At A Glance...
Sunday Lecture: The Rise of the Laptop Lizards
Sun 2 Jun 2013, 11.00
The Rise of the Laptop Lizards – Fighting Unethical Advertising
Stories of ‘Miracle Cures’ made from household bleach, and other health claims occur because of marketing claims made - often without evidence - for products on the Internet. It's been a short time since the Advertising Standards Authority started to regulate such claims.
In that time, the Nightingale Collaboration has given the Advertising Standards Authority possibly their most serious challenge yet: curbing the misleading claims made on Complimentary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) websites. Many practitioners have realised their responsibilities and taken down long lists of 'what homeopathy can help with...', etc.
But much more needs to be done and we can't rely on the Advertising Standards Authority to do everything, so they have been using other regulators as well, particularly the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Find out more about who the Nightingale Collaboration is, what we've been up to and what our future plans are.
Alan Henness is the Director of the Nightingale Collaboration. The Nightingale Collaboration challenges questionable claims made by healthcare practitioners on their websites, in adverts and in their promotional and sales materials by bringing these to the attention of the appropriate regulatory bodies. They also strive to ensure that organisations representing healthcare practitioners have robust codes of conduct for their members that protect the public and that these are enforced.
You can follow Alan on Twitter as @zeno001 and the Nightingale Collaboration as @NightingaleC.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members
Bottomless Tea & Coffee will be available.
What is cancer and how can we control it?
Wed 5 Jun 2013, 18.30
New Scientist presents
What is cancer and how can we control it?
Cancer research is a vast worldwide enterprise, yet there has been little improvement in patient outcomes over several decades. Clearly some bold new thinking is needed. Amid the frantic search for an elusive "cure," some basic questions are overlooked. Why is there cancer? What are its deep evolutionary roots? Why do almost all cells come pre-loaded with a cancer subroutine? Paul will describe a new and testable theory of cancer as the re-activation of an ancient phenotype, suggesting a radically new approach to therapy.
Paul Davies is Director of the Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University. He is best known as a physicist and cosmologist and as a pioneer in the field of astrobiology. A few years ago he was asked by the US National Cancer Institute to provide fresh insights into cancer from a physicist’s perspective. This led to him being appointed as Principal Investigator at the Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology at ASU.
Paul is also author of numerous best-selling science books, including The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin of Life, How to Build a Time Machine and The Eerie Silence: Renewing our Search for Alien Intelligence.
Doors open at 6pm. Talk starts at 6:30pm.
Tickets £5 (inc. booking fee) in advance through Eventbrite, and if available £7 on the door. Tickets sold on a first come first served basis and are subject to availability.
New Scientist is the world's leading science and technology weekly magazine, covering the big ideas and developments from all areas of science and technology. Offering the latest news, ideas and opinions, New Scientist is an authoritative voice on all matters related to science, technology and the ideas improving our knowledge of the universe and those shaping our world and lives.
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Can science solve every mystery?
8 Jun 2013
Centre for Inquiry UK and Conway Hall present
Can science answer every question? Should scientists show a little humility and acknowledge there are questions that only religion can answer? Are science and religion “non-overlapping magisteria”, as the scientist Stephen Jay Gould claimed, or is science capable of showing that religion is false, as Richard Dawkins believes? And what, exactly, do philosophers do?
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Exploring Humanism
11 June - 3 July 2013
Another chance to take this course:
11 Jun - 3 Jul 2013.
Graphic illustration kindly provided by Lawrence Mathias.
A 6 week basic introduction to what Humanism is and what Humanists believe and do.
The course covers the following topics:
- Week 1 What Do Humanists Believe?
- Week 2 What Are the Historical Roots of Humanism?
- Week 3 Where do Humanists Get Their Moral Values?
- Week 4 How Do Humanists Handle Moral Dilemmas?
- Week 5 What is the Meaning and Purpose of Life for Humanists?
- Week 6 What Do Humanists Do? (Celebrations and Campaigns)
Tutor: Jane O'Grady
Summer Sessions:
Tuesdays - 11 Jun; 18 Jun; 25 Jun; 2 Jul.
Wednesdays - 26 Jun; 3 Jul.
Times: 19.00 - 21.00
£60, or £42 if you book onto two whole courses.
N.B. Course enrolment closes a WEEK BEFORE the start of the sessions. There are only 10 places maximum available for courses. We need a minimum of 5 completed enrolments for the course to commence. A full refund will be given to any students of courses which fall below the minimum number of enrolments that are needed to run the course.
Piero and his band
Sat 15 Jun 2013, 19.00
“ Viejo mi querido…Viejo”
After 16 years Piero is back performing in London and what a better way to celebrate the Father’s Day than to listen to his political, romantic and sentimental repertoire that connects the audience with the Latin American roots.
Piero De Benedictis (stage name Piero), an Italian born Argentine singer and songwriter who also holds Colombian citizenship, is very popular in Latin America from La Patagonia to Mexico. Piero has been recording and sharing stage with many other famous Latin American singers, just to mention some: Pablo Milanes, Mercedes Sosa, Isabel Parra, Victor Jara, Leon Gieco and Victor Heredia. During his 44 years career he has performed in front of more than 5 million people on the American Continent and has sold more than 3 million CDs worldwide. His fame in Latin America can be compared to Paul McCartney’s in Europe
TICKETS: £23 Advance, £28 at the Door
Sunday Lecture: Behind the Myths - The Foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Sun 16 Jun 2013, 11.00
Behind the Myths: The Foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam was inspired initially by Karl Kautsky’s book,The Foundations of Christianity (1908) although it seeks to update and broaden the scope of the work to include Judaism and Islam.
This book is the fruit of ten years of research and study of all the current literature on the topic, looking at historical works through the critical lens of a Marxist worldview.
John Pickard has been a socialist and activist for just about all of his adult life.
Apart from working as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry and as a secondary school teacher of science, he spent sixteen years working as a full-time journalist for the British Marxist newspaper Militant. During that time, he was managing editor of the newspaper during its best years, in the early 1980s, when the miners’ strike raged and the Liverpool City council fought against the then conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members
Bottomless Tea & Coffee will be available.
Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective
18 Jun 2013
Adlerian Society London present:
HERTHA ORGLER MEMORIAL LECTURE
'Trauma Therapy: An Adlerian Perspective'
Anthea Millar
Trauma is an experience of powerlessness when our physical and/or psychological integrity is threatened. Traumatic events can overwhelm and disrupt our normal systems of connecting, seeking control and having meaning in life, and may be experienced as the ultimate sense of inferiority.
In recent years there has been greatly increased understanding of the complex interactions of neurobiology and psychosocial aspects of trauma. This in turn has enabled the development of more effective approaches to trauma therapy, these more recent developments integrating well with an Adlerian approach.
In this lecture, illustrated with case studies from her own practice, Anthea will draw from both Adlerian core tenets and recent practice research to present a perspective of therapy that emphasizes the importance of understanding safeguarding behavior in biological as well as psychosocial terms. She will also give a particular focus on the importance of ensuring the client’s stabilization and sense of safety.
Anthea Millar MA, DipIIP, MBACP (Snr Accred), UKRC, is an Adlerian psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor working in independent practice, and with organisations in the UK and abroad. She coordinated the 4 year Adlerian counselling training in Cambridge for 26 years and is a co-founder of Cambridge Supervision Training. Anthea is actively involved in ASIIP as a member of the training committee and co-editor of the Year Book, and is also on the board of ICASSI, an Adlerian international summer school, where she offers training in trauma therapy.
Brockway Room, 19.30
TICKETS:
Admission £7 (concessions £4) All welcome. No need to book. CPD certificates are available. Lecture enquiries: evans_patel@hotmail.co.uk
Sunday Lecture: The Driller, the Banker and the Minister. Tom Rubens
Sun 23 Jun 2013, 11.00
The Driller, the Banker and the Minister. Tom Rubens
TBC
Sunday Lecture: Spirits on the Brain. Prof Chris French
Sun 16 Jul 2013, 11.00
Spirits on the Brain. Prof Chris French
TBA
