International Conference on Men's Issues (2018)

The conference is less than six months away, ticket sales will end on 31 March. Tickets sold out for the 2016 conference, and with fewer than half the tickets remaining for the next one, we’re confident that too will sell out.

You have only four days left – until 24:00 GMT next Wednesday, 31 January – to take up the option of paying the first of three monthly interest-free instalments for your ticket(s), details here. We look forward to meeting you at what will surely be another very successful event.

Last April, Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) interviewed Jordan Peterson at length. Enjoy (video, 2:06:32).

We’ve just announced details of a new speaker at the conference, Dr Jeffrey Ketland, formerly of Oxford University – here.

Dr Ketland’s original description for the speaker page was as follows:

Dr Ketland is a professional logician, mathematician and academic philosopher, whose research is in mathematical logic, paradoxes, the foundations of mathematics and science. He was the victim of Charlotte Coursier, a Borderline Personality Disordered stalker and psychopath, for more than two years. She committed suicide when her boyfriend ended the relationship. He was then the victim of a feminist vigilante lynch mob and witch hunt of false accusations, harassment and intimidation, which ran him out of his job at Oxford, and ran him and his family out of their home. He was reinstated when he proved that these allegations were fabricated lies distributed by vigilantes.

A piece by Dr Ketland, linking to materials on his experiences, is here. His account of being stalked by Charlotte Coursier is here.

Followers of this blog will be aware that our contract with the original venue for ICMI18, St Andrews Stadium – the home of Birmingham City FC – was cancelled by the club on 1 November, with no legal grounds for doing so, and without prior notice.

We received an email from one of the club’s directors just a few hours after the publication of a hit piece by Daniel Storey on the website Football365. The comments stream, at least, is worth catching. The overwhelming majority of the comments are supportive of J4MB and/or critical of the article, and ‘upvotes’ made accordingly.

Our thanks to Ken for pointing out that Football365 is operated by 365 Media Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of SkyUK. He tells me he’s cancelled his subscription to Sky TV, and is encouraging others to do likewise.

[A few tickets remain on sale, but the venue has a strict limit on numbers, so we recommend you don’t delay in ordering your ticket(s).]

Following the completion of contract negotiations with a London venue, we’re pleased to announce that the fourth International Conference on Men’s Issues (ICMI18) will be held in London over July 20-22, the long weekend after the weekend in which the World Cup final will be played.

The conference will be held in a prestigious London venue. Following the experience with Birmingham City FC we shall be keeping the venue confidential, revealing it to ticket holders only, shortly before the event.

We’ve assembled an outstanding line-up of 20 speakers, here.

Many of the people who’ve ordered tickets for the conference also attended the 2016 conference, and they tell us that as well as enjoying the talks, much of the pleasure they derived from the conference related to socialising with like-minded people over the three days, especially in the evenings.

We shall be having dinners on the first two evenings – tickets will be limited – details of menu options and ticket prices will be emailed to conference attendees shortly before the event.

We’ve set ticket prices at the same level as they were at the 2016 conference. The only tickets now available are priced at £265.00.

You can book your ticket(s) here. You could save the cost of your ticket by taking advantage of a generous offer from a leading portrait photographer who has taken official photographs of many famous people. Details here.

A small number of complimentary tickets are being reserved for the media, details here.

We recommend you subscribe to this website, because you’ll then be notified of any news as soon as we publish it. We look forward to meeting you at the conference.

Followers of this blog will be aware that following the publication of a scurrilous online attack on J4MB by the football blogger Daniel Storey, Birmingham City FC terminated the contract to host ICMI18 without prior discussion, and without having the right to do so under the contract terms. The club’s explanation for the decision was that I had misrepresented J4MB and the event, both blatant lies. And they failed to engage with a considerable volume of material I sent about the party, men’s and boys’ issues, and previous ICMIs.

Has this discouraged us from holding a conference next year? Of course not. It has only strengthened our resolve to hold it, and make it the best conference in the series so far.

We’ve been in contract negotiations with a top London venue. We expect to announce shortly that the event will definitely be going ahead, 20 – 22 July, after the end of the World Cup.

I sense there are now few people checking out Daniel Storey’s recent hit piece, so few people will have seen a comment I posted yesterday on the site:

A number of people have requested that I respond to the claims of Daniel Storey (the writer of this hit piece) about what I reportedly said in a discussion on BBC Radio Nottingham last Monday, 31 October. We’ve just posted on our YouTube channel the full discussion. The relevant section is 4:18 – 5:36. You will note that Storey has added, deleted, and changed words, and excluded altogether the comments made by the interviewer, for context. He has, in short, shown the same low level of journalistic integrity he’s shown in the article in general. This is gutter journalism, with the clear objective of stopping the next International Conference on Men’s Issues being held at St Andrew’s Stadium.