Past Speakers
- Ray Newall (EMDA) iFestival Event: Innovative Clusters - Are they full of nuts?
- Jim Turner (Professor) The Second Law, Life, the Universe and Everything - what you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask
- Andrew Colman (Leicester Uni) The Evolution of Co-operation.
- Joyce Liddle (University of Nottingham) The UK Government's Approach to local and regional regeneration: some reflections.
- Christopher Conselice (Nottingham University) The Universe's Invisible Hand?
- John Pannell (Oxford University) Sex, Sterility and Spite Amongst Plants.
- Hugh Miller and Jill Arnold (Nottingham Trent University) Identity on the Web - the psychology of being 'out there'.
- Oliver Leech (Independent Speaker) The Philosophy of Mind.
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- Robert Dingwall (University of Nottingham), Public Health, Politics and 'Pandemic Influenza'
- June McCombie (University of Nottingham) Chemistry in Space
- Colin Wright (Solipsys) The Mathematics of Juggling
- Stephen Cope (University of Nottingham) What state is the British state in?
- David Pyle (Oxford University) Supervolcanic eruptions: predictability and climatic consequences
- Mark Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University) What are behavioural addictions and do they really exist?
- Peter Licence (Nottingham University) Development and promotion of sustainable chemistry in Ethiopia.
- Patrick Collins (Independent Speaker) Conspiracy or Simple Act of Murder? The Assassination of John F Kennedy.
- Jeremy Woods(Imperial) Bioenergy.
- Brigitte Nerlich (Nottingham University) Breakthroughs and disasters: The creation of expectations in science communication.
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- John Cromby (Loughborough Uni), Intuition awry - feelings, minds, and paranoia
- Helen Catchpole (Framework Housing Association) Is homelessness a housing problem?
- Joss Griffiths (Independent Speaker) Politics and Religion - A Fourth Way?
- Dominic Wring (Loughborough Uni) From Tory to Tony but now what? The changing dynamics of press partisanship in Britain
- Mark Haw (University of Nottingham) Middle World: the restless heart of matter and life
- Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham Medical School) The Impact of Inequality; how to make sick societies healthier
- Mary Midgley (Philosopher), Intelligent Design
- Ben Mepham (Lincoln Uni) Food Ethics
- Nick Read(Retired Professor, now writer, psychotherapist, physician) Sick and Tired: Healing the Illnesses That Doctors Cannot Cure
- Chris Warrick (UKAEA -Culham Science Centre) Great Balls of Fire? - Nuclear Fusion
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- Samantha Doherty (Area Sales Manager – Waverley TBS), Wine Tasting (including breads and cheeses)
- David Crouch Derby Uni, Spaces of the spectacular, the mundane and the sacred?
- Ian Hall University Hospital, Nottingham, Personalised medicine: choosing the right drug for the right patient
- Richard Le Corney The Evolution of God
- Meghan Gray Nottingham Uni, What's the matter? Astronomy and the search for dark matter
- Neil Champness Nottingham University, The Nanoworld: Great Benefit or a Danger?
- Clare Anderson Loughborough University, TSleep - What's it all about, and how much do we 'really' need
- John Bryant Exeter University, Finding our way through biology's moral maze
- Mark Sergeant Nottingham Trent Uni, Human Pheromones: Facts and Fiction
- Claire Brock Leicester Uni, Public Experiments: Women and Science from Caroline Herschel to Mary Somerville
- Dr Duran Akbulut, The Mystery Game of Islam and Terrorism
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- Paul Ormerod Volterra Consulting, Why Most Things Fail - Evolution, Extinction and Economics
- Tony Skelton Rainbow Movement, The spiritual, physical and mental abuse of the mind
- Judith Still Nottingham Uni, French Hospitality: Oriental Travellers, Immigrants and Refugees
- Dennis Smith Loughborough Uni, Globalisation: The Hidden Agenda
- Joe Sempik Loughborough Uni, Nature, horticulture and health
- Ellen Poliakoff, Stuart Allan, Michelle Lockwood, Erinma Ochu the Manchester Uni Science Group, You know it makes sense - Can we really believe what we see, hear and touch?
- Mark Freestone Nottingham Uni, The "Darkest Corner": Perspectives on Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
- Steve Alexander Nottingham Uni, Treating disease with cannabis and cannabinoid medicines
- John Britton Nottingham City Hospital, Passive smoking and public health
- Vlatko Vedral Leeds Uni, Beam Me Up Scotty - Quantum Entanglement and Supercomputers
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- Paul Miller Demos, The Politics of Human Enhancement
- Murray Sinclair and Carys Siemieniuch Loughborough Uni, Human aspects of Immortal Systems
- John Downey Loughborough Uni, Technocities: the culture and political economy of the digital revolution
- Lucus Greenwood Nottingham, The Gaia Hypothesis and Goddess Spirituality
- John Clark Cartoonist and Travel Journalist, Four Months in the Saddle: A Bicycle Ride Across American History
- Jo Aldridge Loughborough Uni, Living with the P.E.S.T. - children's experiences of parental mental illness
- Hugh Williams formerly Nottingham Trent Uni, Is mathematics a science?
- Ray Gosling TV and Radio Broadcaster, Nottingham's tradition of rebelliousness
- Benny Peiser Liverpool John Moores Uni, Civilisation Collapse and Climate Change
- Nick Tilley Nottingham Trent Uni, Crime in Nottingham
- Gregory Currie Nottingham Uni, Art 1 Million Years BC
- Richard Johnson Nottingham Uni, retired, Blairism and the War of Persuasion - Labour's Passive Revolution
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- David Hughes Nottingham Trent Uni, Living with 25,000 genes: Generating complexity in the mammalian genome
- Dave Wilson Nottingham Uni, Lies and Intentional Deception - What's the difference? Are we caring or patronising?
- Hugh Williams ex-Nottingham Trent Uni, How non-Euclidean geometry changed the nature of mathematics
- Innes Cuthill Bristol Uni, Colour vision in other animals (why pigeons think humans are colour-blind)
- John Fryer Nottinghamshire Police, Experiences: Policing in Iraq
- Rachel Quarrell Balliol College, Oxford, Combating malaria as resistance increases
- John Brookfield Nottingham Uni,Darwin and Human DNA
- Simon Boxall Southampton Uni, Global warming - vineyards or ski slopes in Nottingham?
- Sue Cumming Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, Death: dealing with taboo
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- Colin Talbot Nottingham Uni, The Paradoxical Primate
- Marek Korcynski Loughborough Uni, Voice, Silencing and Resistance: The British work song and its hidden history
- Colin Snape Nottingham Uni, Clean Fossil Energy
- Ray Tallis Manchester Uni, Do Animals Have Beliefs?
- Daniel Barnes Nottingham Uni, So Much for the City
- Larry Wilde Nottingham Trent Uni, Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity
- Oliver Pooley Oriel College, Oxford, Identity Through Time in Space Time
- Tim Calton Nottingham Uni, International Schizophrenia Research and the Myth of Patient-Centredness
- Geoffrey Raisman National Institute for Medical Research, Getting People out of Wheelchairs
- Michael O'Connell Irish Studies Group, Justice & Truth: Are they Indivisible?
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- Vikram Patel London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, If only psychiatrists were bananas!
- Peter Liddle Nottingham Uni, Can MRI improve the outcome of mental disorders?
- Georgina Ferry author and editor Oxford Today, Lives in Science: work, love and death in the laboratory
- Liz Sockett Nottingham Uni, Bdellovibrio: vampire bacteria as "living antibiotics"
- Charles Stirling Sheffield Uni, Risk: Perception, Minimisation & Does it Matter Anyway?
- Simon Singh author, The Big Bang
- Dennis Smith Loughborough Uni, Humiliation
- Jim Turner and Pru Hobson West Nottingham Uni, provided background and led a discussion on MMR: Exploring a Vaccine Crisis
- John Christensen Tax Justice Network, Tax Avoidance, Tax Competition and Globalisation: making tax justice a focus for global activisms
- Sidney Tyrrell Coventry Uni, Probably Surprising: A festive approach to probability and risk
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- Chandran Owen Service Manager, Equalities & Translation Unit, Nottingham City Council, and Patricia Stoat Director, Social Responsibility, Southwell Diocese, in the Royal Society for the Arts - Coffee House Challenge Debate: This House Believes Good Cities can be Planned
- Gary Day De Montfort Uni, The Relationship between Management and Critical Discouse
- Jonathan Goulding Scientists for Global Responsibility, Science for Sale: The influence of vested interests in science
- Alan Gauld Nottingham Uni, Hauntings and Poltergeists
- David Parkin Nottingham Uni, Sex and Sin in Wild Birds
- Jeremy Moon Nottingham Uni, Maggie Thatcher: Leader or Liability?
- Denis Alexander Cambridge Uni, Beyond Belief: Science, Faith and Ethical Challenges
- Mike Merrifield Nottingham Uni, Exploring Planets in the Solar System and Beyond
- DEMOCS game Gene Testing and Stem Cell Research
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- Richard Jones Sheffield Uni, Nanotechnology
- Brian Derby UMIST, Printing the Future: From Electronic Circuits to Living Cells
- Brian Parbutt ex-Chair of Nottingham City Council, How to Run a City
- Alan Riley Nottingham Uni, Europe: Superstate or Supermouse?
- Steve Fuller Warwick Uni, The Struggle for the Soul of Science
- Elizabeth Donnelly Expansion of the EU from 15 to 25 Member States
- Bob Borton The English Peasant, or Why we Don't Live in a Democracy
- David Acheson Jesus College, Oxford Uni, Mathematics, Magic and the Electric Guitar
- Paul Anastas USA Government science advisor, Green Chemistry: Designing Tomorrow
- Ray Greek Why Animal Research for Bio-Medical Progress is Not Science
- Philip Wane Nottingham Trent Uni, Never Mind Big Brother, Watch Out for Little Brother
- David Salinger Leeds Uni, Infinity and Beyond
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- Nick Manning Nottingham Uni, Men Behaving Badly
- Chris Sunderland Bible Society, The power of instinct to shape human society
- Aaron Sloman Birmingham Uni, Why should robots, or animals, have emotions?
- Vivette Glover Imperial College, London Uni, Foetal experience
- Marcus du Sautoy All Souls College, Oxford Uni, The Music of the Primes
- Jim Turner Nottingham Uni, The Redundant God
- Philip Cowley Nottingham Uni, When Sheep Bark: The Voting of the Parliamentary Labour Party
- Robin Dunbar Liverpool Uni, Why Humans really Aren't Apes
- Patricia Fara Clare College, Cambridge Uni, Sex, Botany & Empire
- COMA ensemble Wax in your ears, An exploration of the nature of music
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- Frazer Pearce Nottingham Uni, Are We Alone? Life Across the Galaxies
- Enrico Coen author, The Art of Genes: how organisms make themselves
- Mike Merrifield Nottingham Uni, Telescopes for a New Millenium: from 100 Metre Monsters to 500 Million Kilometre Behemoths
- Kevin Studds British Red Cross, The British Red Cross, the UN and The Geneva Convention
- Peter Chadwick author, Psychosis from the Inside
- Oliver Morton New Scientist, Mapping Mars
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- John Armour Nottingham Uni, Human Genetic Diversity: How our Ancestors got us where we are
- Daniel Nettle Open Uni, Baboon King Lear: Interpreting Shakespeare in a Darwinian Universe
- Ibrahim Lawson Islamia School, Nottingham, Reconciling Religious Belief and Evolution
- Robin Johnson Free Will and Evolution
- Liz Sockett Nottingham Uni, Amazing Bacteria and the Codes in their DNA
- Igor Aleksander Imperial College, Evolution inside a Computer: Will an Uncontrollable Genie Emerge?
- Paul Scotting Nottingham Uni, How to make an Embryo: the Real Stem cells
- Charles Oppenheim Loughborough Uni, The Use and Abuse of Citation Analysis: Watson and Crick's Seminal Paper
- Heikki Patomaki Nottingham Trent Uni, Globalisation and Democracy
- Tom Dickins Nottingham Trent Uni, The Marriage of the Millennium? - Causal and functional explanations within the behavioural sciences
- Mark Sergeant Nottingham Trent Uni, Pheromones, Humans and the Evolution of Sexual Behaviour
- Howard Taylor historian, Born to Order: Two centuries of fiddling the population statistics
- Mary Midgley philosopher, Is there Cultural Evolution?
- BIONET event: Future Foods: A Dramatic Debate
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- Richard Bentall Manchester Uni, Why There Will Never Be a Convincing Theory Of Schizophrenia
- David Smail Nottingham Uni, Social Power and Psychological Distress
- Robert Mokaya, Marcello di Bonito, Chandran Owen Britain: A view from Abroad
- Jim Horne Loughborough Uni, Sleep - What's It All About?
- Sally Wiggins Nottingham Trent Uni, Eating Your Words
- Peter Coles Nottingham Uni, The Anthropic Principle
- Jennifer Lexis, Bisexuality, polyamory & genderqueer
- Kevin Shakesheff Nottingham Uni, Tissue Engineering - What can we do? What should we do?
- Wendy Chapple and Andy Crane Nottingham Uni, Debate: Big Business - Can't live with it, Can't live without it
- Mark Griffiths Nottingham Trent Uni, Do Technological Addictions Exist?
- Peter King Nottingham Uni, The Surprising Science of Sand: Stripes, Sandwiches and Saturn
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- Peter Hobson UCL and Tavistock Clinic, author, "The Cradle of Thought"
- Caroline Hughes Nottingham Uni, Peace Building: Can the UN Make a Difference?
- Graham Farmelo The Science Museum, author "It Must Be Beautiful"
- Andy Sutton Nottingham Trent Uni, Resisting Technology: the New Communications
- Susan Howson Nottingham Uni, Number Theory, Elliptic Curves, Cryptography and Code-Breaking
- Vanessa Pupavac Nottingham Uni, Pathologising Survivors: International War Trauma Counselling
- Simon Fishel Park Hospital Nottingham, Assisted Conception
- Nicholas Shackel Nottingham Uni, Truth about Truth
- Russell Foster Imperial College London, Circadian Rhythms: Having the Time of Your Life
- Len Fisher Bristol Uni and IgNobel Prize-winner, Biscuits, Boomerangs and Best Sellers: The Art of Media-Friendly Science
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- Erik Jones Nottingham Uni, The European Single Currency: Colossus, Catastrophe, or Non-Event?
- Mike Merrifield Nottingham Uni, When Worlds Collide: from Rubble to New Universes
- Peter Tatchell Human Rights Activist, Direct Action for Democracy
- Hugh Williams ex Nottingham Trent Uni, Maths: a Science? an Art? a Language? the Foundation of Our Way of Life?
- Justin Cruikshank Nottingham Trent Uni, Does the Left Need the Right?
- Dave Applebaum Nottingham Trent Uni, Brownian Motion, Quantum Theory and the Stock Exchange
- Martin Lowson Bristol Uni, Public Transport in the 21st Century
- Bob Rees Nottingham Trent Uni, Can Cancer Vaccines be Used in Patient Therapy?
- Brian Davey The Pace of Life: Time, Pressure and Stress in an Accelerating Society
- Tom Kirkwood Newcastle Uni, The Science of Ageing
- Kevin Stanley National Union of Journalists, A Day in the Life of a Local Radio Hack
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- Steve Jones UCL, Genetics
- Mary Warnock Cambridge, Human Fertilisation and Embryology
- Martyn Poliakoff Nottingham Uni, Green Chemistry: A New Industrial Revolution?
- Ibrahim Lawson Head of the Nottingham Islamia School, God is Dead: Nihilism in Western Thought and the Islamic Response
- Viacheslav Belavkin Nottingham Uni, Quantum Computers
- Phil Brooke Compassion in World Farming, After FMD: the future for Farm Animals
- Charles Oppenheim Loughborough Uni, Censorship and the Internet
- Tom Dickins Nottingham Trent Uni, The Evolution of Language
- Igor Aleksander Imperial, London, How to Build a Mind
- Scott Campbell Nottingham Uni, Falsificationism
- Jerry Roberts Nottingham Uni, GM Plants
- Tony Youens Nottingham Trent Uni, Sceptic and magician, Psychic Illusions
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- Chris Lavers Nottingham Uni, Echoes of the past: extinction crises in the Permian and the present
- Krys Bottrill Deputy Scientific Director, FRAME, 3Rs for Animals: Reduction, Refinement and Replacement
- Daniel Nettle Oxford University, Madness, Creativity and Human Nature
- Paul Allender author of "What's Wrong with Labour?", critique of the last 100 years of the Labour party
- Pete Mumby Newcastle Uni and The Royal Society, Coral Reefs: Canaries of the Oceans?
- John Brooke Oxford Uni, Science and Religion: Can they Co-exist?
- Alan Sillitoe author, A Local Writer's Reminiscence
- CARTOON 2001: with Brick, Dredge, Flan and Justin Wyatt two brief talks on the origins of the cartoon, and the current state of the art. After that, the four cartoonists will draw for members of the audience, anything requested, while they tour the bar, drawing caricatures, gags and jokes, and pausing to draw on the wall
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- Paul Martin Nottingham Uni, The uses and abuses of genetic information: DNA banks, population genetics and a gene for everything
- Mary Midgley Philosopher, Science and Poetry
- Barry Smith British Geological Society, A World Full of Chemicals: A perspective on some of the issues surrounding depleted uranium
- Janet Radcliffe-Richards UCL, The Darwin Wars and the Battle of the Sexes
- Jane Plant author, Your Life in Your Hands: Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown columnist on The Independent, Who Do We Think We Are: Imagining the New Britain
- Fiona Patterson Sheffield Uni, Psychometric Testing
- Simon Tormey Nottingham Uni, Marx is dead: long live Marx!
- Mike Merrifield Nottingham Uni, and Dominic Palmer-Brown Editor, Trends in Cognitive Science, Return from 2100: Astrophysics and Artificial Intelligence 100 years from now
- Russell Newcombe Liverpool John Moores Uni, Abstinence Prevention: Reducing the harmful effects of non-use of drugs on psychological health
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- Richard King Who's Asking the BIG Questions
- Liz Sockett The Microbiology of Xmas
- Robin Richardson and Matthew McCormack The Parekh Report
- Steven Rose Alas, Poor Darwin
- Jonathan Ree I See a Voice
- Patrick Riley Melanin: Skin Colour, Evolution and Cancer
- Sheila Rowbotham Remembering the Sixties
- Robin Hudson Maths and Music in AD 2000/ AJSB 250
- Danielle Kerslake NLP: the Science of Human Excellence
- Barry Rawlins Can We Stop Global Warming?
- Lucy Sargisson Modern Utopian Communities
- Peter Coles Science and the Mind of God
- Giles Croft Why Nottingham Needs a Playhouse
- Claire Hodges Cannabis and MS
- Gabriel Dover Dear Mr Darwin
- Dylan Evans Is the mind like a Swiss Army Knife: Evolutionary psychology and the massive modularity hypothesis
- Steve Allder and Ray Tallis Human beings: are they just slightly special pieces of matter?
- Trevor Palmer Catastrophe Theory, Darwinism and Evolution
- Mike Merrifield Dark matter, anti-gravity, and the fate of the Universe
- Tim Birkhead Promiscuity
- Susan Blackmore Viruses of the Mind and the Evolution of Ideas
- Martin Westwell The Rise of the Superbug: Apocalypse Now?
- John Worthen Lawrence and Love
- Jeffrey Ketland The Sokal Affair
- Kay Challand Adoption: Who Pays?
- Dave Murray Cannibalism
- Kat Nilsson La Comedie Scientifique
- Sue Thomas Who are You when you're in Cyberspace?
- Matt Ridley The Human Genome
- Rob Smith Wolves on Our Doorstep
- Philip Ball H2O: The Biography of Water
- James Accord Radioactive sculpture
- Chris Metcalf Chaos Theory
- Barnard Cohen Novels in the City
- Julian Barbour The End of Time
- Roberta Meehan Biology of Gender
- Steve Allder MRI Scanners and Consciousness
- Alan Simpson Mad Food: GMOs
- Benz The New Music Industry
- Larry Brown Feminist LitCrit
- Pete Bennett Stand-up Comedy: Why and How
- Philip Stokes Photography and Censorship
- Roland Miller Framing the Ordinary: Performance Simple
- Ray Tallis Consciousness
- John Gardiner Legal Aid
- Dave Applebaum 1+1=quantum
- Vic Barnett Risk and Chance: Why we do the Lottery
- NottDance Censorship
- Mike Merrifield Origins of Galaxies
- Jevan Berrange The Quest for Gold in Costa Rica
- Adam Barnard, Graham Ball, Mike Craven Menage a Trois: Why do Science?
- Mary Midgley Scientific Imperialism
- Leigh Fish GM Foods
- Rita Carter Mapping the Mind
- Dominic Palmer-Brown Artificial Intelligence: Trick or Treat?
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