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For a change, here's a link to a great talk on language by Steven Pinker
Tuesday 10 December A Rogues' Gallery A Rogues' Gallery is a journey through the past half-century, charting the ups and downs of leading writers and actors, thinkers, entertainers, gurus, politicians and public non-conformists. It collects the snapshots gathered during one journalist's long and varied career of the famous and infamous, foolish and funny, when they were off-camera. Here are private views of the tensions that opened cracks in the marriages of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Harold Pinter and Vivien Merchant, Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. What really happened when Laurie Lee drank cider with Rosie? Which film roles made Alec Guinness most satisfied and dissatisfied? Which made a young Judi Dench cry? How the woman Hitler most admired publicly embarrassed him; how the spoons once embarrassed Uri Geller; how theatre critics sometimes get hit; how Jon Snow got out of jail; how comedians from Frankie Howerd to Jacques Tati, P. G. Wodehouse to John Betjeman, are beset with anxiety. These are the sort of discoveries Peter Lewis made during an eventful life spent observing human quirks and frailties. They make A Rogues' Gallery a different sort of memoir.
See more talks like this in: politics / africa / humanrights / journalism
Tuesday 10 December Ideas and the Future A new series of Tuesday Morning Lectures for 2013 inspired by Anthony Grayling's Ideas that Matter.
See more talks like this in: academic / history / britain / 20thcentury / 21stcentury / world
Tuesday 10 December A Rogues' Gallery The Sohemian Society
Presents
A Rogues’ Gallery: Off the Record Encounters with Figures of Fame, Folly & Fun
Speaker: Peter Lewis (author of A Rogues’ Gallery)
A Rogues' Gallery is a journey through the past half-century, charting the ups and downs of leading writers and actors, thinkers, entertainers, gurus, politicians and public non-conformists. It collects the snapshots gathered during one journalist’s long and varied career of the famous and infamous, foolish and funny, when they were off-camera. Here are private views of the tensions that opened cracks in the marriages of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Harold Pinter and Vivien Merchant, Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. What really happened when Laurie Lee drank cider with Rosie? Which film roles made Alec Guinness most satisfied and dissatisfied? Which made a young Judi Dench cry? How the woman Hitler most admired publicly embarrassed him; how the spoons once embarrassed Uri Geller; how theatre critics sometimes get hit; how Jon Snow got out of jail; how comedians from Frankie Howerd to Jacques Tati, P. G. Wodehouse to John Betjeman, are beset with anxiety. These are the sort of discoveries Peter Lewis made during an eventful life spent observing human quirks and frailties. They make A Rogues' Gallery a different sort of memoir.
See more talks like this in: politics / africa / humanrights / journalism
Tuesday 10 December Addiction: Understanding and treating addictive behaviour Discover how to be more effective when working with all sorts of addictions, including alcoholism, drug abuse, eating disorders, gambling, sexual obsessions and other compulsions.
See more talks like this in: society / health / alcoholism
Tuesday 10 December From Moral Panics to States of Denial: a celebration of the life and work of Stan Cohen Centre for the Study of Human Rights UN International Human Rights Day event
See more talks like this in: academic / sociology / sociology
Tue 10 Dec · London
Feminism in the Media (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE))
Tue 10 Dec · London
EDWARD SNOWDEN AND THE NSA (UEA London)
Tue 10 Dec · London
Does The Conviction Of Stephen Lawrence's Murderers Signal A Turning Point In African British Civil (Harrow Civic Centre)
Tue 10 Dec · London
The English Corn Law returns, the Corn Laws and the birth of political economy (Gresham College)
Tue 10 Dec · London
ID presents Crossing Borders, 10 Dec, Amy Sharrocks (Independent Dance)
Wed 11 Dec · London
How to make counselling more effective (Friends Meeting House)
Wed 11 Dec · Chester
Victorian Christmas Music with 'Blast from the Past' (Grosvenor Museum)
Wed 11 Dec · Chester
Geology & the Chester Society of Natural Science (Grosvenor Museum)
Wed 11 Dec · London
Hogarth and Copyright (The Foundling Museum)
Wed 11 Dec · London
Michelangelo's David: Naked men in Piazza (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Wed 11 Dec · London
Was Karl Marx always Wrong? (Museum of London)
Wed 11 Dec · London
An Introduction to Mystery Traditions (New Acropolis)
Thu 12 Dec · London
Britain’s attitude towards Academic Refugees (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide)
Thu 12 Dec · London
Think straight – communicate! (Friends Meeting House)
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