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SPRING 2002
January
January 13 1100h ARE PHENOMENAL FACTS PHYSICAL FACTS? Dr Mark Kalderon, UCL Philosophy Dept. discusses the knowledge argument in the philosophyof mind
1500 TOPICAL TOPICS bring current ethical issues to discuss
January 20
1100 h Carl Von OSSIETZKY, Fighter Against Fascism - Dr Ian King, Reader in German South Bank University
1500 h Hitler video - origins of his antisemitism
Sunday January 27
1100 h DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN & WOMEN's IMAGINATIONS : THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES FOUND
Gloria Moss, Open University Business School
February 2002
Sunday 3 Feb 1100 h THE PHILOSOPHY OF BELIEF
Mark Textor, Philosophy Dept., KCL
1500 h SCIENTIFIC TOPICAL TOPICS Mike Howgate
Sunday 10 Feb 1100 h EVANGELICALISM & THE OXFORD MOVT. Ralph Blumenau
1500 h THE 1866 PETITION FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: Putting Names to the Faces - Talk and display of her machine-stitched textile of all the signatories (which will now be on display in the Theobalds Rd window till the end of the month) Ann Dingsdale, writer, historian, textile artist
Sunday 17 Feb 1100 h ARE THERE UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS? Patti Whaley
1500 h NOTES FROM BEIJING (Illustrated) Peter Vlachos
Sunday 24 Feb 1100 h PHILOSOPHISING WITH A STAMMER: Why Do Liberals Lie About Nietzsche? David Murray
1500 h THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE ; philosophical and neuroscientific assessment Dr Stephen Szanto
MARCH 2002
Sunday 3 March 1100 h CAMPAIGNING AGAINST THE RELIGIOUS HATRED CLAUSE David Webb Founder and Director of NCROPA
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS Bring those current ethical dilemmas to solve
Sunday 10 March 1100 DOROTHY SAYERS : the `feminist-not-quite-feminist'
David Doughan, former Reference librarian, Fawcett Library
1500 h JACK THE RIPPER MYSTERY SOLVED? (Video)
SATURDAY 16 March SCIENCE DAY
1100h-1630h SPES CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE WEEK
NEW SCIENCE MEETS OLD RELIGIONS
An Exploration of some current conflicts
1100h DO SCIENCE & RELIGION OVERLAP?
Norman Bacrac BSc, (Physics Tutor) criticises Stephen Gould's thesis that science & religion exist in separate, non-conflicting domains.
1145h NEW MEDICINE versus OLD DOGMA
Barbara Smoker (retd President of the National Secular Society)
LUNCH (bring sandwiches; tea, coffee etc. available)
1430h SCIENCE - THE DEATH OF TRUTH
Michael Newman BSc, Science Teacher at Summerhill School
1530h DOES QUANTUM PHYSICS CHALLENGE MATERIALISM?
Mark Innes MSc
1630h REFRESHMENTS
SUNDAY 17 March
1100 POVERTY & THE HEALTH OF THIRD WORLD CHILDREN
Prof. Anthony Costello, Professor of International Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital
1500 SEX, SOCIALISM & SUBVERSION - PROGRESS WITH LIBERTY. The Past, Present and Future of the Progressive League from 1933 - freedom, civil rights, anti-fascism and much more
Dorothy Forsyth, retd. Chair of the Progressive League
SUNDAY 24 March
1100h IS PUNISHMENT ETHICAL? Martin Wright
1500h THE BANDIT QUEEN Vidya Anand
*******EASTER SUNDAY MARCH 31 NO MEETING ********
SUNDAY APRIL 7
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS - Bring those burning topics to discuss
SUNDAY APRIL 14
1100h ISLAM - IS IT A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE?
Muhammad Ibrahim, Muslim Educational Trust
1500h PERCEPTION AND HEALTH
Charmaine Ponnuthurai, Health Researcher
SUNDAY APRIL 21
1100h THE RECENT EDUCATION BILL - FROM THE RINGSIDE
Keith Porteous Wood, Exec. Sec, National Secular Society
1500h BOOK SALE
SUNDAY APRIL 28
1100h THE ANTI-TERRORISM ACTS
Les Levidov
NOTE IN YOUR DIARY - THE NICOLAS WALTER MEMORIAL LECTURE
on Sunday 19 May 2002 at 1500 h by David Goodway
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AUTUMN SESSION 2001
DECEMBER 2001
Sunday 2 December in the Library
1100 DO MEN & WOMEN PLAY THEIR CARDS DIFFERENTLY? Sexual Differences in the Visual Imagination are discussed by Gloria Moss who is a Lecturer at the Open University Business School.
1500 TOPICAL TOPICS - bring those burning issues
Sunday 9 DECEMBER
1100/1500 IRIS MURDOCH DAY Christopher Bratcher looks at the moral philosophy of Iris Murdoch as exemplified in The Sovereignty of the Good and her other nonfictional/fictional works. Ethical Thinkers Series
Sunday 16 DECEMBER
1100 THE STRANGE CASE OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN by Writer and Critic Naomi Lewis
1430 YULETIDE PARTY
MASTER OF CEREMONIES and QUIZMASTER Terry Mullins
musical duo, clarinet and piano
mulled wine/seasonal fare
All welcome. £2.50
TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER at 1930 in the Main Hall
THE CONWAY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2001
Speaker - Dr. A.C. Grayllng, Reader in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, writer, Guardian columnist, essayist. Secularist
Chairman: Prof. Laurie Taylor, Sociologist, Broadcaster
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NOVEMBER 2001
Thursday 1 November 1830 - 2030h £2 inc refreshments
HUMANISM FOR BEGINNERS six week evg course on Thursdays
3. WHERE DO MORAL VALUES COME FROM?
Saturday 3 Nov. P.E.R. DAY CONFERENCE
Conway Hall 1000-1600 h SOME THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY FOR EDUCATION FREE OPEN MEETING; unlimited coffee/tea/soft drinks/biscuits £2
Saturday 3 Nov. in the Library
1400h Thomas Paine Society AGM - members
1500h THE NEW HUMAN RIGHTS ACT - IS THOMAS PAINE TURNING IN HIS GRAVE? Dr Francesca KLUG = all welcome
Sunday 4 Nov. in the Library
1100 h FREETHOUGHT & UNBELIEF IN A PROVINCIAL TOWN
Robert Morrell, MBE Thomas Paine Society
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS: bring those burning issues to discuss Chair: Adrian Williams
Thursday 8 November 1830 - 2030h £2 inc refreshments
HUMANISM FOR BEGINNERS six week evg course on Thursdays
4. APPLYING HUMANIST ETHICS- sample ethical problems
Marilyn Mason, Education Officer of the BHA
Saturday 10 November, Library 1830 h
KATABASIS BOOK LAUNCH
ZAPATISTA STORIES by Subcommandante Marcos
translated by Dinah Livingstone - All Welcome - Wine
Sunday 11Nov. in the Library
1100 h THE PALESTINE NATIONAL AUTHORITY
MUSHTAQ KHAN, Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, surveys the history & future prospects of the PNA
1500 h TOPICAL SCIENTIFIC TOPICS, Mike Howgate - this did not take place due to matters beyond the speaker's control. It will now be on Sunday 25 Nov. at 1500 h
Sunday 18 Nov. in the Brockway Room
1100 My Approach to Creativity, Artist John Rosser
1430 Viewing the Paintings - Brockway Rm, wine
Sunday 25 Nov. in the Library
1100 h WOMAN AND FUNDAMENTALISM, film and talk by Gita Sahgal who discusses this important issue
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS IN SCIENCE Mike Howgate
(postponed from 11 Oct)
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AUTUMN SESSION 2001
began Sunday 23 Sept 2001 with the Annual Reunion of the Kindred Societies in Conway Hall Library 1430 h
KEYNOTE SPEAKER : David Pollock, BHA Excutive & RPA Board : RELIGION IN THE OPEN SOCIETY Greetings from the kindred organisations:BHA: Anne Toy inc. ceremonies GALHA: Derek Lennard NSS: Denis Cobell PL: Dorothy ForsythRPA: Shirley Dent SAGB: Ian King SOS: Malcolm Rees Excellent Refreshments, all friends welcome - MUSICAL INTERLUDES by Ute Bublitz (clarinet) & Harry Salacuri (piano)
SEPTEMBER 2001 Sunday 30 2001 - 1430h AGM = Members only
OCTOBER 2001
Sunday 7 OCTOBER 1100 h THE PRINCIPALITY AND POWER OF EUROPE: Britain and the Emerging Holy Roman Empire, Adrian Hilton 1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS Chair: Norman Bacrac. Bring current issues
Sunday 14 October 1100 h THE PREVALENCE OF PARANORMAL BELIEF David Marks, Psychologist, City University
1500h ARBITRATION: The Private Resolution of Commercial Disputes Prof. Brian Niblett, Practising Arbitrator
Thursday 18 October 1830 - 2030h £2 inc refreshments
HUMANISM FOR BEGINNERS six week evg course on Thursdays
1. A GOOD LIFE WITHOUT RELIGION with Barbara Smoker
Sunday 21 October 1100 h
HUMANITY's DIET: Food For Freethinkers - Geoff Bond, Nutritional Anthropologist
1500 h REPORT of the Humanist Millennium Walk, Belfast to Jerusalem by Phil. Ward
Thursday 25 October 1830 - 2030h £2 inc refreshments
HUMANISM FOR BEGINNERS six week evg course on Thursdays
2. SCIENCE AND NATURALISM : Making Sense of the World with physicist Norman Bacrac
Sunday 28 Oct. 1100 h WICKEDNESS : Mary Midgeley's View. The latest of Chris Bratcher's Ethical Thinkers
1500 h An Overview of Human Rights - historical and conceptual aspects by Mazin Zeki, Liberty Council Member, formerly NCCL
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July 2001
Sunday 1ST FOURTH SKENE MEMORIAL LECTUREIn the British Psychological Society's Centenary Year
1100 h BEATRICE EDGELL:PIONEER WOMAN PSYCHOLOGIST
Dr Elizabeth R. Valentine, BA, PhD,CPsychol, FBPsS Reader in Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Editor: History & Philosophy of Psychology Director: Psychology of Music Research Group
Research Interests include: memory and attentional skills with particular reference to methods of improving these; Psychology of musical practice and performance,Philosophy and History of Psychology
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS Chair: Edmund McArthur. Bring current issues
Sunday 8 JULY
1100 h WHY OLD KNEMON WAS GRUMPY: A New Interpretation of Menander’s (342-292 BC) The Dyskolos - Alan Spence
Sunday 15 July
1100 h WHAT HAPPENED TO BOOKS? Tom Evans
15-1700h FLEET STREET AND ITS ENVIRONS (begins at CH)
Easy and Fascinating Walk, leader Philip Barber
Sunday 22 July 1100 h
DO WE NEED SOCIALIST LAWYERS?
Neil McInnes. Criminal Barrister
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
JUNE 2001
Sunday 3 1100 h
GARIBALDI: Freethinking Hero of Italian Liberation
Jasper Ridley marks the reissue of his celebrated biography
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS Chair: Edmund McArthur
Sunday 10 June
1100 h THE REVEREND PRINCE AND HIS ABODE OF LOVE
Chartered Psychologist Hugh Thomas relates the story of a Victorian West Country clergyman who declared himself to be God on Earth
1430 h SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING (reg 1400h)
(members only) to discuss revision to the rules
Saturday 16 GARDEN PARTY & DEBATE - PER GROUP
1500 h Games and soft drinks; tea
1700 h Debate: What Can Schools Do About Badly Behaved Parents?
3 Ingleside Grove, Blackheath, SE3 7PH free but tel 8858 3364 first
Saturday 16 H.G. WELL SOCIETY AGM
1530 h Talk by the curator of the Wells manuscripts which are held at the Univ. of Illinois (non members are invited to the talk)
Sunday 17 June
1100 h INVENTING RIGHT & WRONG: The Thorough-going Subjectivism of J.L. Mackie by Christopher Bratcher, in the Ethical Thinkers Series
1500 h DANGER - UNEXPLODED BOMB! - the C4 video about WW11 bomb disposal inc. C. Wren (Conscientious Objector ) interviewed in the Library
Saturday 23 HUMANIST ANNUAL LUNCH ConwayHall
from 1300 h £10 for buffet; veg/vegan poss; inc. glass of wine, tea/coffee
BOOK WITH THE BHA (ASAP) tel. 7430 0908
Sunday 24 DRUGS &THE RESURRECTION GloriaMoss The secret drugs trade known to Jesus & the disciples
JULY
SKENE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Sunday 1 at 1100 h
BEATRICE EDGELL : PIONEER WOMAN PSYCHOLOGIST
Dr Elizabeth VALENTINE, Reader Royal Holloway & Bedford Coll, UL
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MAY 2001
Sunday 6 1430 h TOPICAL TOPICS Chairman Terry Henderson - an extra long session this Bank Holiday Sunday
Sunday 13
1100 h EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: LEARNING TO PARTICIPATE, FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL talk by Titus Alexander, Global Commons Institute
1500 h THE FREETHINKER : 120 GLORIOUS YEARS
Barry Duke, the present editor, reviews a controversial history including battles on birth control, blasphemy, censorship, sexuality and science versus religion
Thursday 17 May 1830 h Jointly with Sonnenberg Association 1830 h .KURT TUCHOLSKY (1890-1935) & THE STRUGGLE AGAINST GERMAN FASCISM, talk by Dr Ian King illus. with recordings of his songs sung by Ernst Busch
Sunday 20 MAY 1100 h ONLY ONE WAY: THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Dr Mayer Hillman, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Policy Studies Institute
1500 h FREEDOM FROM RELIGION AFTERNOON
Discussion of Dan Barker’s book, Losing Faith in Faith, From Preacher to Atheist. Hearing of Dan’s Friendly Neighborhood Atheist songs, Dan & his colleague. Annie Laurie Gaylor (editor of Women Without Superstition, 1997) had hoped to be here in person. They both work for the US Freedom from Religion Foundation
Sunday 27 ETHICAL SOCIETY COACH TRIP - ALL WELCOME
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THOMAS CLARKSON - - - - - - - -The Pioneer Anti-Slavery Campaigner, who was born 1760 coach leaves 0930 h from Red Lion Square and 1930h returns there
1100 h Clarkson Monument, Wadesmill 1200 h CAMBRIDGE, St John's College, pub lunch arrive 1430 WISBECH: visit PECKOVER HOUSE, the BIRTHPLACE OF OCTAVIA HILL the Housing for the Poor Reformer, Entrance fees £10 coach fare, entrance fees c£5 concs, cheaper for NatTrust members 1730 h leaves for London
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APRIL 2001
Sunday 1
1100 h MIKHAIL LERMONTOV: TRAGEDY OF A POET IN THE CAUCASUS by David Brummell. The talk is illustrated by Russian and English readings of the poetry by Alla Gelich and Rick Pulford.
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS. Chairman Donald Rooum.
Sunday 8
1100 h ` UTILITARIANISM AND MODERN MORAL PROBLEMS' Rona Gerber
1500 DYING AND DEATH: physiological and ethical issues
Harold Hillman, (the talk postponed from January)
Sunday 15 EASTER HOLIDAY - NO MEETING
Sunday 22
1100 h THE PHYSICISTS, THE PSYCHOANALYSTS, THE KABBALISTS Dr Tom Keve discusses the ideas in his new book, TRIAD
1500 h WILLIAM DAVIDSON - THE JAMAICAN HERO OF THE CATO STREET CONSPIRACY Vidya Anand
Sunday 29
1100 h CENSORSHIP IN THE UK Ted Goodman, Chair, Campaign Against Censorship
1500 h ONE FOOL AMONG MANY: an examination of atheism in the Old Testament Leslie Scrase
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Beginning of 2001 session Jan. to March
Sunday 14 January
1100 h THE THREE STEPS TO HUMANIST ETHICS Dr. Bill Cooke, Leading New Zealand Rationalist and Humanist; biographer of Joseph McCabe; and author of Heathen in Godzone: 70 years of Rationalism in New Zealand.
1500 h (Dying and Death: physiological and ethical issues, Dr Harold Hillman - now indisposed) OPENING of the BROMLEY MILLENNIUM HALL OF FAME; organised by Bromley Humanists and displayed in Bromley Library SARTRE: LIFE & WORK Videos
Sunday 21 January 1100 h
`EXISTENTIALISM IS A HUMANISM' Peter Heales discusses J.P. Sartres's idea
1500 h HITLER THE MAN: the abstemious megalomaniac. Rare archive film. TV Video
Sunday 28 January
1100 h RESEARCHING THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION's HISTORY Dr. Bill Cooke, leading New Zealand Rationalist and Humanist, biographer of Joseph McCabe
1500 h CHARITIES, SCANDAL and PUBLIC INTEREST. Prof. Gerald Vinten
Sunday 4 February 1
100 h "CHASING THE HARE" next in the Series of Ethical Thinkers by Chris Bratcher who discusses objections to R.M. Hare including those of John Searle and Peter Geach
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS bring those burning issues to discuss. Chair: Edmund McArthur
Sunday 11 February
1100 h KURT TUCHOLSKY (1890-1935) & THE STRUGGLE AGAINST GERMAN FASCISM illustrated with recordings of his songs sung by Ernst Busch Dr Ian KING
1500 h FROM THE HASHISH TRAIL TO EVEREST illus talk by Glen GERBER (slides)
Sunday 18 February
1100 h MURDER: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. Dr Peter Haydn Smith will inform us. .Consultant in Criminal Lunacy/Alienist
1500 h SCIENTIFIC TOPICAL TOPICS Mike Howgate
Saturday 24 February 1000 for 1030h Artists Room
IS THERE A PHILOSOPHIC CRISIS IN EDUCATION? Speakers : Eric Blaire, Michael Degenhardt, Christopher Ormell PER GROUP - Philosophy for Educational Renewal £2 inc refreshments
Sunday 25 February 1100 h THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE or Are You Scared? (Emeritus) Professor Richard Scorer
1500 h Informal Members Meeting. Management of the Society and Conway Hall
MARCH 2001
Sunday 4 March 1100 h
SIMULTANEOUS POLICY : The Global Campaign to Protect the Environment and Arrest Wealth Disparity in a Volatile Global Economy by John Bunzl Director, ISPO - International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS Chairman Donald Rooum
Sunday 11 March 1100 h
EVERYONE'S LAND: reclaiming ceremonial in pluralist societies by Nigel Collins, Compiler of Seasons of Life, just published by the RPA
SCIENCE WEEK Sun 11 March pm to 18 March am/pm
1500 Introducing the Ice Age, Mike Howgate
Saturday 17 March : ASPECTS OF THE ICE AGE
Jointly with WEA 1030-1630h Main Hall Speakers include Prof. Chris Stringer on Neanderthals & the Ice Age £8, concs £6 free tickets for SPES members
Sunday 18 March
1100h CHANGING THE WORLD IN ONE EASY LESSON : Taking Responsibility for the Scientific Problems Associated with Nuclear Wastes - Dr. Rachel Western,
1500 DO SCIENCE & RELIGION OVERLAP? Stephen Jay Gould's latest book, Rocks of Ages, discussed by Norman Bacrac & Jennifer Jeynes
Saturday 24 March 10 for 1030 Education for Citizenship: Professor Antony Flew is concerned that it is too prescriptive PER Group, £2 incl refreshments
SUNDAY 25 March 1100 h
VIRTUE ETHICS, latest in series of Ethical Thinkers, Chris Bratcher
1500 h THE ETHICS OF CITIZENSHIP: A New Agenda for the C21 for those who missed the Conway Lecture By Prof. Bernard Crick, last December a chance to hear the recording and compare with Prof. Flew's views.
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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2000
Sun 5 Nov 00 1100 h Embryo Research and New Therapies : Ethical Issues by John Gillott, Policy Officer, Genetic Interest Group
1500 h Topical Topics, Chair Donald Rooum. Bring those burning issues
Tues 7 Nov 00 1830 h Introduct. To Santayana's Thought, 3rd of 6 sessions Tutor Tom Rubens, £2 inc refreshments
Sun 12 Nov 00 1100 h Ethics and Pensions : Fairness Between the Sexes - Talk by Christopher Bratcher
Tues 14 Nov 00 1900 h Second of three Monthly Philosophy of Science Seminars with P F A Biological Science : Darwin and Evolution. Tutor: Filiz Peach (Philosophy for All)
Fri 17 Nov 00 1900 h Annual Art Soiree, Ideas and Images Garry Kennard who is exhibiting on the ground floor will show slides. Malcolm Rees gives The Chairman's Idiosyncratic View - an informal evening - with wine;
Sat 18 Nov 00 1030 h Striking a Balance in Sex Education, Fred Naylor, Centre for Policy Studies. Jointly with PER, Philosophy for Educational Renewal
Sat 18 Nov 00 pm after Tom Paine Soc AGM, non members can hear talk by Michael Foot
Sun 19 Nov 00 1100 h The Uses of Paradox : A Discussion on Brain Function & The Arts By Garry Kennard
Tues 21 Nov 00 1830 h Introduction To Santayana's Thought, Fourth of six sessions, Tutor Tom Rubens, £2 inc refreshmentsennard
Sun 26 Nov 00 1100 h The Convention on the Preventionand Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: How the International Community Failed to Live up to Its Responsibilities in Rwanda in 1994 by Linda Melvern, writer & investigative journalist
Tues 28 Nov 00 1830 h Introduction To Santayana's Thought, Fifth of six sessions, Tutor Tom Rubens, £2 inc refreshments
Sun 3 Dec 00 1100 h The Perils and Pleasures of Humanist Campaigning: the Abortion Law Struggle, by Diane Munday
1500 h Scientific Topical Topics Michael Howgate
Tues 5 Dec 00 1830 h Introduction To Santayana's Thought, Sixth of six sessions, Tutor Tom Rubens, £2 inc refreshments
Sat 10 Dec 00 1900 h `The Poetry of Earth' by Dinah Livingstone, Katabasis Press, with wine - book launch, discussion and surprise guests, all welcome, no charge
Sun 10 Dec 00 1100 h A Short HIstory of Ethical Thinkers by Christopher Bratcher - Prescriptivism and Doctors' Orders - R.M. Hare
1500 h Revolution in Education Yvonne & Stephen Bracken-Kemish
Tues 12 Dec 1900 h 3rd in 3 monthly 2nd Tuesday Philosophy of Science Workshops Quantum Physics Tutor: Filiz Peach Jtly with Philosophy for All (PFA)
Thurs 14 Dec 1930 Main Hall - 74th Conway Memorial Lecture ETHICS & CITIZENSHIP: A New Agenda for the C21 Professor . Bernard Crick Professor of Politics (Emeritus) Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association. Government Adviser on Citizenship, well known his biography of Orwell, George Orwell : A Life and Essays on Citizenship, 2000 Chair: Gabby Rowberry, of the World Citizenship Federation
Sun 17 Dec. 1430 Extraordinary General Meeting (members only)
1500 h The Real Anti-Millennial Yuletide Party. Mulled wine, festive fare.
Star Guest: Janet Clare, Inner Magic Circle, with `CLOSE UP MAGIC.
Phillipe on piano playing Winter Reveries. Quizzes, entertainment, £2 All welcome
NEW SESSION BEGINS 14 Jan 2001 at 1100 h in the Library
Bill Cooke, speaks on `The Three Steps to Humanist Ethics'
1500 h Dr Harold Hillman: Dying and Death: physiological and ethical issues
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AUTUMN SESSION 2000 BEGAN
Sunday 24 Sept 00 Annual Reunion of Kindred Humanist Societies 14.30h in the Library
Keynote Speaker: Marilyn Mason, BHA Education Specialist: HUMANISM IN SCHOOLS - IS IT ALREADY THERE? followed by entertainment : JAZZ R & D with Roy Core, Guitar and Dave Toy, Piano. Greetings will be brought from speakers from the National Secular Society, Rationalist Press Association, British Humanist Association, Progressive League, Secular Organisations for Sobriety etc. Refreshments. All members and friends welcome.
Sunday 01 Oct 00 Annual General Meeting at 1430 h
SPES members only
Sunday 08 Oct. 11.00h
`The Human Rights Act 1998 - a `Trojan Horse' or the Dawn of a New Enlightenment?' Barbara Hewson, Barrister followed by 15.00 h Topical Topics with Chair: Adrian Williams
Tues 10 Oct 1900h 1st of 3 monthly 2nd Tuesday Philosophy of Science Workshops it meetings with Philosophy for All `Science and Scientific Methods' Tutor: Filiz Peach
Sun 15 Oct 00 at 11.00h
Blake, Conway and other Freethinkers in the late C19 Dr Shirley Dent, RPA 1500h
Scientific Topical Topics Mike Howgate
Tues 17 Oct 00 at 18.30h
1st of 6 week evening course An Introduction to Santayana's Thought Tutor Tom Rubens MA £2
Sun 22 Oct 00 at 11.00h
History of Ethical Thinkers Series, The Follow-up to `Ethics and Emotions' Emotivism : C.L. Stevenson & Paul Edwards Christopher Bratcher 1500 h
Science Fiction and the Short Stories of HG Wells: a personal view Giles Hart
Tues 24 Oct 00 at 1830h
2nd in Intro to Santayana's Thought (Tutor Tom Rubens MA) £2
Sun 29 Oct 00 1100 h Ben Jonson & Humanism, Tom Lockwood, Girton College Cambridge: The dramatist (1572-1637) who worked under 3 monarchs, had multiple religious affiliations and killed two men. Picture in National Portrait Gallery
Mon 30 1900 h Tagore's Humanism and Our Humanism Tues 31 1900 h What is Radical Humanism?
Both lectures given by Prof. Sib Narayan Ray, renowned humanist intellectual and close associate of radical humanist philosopher, M.N. Roy. Jointly with International Humanist & Ethical Union
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***Past Events and Lectures***
JUNE 2000
Sunday 4
1400h NICOLAS WALTER MEMORIAL MEETING: Main Hall Rationalist, anarchist, freethought historian
Monday 5
1900 h WHAT IS PHENOMENOLOGY WHEN IT IS AT HOME? Dr. Nick McAdoo, Open University, jt with PSEng
Sunday 11
1100 h GIORDANO BRUNO & FREETHOUGHT: a Commemorative Lecture On The 400th Anniversary of His Death At the Stake, Professor Hilary Gatti, Univ. of Rome,`La Sapienza' Author of `Giordano Bruno & Renaissance Science' Cornell University Press, 1999
1500 h TOPICAL TOPICS IN SCIENCE inc Islam & Science Mike Howgate
Sunday 18
1100 h THE NECESSITY OF DOGMA: Nigel Barnes, Secretary of Hampstead Humanists 1500 h THE FUTURE OF SPES: 2nd Open Meeting for members/friends
Sunday 25
1100 h MAX WEBER'S THOUGHT TODAY Terry Henderson
1500 h ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF REVOLUTION with special reference to May '68 Sebastian Hayes
JULY 2000
Sunday 2
1100 h THE STAKEHOLDER SOCIETY - BOON OR CURSE? Prof. Gerald Vinten seeks a Third Way 1500 h TOPICAL DISCUSSION with Terry Mullins
Sunday 9
1100 h ETHICS AS AN EXPRESSION OF EMOTION: The Unknown Bertrand Russell Christopher Bratcher
1500 h WHO WAS OMAR KHAYYAM? Hazhir Teimourian
Sunday 16
1100 h EQUAL ETHICS FOR MAD PEOPLE: 3RD SKENE MEMORIAL LECTURE Liz Sayce, Author of `From Psychiatric Patient to Citizen: overcoming discrimination and social exclusion'
Sunday 23
1100 h Bp BUTLER & BERTRAND RUSSELL ON RELIGION Dr. David E. White, St John Fisher College, NY, USA
Sunday 30 times 10-6
£10 fare SPES/NSS COACH OUTING To Variety of Interesting Localities ending at Wisbech & Peckover Hse tel 7 242 8037/5
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