Protesters disrupted an An evening with Richard Dawkins and P. Z. Myers on Thursday 9th June 2011 at the Institute of Education in Bloomsbury. The evening was organised by the British Humanist Association. Richard Dawkins (below) – evolutionary biologist, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, and former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science - is arguably the best-known of the… [Read more…]
I am very excited at the prospect of a new college coming to Bloomsbury, powered by a team of international, academic all-stars. The New College of the Humanities will be based at the University of London, and will have the wonderful A. C. Grayling presiding as Master of the College. Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College (University of London),… [Read more…]
Once home to the British Government’s Ministry of Information during WWII, architect Charles Holden’s 1930′s Art Deco structure now houses the School of Advanced Studies, administrative offices for the University of London, and the Senate House Library. Surrounded by Birkbeck College, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the Institute… [Read more…]
In the South Cloisters of the main building at University College London (above), is an unassuming wooden cupboard. Inside is the auto-icon of a philosopher. Dressed in his own clothes, and topped with a wax head (the original is preserved elsewhere in the college collections), he has proudly occupied the site since 1850, as specified in his will. The… [Read more…]
June 10, 2011
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