Senior members of the Homerton Community offer prompts & provocations on thorny issues 

Regular Wednesdays 7.30pm - 8.30pm, via Zoom (register here)

ALL WELCOME! For just one session, or for all. 

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Pause allows space for us to consider some of the big questions made more pressing and visible by Covid-19. Pause is built on the idea that we can pause  - reflect  - in ways that are both intellectually interesting and socially imaginative. And that this process is both good for ourselves and our communities. 

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Pause focuses on texts, in the broadest sense of that word, to prompt and anchor our conversations. Each session begins with a prompt from a Homertonian on a short text or film; followed by group discussion. The programme draws on works of philosophy, literature, science, education, art, economics - in various forms - to help us consider challenging questions in more interesting ways.

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Co-Curated by Dr Robin Bunce and Dr Alison Wood

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Sessions and Suggested Reading

Wed 27 Jan 2021

Pause with Dr Chris Brooke 'A brief history of egalitarianism'

Text: Christopher Brooke, ‘Nonintrinsic Egalitarianism, from Hobbes to Rousseau

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Wed 10th Feb 2021

Pause with Dr David Belin 'Can art help break the stigma of psychiatric disorders?' 

Stimulus: The Storm

Featuring 7 dancers, a specially composed score by Amarok / Michal Wojtas and scientific input from Dr. David Belin lecturer in behavioural neuroscience at Cambridge University, The Storm will be sure to blow audiences away!

About The Storm

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Wed 24th Feb 2021

Pause with Professor Simone Hochgreb 'What makes it good, what makes it durable: organising our remote scholarly lives to make it not just bearable, but really interesting'.

Podcast: Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration is Key [The Knowledge Project Ep #100] 

Simone Hochgreb, Rationale

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Wed 10th March 2021

Pause with Dr Fernanda Gallo 'National Stereotypes'

Reading: National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’

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PREVIOUS PAUSE EVENTS

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Wed 11 Nov

Pause with Dr Robin Bunce 'The Now’

Text: George Woodcock, The Tyranny of the Clock (first published in ‘War Commentary  - For Anarchism. Mid-March 1944)  

Wed 18 Nov

Pause with Dr Alison Wood ‘Being a Good Ancestor’

Texts: Bina Venkataraman. 'Why you should think about being a good ancestor.' Ideas at Ted.com. 27 Aug 2019

The LongTime Project (especially the 5min film 'Why do we need to get long term')

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Wed 25 Nov

Pause with Dr Beth Singler 'Robot Politicians: Even Better than the Real Thing?'

Text: Issac Asimov, 'Evidence' and 'The Evitable Conflict'. In I, Robot

Wed 2 Dec

Pause with Dr Kamal Munir and Dr Deborah Brown ‘From Patanjali to the 'Gospel of Sweat': Yoga's Remarkable Journey from an Ascetic Movement to an $80 billion Market’

Film. ‘If Ghandi took a Yoga Class’