Rebuilding the Ruins
When you see the images and read the news from Syria, it's natural to think that you can't make a difference. Samara's story shows that's just not true. To date, she has organised more than...
Speaker(s): Samara LevySocial Entrepreneurs Workshop
A brilliant opportunity for anyone and everyone involved in social enterprise and business for good to come and workshop with leading global ethical entrepreneur Safia Minney around how we can create...
Speaker(s): Safia MinneyWhere’s Your Head At?
With suicide rates among young men at all time highs, Rotimi Akinsete explores how they can counter the pressure and stress by developing the sort of habits and routines that can keep their minds (as...
Speaker(s): Rotimi AkinseteDoes Religion Do More Harm than Good?
Are the world's major spiritual traditions sources of greater discord than harmony? Or are conflicts that are widely blamed on faith differences, actually fundamentally social and political in...
Speaker(s): Rupert ShorttLoving Angels Instead?
One in three people in Britain believe they have a guardian angel, but just 25% say they believe in God. Can you have one without the other? Peter Stanford traces the role angels have played over the...
Speaker(s): Peter StanfordBleak Winters, Future Hope – Why Christina Rossetti Still Matters Today
If most people know Christina Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter', fewer appreciate the range and depth of her poetry. Join Rachel Mann, as she explores how Rossetti speaks into modern anxieties and...
Speaker(s): Rachel MannDenied: The Rise and Fall of Climate Contrarianism
For more than a decade, a small, elite group of climate contrarians exerted significant influence on discussions of climate change and energy in the UK. Richard Black explores how they came to...
Speaker(s): Richard BlackA Radical Defence of the Human Being
Paul Mason argues for a new virtue ethics based on resistance to machine control. We face a triple threat - an economic system that does not work, evaporating belief in democracy and human rights,...
Speaker(s): Paul MasonRadical Reading: Provocation from Pluto – The Age Of Surveillance
Our lives as workers, consumers and citizens are increasingly monitored by new technologies. Simultaneously, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable. What does...
Speaker(s): Peter BloomThe Frighteners
Grab your crucifixes, pack the silver bullets and join the Sinister Minister Peter Laws on a celebratory romp through society's morbid curiosities. Just why are we fascinated with the dark, spooky...
Speaker(s): Peter LawsThere Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, inequality, fake news – the list of concerns for the Anthropocene seems endless. Mike Berners-Lee explores how the big...
Speaker(s): Mike Berners LeeThe Joy in Eco Living
Can we have a high quality, fulfilling life and live in harmony with our environment? Based on 25 years' experience, Mukti Mitchell shows how reducing your carbon footprint makes you happier,...
Speaker(s): Mukti MitchellOthello Creative Response
Muneera Pilgrim has collaborated with the English Touring Theatre to create a compelling creative response to Richard Twymans production of Othello. In this performance she explores the relationship...
Speaker(s): Muneera PilgrimJesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Owen Barfield is the Oxford Inkling you haven't heard of. He argued that Jesus' life encapsulated a major shift in the evolution of human consciousness. What does this mean for our view of Jesus...
Speaker(s): Mark VernonStepping Stones to a New Economy
The time for incremental changes and tweaks to the status quo are over. We need a new economic model that works for people and planet. What are the building blocks of this new economic model and how...
Speaker(s): Miatta Fahnbulleh