Multi-lecture pass: Enlightenment Now with Steven Pinker, Rosalind Franklin Lecture, and Voltaire Lecture

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February 22nd, 2018 19:25   --   April 11th, 2018 21:00

In one easy purchase, get tickets for all our excellent large events taking place in London in the first half of 2018, and save yourself 10% too. Included in your Multi-lecture pass are tickets for each of the following:


Enlightenment Now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress book launch

with Professor Steven Pinker

If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trend lines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous – not just in the West, but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress. The challenges we face today are formidable. But the way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved other problems in the past. This is the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st Century.

The Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2018 | Under wraps: the policing of female sexuality

with Angela Saini
chaired by Samira Ahmed

The fashion world is seeing a resurgence in the trend for modesty, alongside more pressure from religious groups for women to cover up. As conservative clothing and veils become more popular among women across the world, how can we place this in the context of the long history of patriarchal female sexual repression? And what can science tell us about female sexual behaviour and the moral double standard placed on women? Science journalist Angela Saini, author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, explores the biology and history of female sexuality, and what it means for women and men today.

The Voltaire Lecture 2018 | Do no harm

with Dr Henry Marsh

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong? In this lecture, Professor Henry Marsh will offer an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. This talk will reveal and explore the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all, the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions.

General: £36.00
Members: £29.70
Students: £27.00