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• Mon 13 Nov 17 · Islam & Atheism: Irreconcilable Enemies? (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 22 Oct 17 · Thinking on Sunday: Gandhi and Non-violence – Dr Shahrar Ali (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 1 Oct 17 · Experiencing the Exclusive Brethren (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 24 Sep 17 · Thinking on Sunday: Ernestine Rose and T.H. Huxley on Atheism (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 26 Nov 16 · The making of a monarch (Hampton Court Palace, Surrey)

• Mon 21 Nov 16 · Henry VIII’s six wives (Hampton Court Palace, Surrey)

• Thu 10 Nov 16 · At home with the Royal Tudors (Hampton Court Palace, Surrey)

• Wed 14 Sep 16 · Islam and the West: a personal perspective (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 31 Jul 16 · Spreading Humanism to South Asia (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 31 May 16 · What Ails Muslims Today? (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 7 Feb 16 · The Lost Narrative of Jesus (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 19 May 15 · The Improbability Principle (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 2 May 15 · Film: A Better Life (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 22 Jan 15 · Science and reason in an age of unreason (Conway Hall, London)

• Fri 12 Dec 14 · Martin Rowson's "The Coalition Talk" (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 5 Nov 14 · Why we love German Postwar Artists (Art Workers Guild, London)

• Sun 27 Apr 14 · The Dead Sea Scrolls: Contours of Belief (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 8 Dec 13 · The Invention of Jesus (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 1 Dec 13 · The Last Night: anti-work, atheism, adventure (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 10 Nov 13 · Science and the Rise of Atheism (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 14 Jul 13 · Do Atheists have mystical-type experiences? (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 2 Jul 13 · Alchemy's Citrinitas Stage (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Thu 20 Jun 13 · Dolores Ashcroft Nowicki of SOL (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Sun 16 Jun 13 · Behind the Myths: The Foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 26 May 13 · Sunday Lecture - Rebels, Infidels and Troublemakers (SPES, London)

• Sun 21 Apr 13 · Sunday Lecture - Irrational beliefs in the NHS (SPES, London)

• Sat 23 Mar 13 · Saturday Evening Lecture Series 2013 (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Sat 20 Oct 12 · The Battle of Ideas 2012 (Barbican Centre, London)

• Fri 12 Oct 12 · THOUGHT RECYCLING (inner space Brahma Kumaris, Spinningfield)

• Thu 20 Sep 12 · Education of the Heart: A New World Order of Compassion (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Tue 10 Jul 12 · Sex, Tantra and the Orientalist Imagination (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Wed 28 Mar 12 · Journey along the Tenth Parallel with Eliza Griswold: Religion and Conflict in Africa (Frontline Club, London)

• Mon 26 Mar 12 · One Thousand Roads to Mecca (British Museum, London)

• Fri 16 Mar 12 · The magnetism of Mecca: Hajj as artistic inspiration (British Museum, London)

• Fri 2 Mar 12 · The archaeology and material culture of Hajj in sub-Saharan Africa (British Museum, London)

• Thu 1 Mar 12 · IMAGES OF RESURRECTION: TIME, SPACE & BODIES IN ETERNITY? (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Fri 24 Feb 12 · Hajj and the future of Islam (British Museum, London)

• Sun 22 Jan 12 · Sunday Lecture: Myths of Christian Europe (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 20 Nov 11 · Socialism and Secularism: an uneasy relationship (Conway Hall, London)

• Fri 27 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)

• Sun 24 Apr 11 · Creationism, Intelligent Design and Science Education in Britain (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 30 Jan 11 · Varieties of Irreligious Experience: atheism in historical perspective (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 23 Jan 11 · Religious Education and the Floodgates of Impartiality (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 8 Jul 10 · A land flowing with milk and honey (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 25 Mar 10 · Moses Montefiore – Jewish Rights as Humanitarian Politics (Leo Baeck Institute London, London)

• Tue 16 Feb 10 · The Legacy of Robert Boyle - then and now (St Mary le Bow Church, London)

• Thu 11 Feb 10 · Law and Morality (The Museum of London, London)

• Sun 24 Jan 10 · Atheism: Misperceptions and Misconstructions (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 14 Jan 10 · Does God Believe in Human Rights (The Museum of London, London)

• Mon 7 Dec 09 · The Skeptic's Guide to Christmas (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Thu 15 Oct 09 · The unexpected Orientalists: or how two Victorian ladies, rich and eccentric, made a priceless find (British Museum, London)

• Thu 15 Oct 09 · Speaking for God in a Secular Society (The Museum of London, London)

• Thu 8 Oct 09 · Moctezuma and the rites of world renewal (British Museum, London)

• Mon 5 Oct 09 · Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (British Museum, London)

• Thu 13 Aug 09 · Curator's Introduction (British Museum, London)

• Wed 22 Jul 09 · Our Father: A Prayer for Justice (JustShare, Londn)

• Tue 14 Jul 09 · Debate: Offshore Financial Centres: Blessing or Curse? (JustShare, Londn)

• Wed 24 Jun 09 · Mainstreaming Fairtrade: Issues and Impacts (JustShare, Londn)

• Wed 17 Jun 09 · Food Security: A Justice Issue? (JustShare, Londn)

• Sun 31 May 09 · Religion, Caste and Politics in India (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Sun 24 May 09 · The Reagan Democrats - the influence of race and religion on the American voter (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Sat 16 May 09 · The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret (The Fintry Trust, nr Godalming)

• Thu 30 Apr 09 · Gray's Anatomy: thoughts on politics, religion and the meaning of life (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Sun 19 Apr 09 · The School of Life Sunday Sermons: Robert Winston on Curiosity (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 1 Apr 09 · Questions of truth (The Royal Institution, London)

• Sat 21 Mar 09 · GOD IN THE LAB (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 12 Feb 09 · Science, Religion and Education (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Sat 17 Jan 09 · Weird Science (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 13 Nov 08 · The Relationship Between Meditation Attainment and Psychic Awarenness with Tibetan Buddhists (Kensington Central Library Lecture Theatre, Kensington)

• Sat 10 May 08 · The Pearl of Sufism Book Signing Event (Khalili Lecture Theatre (correct for event posting), London)

• Thu 8 May 08 · Naming the Green Man of the Medieval Church. (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Mon 5 May 08 · The Sources of The Book (Conway Hall, London)

• Fri 28 Mar 08 · Mystics & Scientists 31: Rhythms and Cycles in Biological and Spiritual Life (University of Winchester, Winchester)

• Thu 21 Feb 08 · Life and Death: a panel discussion (New Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Thu 14 Feb 08 · Islam and Secularism in France and Turkey (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Thu 14 Feb 08 · God in Public: reflections on faith and society (New Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Tue 20 Nov 07 · Many happy returns? Investigating reincarnation claims in the Lebanon (The Penderels Oak, London)

• Thu 30 Aug 07 · God: The Failed Hypothesis (The Old Kings Head, London)

• Sat 21 Jul 07 · The Library at Alexandria (The Fintry Trust, nr Godalming)

• Fri 22 Jun 07 · Materialism Today (Birkbeck College, LONDON)

• Sat 9 Jun 07 · Worshipping the Deity (The Fintry Trust, nr Godalming)

• Sat 5 May 07 · Odysseus & the Return of the Soul (The Fintry Trust, nr Godalming)

• Mon 16 Apr 07 · The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (LG17, The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Wed 28 Mar 07 · Financial Exclusion: Action by Government and the Financial Institutions (CIPFA, London)

• Thu 25 Jan 07 · Mesopotamian Demons III: A Third Night with Dr. Irving Finkel’s Demons (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Tue 23 Jan 07 · Dangerous Books, Hidden Knowledge and Demons in Vellum: The Keepers of Occult Books in Libraries (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Sun 21 Jan 07 · Gramsci, Marxism and Religion (Secular Hall, Leicester)

• Thu 11 Jan 07 · Voudon Gnosis of Michael Bertiaux (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Sat 18 Nov 06 · Roads to Reality: Matter, Mind and Symbol (UCL, London)

• Tue 3 Oct 06 · From the rescue of fallen women to the support of vulnerable families’: A history of the St Michael’ (CIVITAS, London)

• Thu 7 Sep 06 · The Passage of the Soul (Rudolf Steiner House, London)

• Fri 21 Apr 06 · THE SYMBOLISM OF THE CORONATION (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation, London)

• Fri 31 Mar 06 · Mystics and Scientists: The Spirit of Mountains: Inner and Outer Explorations (University of Winchester, Winchester)

• Thu 9 Mar 06 · Human rights and Islamophobia (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

• Wed 8 Feb 06 · The Ethics of War: Shared problems in different traditions (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 18 Jan 06 · Sacred Silver at the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum (learning), London)

• Thu 15 Dec 05 · The Triumph of Christendom (Gresham College, London)

• Tue 6 Dec 05 · The formation of Christian doctrine (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 1 Dec 05 · Science and learning in Islam - a shared legacy (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)

• Wed 30 Nov 05 · Physics and the Emergence of Complexity (EnlightenNext, Islington)

• Tue 15 Nov 05 · The beginnings: a Jewish Messianic sect (Gresham College, London)

• Sat 8 Oct 05 · Enlightened Communication (EnlightenNext, Islington)

• Wed 14 Sep 05 · Cultural Codes, Global Maps and Human Emergence: How to Design a Positive Future for us All (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Sun 4 Sep 05 · Twenty years in a doleful profession (Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London)

• Mon 2 May 05 · Deepak Chopra Talk (Waterstone's Piccadilly, London)

• Fri 29 Apr 05 · ‘An Art of Equilibrium, Purity and Peace’: Tom Phillips RA and Richard Cork (Royal Academy of Arts Education Department, London)

• Wed 20 Apr 05 · Artist Talk: Sonia Boyce (Tate Liverpool, Liverpool)

• Sat 16 Apr 05 · Andrew Cohen - "Living on the Edge of Evolution" (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Mon 7 Mar 05 · Jonathan Granoff - "Inner Peace and Outer Responsibilities" (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Fri 25 Feb 05 · Further Reaches Of Human Consciousness (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Sat 19 Feb 05 · The Word Within Us, Full of Grace and Truth (The Fintry Trust, nr Godalming)

• Wed 16 Feb 05 · Artist Talk: Mark Wallinger (Tate Liverpool, Liverpool)

• Tue 15 Feb 05 · A short history of exile (St. Martin-in-the Fields Church, London)

• Wed 20 Oct 04 · Darfur: should the West intervene? (St. James's Church, LONDON)

• Fri 18 Jun 04 · Know the Truth (Theatre Royal Bath, Bath)

• Wed 26 May 04 · Rationalism, Platonism and God: An all-day Symposium on early modern philosophy (British Academy, London)

• Sat 15 May 04 · Continental Drift? Modern European Philosophy in Britain Today (UCL, London)

• Fri 14 May 04 · Continental Drift? Modern European Philosophy in Britain Today (UCL, London)

• Wed 12 May 04 · Beyond difference (Gresham College, London)

• Fri 16 Apr 04 · Love the Miracle You Are (Borders, Leeds)

• Wed 10 Mar 04 · Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian women and the spatial politics of home. (British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol)

• Tue 9 Mar 04 · Final Analogies: Animals and the Holocaust in the Tales of I. B. Singer (The Institute of English Studies (IES), London)

• Tue 24 Feb 04 · Frantz Fanon and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (The Institute of English Studies (IES), London)

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