What happens if you fill a pub with clever and lovely people then invite loads of amazing Goldsmiths academics to entertain them?

Join us for a chaotic cabaret in the pub featuring a line-up of Goldsmiths experts who will reflect on the strange, dark time that has been 2016.

When: 6:30pm – 9:30pm Thursday 3 November 2016
Where: Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY
Tickets: £6/£5 + booking fee. Buy online

In 2016 we entered the Darkest Timeline: Brexit, Bowie… Trump? Join us at the Amersham Arms on 3 November – days before the most powerful nation on earth shows us how broken democracy really is – to hear Goldsmiths, University of London academics take you on a high-speed dash through their chosen subject.

Featuring the algorithms of online dating, hidden satanic messages, cats and class war. Expect laughs, facts that sound totally made up but aren’t, and loads of terrible PowerPoints.

Comedian and compere Steve Cross will once again keep everyone to time.

The line-up:

• Kate Devlin (Computing) on the algorithms of online dating: a scientific and a personal perspective
• Sylvia Pan (Computing) – What can virtual humans do for us?
• Rob Cenci (Media & Communications) on the Call of Insecurity – the first-person shooter
• Sarah Wiseman (Computing) on the weird and wonderful world of the Quantified Self
• Chris French (Psychology) on hidden satanic messages – find out if you can hear them
• Dee Harding (Computing) – Tired of Experts
• John Price (History) – No Hard Felines: Class War… with cats
• Dominique Santos (Anthropology) on the Anthropology of NOT climbing trees

When: 6:30pm – 9:30pm Thursday 3 November 2016
Where: Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY
Tickets: £6/£5 + booking fee. Buy online

All proceeds from ticket sales will go to The Running Charity.