Thursday, July 29, 2010
Posted by Stephen Law on July 9, 2010
Just setting up next springs Oxford Lit festival CFI events between 2 and 10 April 2011, and two CFI events for this autumn in London.
Sat Dec 18th is an event at Conway Hall looking at the root causes of the Holocaust, with David Ranan, A.C. Grayling, Jonathan Glover and one more.
Here is Nathan. Nathan Penlington
Posted by Stephen Law on June 4, 2010
Oxford University Dept. of Continuing Education
PODCASTS ON DAWKINS’ THE GOD DELUSION, by myself and Marianne Talbot. From the God Delusion weekend we ran with Oxford University Dept. for Continuing Education a short while ago. Available here: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/#conted-unit
PLEASE NOTE: you may want to type “stephen Law” or “God delusion” into the search window within the webpage to locate the relevant podcasts, as there are so many. Or wait till page fully loads and scroll down slightly from “Dept. for Continuing Education”.
These are also available as VIDEOS from itunes – under PODCASTS – Oxford University – Continuing Education – God delusion Weekend – videos.
If you listen to just one of these podcasts, I’d make it “Attacking the God Hypothesis in Other Ways”.
DIRECT LINK TO THE CORRECT PAGE IN ITUNES.
Posted by Stephen Law on May 11, 2010
COMPETITION – NEW LOGO
CFI UK needs a new logo. Winner gets life membership (free entry to Conway Hall events).
The rules are:
- Your design should be created in vector format, but emailed for judging as a 400×400 pixel JPG or PNG file no bigger than 300Kb in size.
- It must include the letters CFI UK.
- It should reflect the ethos of the Center for Inquiry.
- It should look good in both colour and greyscale, and be suitable for use in the website masthead, letterheads, t-shirts, publicity posters and banners.
- The design must be your own original work, and not contain elements which are subject to third party copyright.
Something with a candle (Enlightenment, Prometheus, etc.) would obviously be suitable, but anything considered as long as it looks cool.
Submit entries to me at think (at) royalinstitutephilosophy.org
Deadline June 15th.
Posted by Stephen Law on May 2, 2010
Recorded for Premier Christian Radio and broadcast yesterday. It is about one hour long. Here is the link: http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx
Scroll down to 1st May 2010.
Denis Alexander believes science is consistent with, and indeed points towards, God. I took a different line. Being longer than most radio discussions, we were allowed to got into some quite good detail.
Posted by Stephen Law on April 30, 2010
Stephen Law is speaking at Oxford Humanists about Intellectual Black Holes (His new book project).
Fri. 21st May, 8.30pm, Restore Centre off Manzil Way, East Oxford OX4 1YH. Details from John White jdwhite (AT) talk21.com (nb this address has been spamproofed – you need to fix it)
Posted by Stephen Law on February 24, 2010
Presented in conjunction with SPES
Saturday 6th March 2010. Tickets on the door.
Come hear and question some of the world’s leading experts on notorious monster and alien claims.
Nick Pope ran the British government’s UFO project at the Ministry of Defence. With UFO sightings in the UK at near-record levels and increased mainstream media coverage of the topic, Nick Pope will discuss the enduring fascination of this subject. He’ll be highlighting some recent stories such as MoD’s decision to terminate its UFO project and the ongoing programme to release the government’s UFO files to the National Archives. Nick Pope attended the recent Royal Society discussion meeting on the consequences of detecting extraterrestrial life and will discuss some of the material presented, with particular reference to the societal consequences of such a discovery.
Adrian Shine is head of the Loch Ness Project, and the world’s leading expert on the monster allegedly lurking in the Loch’s murky depths. He will be casting a sceptical eye over the evidence.
Paul Vella is Britain’s leading expert on Sasquatch, and will be taking a close, sceptical look at the main areas of evidence including photographic, historical records, hair samples, DNA, footprints, but also covers misidentification and hoaxing.
10.45am Registration. Finish 3pm.
Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL – Main Hall.
Just £10 on the door. Free to Friends of CFI UK, PLUS GLHA, SPES, BHA, NEW HUMANIST SUBSCRIBERS.
To book hit button “support cfiuk” and follow instructions. Credit and debit cards welcome. Alternatively send a cheque payable to ‘Center for Inquiry London” to: Executive Director Suresh Lalvani, Center for Inquiry London, PO Box 49097 Centre for Inquiry London N11 9AX, and include names of those coming, phone number, return address, etc. Or JUST SHOW UP.
Posted by Stephen Law on February 5, 2010
Saturday 27th February 2010 in the LIBRARY at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 4RL. FREE EVENT.
From 11.00 am to 1 pm. Talk on “NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SECULARISTS AND HUMANISTS” by Professor Paul Kurtz. Professor Kurtz is Chair Emeritus and Founder of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), Council for Secular Humanism, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and Prometheus Books. Paul Kurtz is visiting from the US.
From 10.00 am to 11.00 am. A representative from the Center for Inquiry in Eastern Europe will give a talk on Humanism in his / her country.
There will be ample time for questions and answers.
This is a FREE event and you can just turn up without booking.. However if you plan to attend it will be helpful if you email Suresh Lalvani, Executive Director at the Center for Inquiry UK (CFI) at slalvani@centerforinquiry.net
Posted by Stephen Law on February 4, 2010
Presented in conjunction with SPES
Saturday 6th March 2010
Come hear and question some of the world’s leading experts on notorious monster and alien claims.
Nick Pope ran the British government’s UFO project at the Ministry of Defence. With UFO sightings in the UK at near-record levels and increased mainstream media coverage of the topic, Nick Pope will discuss the enduring fascination of this subject. He’ll be highlighting some recent stories such as MoD’s decision to terminate its UFO project and the ongoing programme to release the government’s UFO files to the National Archives. Nick Pope attended the recent Royal Society discussion meeting on the consequences of detecting extraterrestrial life and will discuss some of the material presented, with particular reference to the societal consequences of such a discovery.
Adrian Shine is head of the Loch Ness Project, and the world’s leading expert on the monster allegedly lurking in the Loch’s murky depths. He will be casting a sceptical eye over the evidence.
Paul Vella is Britain’s leading expert on Sasquatch, and will be taking a close, sceptical look at the main areas of evidence including photographic, historical records, hair samples, DNA, footprints, but also covers misidentification and hoaxing.
10.45am Registration. Finish 3pm.
Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL – Main Hall.
Just £10 on the door. Free to Friends of CFI UK, PLUS GLHA, SPES, BHA, NEW HUMANIST SUBSCRIBERS.
To book hit button “support cfiuk” and follow instructions. Credit and debit cards welcome. Alternatively send a cheque payable to ‘Center for Inquiry London” to: Executive Director Suresh Lalvani, Center for Inquiry London, PO Box 49097 Centre for Inquiry London N11 9AX, and include names of those coming, phone number, return address, etc. Or JUST SHOW UP.
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