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Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Could you help on Christmas Day in Coldean?
Monday, 9 November 2026
Season 2 Launch | Existential Diversity
Season 2 of Autistic Identity With NeuroHub opens with an idea that Helen Edgar and I have been growing together for a while: existential diversity. Most autistic people spend their lives on the receiving end of one question; what is wrong with this person? It puts the problem inside a body-mind and produces a diagnosis, a correction, a plan to modify someone. Schools, CAMHS, assessment services, wards and benefits assessors are almost all built to ask it, usually without realising they are asking anything at all. The question that almost never gets asked is the second one; what is wrong with the world around them? To ask it properly, we need a different picture of what a person is. If a person is a sealed box (a skin with a brain inside it), the problem can only ever be inside the box. Existential diversity is our attempt to draw a picture in which the person was never a sealed box in the first place.
In this episode
A thread to take awayPick one thing outside your body that is part of how you think, feel safe or know who you are; an object, a place, a person, a phrase someone once wrote. Notice it. That is a part of you. And if you are a practitioner, here is the smallest useful version of all this: when an autistic person makes a connection you don’t understand, ask what route they took to get there. Treat the route as meaningful rather than recording it as missing. You are not contained. You are multiple, and you are connected. Pre-order After NormalAfter Normal: Autistic Essays on a Broken Society and the Ecosystems We Grow Instead is the fifth anniversary edition of The New Normal, revised and expanded with eight new chapters. It brings together autism and neurodivergence, philosophy, neurodiversity studies, mad studies and ecological thinking, and many of the threads in this episode run right through it. Publishing 7 April 2027 in paperback and ebook. Find out more
Stay weird, and I’ll see you next time. David Gray-Hammond You're currently a free subscriber to NeuroHub Community Journal | Newsletter | Announcements. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Ethics of consulting with Dr Michael Weatherburn (Newsround)
Ethics of consulting with Dr Michael Weatherburn (Newsround)And the history of conspiracy theories, also with Michael.
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Hosted by our Management Consultancy Network, these online coffee chats are an opportunity for anyone interested in the network to build up connections through informal chats. No preparation is required, just join the call with your preferred morning tea or coffee. This month’s discussion will focus on: ‘Consulting Ethics’ Dr Michael Weatherburn PhD and Igor Baranov of Imperial College London will present key themes from their recent publication: “From advisor to infrastructure: the ethical transformation of consulting over a century” followed by questions and discussion. The sessions open with a guided discussion from 08:30 until 09:00.The Zoom call will then stay open until 09:30 for questions and discussion. Provider InformationBAM Management Consultancy Network Who Should Attend?The event speaks to all sections, as detailed in the BAM Framework. ChairJames Johnston, Management Consultancy Network Benefits of attending
ContactPlease contact the BAM Office at eventsandcommunications@bam.ac.uk with any queries. Event FeeThis event is Free to all, however we encourage attendees to Become a Member of BAM. For more information about Becoming a BAM Member, please visit BAM MembershipBooking DeadlineRegistrations close on 17th November 2026 at 23:59 GMT. Conspiracy Without Theory? Exploring the Past and Present of Conspiratorial ThinkingThursday, 19 November 2026, 14.00 - 15.00 GMT
Throughout many historical periods, conspiracy theories have exerted an influence in societies and been manipulated for their own purposes by those in power. Recent controversies over climate change, vaccines, telecommunications, media and more, have given rise to concepts such as the ‘deep state’, ‘the establishment’, and ‘globalists’. Often fuelled by social media, these newer claims are often so shallow and impulsive that they’ve been branded as ‘conspiracism’; that is, ‘conspiracy without the theory’. As Muirhead and Rosenblum (2019) explain, ‘conspiracy without the theory dispenses with the burden of explanation. We see no insistent demand for proof, no exhaustive amassing of evidence, no dots revealed to form a pattern, no close examination of the operators plotting in the shadows. Instead, we get innuendo’. So what does a real conspiracy theory, developed over decades, look like? Drawing on three far-reaching conspiracy theories which emerged across the twentieth century, this seminar will aim to examine their dynamics, such as how they morph and adapt over time. Speakers: Gill Bennett (former FCO official historian and author of The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies), Izabella Tabarovsky (fellow at the Wilson Center and historian of Soviet propaganda), and Phil Tinline (journalist and author of Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax That Duped America and Its Sinister Legacy). Chair: Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College). You're currently a free subscriber to History in Organizations. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Could you help on Christmas Day in Coldean?
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