when we come to terms with the truth of our darker desires.
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![Sunday Assembly: Why We Dream]()
Sunday Assembly: Why We Dream
Sunday Assembly: Why We Dream
Explore the questions 'Why Do We Dream?' and 'What Are Dreams?' with Alice Robb, journalist and author of Why we Dream: The Transformative Power of our Nightly Journey. This Sunday Assembly will be hosted by Sanderson Jones and supported with spoken word by Daniel Piper.
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![Karolos]()
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![Ending Conversion Therapy: A Panel of Diverse Voices Opposing Abuse]()
Ending Conversion Therapy: A Panel of Diverse Voices Opposing Abuse
Ending Conversion Therapy: A Panel of Diverse Voices Opposing Abuse
A dialogue event with a panel of LGBT people from different faith and belief backgrounds, in which the central question is ‘can we agree a course of action on conversion therapy?’
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![The Gendered Brain]()
The Gendered Brain
The Gendered Brain
The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain. This is not feminist science – it’s just science. Professor Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain, shows us the reality behind much of the data that is used to justify the gender gap, and explains how major breakthroughs in neuroscience will help us dispel these stereotypes and ‘neurotrash’.
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![Black in Academia: Staying the Course]()
Black in Academia: Staying the Course
Black in Academia: Staying the Course
These events are designed to encourage and support black students who are studying in the UK and considering a Masters, PhD or career in academia. Often, information about the steps students need to take to progress through academia is not transparent, easily accessible or well-circulated.
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![Public Discourse – Debates Are Not The Answer]()
Public Discourse – Debates Are Not The Answer
Public Discourse – Debates Are Not The Answer
This meeting will look at whether debate has any value in our present society or whether there are other ways of engaging with each other that are more constructive. What we plan to do is put “debate” on trial.
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![St Paul’s Quartet]()
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![Harmoniemusik]()
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![Making Life Happier – With Dr Mark Williamson]()
Making Life Happier – With Dr Mark Williamson
Making Life Happier – With Dr Mark Williamson
How can we overcome pain? What is our purpose in life? Can we improve our relationships? What transforms our mental and physical health? Come along for an inspiring event with Dr Mark Williamson about how to make life happier - for ourselves and others around us too.
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![Bridging the News Gap]()
Bridging the News Gap
Bridging the News Gap
There’s a problem with our local news. In many areas, the capacity of local newspapers is withering and standards are declining. Join this workshop to hear from Tom Sanderson of the CIJ and learn the skills, tools and techniques that can help you advance accountability in your own local area.
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