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Volume 3 1999

Summaries by listing:

All took place at the, BRLSI building, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath. unless otherwise stated.



*CONFERENCES*

Debate: That the UK should adopt the euro in place of the pound sterling
International Conflict and Order in the 21st Century
The Future of Compulsory Education in the UK


*PUBLIC MEETINGS*

Searching for the Source of Bath's Hot Springs
Assessing the Likely Impact of Bus Gates in Bath

 

*LECTURES*

Bath and the New Dictionary of National Biography
The Iconography & Symbolism of Chartres Cathedral

*20th Century Technology Series

The Technology of the Combustion Engine and its Environmental Impact
The Jet Engine
Telephony _ its Evolution and Prospects: from Telegraphs to Videophones
Engineering a `Green' Building
Computer Programming

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New Directions in Travel Writing
Adelard of Bath, the first English Scientist


*Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Week

The Solar System: Order and Chaos
New Vision in School Science
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Rediscovering Mrs Gaskell
British Architecture in the 20th Century
New Ways of Governing for Growth
GOETHE ANNIVERSARY LECTURE Goethe and His English Readers
THE PICKFORD LECTURE The Ground Beneath our Feet or A Nibble at the Crust of the Earth
Responsibility and Citizenship
Men of Letters: Charles Darwin's Correspondence with Victorian Naturalists
Does Technology Evolve?
New Water for Old
Kelvin by Degrees: Understanding the Life and Work of William Thomson
*CHRISTMAS LECTURE Images of Science for the New Millennium

 

*LUNCH-TIME LECTURE SERIES*

Portrait Miniatures
Mrs Gaskell: "Wives and Daughters"
Gardens: Problem or Dream?
rPrint Collecting


*DISCUSSION GROUPS*

*DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
convenor: John Coates

Combining Function and Aesthetic Design
Landscape & Place: An Aspect of Photography
The Combe Hay Caisson Lock

*ECONOMICS
convener: Rodney Tye

Charity Fund-raising as Big Business: Misgivings?
The Economic Programme of the Natural Law Party
Funding of the Arts in Bath
The John Lewis Partnership: Lessons to be Learnt?
Town Centre Management
Economic Aspects of Planning Decisions
The South-West of England Regional Development Agency

*FRENCH CIVILISATION
convener: Anne Whitmarsh

Down and Out in Africa? France and Africa in the 1990s
Élitism and the French Civil Service
Mad, Bad and Sad - Prisons in England and France
Filling the Gap (no report available)
Measure for Measure: Order and Metrication
The Cote d'Azur: Facts & People

The Bulldog & the Marshall
The French & British Media
Le Franglais: The Invasion of French by English
Wine tasting of Rhone Wines

*LITERATURE & HUMANITIES
convener: Victor Suchar

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Versions of Freedom: Nicholas Berdyaev and John Cowper
The Passionate Traveller: Freya Stark's Search for Alexander's Path in Southern Turkey
Rediscovering Cecil Roberts
The Art of Biography
Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master & Margarita"
Line Unleashed: André Masson & his Universe
Translating Proust (no report available)
On Winding Paths: Justus Moser's View of English Literature
Quantum Sculpture: a New Form of Art

*NEW MEDIA & ART
convener: Paul Birkeland-Green

Manipulating Paintings and Images using Computer Software
Visual Art in the 21st Century
Photography without Cameras
Video Manipulation Using Adobe Premiere
Process Painting with Pigments and Phosphorescence

*PHILOSOPHY
convenor: Victor Suchar

The Failure of Positivism and some Lessons for Science and the Humanities
Macmurray and the BBC Talks
Dewey and the Democratic Ideal
Reasoning in Transitions: Charles Taylor and the Good Samaritan
Gilles Deluze: What is Politics?
Translation as Interpretation in Heidegger
Rudolf Carnap & the Semantic Tradition
Georges Canguilhem: the Normal & the Pathological
Law & Philosophy Today
Wittgenstein

*SCIENCE
convener: Bernard Kelly

Living on Dynamic Surfaces
Breakfast and Brains
Radar and its Development in Europe (1930 - 1944)
Radar Antennae
Renewable Energy
User-Friendly Explosives
Chaos Theory

*TRANSPORT
convener: Don Lovell

"We Want our Village Street Back!" - A Proposal for Widcombe
A Rapid Transit Proposal for Bath
Engines for Tomorrow's Road Transport
Car Sharing: Methods and Effects
Decriminalised Parking
Park & Ride: Three Opinions H. Sherwin, R. MacPherson & J. Kenyon
Residents' Parking
Transport, Highway & Airport Inquiries - are we being taken for a Ride?
Traffic Signs for the New City Centre

*WORLD AFFAIRS
convener: Geoffrey Catchpole

Quality of Life and Health
The Accountability Problem in the European Union
The Role of Non-Governmental Development Organisations
The Revival of Right-wing Extremism in Europe
Human Dignity
Pursuing Poverty Elimination in South Asia
Global Resurgence of Religion & International Relations
The 21st Century World

 

 

 

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