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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- NEW SPEAKER - see thread. On Being Unreasonable : Winchester Skeptics In The PubWinchester Club, SO23 7AB
15/1/25 - the Skeptics website says this talk has been POSTPONED and replaced with a new talk on Vegan pet food
lI will update this event over the weekend - limited time until then. I will still be going to this talk and am happy to meet as planned.
Join me at The Winchester Club to hear Dr Kirsty Sedgman talk ‘On Being Unreasonable’
It’s £5 on the door, no booking needed, cash and card, cards preferred. The room opens at 7 and the talk starts at 7.30 sharp. There will be a short break followed by a Q&A. Let’s meet outside or just inside the Main door porch if it rains at 19.10. See below for parking and access, it’s not entirely obvious.
I may be able to provide lifts to / from depending on where you are. Not guaranteed!
A unified theory of reasonableness – and how to be unreasonable for the right reasons.
We’re living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can’t we all be reasonable?
The trouble is, what’s ‘reasonable’ to one person is outrageous to another. Is it okay to let children play in the garden while others are working from home? To do your makeup on a train, or recline your seat on an aeroplane? What’s the right way to breastfeed? To protect your neighbourhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a world where we all think we’re being reasonable, how can we figure out what’s right?
Looking back through history and around the world, Kirsty Sedgman set out to discover how unfairness and discrimination got baked into our social norms, dividing us along lines of gender, class, disability, sexuality, race… Instead of measuring human behaviour against outdated standards of rules and reason, On Being Unreasonable argues that sometimes we need to act unreasonably to bring about positive change.
Skeptics in The Pub is a global, grassroots network of people who put on monthly talks about or rooted in the promotion of science, reason and critical thinking.
Parking and venue access
There is free parking from 18:00 onwards in the adjacent Worthy Lane Car Park, SO23 7AB. Follow the carpark round to the left, then round to the right so that you are between the ESSO garage across the road and the white building of the Winchester Club. The gate entrance to the Winchester Club is directly opposite the ESSO garage.
Pedestrian access from the car park to the venue is either via the access road or via the gate in the fence (signed ‘Fire Exit’) behind the club. Walk round until you find white upvc / conservatory style double doors. That’s the entrance.
https://www.hampshireskeptics.org/22nd-january-dr-kirsty-sedgman-on-being-unreasonable/
