Date: Saturday 19th October 2024
Venue: Grand Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden, London
Entry: £20 for NSS members (£30 for non members). Price includes a buffet lunch and drinks reception.
Join us at London's Covent Garden this October for our Secularism 2024 conference.
Our expert speakers will shed light on the contemporary challenges faced by liberal societies, including rising religious fundamentalism and identity politics, and how secularism can provide a solution to these complex issues. Together, we will also explore the importance of challenging religious privilege and safeguarding the core principles that underpin liberal democracy.
Confirmed speakers so far include:
• Kenan Malik | Writer, broadcaster, and free speech advocate
• Joan Smith | Journalist and human rights activist
• Lord Paul Scriven | Liberal Democrat life peer and disestablishmentarian
• Emma Park | Writer and former editor of The Freethinker magazine
• Ronan McCrea | Professor of constitutional and European law
...with more names to come!
Don't miss out on the biggest event for secularists this year.
Speakers
Kenan Malik
- Role
- Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, and Observer columnist.
Joan Smith
- Role
- Novelist, columnist, human rights campaigner and author of the feminist classic Misogynies.
Lord Paul Scriven
- Role
- Liberal Democrat life peer and disestablishmentarian.
Amanda Spielman
- Role
- Former HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills and former chair of the exam regulator Ofqual.
Ronan McCrea
- Role
- Professor of constitutional and European law at UCL.
Daniel Sharp
- Role
- Writer, editor of The Freethinker magazine, and NSS board member.
Emma Park
- Role
- Freelance writer, podcaster and former editor of the Freethinker.
