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PROCEEDINGS for 2002

*PUBLIC MEETINGS*

PUBLIC FORUM: Western Riverside Project
NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK: BathTaps into Science
VISIT: The Eden Project & Lost Garden of Heligan
Poetry Competition: A Dream for Bath Prize-giving
JUBILEE SOIRE
VISIT: Astronomical Societies Meeting
Demonstration of Gold Tooling
Visit to Station X Bletchley Park
HERITAGE OPENWEEK:Visual Display and Quiz

*MEMBERS MEETING*

Members' Meeting

*LECTURES*

The Art of Bookbinding
The British: Reluctant Europeans
The Life & Times of Leonard Jenyns
Icons of Modern Architecture
The Grand Complication
Salamander: Reading, Writing and God?
Working in The Gambia
The Enlargement of the European Union
Energising Change creating what you want
The Mayor of Baths Corps of Guides
Planning: A New Revolution?
The Media at War
Passengers Diaries on SS Great Britain *
High Economy Vehicles
The Private Sector Society
Breaking of the Lorenz Cypher
Avon Valley Railway A Success Story *
JOHN WOOD LECTURE:The Roman Building Machine
The German Elections
The Science and Art of Ballooning
Indiana Jones & The Dipole of Doom:Geophysical-Prospecting for Archaeology *
The Tingle Factor The Psychology of Music
Customised Equipment for the Disabled
**2002 CHRISTMAS LECTURE-The Myth of Universalism in Science and Politics

DISCUSSION GROUPS

*ASTRONOMY (Herschel)*

Astronomy & the Ice Ages
Through the Net to the Cosmos
Asteroid & Comet: Friend or Foe?
Astronomy & Astrology: Friends or Foes?
Interplanetary Robots
Did We Land on the Moon?
By Sail to the Stars
HAND TheThrowaway Satellite
Antique Astronomical Books

*ECONOMICS*

Personality Testing & Graphology
The Compensation Culture
The General Agreement on Trade & Services
Sponsorship
Education & Skills: What Skills are needed for Business?
City Prosperity & Baths Heritage Role

Short debates:

1) Confused by Choice?

2) Getting Voters to Vote

3) What Role for Independent Councillors?

4) Keeping Links with Baths Twin Towns

The Queens Peace
World Poverty and the European Union

*LITERATURE & HUMANITIES*

Orwell & Communism
Patrick Whites Riders in the Chariot
Edith Whartons The Age of Innocence
Romanticism in England and America
Robert Musils Man without Qualities
Paul Valerys An Evening with Monsieur Teste
Ian Mc Ewans Novels
Dancing the Impossible
A Witchcraft Judge Says Sorry

*PHILOSOPHY*

Bernard Bosanquets Morphology of Knowledge Tony Waterhouse
Myth The Final Phase of Platonic Education
The Productive Failure of Foucaults History of Sexuality
Herbert Marcuses One Dimensional Man
The Natural Basis of Morality
Environmental Aesthetics
Think? A Critical Look at Popular Philosophy
Wilhelm Dilthey and the of Human Sciences
Physics and Metaphysics
Complexity & Emergence

*SCIENCE*

Alzheimers Disease: Many Lights Long Tunnel?
Recovering Sound from Old Recordings
Providing Protection in a Hazardous Environment
Tsunamis, Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Does BSE cause v-CJD?
From Gout to Aids
Mathematical Olympiad
Energy, Science & Sustainability
Molecular Alchemy: Turning Pancreas into Liver
Drugs, Sex & Molecular Biology

*TRANSPORT*

The Somerset Coal Canal
Trams vs. Buses: Making the Right Decision
Home Zones: Reconciling People, Places and Transport
Congestion Charging
Car Clubs: The Right Way to Go
A Bath By-Pass: What is the Alternative?
Kennett & Avon Canal: Origin, Decline & Restoration
Traffic Management and Urban Design
J. I. McAdam & the Bath Turnpike Trust
Transport Vision for Bath Area for 2020
Accessibility in Town Centres For Whom?

*WORLD AFFAIRS*

Women & the Future in Afghanistan
The New Imperialism?
Earthquake Relief in India
Afghanistan at the Crossroads
Coffee Talk An Occasional Series on Current topics