Events
Past Events
2025

Are our minds wild enough?
In a world on fire with environmental change it’s time to update our ideas about humans and nature
2024

Listening to the language of the brain
The chatter of individual neurons shapes all aspects of our mental universe. Can we understand what they’re telling us?

How to be long-minded
A flourishing future for humanity and nature rests on our ability to reimagine time
2023

Can we imagine power without violence?
On the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt in the 21st century, featuring Lyndsey Stonebridge and Syrian musician Lynn Adib

Survival at the edge
Find out what drives people to the depths and edges of the known world, and how they survive it, with psychologist Emma Barrett and drummer/composer Charles Hayward
2022

Goddess
A poetic evening invoking Athena, Artemis and Aphrodite, with classicist Edith Hall, actor Corinne Jaber and musician Leo Abrahams

Taking cosmopolitanism seriously
Author and political theorist Lea Ypi, filmmaker Katie Barlow, and musician and composer Joseph Tawadros on urgent questions of justice in our interconnected world

Listen to your body
Neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel and musicians Sebastian Rochford and Kit Downes unveil the hidden sense of interoception