*ONLINE* Coronavirus and Populism: Is this the end of the nationalist uprising?
** This event will be held ONLINE. Please register using the “Book Now” link. ** ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. ** — Populist right-wing governments have fared particularly badly during the Covid pandemic. Trump’s America, Johnson’s Britain and Bolsonaro’s Brazil […]
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
** This event will be held ONLINE. Please register using the “Book Now” link. ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. — More than seventy years since Kenneth Arnold saw erratic objects “like a saucer if you skip it across the water”, […]
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Acts Against God – A Short History of Blasphemy
** This event will be held ONLINE. Please register using the “Book Now” link. ** ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. ** — A phenomenon that spans human experience, from the ancient world right up to today’s ferocious religious debates, blasphemy […]
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Ethical Case for Basic Income in a Pandemic
** This event will be held ONLINE. Please register using the “Book Now” link. ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. — • What is the moral or ethical case for basic income as a right? • Shouldn’t everyone receive a stake […]
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: Monumental Memories – Indigenous Memory and Stonehenge
** This event will be held ONLINE. Please register using the “Book Now” link. ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. — Without writing, indigenous elders memorised a vast amount of factual information on which survival depended both physically and culturally: knowledge […]
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: An evening with Robert Hugill & Maria Canyigueral
** This event will now be held ONLINE. Please register for a ticket using the “Book Now” link. ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. — In the first Conway Hall Sunday Concerts live, online event, in place of the usual talks and […]
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Idea of the Brain – A History
** This event will be held ONLINE. Please register using the “Book Now” link. ** ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £5 when registering. ** — Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological […]
*ONLINE* Sunday Assembly: Many Voices, One Song
** This event will take place ONLINE. If you have a voice, you can sing. You don’t need anyone’s permission. And singing is even more enjoyable when done with others. Something powerful happens when we join our voices- we seem to instantly feel a bond of understanding with others. This is why we sing at […]
*ONLINE* Hubble Telescope 30th Anniversary with Kathryn Sullivan, Astronaut
** This event will be held ONLINE. Please register for a ticket using the “Book Now” link ** ** Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation of at least £3 when registering for a ticket ** — Launched on 24th April 1990, The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionised our […]