What's on at the BRLSI

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
bold=Lectures/Special Events
Italics=Visiting organisations


March 2010

March 3rd - 25th
Metamorphosis
- an exhibition by Bath artists group For Now

Exhibition open10am - 4pm Monday - Saturday, entrance free
more details at www.for-now.co.cc
Mon 1 Patrick O’Brian Enthusiasts The Ionian Mission & Introduction on the decline of the Ottoman Empire Introduction by Margaret Morgan Jones
Mon 1 ROMANS IN BATH NEW SERIES
Note - 7pm

Roman Technology: past & future
(Opening of the BRLSI's Romans in Bath series, with an introduction by Cllr Bryan Chalker, Chair of Bath and North-East Somerset Council)
Prof Julian Vincent
Chair, BRLSI Trustees
Tue 2 Philosophy & Adelard of Bath Adelard & the Philosophers Tom Macfarlane
Tue 2 Bath Natural History Society Members short talks : The Cycle of Life BNHS members
Thu 4 Lunchtime Talk (1pm) Tristram Charles Speedy Dorothy Anderson Local Historian
Thu 4 Speaking of Research The Economics of Happiness: A Thai perspective of wellbeing Thanawit Bunsit University of Bath
Sat 6 BATH LITERARY FESTIVAL
6-7 pm
The Roman Empire: Philip Parker (The Empire Stops Here) & Frank McLynn (Marcus Aurelius) Tickets: box office 01225 463362 In conversation with Charlotte Higgins
Sat 6 William Herschel Society 7.30pm Annual Lecture: Deciphering the Universe Tickets £5 Professor Andrew Liddle University of Sussex
Mon 8 Passions in Botany Fleeting Magic: Beauty in danger in the Avon Valley Keith Taylor Photographer
Tue 9 Transport & Built Environment BaleHaus: the zero carbon housing solution Finlay White Modcell
Wed 10 Uni-Verse
(1 pm)
Arabic Literature Peter Clark
Thu 11 Bath & Camerton Archaeological The 300 year dig: the Roman baths at Bath Stephen Clews, Roman Baths
Fri 12 Bath Film Society Twelve Angry Men Dir: Sidney Lumet (1957)
Sat 13 National Science and Engineering Week
3pm - entry free
Art and Illusion - why seeing isn't always believing Alexander Sturgis
Director, Holburne Museum
Mon 15 World Affairs World Food Futures: the next forty years Declan Walton, Former Deputy Director General, Food & Agriculture Org, UN
Wed 17 Poetry Café (7 pm) Double bill: St Patrick’s Day & Celebrating Love Sue Boyle & Martin Malone
Thu 18 Literature and Humanities Primo Levi - Scientist and Writer Dr Charlotte Ross
University of Birmingham
Fri 19 Science Energy efficient solid state lighting - coming soon?
(Rescheduled from Fri 19th Feb)
(Note - Some Favourite Molecules: Some surprising comparisons by David Cunliffe-Jones has been postponed to Fri 17th September 2010)
Dr Duncan Allsopp University of Bath
Mon 22 Bath Family History Society The Blathwayt family & suffragettes June Hannam
Mon 22 ROMANS IN BATH NEW SERIESBritain’s First Information Revolution Professor Ian Haynes University of Newcastle
Wed 24 Poetry Selected Poems by Derek Mahon Readings led by David Skidmore
Tue 30 French Civilisation & Culture Secrets of the French Truffle Nigel Hadden-Paton, Truffle UK Ltd