Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter
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Conway Hall: Where Ethics Matter
Conway Hall hosts a wide variety of talks, concerts, exhibitions, courses, performances, community and social events. It is also renowned as a hub for free speech and independent thought, hosting suffragettes, political radicals, scientists, philosophers, artists, performers; campaign, charities and...
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15 episodi
Celeste Hicks (with Deborah Hyde) - Expansion Rebellion
In this online talk, can the UK expand Heathrow airport, bringing in 700 extra planes a day, and still stay within ambitious carbon budgets? One legal...
Leslie Thomas QC - Do Right and Fear No-One
In this online talk, inspired from a young age to help the marginalised and voiceless, Leslie Thomas QC has dedicated his career to fighting for the u...
Overruled - Sam Fowles
In this online talk, barrister Sam Fowles was part of the team that took the Prime Minister to court when he illegally prorogued Parliament. Fowles h...
Coronavirus & Populism: Is this the end of the nationalist uprising? - Ian Dunt
In this talk, recorded in July 2020, Ian Dunt, editor of Politics.co.uk, takes stock of the post-coronavirus world and asks if maybe, with a bit of lu...
Can Your Identity Survive The 21st Century? - Tracey Follows
In this online talk, futurist Tracey Follows explores the new ideas and technological advances that will shape our world and our identities.
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Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict - Nina Jankocwicz
In this online talk, government advisor and author Nina Jankowicz takes us on a journey through five Western governments’ responses to Russian informa...
Machine Learning and Human Values - Brian Christian
In this online talk, author Brian Christian explains how, as AI develops, we rapidly approach a collision between artificial intelligence and ethics.<...
Playing Video Games like a Feminist - Shira Chess
In this online talk, professor of media studies (and former video game developer) Shira Chess argues that feminism needs video games as much as video...
Gender Revolution and the Domestic Labour Gap - Sally Howard
In this Thinking On Sunday online talk, journalist Sally Howard asks what the future could look like for feminism’s final frontier: the domestic labou...
UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers - Sarah Scoles
In this London Fortean Society online talk, science writer Sarah Scoles ventures into the dark, conspiracy-filled corners of the internet, from a form...
Britain and Borders - Leah Cowan & Nadine El-Enany
In this Thinking On Sunday online talk, recorded in March 2021, journalists Leah Cowan and Nadine El-Enany show how borders impact all our lives, and...
Innocent Subjects – Feminism and Whiteness - Terese Jonsson
In this online talk, author Terese Jonsson examines the history of feminism over the last forty years, arguing that black British feminism’s central r...
Epicurus and the Art of Happiness - John Sellars
In this Thinking On Sunday online talk, recorded in January 2021, philosopher John Sellars unpacks the basic arguments of Epicureanism, distilling the...
How To Be A Failure and Still Live Well - Beverley Clack
In this talk, recorded in July 2020, Beverley Clack, Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University, teaches us how to be a fail...
Paleo-fantasy and Ancient Alien Contact - Stacy Hackner - London Fortean Society
In this London Fortean Society talk, recorded in November 2020, archaeologist Stacy Hackner explores our current understanding of history, and its ten...