Activism and the Divided Brain Iain McGilchrist and Anthea Lawson Thursday 19th June 2025, 6-7.30pm UK time FREE online event by Channel McGilchristA discussion between Anthea Lawson, author of The Entangled Activist and Dr Iain McGilchrist, about the implications of...

March 27, 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PDT   Webinar from Center for Process Studies, Institute for Cultural Evolution featuring Andrew M. Davis, Iain McGilchrist, Steve McIntosh Join the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for Cultural Evolution for an...

Sunday 16th March, 2025 2.00 - 3.00 pm UK (via Zoom) Iain McGilchrist is a leading psychiatrist with a vast body of work and connections around the world. He is a pioneer in the way we think, why we think, who we are and how we understand our place in the world. In...

Friday 6th June, 2025 5.30 pm GMT+2 (in person - Aula Lubrańskiego,  Collegium Minus in Poznań, Poland) On Friday, June 6, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., in Lubrański Hall at Collegium Minus, Dr. Iain McGilchrist will deliver a lecture entitled: “Why Brain Asymmetry Matters to...

Thursday 13th March 2025, 6.00pm to 7.45pm UK time This event is open to Channel McGilchrist members only. As a Channel McGilchrist member, you have the unique opportunity to put a question to Iain for a live Q&A session via Zoom. These Q&As take place every...

Tuesday 18th March, 2025 5.30 - 7.00 pm UK (via Zoom) £10 - public Free for members and patrons of Channel McGilchrist  This fascinating conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Professor Mattias Desmet explored The Modern...

Friday 4th April, 2025 6.00 - 7.00 pm UK (in person - Sheldonian Theatre) Neuropsychologist Dr Iain McGilchrist talks about his two-volume work, The Matter with Things, in which he addresses major questions about who we are and how we can understand consciousness,...

Sunday 7th July to Thursday 11th July 2024, The University of Western Australia  (in-person)   Held annually since 1923, the Australasian Association of Philosophy's 2024 Conference will be held in person, hosted by The University of Western Australia. The conference...

A discussion with Iain McGilchrist Monday 10th June 2024, 5 - 7 pm (UK)(Iain will not be in-person; he will be livestreamed) Iain McGilchrist James Francis Brown Sara Trickey We consider the intricate workings of the human mind with ‘Music and the Divided Brain ’ -...

Thursday 6th June 2024, 6.00pm to 7.45pm UK time This event is open to Channel McGilchrist members only. As a Channel McGilchrist member, you have the unique opportunity to put a question to Iain for a live Q&A session via Zoom. These Q&As take place every...

Tuesday 30th April 2024, 6.00pm to 7.30pm UK time Online event, via Zoom £10 public FREE for Members and Patrons of Channel McGilchrist (you will still need to register for this event)We have more knowledge than ever, and yet the world is getting worse. Isn't it as if...

Thursday 25 April 2024 19:30pm to 21:00pm CEST 18:30pm to 20:00pm (UK time) (online event)Machines cannot understand. They can work out what look like the consequences of data according to extrapolations they have had fed into them by human beings – some of them...

Reflections on Mind, Body, Soul Friday 12th April 2024, 11 am CST(zoom event)The Spring 2024 Forum talks are hosted on Zoom. The meetings are available at the following link: Topic: Philosophy & Religion Forum Join Zoom...

Friday 5th April 2024, from 1pm (in-person event) Event description. Dr Iain McGilchrist is a retired psychiatrist and clinical director. He was previously an Oxford don in English literature. He has authored a number of major works that have attracted worldwide...

Tuesday 2nd April 2024, 5.30pm, the Great Hall, Trent Semans Centre (in-person event) Event description.  We live in an age in which we cede more and more of life to machines, raising questions for the practice of medicine.  What is the calling of medicine?  Is it not...

Friday, March 29th to Sunday, March 31st, 2024 (in person event) Event description. Iain McGilchrist’s recent magnum opus The Matter With Things (2021) constitutes one of the most significant contributions to the contemporary process tradition as revealed through...

Wednesday 20th March 2024, 4.00pm (in-person event) Event description.  The author of two landmark works—The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things—Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s original insight into the brain hemispheres’ distinctive “takes” on reality arises...

  Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th March 2024, 5pm to 7pm(in-person event - and recorded for registered attendees) Event description. The Sophia Lectures explore the perennial questions of philosophy as they bear on the meaning and value of modern life.  While the...

Saturday 10th February 2024 09:00 - 17:00 (in person event) Event description. A one day conference exploring theological responses to The Matter With Things in conversation with Dr Iain McGilchrist, Dr John Millbank and the Cambridge Theological Federation. This is a...

9th February 2024, 17:30-18:30 (in-person event) It is often remarked that though it may seem that we face numerous global crises of different kinds – environmental, social, political, cultural, economic, psychological, and so on – these crises are interrelated. The...

Wednesday 7th, February 2024, 4.00pm - 5.00pm (in-person event) Event description. Universities face a number of challenges which threaten to make them less attractive and more expensive. Indeed, some seem already to consider universities increasingly irrelevant. Yet...

Tuesday, 6th February 2024, 17.00 - 18.00 (in person event) Event description. We are excited to be hosting our first Oxford Renaissance event with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. The event will take place this Tuesday 6th February at 5PM in Dorfman Room, St Peter's college. ...

Friday, 3rd November to Sunday, 5th November, 2023 onlineEvent description. I regard consciousness as fundamental, matter is derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing,...

Thursday, 2nd November 2023 6:45pm to 8.00pm (in person event)  Event description. Join the philosopher and neuroscientist for a profound new story of what the world is and who we are. Iain McGilchrist’s book The Master and His Emissary was that rare thing: a...

Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October 2023 Event description. About The Planet Local Summit is a project of Local Futures, an international nonprofit and pioneer of the localisation movement. The Summit will shine light on localisation as a solution-multiplier...

7th September 2023 (6.00pm to 7.45pm) Event description This event is open to Channel McGilchrist members only. As a Channel McGilchrist member, you have the unique opportunity to put a question to Iain for a live Q&A session via Zoom. These Q&A's take place...

5th July 2023  An in-person and live-streamed event to celebrate 50 years of the Scientific and Medical Network Event description. We warmly invite you to come in person or attend online to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Network! We have put together a series of...

29th June 2023 to 2nd July 2023 Event description. Realisation is a gathering that is part retreat, part symposium at St Giles House, Dorset. It is for those actively working at the interface between society and soul, and who feel the gravity of our times. Over the...

28th June 2023 (17.30 to 18.30)  Event description. Iain McGilchrist will address some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that have a practical urgency. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time?...

16th June to 18th June 2023 Event description. 2023 will be the eleventh edition of Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, and we are proud to have weathered the last few years to bring you another intimate and invigorating weekend, in a place as beautiful as...

FREE online event in which Iain and Patrick will be discussing the phenomenon of enchantment, especially the experience of wonder that is at its heart. Why does it matter? And what are some of its attributes and dynamics? We shall also look at how it relates to the two modes of right and left brain hemispheres, and why it might be a possible effect of their integration, and therefore a life of sanity.

9th May 2023 (in person event) Event description. In person at: La Fabrique de la Paix - Geneva Graduate Institute Maison de la Paix (Petal 2, 4th Floor) Chemin Eugène-Rigot, 2 1202 Genève On the 9th of May the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Fabrique de la Paix will be...

8th May 2023 (registration 5th May latest due to limited spaces) Event description. The event aims to share an innovative and trans-disciplinary thesis addressing the nature of reality, from the perspective of the human brain and philosophy. It hopes to bring a fresh...

17th April 2023 Europe/London 7.30pm to 9.30pm Event description. Many of us are aware that the mindset of reductionist materialism is inadequate, but may find it harder to articulate why.  My latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the...

Wednesday 29th March 2023 Event description. Bonnitta Roy is an award winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She currently runs the Pop-Up School, an innovative online educational platform, and has previously held esteemed posts as a Professor in Residence for...

Thursday 30th March 2023, 7.30 - 9.00 pm online, via ZoomEvent description. Values cannot be directly observed or measured, and yet are so powerful that they govern the nature and course of individual lives, as well as the nature and course of a civilisation. What are...

Monday 20th March to Friday 24th March 2023 Event description. Our fragmented view of ourselves is reflected in our fragmented world. Bringing together science, traditional wisdom and direct experience, we will explore the realms of our inner and outer ecologies, to...

31st January 2023 to 7th March 2023 Event description. We inhabit a world of islands… Our pale blue dot; a constellation of archipelagos buoyed amidst an even greater cosmos of celestial atolls. Like the billowing ocean tides, our terraqueous isle undulates toward the...

26th May 2023 to 29th May 2023 Event description. Debate is the beating heart of HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2023. From Nobel Laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, HowTheLightGetsIn is home to world-leading thinkers pushing their disciplines forward. Explore our wide-ranging...

9th July 2023 (online event - 14:00 - 15:30 BST) Event description.  "If there is Oneness, what are the Many? Are they the same? What do we mean? I suggest that the coincidence of opposites is a truth of unsurpassed importance, but that we have been educated into...

5th August 2023 (10.00am to 4.30pm) Event description. Through this seminar, Iain will explore the relevance of the hemisphere hypothesis in 2023 and ask, what is the matter with things? Where are we now? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine? Why, indeed, are...

Friday, February 3rd 2023, from 18:00 - 21:00 CET Event description. An online event with Dr Iain McGilchrist, a British psychiatrist, received global attention for both, Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and his new book...

Friday 18th November and Saturday 19th November 2022.  Event description We are excited to invite you to the (fully in-person!) 2022 AIMA Conference on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th November 2022 at the Auckland University of Technology in central Auckland, New...

18th November 2022 Event description Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist.  Renowned psychiatrist, author, thinker, and former Oxford literary scholar. Friday November 18th - 6pm - The Matter with ThingsOur Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World....

Saturday 12th November 2022 2:00-3:15pm UK time.

11th November 2022. Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred. Modern Church offers you a chance to hear and engage with one of the most remarkable and highly-acclaimed intellectuals of our time. Iain’s talk will be based on his encyclopaedic book The...

8th November 2022, 7 - 9pm CET. FREE EVENT Reflections On Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter With Things Anniversary event, hosted by The Pari Center in conjunction with Channel McGilchrist, Perspectiva, The Scientific and Medical Network and The Arthur Conan Doyle Centre....

5th - 27th November 2022. with Anne Baring, Bernard Carr, Matthijs Cornelissen, Alex Gomez-Marin, Jeremy Lent, David Lorimer, Iain McGilchrist, Peter Reason, Mary-Jayne Rust Curated by John Pickering Pari Center Online Series November 5 – 27, 2022 9:00am PST | 12:00pm...

MEMBERS ONLY

The live Q&A Zoom session with Iain will take place on Thursday 3rd November 2022 from 6:00 to 7:45pm UK time.

12 - 13th October 2022, Amsterdam.  What’s World Summit AI? The world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle...

Saturday 8th October – Tuesday 11th October 2022 Tewkesbury Park Hotel – UK

This four day event has been organised by Field & Field and aims to bring together like-minded people immersed in the work and ideas of Dr Iain McGilchrist

Introduced by Iain McGilchrist. 6th October 7:00pm-8:30pm UK time.

This event was recorded and is now available in the Members Area. Click into post to find out more.

In conjunction with the Centre for Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred.

In this seminar, Dr Iain McGilchrist draws on his new work, The Matter with Things, and addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that have a practical urgency for all of us today.