Film Screening: The Woke Reformation

Episodes of an eye-opening documentary series by filmmaker Travis Brown

There has been a new reformation of public thought, and it needs to be understood and dismantled. The Woke Reformation is a documentary series for those concerned about the cultish religion of Wokeness who would like to understand its roots, what can be done about it, and why people have gravitated toward it in our post-religious age. The series is dedicated to Peter Boghossian, and features Peter, Helen Pluckrose, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Douglas Murray, Niall Ferguson, and more.

Programme:

• Screening of the Trailer
• Opening remarks by filmmaker Travis Brown
• Screening of the Episodes Origins of Woke Ideology and The Necessity of Narrative
• Open discussion about the film

Participants:

• Travis Brown, Independent Filmmaker: Travis Brown is an independent filmmaker living in the Pacific Northwest. He is the president of The Signal Education Project, which is a non-profit that shines a light on how dogmatic thinking distorts the truth and fractures our relationships. Since leaving his religious faith behind, he has been interested in how strict ideologies shape our view of reality, the effect this has on our conversations, and what this does to relationships and society as a whole. His previous work includes The Woke Reformation, which features Peter Boghossian, Douglas Murray, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Vivek Ramaswamy, and many other brave intellectuals who demolish and then offer a positive alternative to Woke culture. He is currently exploring the incendiary topic of gender identity in his upcoming docuseries Uncomfortable Truths: The Reality of Gender Identity Ideology.

• Peter Boghossian, Founding Faculty Advisor, University of Austin, University of Austin: Peter Boghossian is a Founding Faculty Advisor at the University of Austin. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years that focuses on the Socratic method, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking. Peter’s dissertation explored increasing the moral reasoning of prison inmates and aiding their desistance to crime. His most recent book is How to Have Impossible Conversations, which has been translated into nine languages. His writing can be found in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Time Magazine, National Review, and elsewhere. He has also published extensively across multiple domains of thought. His work is centered on bringing the tools of professional philosophers to a wide variety of contexts and helping people think through what seem to be intractable problems.

• Calum T.M. Nicholson, Director of Research, Danube Institute: Calum T.M. Nicholson read Social Anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was awarded an MPhil in Migration Studies from St Antony's College, Oxford. He holds a doctorate in Human Geography. He was most recently the Director of the Climate Policy Institute, and has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium since 2021. He also continues to teach courses on international migration, international development, and the impact of social media at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. In 2023, his edited volume, Climate Migration: critical perspectives for law, policy, and research, was published by Hart: Bloomsbury. His research interests encompass the role of science in society, political polarisation, and international interventions.

 Language: English

Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024, 5.30 PM
Venue: Lónyay-Hatvany Villa - 1. Csónak str., 1015 Budapest
(Entrance: Aranybástya Restaurant)

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