Beliefs & Reason Workshop
March 16-18th, 2009
Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Organized by Bruce M. Hood, Sue Blackmore & Horace Barlow and sponsored by the Perrott-Warwick Fund
Speakers: Rita Astuti, Paul Bloom, Larry Braham,Dennis Bray, Peter Brugger, Nick Chater, Dan Dennett, Zoltan Dienes, Nick Humphrey, David Mackay, Paul Rozin, Dan Wegner, Donald West, Dan Wolpert.
Special Appearance: Richard Wiseman
Bristol University Centenary Public Lecture Series
Dan C. Dennett “What does my body need ME for?” The role of consciousness in human intelligence.
Friday March 20th, 2009, 18.00-19.00. Wills Memorial Building, Bristol
Evening chaired by Bruce M. Hood
APRIL: US BOOK TOUR BEGINS (check back for updates)
Monday, April 6, 7:00 pm, $20 [Members: $ 18.00]
Neuroscientist Bruce Hood explores with writer Peter Matthiessen how we may be pre-wired with a mind design that creates a “SuperSense.”
Lunchtime Reading of SuperSense
Thursday 9th April 2009
Borders Bookstore: Downtown Boston, MA. US.
April 17th, 2009
8pm – 1am
Bruce speaking at the Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sponsored by Ten Have publisher
David Aaronovitch and Bruce M. Hood in Conversation.
May 13th 2009
6-7pm. Arnolfini: Booking details to follow.
Writer, journalist and broadcaster, David Aaronovitch will be discussing his new book “Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History” with Bruce as part of the Festival of Ideas.
“Start the Week” with Andrew Marr May 25th 9.00 am BBC Radio 4.
This is the flagship cultural platform with 3 million listeners. Bruce w
Cheltenham Science Festival
Thursday 5pm, 4th June, 2009.
Skeptics in the Pub:
The Penderel’s Oak, London. Places limited to 250 book here
Monday 19.00- 22.30
22nd June, 2009
Centenary Alumni Weekend
Saturday 4th July, 2009; 10.45am
Dept of Physics, Bristol: Bruce giving a lecture for Old Boys Network!
Sci Foo Google Plex Palo Alto, California
Friday 10th-Sunday 12th July 2009
I will be one of 200 invite only scientists who get to hang out together. This should be interesting and worth the blog alone.
Dartington Literature Festival
Friday 17th July, 2009: 5pm Dartington Hall
British Science Festival
Tuesday 8th Sept, 2009: 5pm
University of Guildford, Surrey UK
Halloween Public Lecture; St. John the Baptist Church, Bristol
Halloween used to be a religious festival. Today its purpose is lost. Are all supernatural beliefs destined to be eventually abandoned? This will be an atmospheric evening of wonderment and illusion to trick the senses and the mind.
30st. October 2009, 18.00-19.00 Price: £6.50/ £4.50
*PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, due to the nature of this historical venue, toilets and wheelchair access will not be available at this event. £1.00 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Churches Conservation Trust.
Yup that's right - Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Explore @ Bristol Nov 3rd 12.30-1.30pm
FULLY BOOKED
I’ll be introducing and chairing Britain most dangerous man? (his avatar description not mine!)
John Micklethwait God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World
3 November 2009, 18.00-19.00
Arnolfini, Bristol
Price: £6.50 / £4.50. Contact Arnolfini, Bristol on: 0117 917 2300 or visit in person.
Again I will be introducing and chairing this event – what a day!
Rugby School, Warwickshire
Tues 10th. November 2009
Goldsmith’s Dept of Psychology, London
Tues 8th Dec. 2009
Thomas Hardye School, Dorset OFSTED: “An exceptional school… one of the best in the country.” The oak screen in the school’s lecture theatre where I’ll be speaking came from a ship of the Spanish Amada wrecked by Drake in 1588. Is that not the coolest thing ever?
Community Public Lecture, Mon 14th. Dec 2009
