Many apologies for embarrassingly sending the previous private message
to the whole of the psci-com list. A Friday afternoon concentration
lapse!
Bob Ward
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Ward
Sent: 28 September 2007 14:24
To: psci-com: on public engagement with science
Subject: RE: [PSCI-COM] Continuing the climate chnage debate: The Battle
for Science: BoI Festival 27 & 28 October 2007
Dear Tony,
Thanks for the invitation - unfortunately I am due to be out of the
country on 28 October, but it looks like a very interesting event.
Incidentally, I was wondering whether you could advise me about how I
might gain a right to reply to an article that appeared on spiked-online
in May, containing unfounded criticisms of both the Royal Society and me
(http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3357/)?
Best wishes,
Bob
Bob Ward
Director, Global Science Networks
Risk Management Solutions Ltd
Peninsular House
30 Monument Street
London
EC3R 8NB
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7444 7741
Blackberry +44 (0) 7710 333687
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-----Original Message-----
From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tony Gilland
Sent: 24 September 2007 12:39
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] Continuing the climate chnage debate: The Battle for
Science: BoI Festival 27 & 28 October 2007
Dear All,
There has been much debate on this list about the science and politics
of climate change. This is a very important topic with important
implications for the standing and integrity of science itself. I
therefore hope that you will be interested in the Battle of Ideas debate
on this topic involving several prominent scientists who have expressed
varying perspectives on this issue: Mike Hulme, Hans von Storch and
Chris Rapley.
There are also a lot of other great debates taking place - see below and
log on to www.battleofideas.org.uk for full details.
Hope to see some of you there and here what you have to say.
Best wishes, Tony
Tony Gilland
Science and Society Director
Institute of Ideas
The Battle for Science: BoI Festival 27 & 28 October 2007
I thought you might like to hear about this year's Battle of Ideas, a
two- day festival of social, political and cultural discussion taking
place in London, 27-28th October 2007.
Specifically, I thought you would be interested in our exciting line-up
of science and environment related debates:
* Recycling is a waste of time
* CAM - junk science or genuine alternative?
* Debating Darwin Should evolution be taught as the only truth?
* The science and politics of climate change
* My brain made me do it Biology and freedom
* What are the barriers to science in the 21st Century?
* Particle physics is sexy
* And The battle over ethics and regulation (Battle of Ideas
satellite event, 26th October)
Bigger than ever before, there are 70 debates, featuring 200 speakers
debating the key issues of our time with over 1,000 expected attendees,
forming what Professor Sir Bernard Crick calls "the most interesting,
diverse, serious and argumentative audience imaginable".
The Battle of Ideas is a space where ideas can be argued for and fought
over without constraint. Free speech allowed!
Speakers include: Professor Mike Hulme (professor of climate change,
UEA); Professor Chris Rapley (director, Science Museum); Professor Hans
von Storch (director, Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research
Centre; professor at Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg);
Professor Jeffery Rosen (professor of law, George Washington University;
legal affairs editor, The New Republic; author, The Unwanted Gaze);
Professor Raymond Tallis (emeritus professor of geriatric medicine,
University of Manchester; poet; author, The Hand: A Philosophical
Inquiry into Human Being); Professor Pierre Magistretti (vice-chairman,
European Dana Alliance for the Brain); Professor Steve Yearly (director,
ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum); Dr Evan Harris (MP, Oxford
West and Abingdon; Liberal Democrat science spokesperson); Professor
Monica Grady (Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open
University) and many more.
Other highlights include:
The resurrection of religion, Friendship or networking? Should art
change the world? Are we a nation of sporting losers? 'Ethical foreign
policy'
after Blair, The new heresies, What is education for? Age of the
metropolis and Whatever happened to serious TV?
This year's strands examine cutting-edge debates around Africa, Science,
Music and New Technologies.
As the festival has sold out for two years running, we urge you to get
tickets as soon as possible. The event is held at the Royal College of
Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU and is organised by the Institute
of Ideas in conjunction with BT, The Times, ESRC and Pfizer, alongside
many other partners and sponsors.
I very much hope you and your colleagues will be able to come and join
the debate.
Best wishes
Tony Gilland
Science and Society Director
Institute of Ideas
Signet House
49-51 Farringdon Road
London EC1M 3JP
020 7269 9220
Join the Institute of Ideas & get a discounted Battle of Ideas 2007
ticket.
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