Inheritance Tracks – For Our Children’s Children
Is the disenchantment of Gen Z a passing phase? Or is it a protest against a future they do not want to inherit? What kind of world is the current generation of adults, whether 'influencers' or not,...
Speaker(s): John BellCreating Sanctuary Space For Gypsies and Travellers
Jonathan Herbert and Billy Welch outline how the criminalisation of trespass that is part of the new Police Bill is part of a larger picture of racism against Travellers. They introduce a creative...
Speaker(s): Jonathan HerbertNo Home, No Homeland: Israel’s Policy of Demolishing Palestinian Homes
The demolition of Palestinian homes in order to push the Palestinian population into disconnected enclaves is crucial to what major human rights organisations call Israel's apartheid system. Who...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperGreen Pop – In Conversation with Jeremy Loops
Before ever he was a global music star, Jeremy Loops was busking the streets of Cape Town to raise money for local environmental projects. As the co-founder of Green Pop – focussing on sustainable...
Speaker(s): Jeremy LoopsClimate, Race and Privilege
Climate change divides along racial lines, both in its causes and its impacts. Why is this? And what do we do about it? Following directly on from Christian Aid's panel discussion on Why the...
Speaker(s): Jeremy WilliamsChurch – The Two Thousand Year Experiment
If you've ever been part of a church then you've been part of a long-running mass experiment which many say has now run its course. Have we learned all we can from this extended test of faith? Is...
Speaker(s): Jane Shaw, Linda Woodhead, Brian McLarenLost In Trans-lation
A panel of trans and non-binary Greenbelters share their perspectives and invite your questions on what, in media discourse, has become one of the most weaponised and politicised of culture wars, but...
Speaker(s): Jay HulmeOne Democratic State In Palestine/Israel: It’s Time
One country, one citizenship, one parliament and one shared civil society, in which the national, ethnic and religious identities of all the country's peoples also find expression. What would such...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperThe Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey of Escape to a New Life in Britain
Former child refugee Gulwali Passarlay tells how he miraculously survived the harrowing year-long journey from Afghanistan to the UK on his own. Young and old alike will come to understand the...
Speaker(s): Gulwali PassarlayJoined Up Thinking: The Power Of Collective Intelligence
At a time of existential global challenges, we need our best brainpower to solve them. So how do we create genius environments, help our brains flourish, cope with wildly differing opinions, and...
Speaker(s): Hannah CritchlowGenz, Explained
Drawing on recently-completed research, Linda and Jane offer a portrait of Gen Z (born after 1995), the first generation who grew up with social media and mobile devices. They are intensely concerned...
Speaker(s): Jane Shaw, Linda WoodheadMeat And Our Planetary Future
It is well established that burning fossil fuels is incompatible with a habitable future for humanity. But what about meat consumption? Should we treat meat like fossil fuels, given that globally...
Speaker(s): GreenpeacePrison is not the Solution; It’s the Problem
We have a justice system based on two-thousand-year-old principles of proportional revenge. It hasn't worked and it's not fair. It is time to abolish prisons and develop a new system of...
Speaker(s): Frances CrookNomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval
Migration is not the problem, it is the solution The climate crisis is upon us and billions of people are at risk. Gaia Vince's book Nomad Century, for the first time, promotes the idea of...
Speaker(s): Gaia VinceTransgender Marxism
Spotlighting the pressures, oppression and persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, this session will help you understand the tenuous positions trans people hold in the...
Speaker(s): Elle O'Rourke