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PROCEEDINGS for 2001

*PUBLIC MEETINGS*

DEBATE:Pound or Euro?
Bath Thermal Resource Project
Bath in the 21st Century
Bath: A Place to Live, Work and Play
Bath: A Cultural City
Bath: How to Change the City
DEBATE That Bath Needs a Parish Council

*MEMBERS MEETING*

Members' Meeting

*DEMONSTRATIONS*

The Liquid Nitrogen Show
The Static Electricity Show
Mathematical Magic

*VISIT*

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

*REPORT*

Cataloguing the Institution's
Photographic Collection

*LECTURES*

"Balloons, Biscuits, Botany & Bridges"
Enlightenment in Britain
Research on the Internet for Authors
Reflections on Higher Education in the US and the UK
A Federal Britain? Devolved Government Surveyed
How It Really Was Life in the Past
Germany Today
JOHN WOOD LECTURE-
A Critical Look at the Design of Millennium Buildings
The Magic of Water Gardens
A Century of Submarine Design
From Conception to Resurrection-The Science and Art of the Human Body
Lord Byron and Albania
Weeds and Aliens
THE 2001 CHRISTMAS LECTURE- The Beginning and the End of the Universe

DISCUSSION GROUPS

*ASTRONOMY (Herschel)*
William Herschel and The Bath Philosophical Society
A Short History of SETI The Search for Extra-
Terrestrial Intelligence
The History of Easter: A Song to the Moon
The Content of the Universe: Cosmology in 2001
Aurorae
"It's Life, Jim, but not as we know it" Alien Life in Fact and Fiction
Visit to Norman Lockyer Observatory
Talk on Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer KCB FRS
Being There Occultations & Eclipses
Measuring the Universe
The Cosmos in Your Hand
A History of theAstronomical Teaching Model
Which Telescope? A Guide to What to Buy for Christmas

*ECONOMICS*
Family Funds & Public Support
The Budget A Stock Market View
The Future of the Royal Mail
Short Debates
Economics of Race Courses & Horse Racing

*FRENCH CIVILISATION*
Something in the Air? Atmospheric Pollution and- Environmental Policy in France
French Tapestry
L'Etranger Reconsidered: A Negative Reading of Meursault
Chantons le Muguet: French Music
Bandits and Maquis in the Avant Monts
Political Scandals in France in the 1990s
Christmas Party: La Pastorale de Maurel

*LITERATURE & HUMANITIES*
A Second Reading of H. H. Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom
Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
Herodotus & Thucydides
Sylvia Plath
Bath's Links with Walter Savage Landor
My Favourite Poem and Why
Philosophy of the Actual
Is Science Fiction Anti-Science?

*PHILOSOPHY*
Sankara & non-Dualism in Indian Philosophy
John MacMurray and the Concept of Freedom
Georgio Agamben & Sovereignty
Religion, Route & Branch
Postmodernism
Henri Lefebvre and Statism
The Moral Philosophy of Adam Smith
A.N. Whithead's Process and Reality
The Pre-Socratics
Anatta Doctrine and Western Philosophy
B.F. Skinner and Behaviourism Today

*SCIENCE*
Sending DNA Messages to Future Civilisations
Science & Society
One Teacher's Perspective on US / UK Science Education
An Environmentally-Friendly Building
The Aurora from the Sun to Earth and Beyond
Silicon Chips
The Primacy of Chinese Inventions
Development of Light Sources
The Eden Project
Is There Life in Lake Vostok?

*TRANSPORT*
A 2020 Vision of Transport: Society & Lifestyles
Congestion Charging: An Idea Ahead of Its Time?
London- South West Traffic Study: SWARMMS
Planning Decision Appeals
Traffic Management: A World-wide Problem
Delivering Croydon Tramlink
The Clean, Green Motor Car
The Bath Western Riverside Development
Transport is a Global Concern
A Transport Strategy for Salisbury
The Role of Regional Airports

*WORLD AFFAIRS*
Globalisation Constraining Government?
Globalisation &the Welfare State
Globalisation & an Information Society
Globalisation & East Asia
Globalisation & Education
Globalisation & Culture
Globalisation & the Environment
The Globalisation Series: Some Reflections
The Royal Society of Arts & the Environment:- Past & Present
Supporting the Local Economy
Co-operative Futures