ASKE conference
SkeptInq@aol.com
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:18:10 EDT
Sir
The British skeptics group the Association for Skeptical Enquiry
(ASKE) will shortly be staging the first skeptical conference in
the UK for some years. Some preliminary information about the
conference is given below. If you would kindly include these
details in a future mailing to the CSICOP-MAILING list, this
would be of great assistance to us.
Thank you,
Wayne Spencer
Council Member
ASKE
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Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefs:
A One-Day Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
The Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE) and the Manchester
Humanists are holding a one-day conference on paranormal and
superstitious beliefs. The conference is sponsored by the MMU
Dept. of Sociology and will take place in the Manton Building,
MMU,
from 12:00 - 19:30 on Friday 13th November 1998.
The speakers will be:
Dr. Christopher French. Department of Psychology, Goldsmith's
College:
The Psychology Of Superstition
Dr. Michael Heap. Dept. of Psychotherapeutic Studies, University
of Sheffield:
Ideomotor Movements
Kevin McClure. Writer and Investigator:
Alien Abductions
Dr. David Stretch. Dept. of Mathematical Psychology, University
of Leicester:
Critical Thinking And Alternative Medicine
Dr. Timothy Taylor. Dept of Archaeology, University of Bradford:
Graham Hancock and Pseudo-Archaeology
Dr. Richard Wiseman. Perrott-Warrick Research Unit, University
of Hertfordshire:
The Psychology of Luck
Tony Youens. Conjurer:
Demonstration of pseudo-psychic tricks
The conference will be free of charge.
For further information on this event please contact ASKE at 15
Ramsden Wood Road, Walsden, Todmorden, Lancs, OL14 7UD, United
Kingdom or
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