Though not a huge meeting by today’s standards,
the 16th European Skeptics Congress, co- organised by ASKE and APRU
(the Anomalistic Research Unit at Goldsmiths College) was a highly successful
meeting and feedback has been uniformly enthusiastic. The congress website is still operating (http://euroscepticscon.org/) and post-congress information will appear in due course. Some audio
recordings of talks will be online soon and Klaus Schmeh has a video of his
talk on parascientific codes on YouTube at https://youtu.be/jS56Pe_nfsE. Photographs of the congress may
be viewed at https://flic.kr/p/yq4rw4
and a short video prepared by Mark Williams can be watched at https://youtu.be/_o1Rx-2QkEw. A video recording of the debate
on skepticism and medicine is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4erJFq1Ds0
and https://youtu.be/xyiuzE5fueo.
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Monday, 3 August 2015
Latest on the 16th European Skeptics Congress
The three additional events at the European Skeptics
Congress 2015 in September at Goldsmiths College have now been finalised:
·
Pre-congress event: ‘Codes, Coincidence and
Chocolate Fountains: How Numbers Shape our Lives’. This is a fun Maths event
with Simon Singh, Chris French, Helen Wilson and Rob Eastaway in the main
congress lecture theatre, Thursday
September 10th 2.30-5.00 p.m.
Ticket £5.
·
Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub meeting: The
Growth of Skepticism: the UK experience with Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Mike
Heap, Mike Hutchinson, Deborah Hyde, Michael Marshall, Ian Ridpath and Richard
Wiseman. Each will give a brief talk about the growth of skepticism in the UK.
European colleagues are very welcome to share their experiences in their own
countries. This meeting is in Goldsmith College's Students Union on Thursday September 10th and the first
speaker is scheduled from 7.30 p.m. onwards. Being a Skeptics in the Pub event,
the atmosphere will be informal and there will of course be a bar!
Ticket £5
·
Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub meeting: 'The
Science of Magic' by magician and psychologist Gustav Khun . This takes place
in the Students Union on Friday September 11th starting at 19.30 hours.
Ticket £5
More details and the programme for the pre-congress Thursday
event are available at http://euroscepticscon.org/node/56
(‘Other Events’).
Friday, 5 June 2015
Another reminder about the 16th European Skeptics Congress 2015: Promoting Science, reason and critical thinking
Promoting
science, reason and critical thinking
THE 16th
EUROPEAN SKEPTICS CONGRESS
September 11th
to 13th 2015
Goldsmiths
College, London
Speakers include Jim Al Khalili, Richard
Wiseman, Edzard Ernst, Mark Lynas, Catherine de Jong, Chris French, Martin
Mahner, Antonin Pavlicek, Stephen Law, Klaus Schmeh and many more. Saturday is
devoted to research at the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit of Goldsmiths
College and the Koestler Parapsychology Unit of Edinburgh University, and
testing claims of paranormal ability in Germany and the Czech Republic.
Details of affordable accommodation for delegates are provided on the congress
website.
Friday, 6 March 2015
The 16th European Skeptics Congress, September 11-13, 2015
The 16th European
Skeptics Congress
September 11-13, 2015
At the time of writing, the programme for the above
conference at Goldsmiths College is all but complete and the registration page
is open (congress fee £135 including refreshment and lunches). The programme
consists of the following:
· Keynote lecture by Jim Al-Khalili
· A whole day (Saturday) on investigating unusual
experiences and claims. Several of Chris
French’s postgrad students from APRU will be presenting the results of their
research and Martin Mahner from Germany and Antonin Pavlicek from the Czech
Republic will be talking about their experiences testing people who claim to
have paranormal abilities. Carolyn Watt
will talk about research into paranormal abilities that has been conducted at
Edinburgh’s Koestler Parapsychology Unit (http://www.koestler-parapsychology.psy.ed.ac.uk/index.html) which
this year is marking its 30th anniversary.
· Mark Lynas on science and environmental issues
·
Edzard Ernst on integrative medicine, followed by a
debate on medicine and skepticism; participants will include a representative
from HealthWatch
· A panel and audience debate on skepticism and
religion with Stephen Law (tbc),
Andrew Copson, Rabbi Pete Tobias and Prof. Adam Dinham
· An Ask for Evidence session by Sense about Science
· Richard Wiseman on ‘Spreading Skepticism by
YouTube’
·
resentations by Deborah Hyde, Mark Newbrook and
Klaus Schmeh
· A special Skeptics in the Pub event on Friday evening
with psychologist and magician Gustav Khun
Visit the congress website for further details and
registration at:
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