Showing posts with label talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label talk. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Jack the Ripper talk & Nights at the Museum

Birkbeck College: 3 March, 7.30pm
Professor Susanne Scholz of Frankfurt University will talk on Jack the Ripper, with a response from Alex Warwick (Westminster), co-editor of Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History.

Birkbeck College: 5 March, 6pm
Nights at the Museum – Candlelight, spooky spaces, and cursed objects: Panel with Luisa Cale, Fiona Candlin and Roger Luckhurst.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/our-research/centres/night-shift/upcoming-events

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

The Moot With No Name (Nov/Dec)

3 November - PSYCHIC CAFE - Murray Langham - Chocolate and Relationships
This experiential mini workshop uses chocolate flavours and shapes to help you to understand your true personality, how you communicate in relationships with partners and friends. Each shape and flavour has a different language - what is yours?
Murray Langham, is co-director of Schoc Chocolates in New Zealand, a therapist, counsellor, facilitator and author of Chocolate Therapy and Hot Chocolate.
Please note, Psychic Cafe events are £5 and start at 7.30

10 November - ANDREW MERCER - Ghosts!
Andy Mercer has filmed and recorded them for years and has many a true tale to tell...

17 November PAOLO CORTUCCI - Multidimensional Astrology
A lightweight look at astrology and some of its layers and levels through the charts of people (famous or otherwise) and events. The presentation will focus on the most intriguing and significant factors highlighted by these charts. We will also see how they can provide meaning and guidance. The charts will be used to expand participants
knowledge of astrology. Participants are welcome to provide their charts for discussion. A basic knowledge of astrology would be helpful.
Paolo Cortucci is a Diploma holder of the Faculty of Astrological Studies. He is the Facultys Head Tutor and serves on its Council. Paolo runs an astrological practice and is currently studying horary astrology.

24 November JOYCE FROOME & KERRIANN GODWIN The Pendle Witches
The Pendle Witchcraft case is a compelling human story which provides a dramatic insight into the importance of magic in the lives of our ancestors. Joyces recently published work on the Pendle Witches will also be available this evening.

1 December CROWLEYMASS!

The Atlantis Bookshop presents The Moot With No Name
Every Wednesday. £5/£3. 7:30 for 8pm start.
Opposite the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand (near Aldwych) is a Tudor-style pub, the George. The Devereux is down the alley next to this. Contact The Atlantis Bookshop for further information
www.theatlantisbookshop.com

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Demons and Nightmares: Why do People Believe in the Malign Supernatural

Date: 26/10/10
Speaker: Deborah Hyde
Title: Demons and Nightmares: Why do People Believe in the Malign Supernatural?

Abstract
Deborah’s talk is on the cultural and physiological aspects of the religious and superstitious experience and she’ll answer such questions as:
When do the dead chew in their graves?
Why do vampires strike in autumn?
Why do ghosts live in electric clocks?

Biography
Deborah Hyde has been writing about the folklore of the macabre for eighteen years. She blogs on the themes of magic and supernatural belief as ‘Jourdemayne’, regularly syndicating the ‘The Lay Scientist’ and ‘The Pod Delusion’. She is writing a book called Unnatural Predators which will get published one day when she gets a minute or two to finish it.She is Deputy Convenor of Westminster Skeptics and will be Managing Editor of The Skeptic Magazine (UK) in the New Year.
Her daytime, grown-up job is a makeup effects coordinator in the film industry – more vampires and zombies, then.

The talk is free, open to the public and there is no need to book.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/apru/speakers/abstracts-1011/

The talks will take place in Room LG01 in the New Academic Building- see maps at www.goldsmiths.ac.uk. It's on the Lower Ground floor immediately underneath the entrance to the building, accessible by stairs in the centre of the building and by the lifts at the far end of the building.

Friday, 15 October 2010

Wicked Plants

Wicked Plants


Saturday 30 October, 1.30pm

Free with Museum admission

(Adults £6 / Concessions £5 / Children FREE)

We've added a new and creepy event to our autumn programme, just in time for Halloween. In this talk based on her New York Times bestseller Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, Amy Stewart takes on Mother Nature's most appalling creations. It's an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, Stewart presents tales of bloodcurdling botany that will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

Find out which plant killed Abraham Lincoln's mother, which shrub ignited a global war, and what plant has killed 90 million people. From strychnine to castor bean, from poison sumac to monkshood, from carnivorous plants to weeds that spontaneously combust, Stewart introduces an unforgettable cast of characters and tells their tales with her own wicked sense of humour.

Amy Stewart lives in California, where she tends her own poison garden and runs an antiquarian book shop with her husband.

Suitable for adults and children 10+

Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB. 020 7401 8865

Friday, 1 October 2010

Subterranean City.

Friday 15 October - Subterranean City.
Author Antony Clayton presents an illustrated talk about the inverted city beneath our street, including lost rivers, sewers and government bunkers and tunnels. The talk will also uncover some of the colourful folklore of underground London such as legends of secret passages and tunnels.

Friday Evening Events are free, sociable and fun gatherings in a friendly environment. Refreshments are provided (tea and coffee from 6.30pm, healthy buffet at 7.00pm).
Events take place at St Mary's Community Centre, Upper Street, Islington N1 2TX (next to St Mary's Church) from 6.30pm to 9.00pm every Friday of the year, including holidays.

http://www.slt.org.uk/events.html

Thursday, 30 September 2010

This autumn at Treadwells

Coming talks, events and walks at Treadwells Bookshop
Click here for further details

30 September 10 (Thursday)
Interview with a Witch: Chris Crowley in Conversation
with Christina Oakley Harrington

06 October 10 (Wednesday)
Jung and the Occult: Was Jung a Mystic?
Gary Lachman

13 October 10 (Wednesday)
Alchemical Countdown: Number and Number Symbolism in Alchemy
Paul Cowlan

14 October 10 (Thursday)
Crowley's Amalantrah Working: Thelema, The Tao, and the New York Years
Gary Dickinson

26 October 10 (Tuesday)
Ghosts, Ghouls and Greasepaint: Guided Walk of Haunted Theatrical London
Deliane Forget, London Ghost Festival

28 October 10 (Thursday)
The Book in Western Art: Symbol, Device, Allegory
Laura Miller

29 October 10 (Friday)
Through A Glass Darkly: Performance Inspired by Victorian Seances of the Fraudulent Mediums
The London Magician

19 November 10 (Friday)
Through A Glass Darkly: Performance Inspired by Victorian Seances of the Fraudulent Mediums
The London Magician

26 November 10 (Friday)
Through A Glass Darkly: Performance Inspired by Victorian Seances of the Fraudulent Mediums
The London Magician

18 December 10 (Saturday)
The Orishas in Cuba's Lukumi Tradition :
Martin Tsang (Egbado Lineage)

Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Anti-Matters

Tuesday 21 September Anti-Matters curated by


Richard Thomas (Resonance FM) an evening of talks about

negation, negative space, negative aesthetics, trash culture and anti-matter, including:

SHREDS – Stewart Home discusses anti-art, auto-destructive art and shreds books in an homage to John

Latham.

The Psychoanalysis of Trash – Ken Hollings gives a lecture on how Ludwig II of Bavaria and Michael

Jackson, Elvis Presley and Big Daddy Roth, Morris Lapidus and Kenneth Anger can never be recycled.

Sewer Side – Anthropologist and broadcaster Bruno Rinvolucri (University of Oxford) has spent the last

two years exploring London’s sewer system, a subterranean negative space if ever there was one.

Destruction and Negative Space – Curator Mathieu Copeland discusses auto-destructive art, and art

and voids.

Anti-Matter – Dr.Ed Gerstner, physicist and the editor

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit Invited Speaker Series

Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit  Invited Speaker Series 2010/11
Department of Psychology , Goldsmiths, University of London

SEMINARS ARE HELD ON TUESDAYS AT 6:10 PM IN THE NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. All talks are open to staff, students and members of the public. Attendance is free and there is no need to book in advance.

For further information, visit  or contact Tamas Borbely.

12 Oct Jon Ronson

Writer and documentary filmmaker
The Men Who Stare at Goats and Other True Tales of Craziness at the Heart of Power

26 Oct Deborah Hyde
Writer and blogger
Demons and Nightmares: Why do People Believe in the Malign Supernatural?

9 Nov Dr Gustav Kuhn
Department of Psychology, Brunel University
The Science of Magic: How Magic Changes our Expectations About Autism

16 Nov Dr Simon Dein
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Medicine, UCL
A Messiah from the Dead: What Really Happens When Prophecy Fails

23 Nov Daniela Rudloff
Department of Psychology, University of Leicester
Mental ‘Short-Cuts’ – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

7 Dec Andy Lewis
Blogger and Developer of the Quackometer website
The Persistence of Delusion: Why do Some Alternative Medicines Thrive and Others Die?

Friday, 27 August 2010

Ann & Dave Finnin - The Rest of the Story

Esoteric Source presents: Ann & Dave Finnin - The Rest of the Story

The saga of the American branch of the Clan of Tubal Cain from 1965 to the present day. Using old photographs and personal narrative, Ann and Dave Finnin discuss their 30+ year efforts into the reconstruction and practice of the tradition begun by Robert Cochrane and how they planted the seeds of the Clan of Tubal Cain in America.

Friday 10th September
7pm (for 8pm start)
Cost £5 per person

Upstairs at Devereux Arms, 20 Devereux Court, London WC2R 3JJ
Go down the Alleyway next to the George pub, opposite Royal Courts of Justice.
Food and drink available at the bar.

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub600.php for pub details

This event is sure to sell out, Tickets available on Esoteric Source website homepage - check out the top left of the page. If you have any queries, you can contact via the site too. smiley

Thursday, 26 August 2010

Conference: Gerald Brosseau Gardner – ‘Father of Modern Witchcraft’

Esoteric Source presents a full day with Lois Bourne, Zach Cox, Philip Heselton, Professor Ronald Hutton, Fred Lamond, Philip Carr-Gomm Celebrating the life and work Of Gerald Brosseau Gardner – ‘Father of Modern Witchcraft’

Panel: Julia Phillips, Vivianne Crowley, Morgana, Rufus Harrington, Prudence Jones
Introduction by John Belham-Payne
Brian Botham – MC, Entertainment by Paul Mitchell – ‘A Far Better Pagan’

Tickets £20 in advance £25 on the day.


Sunday 12th September 2010

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Sq, London WC1R 4RL Doors Open at 10 am Programme Starts at 11 am.

Information: 07733581504

All Funds are to help the Doreen Valiente Legacy Trust

Sunday, 22 August 2010

Talk: The Knights Templars in London

South East London Folklore Society presents:
Rob Stephenson: The Knights Templars in London
This illustrated talk will discuss places in London that were either occupied, owned or had some connection with the Knight Templars and their dramatic downfall, including the sites of their imprisonment and interrogation.


Robert Stephenson is the chairman and lecture organiser of RILKO - the Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation.

SELFS meet every second Thursday of the month at The Old King's Head, Kings Head Yard,
45-49, Borough High Street, London SE1 1NA.

Friday, 13 August 2010

Crowley & Jung – A Look At The Common Ground Behind

Tuesday, 31st August, 2010 – Paul Weston

“CROWLEY AND JUNG – A Look At The Common Ground BehindThe Book Of The Law And The Seven Sermons To The Dead”

The Secret Chiefs meet fortnightly upstairs at the Devereux public house (20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, London WC2R 3JJ). Nearest tube is Temple. Meet from 7.30pm and the talk starts at 8.30pm. Admission is £2 (£1 concs). All are welcome.

Monday, 19 July 2010

Conference: Death in Legend and Tradition


A weekend of stories, strange lore, and scholarship in the sepulchral grandeur of a Victorian cemetery.
Brompton Cemetery, Fulham Road, London. SW10 9UG

4 September at 9.30am - 5.30pm 
5 September at 10.30am - 1.00pm



Speakers include:
Scott Wood: The Unquiet Dead of England
Gail-Nina Anderson: Rossetti and his Exhumed Wife
Andrew Bennett: Politics, Cowardice and Death
Tómas Albertsson: Death in Protests
Pete Castle: Godfather Death
Peter Robson: Premonitions of Death
David Hunt: The Angel of Death in the Caucasus
Alan Murdie: Ghost Stories Suggestive of Survival
Rosie Morris: Maidens' Garlands
Juliette Wood: Sin-Eaters
Helen Frisby: English Folk Funerals
Dave Evans: The Afterlife of a Bodmin Witch

A tour of the site with Rob Stephenson (of London Earth Mysteries Circle) will also be available.


Tickets: £30 for both days available from Jeremy Harte, Bourne Hall, Ewell, Surrey KT17 1UF


Tel: 0208 394 1734 or email the Folklore Society.


Folklore Society website.


For more on Brompton Cemetery.

Monday, 12 July 2010

Moot With No Name

Here are the next few speakers at the Moot With No Name, as listed on the Atlantis Bookshop website.
The MWNN is held every Wednesday (except **) upstairs at the Devereux pub in Devereux Court near Temple tube. Easiest directions: On the Strand, opposite the Royal Courts of Justice is a Tudor-style pub, the George. Go down the alley next to it; the Devereux is at the bottom. See the map here.

7.30 for 8pm start. £5, £3 concs (unwaged etc).


** 14 JULY – KIM ARNOLD - PSYCHIC CAFE £8
Please note, Psychic Cafe events are £8.00 and start at 7.30


21 JULY - NIGEL IRVINE – Numerology.
Nigel will be doing exactly as the title of the evening would suggest! Pencils and paper will be provided.


28 July – DAVID PARRY – Henrik Ibsen and the Nordic Tradition.
David Parry has a degree in Religious Studies and continued his theological research at Heythrop College. He teaches literature and language and is a noted lecturer on Spiritualism and poet. David runs The Gruntlers, a new and highly acclaimed poetry and arts society. We are delighted to have him at The Moot again.


4 August – Siberian Shamanism
Shamanism is the foundation beliefs and practices of the contemporary religions. Siberian Shamanism is new to London and this evening should be most interesting. As well as the history of magic there will be practical demonstrations by Shamans.


** 11 August - KIM ARNOLD - PSYCHIC CAFE £8
Please note, Psychic Cafe events are £8.00 and start at 7.30


18 August - TERRY WELBOURN – T.C. Lethbridge, Dowser.


25 August - ROBIN HERNE - A Forest of Gods - Druidry and Polytheism