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Join us for this preview screening of Channel 4’s Unreported World: Syria’s Invisible Refugees, followed by a discussion with reporter Giles Duley and Aleema Shivji, director of Handicap International UK.
In the 2014 RSA Chairman’s Lecture, Sir Martin Davidson, CEO of the British Council, asks whether creativity offers the UK a way ahead in an increasingly dangerous international environment.
Leading neuroscientist Susan Greenfield considers the vast range of technologies that are creating a new environment around us, and asks: how can we ensure these powerful forces bring out the best in us, and allow us to lead more meaningful, more creative lives?
Leading social geographer Danny Dorling unpacks the latest research into how the lives and ideas of the 1 percent impact the remaining 99%.
Influential political scientist Francis Fukuyama tells the story of mankind’s emergence as a political animal, the development of state, law and democracy, and explores the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies – arguing that in the US, and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged.
Era-defining author Douglas Coupland takes an inside look at the global telecoms company that powers our connected lives, and offers a unique reflection on the Internet, its future and our possible future within it.
Professor of places and city planning Peter Wynne Rees describes the vision and strategy which transformed the City of London and considers how we reconcile the demands of the property industry with a range of issues in the public interest.
In the field of influence and persuasion, Robert Cialdini is the world’s most cited living social psychologist, and the author of the seminal work 'Influence'. He returns to the RSA to reveal the small changes that make the biggest impact when persuading others.
This special event celebrates the launch of the 2014/15 RSA Student Design Award briefs – with designer Alastair Parvin speaking on the future of open design, community development and WikiHouse.
Health psychologist Vincent Deary shows how much of our lives are lived automatically, according to beaten paths. How can we avoid becoming ‘habit machines’, and overcome our resistance to change, making our acts truly ours?
Historian Yuval Noah Harari was awarded the Polonsky Prize for Creativity in the Humanistic Disciplines. His magnum opus Sapiens challenges everything we know about being human – our thoughts, our actions, our power, and our future.
In the penultimate event in our spirituality series, Jonathan Rowson, Devorah Baum and Mark Vernon join us to examine an experience and ideal that many believe has to be at the heart of any reappraisal of the spiritual: love.
Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Tristram Hunt MP visits the RSA to explore the future of the curriculum in the context of emerging technological and pedagogical innovations. Tristram Hunt speaks about teaching quality and where UK schools can do more to tailor the curriculum using freedoms accrued by changes in policy.
Leading authority on creativity and innovation Charles Leadbeater shows what we can learn from entrepreneurs in developing countries, who are responding to constraints of capital and resources by devising low-cost solutions to pressing social challenges which are lean, simple, clean and social.
Directors of the RSA’s Action and Research Centre Adam Lent, Rowan Conway, Sophie Thomas and Anthony Painter explore what the Power to Create means for public services, communities and businesses.