Wessex Research Group - Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
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| Title | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution | |
| Venue | BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square , Bath BA1 2HN | |
| Map | Show location | |
| Contribution | Varies depending on the event | |
| Contact | BRLSI | |
| Tel | +44 (0) 1225 312084 or Lee 07967 992545 | |
| Lee | ||
| Web | www.brlsi.org/admin/meetings.cfm | |
| Schedule | Meetings are held monthly |
| Calendar | |
| 10-05-12 | The Reception of the Greek and Roman Classics in Islamic Science and Philosophy |
| Bath | Speaker: Dr. Nader El-Bizri |
| 12-04-12 | Greek and Roman Provincial Coins |
| Bath | Speaker: Dr Amelia Dowler |
| 08-03-12 | Crossing culture, crossing time: the redevelopment of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| Bath | Speaker: Dr. Susan Walker |
| 09-02-12 | Egyptology on Avon: Ancient Egypt in Bath and Bristol |
| Bath | Speaker: Aiden Dodson |
| 19-01-12 | The Bones of Queen Eadgyth |
| Bath | Speaker: Prof. Mark Horton |
| 12-12-11 | Significant Minoan Sanctuaries |
| Bath | Speaker: Dr. Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw |
| 11-11-11 | Migration and Foundation. A post-Roman New Europe |
| Bath | Speaker: Professor Peter Heather |
| 11-10-11 | Greek Triremes and Naval Warfare in the Ancient World. The John Coates Memorial Lecture |
| Bath | Speaker: Boris Rankin |
| 08-09-11 | The Phoenecians |
| Bath | Speaker: Dr Josephine Quinn |
| 14-07-11 | The Reception of Ovids Metamorphoses in the 20th Century |
| Bath | Speaker: Professor Stephen Harrison |
| 17-02-11 | Rome 's Past in the Middle Ages |
| Bath | Speaker: Professor Rosamond McKitterick |
| 07-02-11 | Has Aristotle Been Superceded? |
| Bath | Speaker: Sir Anthony Kenny |
| 08-12-10 | Why does Water have Memory? |
| Bath | Speaker: Alick Bartholomew |
| How does water stimulate and regulate life? This author's new book ‘ The Story of Water' describes the role of water's memory; the magical properties of water; its role in food production; water management; how water is entangled with the very meaning of life, the medium of communication between organisms and the environment. He will share the latest research from quantum biology into water's energies and the risks to the supply of fresh water through climate change and political conflict | |
| 06-12-10 | Elgin & Some Stones of no Value |
| Bath | Film facilitator: Christopher Miles |
| This film is very rarely screened so its wonderful to have an opportunity to see such an authentic dramatisation of events in the year the marbles were removed from the Parthenon, 1802. Chris filmed it in the original locations in Greece and he covers the various arguments about whether the marbles were stolen or puchased. It uses the letters written by Lord and Lady Elgin and their entourage, letters from a furious Lord Byron and other contemporary reports. The film is well cast, brought to life by Nigel Havers and Clare Byam Shaw at Lord & Lady Elgin, with a young Hugh Grant as William Hamilton | |
| 19-10-10 | Ancient Minoan Crete |
| Bath | Speaker: Dr. Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw |
| 10-09-10 | 'I Know my Rights: but what laws were there in Roman Bath?' |
| Bath | Speaker: Professor Derek Roebuck |
Roman Bath lasted five centuries. How would those who lived there have gone about making a claim or defending it? What criminal law controlled their behaviour? There is no general history of Roman law in Britannia and, if there were, would it answer these questions? Can scholarship with imagination provide some answers? The presentation format will adopt the authentic form of a legal disputation set in the city of Bath during the late Roman period. |
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| 13-07-10 | The Electric Universe - a new view of the universe as witnessed by ancient man? |
| Bath | Speaker: Wallace Thornhill |
| Do we need to reassess our fundamental assumptions about what drives the universe? The Electric Universe model recognizes electrical forces as the dominant influence in shaping the universe and a major factor in determining cultural and historical experience. Standard cosmology currently dismisses electricity as a significant factor in space. But what if space is not electrically inert and cosmologists' cherished faith in the gravitational model is misplaced? In what way would an electric universe have affected us in the past and how might it still affect us today? | |
| 19-05-09 | SQUARING THE CIRCLE: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ka'Ba P |
| Bath | Speaker: P. Rhodes |
| The origin of the Sacred House including the many ritual observances associated with it are shrouded in mystery. By applying some of the basic principles of sacred geometry and astro-archaeology, we can begin at last to understand the religious significance of the sanctuary long before the rise of Islam. | |
| 22-04-09 | PYRAMIDS BUILT OF FAKE STONES |
| Bath | Speaker: Prof. Joseph Davidovits, Geopolymer Institute, France |
| New evidence confirms this bold theory that the pyramids of the Giza plateau were partly built with reconstituted stone rather than cut stone blocks but the reasons for the incorporation of reconstituted stone is both surprising and convincing | |