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Tuesday 19 November 2024

19:00

Thomas Friedman

Author, reporter, columnist and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes

The Future of America and the World: Post-Election Dissection (in collaboration with Intelligence Squared)

In conversation with Ritula Shah, Thomas will dissect the aftermath of the 2024 US presidential election. He will share his insights into the political turbulence ahead, analysing what the election means for the US, its allies and the wider international community.

Wednesday 9 October 2024

19:30

Yuval Noah Harari

Historian and Philosopher

Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, in collaboration with How To Academy

Yuval asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

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Tuesday 30 April 2024

19:00

Jonathan Haidt

Author, academic and social psychologist

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (in collaboration with Intelligence Squared)

Backed by numerous studies and extensive research, Jonathan argues that the decline of free play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents are the twin sources of the dramatic increase in mental distress among teenagers.

Monday 11 March 2024

18:00

Christiana Figueres

Diplomat and Climate Leader

Facing the Climate Crisis, in collaboration with How To Academy

Christiana, live in conversation with Paul Polman, discusses her continued fight to keep the world below 2 degrees of warming, cut greenhouse gas emissions in half, and protect and repair ecosystems. She is an advocate for stubborn optimism: an attitude which rejects fatalism in the face of impending catastrophe and instead embraces the very real opportunity we have to forge a future in which humanity can not merely survive, but thrive.

Thursday 23 November 2023

18:45

Walter Isaacson

Biographer and historian

The Life of Elon Musk

For two years Walter Isaacson shadowed Elon Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, co-workers, and adversaries. He joins us to share the ultimate inside story of the most controversial innovator of our era. Who is the real Elon Musk? And are the demons that drive him also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? (in collaboration with How To Academy)

Monday 25 September 2023

19:00

Gordon Brown

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and the World Health Organization’s Ambassador for Global Health Finance

Permacrisis – A Plan to Fix Our Fractured World

Gordon Brown joins business leader Mohamed A. El-Erian and Nobel laureate Michael Spence with a provocative vision for transforming our broken world (in collaboration with How To Academy).

Friday 24 February 2023

19:30

Senator Bernie Sanders

Frankie Boyle meets Bernie Sanders - it's OK to be angry about capitalism

Senator Sanders joins Frankie Boyle live on stage at Brighton Dome and via livestream to demand fundamental economic and political change. How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom half of our society? How can we accept an energy system that rewards the fossil fuel corporations causing the climate crisis? This event is held in collaboration with How to Academy.

Thursday 7 July 2022

18:30

Jeremy Hunt

Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee

How to Eliminate Preventable Harm and Tragedy in the NHS (in collaboration with How to Academy)

Jeremy Hunt believes it is possible to reduce the number of preventable deaths in the NHS to zero – in the process saving money, reducing backlogs and improving working conditions. Thinking through everything from technology to culture, he presents a manifesto for renewal.

Thursday 21 October 2021

19:30

Professor Steven Pinker

Harvard Professor of Psychology

Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, in collaboration with How to Academy

Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. Brimming with insight and humour, this talk will enlighten, inspire and empower.

Monday 4 October 2021

19:15

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Philosopher, Filmmaker and Activist

Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope, in collaboration with How to Academy

Bernard-Henri will share his investigative trips taken before and during the COVID pandemic, from the massacred Christian villages in Nigeria to a dangerously fragile Afghanistan on the eve of the Taliban talks, from an anti-Semitic ambush in Libya to the overrun refugee camp on the island of Lesbos.

Most important of all, he will argue that a truly humanist philosophy must necessarily lead to action in defence of the most vulnerable, issuing a stirring rebuke to indifference and an exhortation to level our gaze at those most hidden from us.

Past Events

Thursday 5 December 2024

07:45

Cass Sunstein

Professor at Harvard Law School

How to become famous

Tuesday 3 December 2024

07:45

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Global Economic Trends post the US Election

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