Events

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I. Glass – art, design, craft

Unscripted with Andrew Page: Czech vs. Slovakian Glass Sculpture – guest speaker at online seminar hosted by the Art Alliance of Contemporary Glass, 15 September 2023

Panel Discussion: The Value in Things – event accompanying a joint exhibition by Ting Ying and Vessel Gallery at Cromwell Place, 7 March 2023

Moderator, Glass: Between Craft, Design and Art, online ‘Conversation’ for the Venice Glass Week, 19 September 2022

On the panel of judges for Ceramics and Glass at the New Designers 2022 Awards, London, 29 July 2022

II. Free thought and secularism

‘Free Thought and Free Speech‘, talk as part of panel on ‘Liberal Values and the Secular State’, National Secular Society conference on Protecting Liberal Values, London, 19 October 2024

Talk on free thought for Dorset Humanists, 25 September 2024

Panellist, ‘The Freethinker: The Voice of Secularism’, at the Freethought History Festival, Conway Hall, London, 31 August 2024

Talk on the history of free thought and why it is still relevant today, for Teesside Skeptics, 8 February 2024, and Farnham Humanists, 18 February 2024

Talks on free thought for the Sunday Alternative, Reading, 26 November 2023, and North East Humanists, 16 January 2024

Interview about free thought and its relationship to free speech, secularism and humanism, Humanism Now podcast, 22 October 2023

Think for yourself: free thought from the Greeks to today – talk for Reading Humanists, 6 June 2023

Pastafarianism: Parody or Religion? – talk for Central London Humanists, 16 March 2023 (link to recording online)

Interviewed by Christoph De Spiegeleer for Liberas, a research centre for the history of the liberal movement in Belgium, 25 November 2022

Talks on the history of free thought, from the Greeks to the 21st century, at the Leicester Secular Society (4 September 2022) and the Sunday Assembly Brighton (11 September 2022)

Chaired Q&A with film director Bhavan Rajagopalan at the world premiere of Vivesini, Conway Hall, 21 July 2022. This was incorporated into a video on the making of the film and its reception.

Interviewed by Nathan Alexander and Todd Tavares for the Beyond Atheism podcast, Episode 36, 8 March 2022