Leicester Secular Society Events

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Time:

14:30 - 16:00

Description:

BBC Radio 4: These Are The Times: A Life of Thomas Paine (opens in a new window)
By Trevor Griffiths
2/2. tba

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Trevor Griffiths spoke to Mark Lawson about his project (with Richard Attenborough) for a film about the life of Tom Paine in Front Row on Tuesday 22 July 2008 - you may be able to listen again here (opens in a new window)

Time:

18:30

Description:

No Sunday evening meetings are planned for August 2008. Watch our calendar for our new Autumn programme.

Time:

19:30

Description:

The National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 will be re-enacting a bicycle ride made by two of its members (Ted Ward and Geoff Jackson) in May 1938 to raise money for the victims of the Spanish Civil War as a way of publicising the International Brigade Memorial Trust.
Leicestershire man Roy Watts (killed on the Ebro in 1938 with the International Brigade) was a member of both the Clarion Cycling Club and the Leicester Secular Society.
The riders will be staying in Leicester on the night of 4th August and a reception is being held at Secular Hall at 7-30pm that evening. All sympathetic cyclists are welcome to come along. However please bring a bottle and some refreshments as the organisers have limited funds and don't know how many to expect.

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Links (open in new windows)
Download flyer: page 1 (pdf 159 kb); page 2 (pdf 277 kb).
More info from the National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 weblog and the International Brigade Memorial Trust.

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Time:

20:00 - 21:00

Description:

Richard Dawkins presents a major three part Channel 4 series; The Genius of Charles Darwin starting Monday, August 4 at 8PM for three consecutive weeks.
On the Channel 4 website you can find out more about Darwin and his theories and discoveries, pose your own questions to a Darwin expert, watch exclusive video clips and win Richard Dawkins DVDs.

Time:

18:30

Description:

No Sunday evening meetings are planned for August 2008. Watch our calendar for our new Autumn programme.

Time:

20:00 - 21:00

Description:

Richard Dawkins presents a major three part Channel 4 series; The Genius of Charles Darwin starting Monday, August 4 at 8PM for three consecutive weeks.
On the Channel 4 website you can find out more about Darwin and his theories and discoveries, pose your own questions to a Darwin expert, watch exclusive video clips and win Richard Dawkins DVDs.

Time:

18:30

Description:

No Sunday evening meetings are planned for August 2008. Watch our calendar for our new Autumn programme.

Time:

20:00 - 21:00

Description:

Richard Dawkins presents a major three part Channel 4 series; The Genius of Charles Darwin starting Monday, August 4 at 8PM for three consecutive weeks.
On the Channel 4 website you can find out more about Darwin and his theories and discoveries, pose your own questions to a Darwin expert, watch exclusive video clips and win Richard Dawkins DVDs.

Time:

19:30

Description:

Skeptics in the Pub presents:
Prof. Chris French - The Psychology of Anomalous Experiences

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Note change of venue: The Swan and Rushes, 19 Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WR

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Ever since records began, in every known society, a substantial proportion of the population has reported unusual experiences many of which we would today label as "paranormal". Opinion polls show that the majority of the general public accepts that paranormal phenomena do occur. Such widespread experience of and belief in the paranormal can only mean one of two things. Either the paranormal is real, in which case this should be accepted by the wider scientific community which currently rejects such claims. Or else belief in and experience of ostensibly paranormal phenomena can be fully explained in terms of psychological factors. This presentation will provide an introduction to the sub-discipline of anomalistic psychology, which may be defined as the study of extraordinary phenomena of behaviour and experience, in an attempt to provide non-paranormal explanations in terms of known psychological and physical factors. This approach will be illustrated with examples relating to a range of ostensibly paranormal phenomena.

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Do check the Skeptics in the Pub website in case of last-minute changes.

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Free admission - All welcome.

Time:

18:30

Description:

No Sunday evening meetings are planned for August 2008. Watch our calendar for our new Autumn programme.

Time:

18:30

Description:

No Sunday evening meetings are planned for August 2008. Watch our calendar for our new Autumn programme.

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