Tuesday, October 16, 2007

APRU Invited Speaker Series

The Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London has announced their complete program for the Invited Speaker Series 2007/2008. All talks are free and open to the public. Previous lectures are now available online.

AUTUMN TERM

16 Oct
Dr. Brian Hughes
School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway
Making Sense of Miracle Cures: How Psychology Makes Alternative Medicine ‘Work’

23 Oct Professor Richard Wiseman
Psychology Department, University of Hertfordshire
Parapsychology: Predicting the Future

13 Nov Dr. Michael Heap
Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, and Chairman of the Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE)
The Need to be Authentic and its Influence on Behaviour, Attitudes and Beliefs

27 Nov Dr. Peter Fenwick
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College
Deathbed visions, coincidences, and intriguing tales of grandfather’s
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4 Dec Gordon Smith
Psychic and Writer
The View from the Other Side


SPRING TERM

22 Jan Dr. Mark Blagrove
Department of Psychology, University of Swansea
Personality and Lucid Dreaming

29 Jan Dr. Christine Mohr
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
Magical Beliefs and the Two Cerebral Hemispheres

19 Feb Dr. Matthew Smith
Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University
Chance, Luck and Destiny: A Psychological Perspective

11 Mar Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe
Research Associate, Université de Paris 8, Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale
The Truth About Mediums

18 Mar Dr. Dorothy Rowe
Clinical Psychologist and Writer
Why is that Important to You?

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4:10pm in Room 308, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. For further information, visit http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/apru/speakers.php.

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