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PROCEEDINGS for 2005
vol.9
(Sept 2004-August 2005)
A written summary
of the Lectures and Discussion Groups that have taken place at BRLSI
© All
material is subject to copyright
*PUBLIC MEETINGS*
Charity Events for Victims of the Indian Ocean Tsumani
Sixth Form Seminar: Globalisation
Bath Taps into Science Exhibition at Green Park
The South West Regional Assembly: recent work
Two Debates: 1.The Role of the Mayor 2.The Queen Square Lawn
*LECTURES*
Benjamin Franklin
in London 1757-1775
THE PRIMACY
& VERSATILITY OF DRAWING
Creativity
of Vision
Radicalism: A Futile
Gesture or a Force for Good?
The Myth of
Progress in Science & Society
*Christmas Lecture
The Freedom of Information Act
Nelson at Home in Bath
Goethe: Sage of Weimar or Devil’s Advocate?
Platonists & Stoics on the Self
How to be an Intellectual
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon at Ninevah
Broadcasting Matters: the future of the BBC
MRSA Epidemiology & Evolution
The Archaeology of Ancient Egyptian Poetry:
reading The Tale of Sinuhe
Novgorod: Archaeology of a Russian Medieval
City
The Future of Mining Europe
No report available
*BELIEF series LECTURES*
The Peoples of the Book - Ahl al-Kitab
The Battle for Belief
The Trouble with Ourselves. Was there an Original Sin?
I believe.Therefore I am: Values, citizenship &
personal identity
Identity, Society & Multiculturalism
Why God won't go away
Do Buddists believe in anything?
God AliveThe Progress of Christianity since
1700
Sikhism: soldier saints
New Spirit from Old Wisdom
Image & Identity
A RECENT PUBLICATION:
Leonard Jenyns: Darwin's Lifelong Friend.
*LUNCHTIME TALKS*
Chinese
Invention and Innovation
Roman Re:Evolution No report available
Victoria Gallery into 2005
Stuart Bath: Life
in the Forgotten City
Combe Down - more
than Stone Mines
Medieval Bath Uncovered No report available
OBSESSION: JOHN WOOD & THE CREATION
OF GEORGIAN BATH
Lost Stream of Bath
The Boast of Heraldry,The Pomp of Power
Preserving Bath
How to Start Your
Family Tree
DISCUSSION GROUPS
*ASTRONOMY (Herschel)*
Some 18th Century Bath Scientists
SMART – 1: Ion Propulsion
& a Mission to the Moon
The New Cosmology: History from the Ancient
Greeks to 1970
The Star of Bethlehem
The Third Astronomical Miscellany
Titan: an earth in deep freeze
Einstein’s Three Revolutionary Papers of
1905
The use of Robotic Telescopes for Education
*ECONOMICS*
Bureaucracy
*LITERATURE & HUMANITIES*
Politics before
Feminism
‘The Secret of the Sphinx’: What makes Wuthering
Heights unique in English Literature?
Leo Tolstoy: Sinner, Novelist, Prophet
The Book that Influenced Me: short presentations
by 5 BRLSI Members
Willa Cather & My Antonia
His Dark Materials by
Philip Pullman
Penguin Books: the Allan Lane Years
Mayakovsky in America
Thomas Mann (1875-1955): moralist & critic
BRLSI Publication William Smith LL.D: by his nephew & pupil John Phillips FRS, FGS
*MUSIC*
Youth power & peace in the music of the spheres
The cultural context of the Fleury Playbook: liturgy & drama in a corner of 12th century France
Chopin, Schumann, Liszt & the Piano
Widor, Vivaldi & Vets
Fear of the Flying Dutchman: Wagner, an Introduction
*POSTGRADUATE SERIES*
Development of a Novel Hydro-Pnematic Suspension
Biomimetics: Learning from Nature
Antimatter:information from annihalation No report available
Visualising the Unseen: the role of analogy in physics
*PHILOSOPHY*
Re-Assessing Kuhn’s The Structure
of Scientific Revolutions
Personal
Identity as a Philosophical Problem
Proust & Nature of Memory
What is Religion?
Bernard Bosanquet’s
Philosophical Theory of the State
The importance of Paul Ricoeur: an introduction
Aristotle: an introduction
Nietzsche 1844-1900:
Right Questions, Wrong Answers
Thomas More: a man for all seasons?
Philosophy & Territory
*POETRY*
Wendy Cope: The River Girl: A rehearsed
reading
The Art of Losing: Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
What is Performance Poetry?
New Poetry – a discussion of The Brink
by Jacob Polley
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
A Writing Life
Ivor Gurney (1890–1937): Soldier, of a Sort,
Poet & Composer
Poems of Faith and Doubt
A Copernicus in Poesie:
*SCIENCE*
Multiple Sclerosis: Stem Cells
to Repair the Brain?
Microbial
Life Under Glaciers
Dolphin Sonar
An Introduction to the
Met Office
What is it Like to be a Bat?
Practicalities of Multilingualism
Wing-in-Ground Effect Aircraft - Principles
& Progress
Can Our Food be Completely Safe?
17th Century Blood Transfusions
- success or failure?
*TRANSPORT*
Sustainable
Communities or Government Panic?
The Maintenance of Heritage Buildings
Transport
Infrastructure
The Aesthetics
of Bridge Design
Relationship between Spatial Planning & Traffic
Sustainable Urban Environments No report available
Threats & Opportunities to Local Bus Services No report available
Accessibility Planning & Social Exclusion No report available
History of the Great Western Railway No report available
*WORLD AFFAIRS*
War
in Uganda
Hong
Kong: Riding the Dragon
Regional Government & Environmental Policy
Vunerability of Coastal Communities to Environmental Disaster
Climate Change
& International Development
Massacre: Truth & Reality
Cross-Border Relations at the Edge
of the European Union
Community Responses to Environmental Issues
Living with the Megapower
*WORLD
OF ANTIQUITY*
Caesar Augustus & the Roman Empire No report available
Sumer: origins, civilisations & myths
Alexander the Great’s Successors: in defence
of the Hellenistic period
Feeding Ancient Rome
Old Age in Ancient Rome
'Homeric' Art in Ancient Greece: the case of Polyphemos
*CONTEMPORARY ART TALKS*
A series of six talks given by distinguished contemporary artists.
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