Apologies for cross posting. Thought some of you may be interested in this

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Subject: sp!ked-conference: Panic Attack

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- spiked-conference
  PANIC ATTACK: INTERROGATING OUR OBSESSION WITH RISK
  London, 9 May 2003

Why is society so obsessed with risk? From global
warming to mobile phones, from crime to child
safety, from the business world to the military,
we sometimes seem to be organising society around
the grandmotherly maxim of 'better safe than
sorry'.

spiked, in association with the Royal Institution,
is holding a one-day conference in London on
Friday 9 May 2003, sponsored by
TechCentralStation. The conference will bring
together an international audience to assess the
spread of risk aversion into ever-more spheres of
life.


  SESSIONS INCLUDE:

  Killing the Pill
  Chemical reaction
  Children and obesity
  Scares of our time
  War fevers
  Global warming
  The future of risk


  SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

  Mick Hume, editor of spiked and columnist with The Times (London)
  Jim Glassman, host of TechCentralSation
  Professor Carl Djerassi, father of the modern contraceptive Pill
  Professor Sir Colin Berry, eminent British scientist
  Geoff Mulgan, head of the UK government's Performance and Innovation Unit
  Frank Furedi, author of The Culture of Fear
  Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist
  Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, spiked columnist and author of The Tyranny of
Health


  CONFERENCE DETAILS:

  DATE
  Friday 9 May 2003

  VENUE
  The Royal Institution
  21 Albemarle Street
  London
  W1S 4BS

  TICKETS
  £35/£20 concessions/£100 (plus VAT) corporate


  TO BOOK YOUR TICKET
  Phone the Royal Institution booking line on:
  +44 (0)20 7670 2985

  Or book online via the Royal Institution website at:
  https://www.rigb.org/rimain/bookingform.jsp?&mode=0&id=164


  For a full programme, go to:
  http://www.spiked-online.com/panicattack

  For directions to the conference venue, go to:
  http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=528996&Y=180637&A=Y&Z=1


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