PROGRAMME OF LECTURES 2008-2009:
Lectures marked * celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species"
- Tuesday 7 October: Current controversies in the management of profoundly deaf children: two coclear implants or one? - The Herbert Read Lecture - Prof Quentin Summerfield (University of York)
- Tuesday 21 October: The Yorkshire Philosophical Society Library: History, Context and Significance - Peter Freshwater, Retired Deputy Librarian, Edinburgh University Library
- Tuesday 4 November: Fusion: A Soution to the Energy Crisis? - Dr Roddy Vann (Dept Physics, University of York)
- Tuesday 11 November: Our Ancient Trees - The Last Remnants of Europe's "Rain Forest" - Joint Lecture with the Royal Geographical Society & PLACE
- Ted Green (Ancient Tree Forum)
- Tuesday 18 November: The Trader, the Owner and the Slave - Joint Lecture with the York Senior Common Room, King's Manor
- Prof James Walvin (University of York)
- Tuesday 2 December: Darwin, Antiquity and the Museum*" - Joint Lecture with York Archeological Trust
- Dr Arthur MacGregor, FSA, FLS (Former Senior Assistant Keeper, Ashmolean Museum)
- Tuesday 16 December: How to keep a good woman down"
- Prof Averil Macdonald (University of Reading)
- Saturday 3 January, 2.30 pm: What do optical illusions tell about us? - Christmas Family Lecture
- Dr Peter Thompson (Dept Psychology, University of York)
- Tuesday 13 January, Reel Yorkshire: A Century of Yorkshire Life on Film
- Yorkshire Film Archive
- Tuesday 20 January: The Future of Natural History - The Michael Clegg Memorial Lecture, jointly with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Brian Eversham (Director of Conservation at thw Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough)
- Tuesday 3 February: Ark in Space: How our planet has been shaped by events in the Universe - Joint Lecture with the Institute of Physics, Yorkshire Branch
- Dr Marek Kukula (Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich)
- Tuesday 17 February: Darwin, Evolution and The Galapagos* - The Tempest Anderson Lecture
- Prof Sir John Lawton (Former Chief Executive of NERC)
- Saturday 21 February, 2.30 pm: Debate: Are books and newspapers heading for extinction? -
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- Tuesday 3 March: The Garden of Eden: a story for our time? - Joint lecture with the
Yorkshire Gardens Trust - Peter Goodchild (Director of the Garden and Landscape Heritage trust)
- Tuesday 17 March: The Poor Man's Darwin - Joint Lecture with the Historical Association (York Branch) - Dr Suzanne Paylor (Birkbeck College)
- Saturday 28 March: Seeing Life Through a New Light - Family Lecture for Science Week - Claire Patterson (University of St Andrews)
- Tuesday 31 March: "If it works, use it": the beauty and ugliness of natural selection - Prof John Currey, Dept of Biology, University of York
- Tuesday 7 April: Adam and the Ape*- Prof Sam Berry (University College London)
- Saturday 25 April, 2.30pm: Un-natural selection? People and animals in Roman Yorkshire - Joint lecture with the Yorkshire Archeological Society - Prof Terry O'Connor (Dept Archaeology, University of York)
- Tuesday 28 April: The Carbon Footprint of Everything We Consume - Dr John Barrett (Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York)
- Tuesday 12 May: Evolution and Intelligent Design* - Dr Simon Hardy (Dept Biology, University of York)
- Tuesday 26 May: The Health Benefits of Wine - The British Association for the Advancement of Science Lecture
- Dr Roger Pinder
preceded at 7.00pm by the YPS Annual General Meeting
Admission to lectures is free. Donations are invited from non-members. Cost of the Day School will be announced nearer the time. All lectures are held in the Tempest Anderson Hall, Museum Gardens,
York at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated. Following evening lectures, members and their guests are invited to visit The Lodge to meet the speaker and enjoy a glass of wine.
EXCURSIONS ANS SOCIAL ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR 2008-2009:
(Members and guests only)
- Monday 29 September 2008: Visit to Masham and the Black Sheep Brewery
- Thursday 16 October 2008: Visit to the National Science Learning Centre, York
- Monday 1 December 2008: Winter Social, St Olave's Hall
- Wednesday 14 January 2009: President's Evening Dinner, The Churchill Hotel
- February 2009: Visit to the Nano Centre, University of York
Contacting the Society
Yorkshire Philosophical Society
The Lodge, Museum Gardens, York YO1 7DR
Tel/Fax: 01904 656713
Email: info@yorksphilsoc.org.uk
The Lodge is open for personal callers on Mondays, 10am to 1.30pm,
Wednesdays, 10am to 1.30pm and 2.30pm to 4pm, and Fridays, 10am to 1.30pm.
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