Return of in-person talks
We are pleased to announce the return of in-person talks! Our first one will be on June 9, at the King’s Arms, and will feature Polyp talking about Thomas Paine.
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Upcoming Events
Paine: Being a Fantastical Visual Biography of the Vilified Enlightenment Hero, by his Ardent Admirer, ‘Polyp’
Born to an ordinary working class family in Norfolk, Paine was variously a corset maker, a privateer, a hugely influential figure in the War of Independence, an exile, a prisoner, and a resolute atheist. His writings celebrate logic, science and enlightenment values, but also deliver a piercing attack on religious fundamentalism.
Failure & Redemption: How Science Saves Science – Dr Megan Crawford
Efforts in science have brought about some of the most disastrous, shocking, and even hilarious results. But how do we know!? Because… SCIENCE! Megan Crawford, PhD, will show how it’s possible that the very system responsible for humanity’s biggest failures, is still the best system for exposing these very conundrums.
This event will be online, on the Skeptics in the Pub Twitch channel.
June Social
Casual chatting, chilling, mingling. Topics will probably veer from Skeptical and science, to things like movies and humorous current affairs.
Demolishing Babel — Keith Kahn-Harris
Could not understanding languages can actually be a tool for peace-making? Can we better appreciate the wonder and joy of language without the pressure to understand? And how can the warning message in a Kinder Surprise Egg be the starting point for a linguistic adventure? In this talk, Dr Keith Kahn-Harris will take the adventure through and beyond his latest book, and invite the audience to join him on it.