The BRLSI Proceedings
Volume 11

A record of the BRLSI's programme of lectures and meetings from September 2006 to August 2007 - and a treasure-chest of knowledge on subjects ranging from Antiquity and the Visual Arts to Philosophy and Particle Physics.

Edited by Marie-Louise Luxemburg

Paperback, 304 pages with mono photographs and illustrations
ISSN 1465-8496
 

The BRLSI runs a continuous programme of public lectures and discussion group meetings on a wide variety of subjects. The speakers are experts in their fields, often from universities in Britain and around the world. The BRLSI Proceedings is our annual record of this programme, providing details of all our events over a 12-month period - more than 120 of them in Volume 11. The large majority of entries include either a report of the event or the speaker's own abstract, making the Proceedings a treasure-chest of articles on topics as diverse as Russia & The West in Dostoevsky’s Fiction, Combating Religious Intolerance, The Story of Cosmic Rays and The Printmaking Methods of William Blake.

The BRLSI Proceedings Vol 11 is exceptional value at just £5 for BRLSI members and £10 for non-members (plus P&P in both cases). Click here for an order form, or come to the BRLSI office (see top of page) Monday - Saturday 10am-4pm, and save on postage.

A Tribute to Victor Suchar

Volume 11 contains a special tribute to Victor Suchar (pictured right), one of the founders of the modern BRLSI and a driving force in the Institution until his death in early 2007. Antiquity convenor and Former Trustee Heatherlee Hooker writes about Victor's enormous contribution to the BRLSI, Professor Ted Honderich recalls Victor's special interest in philosophy (the group he ran at the BRLSI), and BRLSI Science Convenor David Cunliffe-Jones decribes his friend's philosophical interests in the sciences, and his contributions to the BRLSI's presentation of them.

Finally there's For Victor, a Reminicience, a poem written by BRLSI Botany and Belief Convenor Martin Sturge. Here's a stanza which sums up the way that Victor Suchar is remembered at the BRLSI:

A giant mind – a memory chasms deep,
With scholarship conversant past his years;
In philosophic matters he could leap;
In most things, leave behind his peers.

Dip in and find something new!

The Proceedings is the ideal book to 'dip into' - you'll always find something you didn't know before, and perhaps spark a whole new interest. As an example of the variety you'll find, here are four pages from volume 11:

The left-hand page above is the end of a transcript of Alice in Numberland, the BRLSI's 2006 Christmas lecture on Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and his love of mathematics by Dr Robin Wilson, Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. In the right-hand column is the beginning of a report of a Literature and Humanities lecture, China Witness, by Author & Journalist Xinran. On the next page (below)

there's the end of the China Witness report, followed by an illustrated report of a lecture on the original BRLSI building in Terrace Walk, Bath, which was demolished in 1932 to make way for a traffic scheme. Following that (bottom right) is the start of an item on maritime safety campaigner Samuel Plimsoll - which is followed by Professor Azim Nanji on Combating Religious Intolerance: A perspective from Muslim contexts. Like the BRLSI itself, the Proceedings is full of new things to discover and enjoy!

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