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Must we look at international relations in terms of the powerful and the weak?
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Leela Gandhi: A Changed World: Sho...
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Categories: Politics & Economics
Speakers/Performers: Leela Gandhi

Author and theorist Leela Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter, presents her postcolonial perspective on the future of political and intellectual change
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
From our earliest myths humankind has clung to the view that we are special: but are we?
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Bryan Appleyard: The Exceptional S...
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Speakers/Performers: Bryan Appleyard

From our earliest myths to modern liberal humanism, humankind has clung to the view that we are special:  an exceptional species.  But are we?  And if we are not exceptional what will become of us? Award winning writer and Sunday Tim...
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
Our panel takes issue over the claims for brain science
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Mazes of the Mind: Short
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Categories: Philosophy, Human Body & Medicine
Speakers/Performers: Hilary Lawson, Iain McGilchrist, Colin Blakemore, Bryan Appleyard Catherine Malabou

Neuroscience promises answers to profound philosophical questions and offers a radical new description of human behaviour. But can it hope to account for issues as complex as the origins of consciousness and the nature of art? Or is this al...
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2010
"I Wanna Be Like You"
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The Correspondents: Short
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Categories: Live Music
Speakers/Performers: The Correspondents

"I Wanna Be Like You" The Correspondents were gloriously animated and had the whole room jumping.
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
What will it be like to live in a China-shaped world?
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Martin Jacques: When China Rules t...
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Categories: Culture & Society, Politics & Economics
Speakers/Performers: Martin Jacques

What will it be like to live in a China-shaped world? Author of the global best-seller ‘When China Rules The World’, Martin Jacques argues that it will be profoundly different.‘A tour de force’ - Independent
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
Can we create a new Enlightenment that matches the excitement of the past?
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The End of Ideas?: Short
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Categories: Philosophy, Culture & Society, Politics & Economics
Speakers/Performers: Polly Toynbee, Christopher Hamilton, Jonathan Derbyshire

A century ago Freud, Russell, and Einstein, were at the height of their intellectual activity, but today where are the equivalents? Has celebrity obliterated the intellectual or is something more serious afoot?  Can we create a new Enlight...
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
A darkly seductive cabaret-like performance at Crunch 2011
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Patti Plinko & the Maddening: Short
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Speakers/Performers: Patti Plinko & the Maddening

Patti Plinko and the Maddening perform 'Deepest Darkest' at Crunch 2011, blending guitars, violins and bottles of whisky with darkly seductive vocals.
Event: Crunch 2011
Date added: 18/01/2012
Is artificial intelligence a fundamental advance for humankind or an outcome to be feared?
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Rise of the Machines: Short
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Categories: Culture & Society, Politics & Economics, Science & Technology
Speakers/Performers: Lillian Edwards, Alan Winfield, Hilary Lawson,

From 2001 to The Matrix, intelligent machines and robots have played a central role in our fictions. Some now claim they are about to become fact.  Is artificial intelligence possible or just a science fiction fantasy?  And would it be a ...
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
Can experience justify a political consensus in the face of youthful dissent?
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Generation Wars: Short
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Categories: Culture & Society, Politics & Economics
Speakers/Performers: Julian Baggini, Anthony O'Hear, Laurie Penny, Aubrey de Grey

Can experience justify a political consensus in the face of youthful dissent? Laurie Penny distinguishes between respect for a generational group and respect for political consensus. With Anthony O'Hear. Julian Baggini chairs.
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
Our speakers get to the heart of poetry’s power to awaken us to the universe’s mystery
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I Think Therefore Iamb: Short
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Categories: Literature & Film, Metaphysics & Language
Speakers/Performers: Hilary Lawson, Rachael Boast, Harry Eyres, Jamie McKendrick

Eliot read verse to escape from the self, and Cocteau likened writing poetry to untying the Gordian knot. Is poetry a release from the emotional hinterlands of real life, or a means of enriching them? Can poetry and reason exist without one...
Event: Crunch 2011
Date added: 17/01/2012
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