SECULAR DIARY

 This page has been created  to list  Souith Place Ethical Society (SPES)  Events

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Programme From Jan 2010

  There will be a lecture at 11am each Sunday Morning and a discussion

or other event each afternoo at 3pm  

if no afternoon event is listed

one is being arranged

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SPES  SUNDAY LECTURES AND EVENTS   2010

see below for Afternoon Discussions

Book Club and Joint events

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   January 10th:

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24th Jan 11am

(rearranged from 25th Oct 2009) 

 Sidjan   Jdvanoviovic

Atheism: Misconceptions and

Miscontructions

 The lecture will concentrate on typical

misrepresentations of atheism and atheist

thought in both academic and lay circles,

going as well into atheists’ perception of

 themselves. Atheism has been

misrepresented in academic circles long

enough; essays, books and journals that

try to represent it as ‘deviance’ from the

norm are more than plentiful.

The lecture

will tackle some of the common

misperceptions of atheism that the

lecturer found during his research on

atheism in Europe.

The lecturer is a REVACERN researcher (Religions and Values in Central and Eastern Europe, funded by the European Commission), teaches history of atheism at the Palacky University in Olomouc,

Czech Republic. He also authors an almost year-long column about European religionsin the Belgrade daily Danas

(Serbia) and the founder and editor-in-

chief of the online academic journal

Humanicus. 

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        Sunday 31st Jan 11am

 Economic Inequality And Social Well Being

Prof Richard Wilkinson

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 SPES AFTERNOON ETHICAL DISCUSSIONS 

(Every other Sunday)

   10th Jan 2009  3pm

The Law and Religion: Does faith have a place in decision making?  

 24th Jan 2009   3pm Ethics of

 Torture in the 21^s Century  

  7th March 2009  3pm

Faith Schools: Bad for children, bad for Britain?      

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SPES BOOK CLUB  

Thursday 21st Jan  7pm-9pm

 1984 or Brave New World Which Dystopia are we living in ?facilitated by Des  Hunt

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