What's on at the BRLSI,
August - September 2010

All meetings are held at:
16 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN Tel: 01225 312084

Visitors Welcome
Evening meetings start at 7.30 pm unless otherwise stated
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August 2010

September 2010

THUR	2	Speaking of Research 1pm	School Boys, Sexuality & Friendship	Mark McCormack - University of Bath
FRI	3	Astronomy	How Apollo Flew To The Moon *Please note change of date*	Terry Flower - Aeronautical engineer
MON	6	Patrick O'Brian	Discussing The 13 Gun Salute	Ruth Mannion Daniels
WED	8	Universe Poetry 1pm	The English Poets’ Fascination with Persian Poetry	Parvin Loloi
FRI	10	Roman In Bath	I Know My Rights... But What Laws Were There in Roman Britain?	Professor Derek Roebuck - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
SUN	12	Passions in Botany 10.45 for 11am	A Herbal Walk in Bath - Late Summer Please wear walking shoes and bring a drink	Anna Gann Christensen & Ruth Mannion Daniels
TUE	14	Charles Mackintosh Society	Mackintosh in France Entry £7 with refreshments or £6 for CRMS members	Robert Crichton - Author and Founder of 'L’association Charles Rennie Mackintosh en Roussillon
WED	15	Bath Poetry Cafe	Too Late For The Love Hotel	Readings by Sue Boyle and Friends
THUR	16	Philosophy	Why I Am Not A Christian	Dr Donald Cameron - BRLSI convenor
FRI	17	Science Reception 6.45	Favourite Small Molecules - Some Surprising Comparisons	David Cunliffe-Jones - BRLSI member
SAT	18	The Analytic Network 10.30am	Peter Pan & The Myth of Eternal Youth. Entry £8	Anna Yoeman - Jungian Analyst
MON	20	World Affairs	The Three Tensions of Latin America	Dr Gian Luca Gardini - Lecturer in Interna-tional Relations and Latin American Politics, University of Bath
TUES	21	Literature & Humanities	Harold Pinter - Beyond Pause and Silence	Dr Linda Renton - Part-time Lecturer on Film, Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University
WED	22	Poetry	Robert Lowell - Poet	Dr Katharine Peddie
FRI	24	Bath Film Society	Julie & Julia. 7.30pm start	Directed by Nora Ephron
SAT	25	Facing Africa 7pm	An Auction of Illustrations, Photographs & Paintings in aid of the medical charity, Facing Africa	More information at www.facingafricaauction.com
TUES	28	French Civilisation	Beckett In France	Professor Mary Brighton - University of Reading
THUR	30	Economics	Changes In Banking	Lesley McLeod - Director of Communica-tions, The British Bankers Association

October 2010

FRI	1	Romans In Bath	The Battle of Mount Badon - Arthur's Greatest Battle	Michale Davis - BRLSI member
WED	6	Romans In Bath	Living With Latin - The Feel of Roman Culture	Dr Nicholas Ostler - Philologer
MON	11	Romans In Bath	The Perception of Self - Freedom and Slavery in Roman Bath	Stephen Clews - B&NES Heritage Services
WED	13	Uni-verse 1pm	The Excitement of Rhyme & Metre	Timothy Adès - Poet & Translator
WED	13	Romans In Bath	Vergil: The Aeneid - Clues to the Early Roman Mindset	Tony Pitman - Teacher of Classics
FRI	15	Romans In Bath	'Colony So Fertile' - John Wood and the Recovery of The Roman Empire	Professor Richard Hingley - University of Durham
SAT	16	Modernism Weekend 10.30am -11.45	Painting in France, Spain & Italy in the early modern period	Dr Bernard Vere - Lecturer in Modern Art, Sotherby's Institute of Art
SAT	16	Modernism Weekend 12 - 1pm	Kafka's world & the modern world	Professor Ronald Speirs - Dept. of German Studies, University of Birmingham
SAT	16	Modernism Weekend 2.15 - 3.30pm	The great London vortex: Wyndham Lewis & his contemporaries	Professor Paul Edwards - School of English & Creative Studies, Bath Spa University
SAT	16	Modernism Weekend 3.45 - 5pm	Modernism in music: some landmarks	Professor Jonathan Cross - Christ Church, Univeristy of Oxford
SUN	17	Modernism Weekend 10.15 - 11.30am	A new --- by Virginia Woolf: Woolf's search for form	Dr Beth Wright - School of English & Creative Studies, Bath Spa University
SUN	17	Modernism Weekend 11.45 - 1pm	Rough cuts: the 'wood culture' of German Expressionism	Dr Christian Weikop - Luftbruckendank Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin
SUN	17	Modernism Weekend 2.15 - 3.30pm	The manifestos & documents of Modernism	Dr Alex Goody - Dept. of English, Oxford Brookes University