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Who am I to Judge?

Hear from Dr Victoria McCloud, the UK's first – and so far only – openly trans High Court judge. A practising Roman Catholic, she now chairs medical tribunals, fights for LGBTQ+ rights and runs...
Speaker(s): Victoria McCloud, Rachel Mann

What Next For Palestine Activism?

As the Free Palestine protests continue in massive numbers – while the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and its grip on the West Bank show no signs of abating – it's clear that civil society and the...
Speaker(s): Ahmed Alnaouq, Muhanad Al Qaisy, Yara Eid

Judgement Not Justice: Race, Creativity and the Criminal System

Justice begins in community, but why are some communities more policed, more punished, and less heard than others? This powerful panel explores how racial bias, systemic assumptions, music and the...
Speaker(s): Andrea Coomber, Ben Lindsay, Elli Brazzill, Lady Unchained, Shona Minson

Save Our Retirements: How to Build a Pension System for People and Planet

The UK government is carrying out the biggest pensions review in a generation – but it's ignoring the climate and nature crises and our societal inequality. With £3 trillion of our money in the...
Speaker(s): Andrew Finney, Phoebe Edmonds, Jesse Griffiths

Church: Do You Still Go?

Quiet revival or quiet denial? Is big best or is small beautiful? What keeps you going or sends you running ? Can we belong without believing — or vice versa? Have you given up or have you found...
Speaker(s): Andrew Rumsey, Chine McDonald, Jayne Manfredi, John Philip Newell, Lamorna Ash, Martin Wroe

Fascist Yoga

While lots of us happily practise our downward dogs and warrior poses, artist and writer Stewart Home explores an alternate secret history of those few who have tried to use yoga to exploit and...
Speaker(s): Stewart Home

Hope in the Dating: Finding love and connection in a disconnected world

As we explore whether technology has made it easier or harder to form genuine connections, are we at a cultural turning point in how we approach dating and relationships? How can we keep honesty and...
Speaker(s): Chine McDonald, Lamorna Ash, Seth Pinnock, Vicky Walker

SCM Young Voices

What can we learn from Generation Z? Bite-sized talks and discussions on the topics the next generation of speakers are passionate about, kick-starting conversations that are important for everyone...
Speaker(s): Student Christian Movement

How To Take On Big Oil And Win

Blurb: Tessa Khan is a climate campaigner & lawyer who has successfully campaigned against major UK oil fields, like Cambo and Rosebank. At a crucial moment for the fight against new oil & gas, Tessa...
Speaker(s): Tessa Khan

This is Not Another AI Panel: This is a Panel for the People

In the late 1950s, Marv Minsky, one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence, excitedly turned to a colleague and gushed, "We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make...
Speaker(s): Hannah Silva, James Stewart, Kester Brewin

Travel Green. Feel Free?

Bring your imagination and experiences to explore how sustainable places and journeys can deliver freedom and independence for people of all ages. An interactive discussion with a panel of transport...
Speaker(s): Laura Laker, Anna Williams

Time Travel as a Tool for Activism

Transition movement founder Rob Hopkins shares some of the tools and insights from his new book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future', sharing practices and activists whose work plays with time and...
Speaker(s): Rob Hopkins

The Girl from Montego Bay

Bishop Rose Hudson is a trailblazer. The Church of England's first black female bishop talks life in Jamaica and in an ever-changing UK, facing discrimination, and never wavering from her call to...
Speaker(s): Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Cole Moreton

The Artform of Religion

Brian Eno and Liz Slade bring their perspectives as religious outsiders to ask if art and religion have a shared purpose. Can religion, like art, be a palace of joy and fun, or does holiness stifle...
Speaker(s): Brian Eno, Liz Slade

Lady Danbury at Boughton House

Best known as Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, Adjoa Andoh is British acting royalty. She is also a person of Christian faith, unafraid to speak out and sometimes cause a stir. Today she is in...
Speaker(s): Adjoa Andoh, Chine McDonald