Entries by KQ

The Knowledge Bank Pub Quiz

The Knowledge Quarter is launching the Knowledge Bank; an online platform which allows you to exchange expertise with individuals from over 80 knowledge-based organisations all within a one-mile radius of King’s Cross.

Dementia is an existential issue by Mark Goodwin

Students of existential philosophy will be familiar with Jean-Paul Sartre’s pronouncement that “existence precedes essence”: you can’t reduce the infinitely complex, unique qualities of an individual (a human existence) to some crude stereotype, like the “white van man” of our popular journalism.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE YOUNG AND MUSLIM TODAY?

The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations is delighted to announce its upcoming event ‘What does it mean to be young and Muslim today?’. The speaker, Shelina Janmohamed, is an award-winning author and leading voice on Muslim youth.

The Francis Crick Institute opens the new Somers Town Living Centre

A brand new community space for people living in Somers Town has opened within the Francis Crick Institute. The St Pancras and Somers Town Living Centre will help to improve health and wellbeing locally by offering a range of services that have been developed with Somers Town residents and which complement successful services already on offer in the area.

The Commonwealth and challenges to media freedom

Baroness Patricia Scotland who, in 2015, became the first British citizen to be elected secretary-general of the Commonwealth in its 66-year history, is heading a line-up of speakers at a special conference designed to examine the increasing hostility to press freedom and journalistic independence across the 52-nation group.