Date: 
26 March 2012 - 5:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
B.5 Auditorium, Franklin Wilkins Building (London, London) Franklin Wilkins Building Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH

We’re delighted to announce that our Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Sennett. The Lecture entitled 'The Craft of Cooperation' and will take place on Monday 26 March from 7pm-8:30pm in the B.5 Auditorium, Franklin Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London, SE1 8WA (Kings College, Waterloo Campus).

We have a limited number of tickets for this event so we recommend you book now.

A good society is created through the art of living together. Over the past few decades we have learnt to be consumers, it is now time we re-learnt the art of being citizens, neighbours and colleagues. 

Richard is one of the foremost thinkers about the public realm and always challenges us to think about what being social and human means in our world today. The talk will be based on his influential and important new book Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation.

This highly challenging lecture will be followed by contributions from a panel of high-profile respondents. We are delighted that Lisa Nandy, MP for Wigan; Deborah Orr, Guardian Columnist; Hannah Worth, Director, Chamberlain Forum and Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK have agreed to respond. Neal Lawson will chair the lecture.

Tickets cost just £10 waged, or £5 for Compass members/unwaged/low-waged/concessions.

Organisation Name and URL: 
Compass Online

Upcoming events

Add an event

6th Of April Kizomba Dance Classes - Clube Vicio @ Bar Lenuccia
6 Apr 13 - 7 Apr 13

A warm friendly place with teachers with a burning passion to share their knowledge and the dedication to ensure you develop to the best of your ability. The crowd are some of the warmest friendly groups of people with no cliques so you can mingle freely with your new friends over drinks with Italian food served at the restaurant and DJ's playing Kizomba and Zouk through the night until 2am and taking requests if you ask nicely. What more can you ask for?

Classes start from 8pm EVERY Saturday

PRICE

Book Talk - Iain Sinclair on Arthur Machen
10 Apr 13

*Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase*
*RSVP essential. See below.*

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the writer and mystic Arthur Machen Housmans are proud to welcome the Iain Sinclair to discuss this enigmatic figure.

Iain will be considering Machen in the context of London, Poe's stalking of the ‘Man in the Crowd’, the Northwest Passage, De Quincey and the Labyrinth.

We expect a very big turn out for this event so it essential that you contact us ahead of time to reserve a space. Please RSVP by email to nik@housmans.com

13th Of April Kizomba Dance Classes - Clube Vicio @ Bar Lenuccia
13 Apr 13 - 14 Apr 13

A warm friendly place with teachers with a burning passion to share their knowledge and the dedication to ensure you develop to the best of your ability. The crowd are some of the warmest friendly groups of people with no cliques so you can mingle freely with your new friends over drinks with Italian food served at the restaurant and DJ's playing Kizomba and Zouk through the night until 2am and taking requests if you ask nicely. What more can you ask for?

Classes start from 8pm EVERY Saturday

PRICE

Farewell to Justice? The progressive loss of Civil Liberties in the UK
15 Apr 13

Since 2001, the civil liberties of British citizens have been progressively eroded. Among other examples, the Extradition Act (2003) allows individuals to be extradited to another country for actions that are not criminal in the UK, and without prima facie evidence of a case against them being presented in a British court. This Act can result in long periods of detention without charge (British citizens have been detained for up to eight years).

Book Launch - ‘London Fictions’ with Andrew Whitehead, Sarah Wise and Jon Day
17 Apr 13

*Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase*

An event to celebrate the publication of ‘London Fictions’ from Five Leaves Publishing. ‘London Fictions’ is a new collection of essays about the representation of London in fiction, with each contributor concentrating on a particular work.

more