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| Programme of Discussions |
Coffee is available in the Fellows' Room on Tuesday mornings at 10.30.
Once a month from October to March this meeting takes the form of an informal discussion in the East Wellcome Room. The programme for the discussion meetings in the coming season is given below. These meetings are open to Fellows. |
| 2008-2009 Programme |
14 October 2008
Telford at the Frontiers of Technology
Professor Roland Paxton |
4 November 2008
The Role of the Banker in Society Today
Ewan Brown |
2 December 2008
Democracy Ancient and Modern
Professor John Richardson
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6 January 2009
Forgotten pioneers, the case of Robert Chambers
Professor Bruce Proudfoot |
3 February 2009
Tackling Scotland's Health Inequalities - a major challenge for the next decade
Professor John Coggins |
3 March 2009
Reconstructing Historical Sites; Fact or Fiction?
Dr Barbara E Crawford |
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| 2007-2008 Programme |
9 October 2007
Illness and Disease: The Butterflies of History.
Professor David E M Taylor |
6 November 2007
Entanglement in Copenhagen – The trouble with Quantum Mechanics and the Flight from Reality
Dr Malcolm Fluendy |
4 December 2007
A Business Unworthy of a Woman? The female performer as celebrity and political agitator on the nineteenth-century British stage
Professor Janet B I McDonald. |
8 January 2008
Are you being served? The Civil Service in a changing world.
Sir Russell Hillhouse. |
5 February 2008
The place of the victim and the victim’s family in criminal proceedings.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Cameron of Lochbroom. |
4th March 2008
Science and conservation: their influence on livestock farming in Scotland.
Dr James Irvine |
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| 2006-2007 Programme |
10 October 2006
The Interface between science and art
Professor Roy H Burdon. |
7 November 2006
The Crusades from the Muslim side
Professor Carole Hillenbrand |
5 December 2006
Nuclear Waste – Personal Experience
Professor John R Greening |
9 January 2007
The Economics of Climate Change
Sir Alan Peacock |
6 February 2007
The Unicorn – a curious evolution
Professor John E Dale |
6 March 2007
Prematurity and Postmaturity in Scientific Research
Professor Alastair C Wardlaw
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| The 2005-2006 Programme was as follows |
11 October 2005
A Mathematician Looks at Music
Professor John M Howie. |
1 November 2005
The Delicate Interface between Scientists and Politicians
Dr Tam Dalyell |
6 December 2005
Visual Art Provision Scotland; How Best can we Provide the Visual Arts in Scotland?
Sir Timothy Clifford |
| 10 January 2006
Reflections on Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship 1783-2003
Dr Charles D Waterston
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7 February 2006
Parasitic Wasps: Does Taxonomy Matter and Where Should it be Done?
Dr Mark Shaw |
7 March 2006
The Royal Society of Edinburgh - Past and Present International Connections
Professor Rona MacKie |
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| The 2004-2005 Programme was as follows |
12 October 2004
Intelligence, Government and the Media
Janet Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh
2 November 2004
Thwarting and Origin of Speech
Professor Eric A Salzen
7 December 2004
How we Think
Sir Michael Atiyah
11 January 2005
The Ups and Downs of Natural Populations
Professor Jonathan A Sherratt
1 February 2005
Why Educate?
Professor Sally A Brown
1 March 2005
Geological Hazards
Mr John H Hull
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| The 2003-2004 Programme was as follows : |
7 October 2003
The Euro in a United Europe
Sir John Shaw, CBE
4 November 2003
Imperialism Ancient and Modern
Professor John S Richardson
2 December 2003
Human Organs for Sale
Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig
13 January 2004
Fungi - What if they Went on Strike?
Professor Roy Watling
3 February 2004
Pilgrims, Nomads and Tourists : The Changing Landscape of Faith
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, President
2 March 2004
Don't Count your Chickens...
Professor J S Beck |
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| The 2002-2003 programme was as follows : |
8 October 2002
The Transfusion of Skills
Jean Jones, Historian of Science
5 November 2002
What Use is an Ombudsman?
Sir William Reid
3 December 2002
Unesco and the UK
Dr John M Francis, Chairman, UK National Commission for UNESCO
14 January 2003
Freedom of Information - How Free?
Sir William Fraser
4 February 2003
Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters: Community Relations First and Foremost.
Professor Yasir Suleiman, Director of the Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of Islam and the Middle East
4 March 2003
Benin and the Restoration of Cultural Property
Professor Frank Willett |
| Last updatated
19 June, 2008 |
