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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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![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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![Thinking on Monday: Making Evil – The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side]()
Thinking on Monday: Making Evil – The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side
Thinking on Monday: Making Evil – The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side
How to understand the deviance that lies in ourselves and others? Drawing together science, psychology and philosophy, Dr Julia Shaw presents an original and rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind.
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![London Bridge Trio]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: Talk – The Science of Conversation]()
Thinking on Sunday: Talk – The Science of Conversation
Thinking on Sunday: Talk – The Science of Conversation
Using data from twenty years of conversations including first dates, crisis negotiation, sales encounters and medical communication, social psychologist Elizabeth Stokoe will change the way you think about talk, and explain the big pay-offs to understanding conversation scientifically.
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![The Science of Living Longer]()
The Science of Living Longer
The Science of Living Longer
What causes ageing? How does it make us ill? This Sunday Assembly Professor of Biogerontology Richard Faragher will talk about the science of ageing and the possibility of extending our live spans. Hosted by Sanderson Jones, with poetry from the amazing Elie Karslake.
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![It is (the Art of Resistance)]()
It is (the Art of Resistance)
It is (the Art of Resistance)
IT IS is an immersive interdisciplinary performance installation piece created by Lumia Shurong Liu, this multifaceted work combines architectural installation, visual projection, choreography and music live performance, it is the art of resistance bringing to life the narrative of millions of silent asylum seekers.
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![Memories of a Psychotherapist]()
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![Transform Your Relationships: At Work, With Friends, With Partners]()
Transform Your Relationships: At Work, With Friends, With Partners
Transform Your Relationships: At Work, With Friends, With Partners
Joy Marchese presents an evening that is fun, enlightening and includes experiential activities designed to help improve all relationships through a deeper understanding and embodiment of Adlerian principles.
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![Windrush – Brent’s Pioneering Generation]()
Windrush – Brent’s Pioneering Generation
Windrush – Brent’s Pioneering Generation
Until Tuesday 30th April. Windrush - Brent's Pioneering Windrush Generation traces the arrival of Empire Windrush and explores Brent's Carribean Heritage through the eyes of its residents. Using photographic portraits and unique stories collected from residents, it celebrates 70 years of the United Kingdom's Caribbean Diaspora.
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![Jubilee Quartet]()
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![Zine workshop]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: Digital Control – Surveillance and Power in the Age of Big Data]()
Thinking on Sunday: Digital Control – Surveillance and Power in the Age of Big Data
Thinking on Sunday: Digital Control – Surveillance and Power in the Age of Big Data
The corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them? Peter Bloom reveals pervasive monitoring practices which mask how at its heart, the elite remains socially and ethically out of control.
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![Malaysian Night 2019 | Shallow]()
Malaysian Night 2019 | Shallow
Malaysian Night 2019 | Shallow
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall" This coming-of-age original musical tells incredibly human stories through 4 friends, who are looking for their own places in the walk of life. Over time, you will see how their fates intertwine and quite possibly, break apart.Do we really know those whom we think we do?
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![Philosophy Book Club: Derek Parfit’s ‘On What matters’]()
Philosophy Book Club: Derek Parfit’s ‘On What matters’
Philosophy Book Club: Derek Parfit’s ‘On What matters’
At Philosophy Book Club we meet on monthly Fridays to discuss a key philosophical text that we read over several weeks or even months – philosophy is best digested slowly, and in company.
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![#MeToo in the Age of Trump: Is Women’s Liberation Progressing?]()
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![Corridors: Passages of Modernity]()
Corridors: Passages of Modernity
Corridors: Passages of Modernity
Roger Luckhurst takes in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film and television, to explore how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.
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![Pixels Ensemble]()
Pixels Ensemble
Pixels Ensemble
The Pixels Ensemble is a collective of established chamber music players with a shared passion for performing the finest repertoire, from the classical period to the present day. For this concert at Conway Hall, they offer the three 'Bs': Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
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![There’s More to Reading Than Words]()
There’s More to Reading Than Words
There’s More to Reading Than Words
Come and hear from Anj Cairns the CEO of Shannon Trust - an organisation which supports thousands of prisoners a year to transform their lives by unlocking the power of reading. There'll also be the wonderful Esi from Poetry Prescribed reading some poems, as well as power ballads and a vat of tea for after.
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![Boosting student acquisition in HE]()
Boosting student acquisition in HE
Boosting student acquisition in HE
The decline in ‘university age’ entrants and persistent hangover from removing student caps in 2015 have created more competition than ever for universities to attract the best and brightest students. Moreover, the resources available in today’s digital landscape have shifted purchasing decisions towards the student, causing their behaviour to be more fragmented, disconnected and difficult to track. So, how should universities respond?
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![A Distant Light Shines – Music from New Zealand, Lebanon and Latvia – Amalia Hall (violin) and the United Strings of Europe]()
A Distant Light Shines – Music from New Zealand, Lebanon and Latvia – Amalia Hall (violin) and the United Strings of Europe
A Distant Light Shines – Music from New Zealand, Lebanon and Latvia – Amalia Hall (violin) and the United Strings of Europe
To launch its New Horizons International Artist Series, the United Strings of Europe will be joined by celebrated New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall for her only concerto performance in Europe this season, with works from Lebanon, New Zealand and Latvia.
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![Alluna Ensemble]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far Right Extremism]()
Thinking on Sunday: The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far Right Extremism
Thinking on Sunday: The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far Right Extremism
Julia Ebner shows how far right and Islamist extremists have succeeded in penetrating each other’s echo chambers as a result of their mutually useful messages. Her book introduces readers to the world of reciprocal radicalisation and the hotbeds of extremism that have developed in the UK, Europe and the US, with potentially disastrous consequences for all.
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![Care for Your Eyesight Naturally]()
Care for Your Eyesight Naturally
Care for Your Eyesight Naturally
Come along for the launch of the Natural Eyesight Education Programme, and Learn how to care for and support your eyesight to be as clear as possible. There will be information stalls and opportunities to meet and discuss vision education with experienced practitioners, and at 3pm Aileen Whiteford will give a talk on “Eyesight and health”.
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![The Story 2019]()
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![Radicals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries of the 19th century]()
Radicals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries of the 19th century
Radicals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries of the 19th century
A six-week course examining the often hidden or forgotten contribution of radicals, rebels, and revolutionaries to the development of ground-breaking ideas and campaigns in the nineteenth century such as human rights, birth control, women’s rights, the right to vote, republicanism, and free speech.
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![Women of Colour Against The Sex Trade]()
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![Anti-humanist Discrimination: A Global Report]()
Anti-humanist Discrimination: A Global Report
Anti-humanist Discrimination: A Global Report
Bob Churchill shares some of the most recent findings from The Freedom of Thought Report, and describes how Humanists International is working to promote non-religious rights and defend humanists at risk of persecution around the world.
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![DigitalXChange ProductTalk: on digital transformation & the North Star]()
DigitalXChange ProductTalk: on digital transformation & the North Star
DigitalXChange ProductTalk: on digital transformation & the North Star
DigitalXChange ProductTalk is coming to London for the first time and we don't come alone. Johann Jenson is joining us to talk about what your product team needs to "pass" the digital transformation challenge. Martin Fallon will talk about how a North Star helps product managers develop better products.
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![Thinking on Monday: The Perils of Perception – Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything]()
Thinking on Monday: The Perils of Perception – Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything
Thinking on Monday: The Perils of Perception – Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything
Using the latest research into the media, decision science, heuristics, and emotional reasoning, Bobby Duffy examines why the populations of some countries seem better informed than others, and how we can address our ignorance of key public data and trends.
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![Minerva Piano Trio]()
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![Sunday Assembly: Living With OCD]()
Sunday Assembly: Living With OCD
Sunday Assembly: Living With OCD
This Sunday Assembly best selling author Dr David Adam will talk about what it's like to live with OCD and explore the weird thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us towards obsessions and compulsions. Hosted by Sanderson Jones, with poetry from the wonderful Christy Ku.
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![Why we defended Rushdie and why it is still important today: 30 Years After…]()
Why we defended Rushdie and why it is still important today: 30 Years After…
Why we defended Rushdie and why it is still important today: 30 Years After…
On this Valentine’s Day, the 30th anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, join Feminist Dissent to defend the right to apostasy, to love, to flee persecution and seek asylum/Oppose blasphemy laws, the threat to free speech and the deportation of apostates.
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![Happiness in Dark Times – with Dr Maria Sirois]()
Happiness in Dark Times – with Dr Maria Sirois
Happiness in Dark Times – with Dr Maria Sirois
How can we find happiness in our lives, even in dark times? Dr Maria Sirois will combine the latest research with timeless wisdom and powerful personal stories to explore the concepts of hope, happiness and resilience, as well as Positive Psychology and how we can put it into practice.
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![Girls on becoming the leaders of the future]()
Girls on becoming the leaders of the future
Girls on becoming the leaders of the future
This event presents findings from the ‘Girls, Leadership, and Women in the Public Eye’ project. It is aimed at those engaged in work with and for girls – in education, in youth work, in advocacy and activism, and in media commissioning/production - and may also be of interest to fellow scholars.
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![Quatuor Voce]()
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![Depression in a Digital Age – The Highs and Lows of Perfectionism]()
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