Sessions 1999-2006

Session 1999-00

Date	Speaker	Title
7th October 1999	Sir Kenneth Calman	Graham Lecture - Risk and its Communication
21st October 1999	Professor John Barrow	Kelvin Lecture - Life in the Universe
4th November 1999	Dr Winifred Ewing	A Suitable Job for a Woman
18th November 1999	Sir Malcolm Rifkind	Blessed are the Peacemakers
2nd December 1999	Mr Pat Lally	My Kind of Town
16th December 1999	Professor John Haldane	Philosophy in this Century and the Next
13th January 2000	Mr Donald Mackinnon	Forth and Clyde Canal: A Nation Divided
27th January 2000	Professor Ronald Mavor	Time and the Arts
10th February 2000	Mr Jimmie MacGregor	An Arctic Journey
24th February 2000	Professor Peter Oppenheimer	What Price Progress?

Session 2000-01

Date	Speaker	Title
5th October 2000	Professor Susan Greenfield	The Private Life of The Brain
19th October 2000	Frances Cairncross	The Death of Distance
2nd November 2000	John Peterson	The US Presidential Election
16th November 2000	Dr Robert Grant	Fiction and Meaning
30th November 2000	Education Symposium	What’s happening in our schools?
14th December 2000	Professor Malcolm Longair	Kelvin Lecture - Maxwell-Planck Quantum Hypothesis
11th January 2001	Professor Nigel Thorp	The Ass and the Coxcomb – Reflections on Whistler and Ruskin
25th January 2001	Professor Edwin Morgan	Arts Award Lecture - God, Fate and the Devil: Some philosophical thoughts on Burns
22nd February 2001	Dr Richard Holloway	The Wound of Religion
22nd March 2001	Norman Lebrecht	The Meaning of Mahler

Session 2001 – 02

Date	Speaker	Title
4th October 2001	Dr Callum Brown	Death of European Christian Culture: 1801-2001
18th October 2001	Professor Roderick Gailbraith	Two Centuries of Flight
1st November 2001	Professor Tom Devine	Scotland’s Century
15th November 2001	Professor Duncan MacMillan	An Exchange of Ideas
29th November 2001	Professor Hugh Pennington	A Century of Food Poisoning
13th December 2001	Richard Rampton, QC	Holocaust Denial – The Trial of the Century
17th January 2002	Tommy Sheridan MSP	A Century of Socialism
31st January 2002	Prof Richard Susskind	Clicks and Mortals – The Information Century
14th February 2002	Prof Sir James Black	A Brief History of New Drug Invention
28th February 2002	Gavin Stamp	Sir Giles Gilbert Scott: Architect of the Century
14th March 2002	AGM and members’ night	AGM
28th March 2002	Debate	Debate

Session 2002-03

Date	Speaker	Title
10th October 2002	Professor Richard Dawkins	Evolution of the Future
24th October 2002	Dame Ruth Deech	The Future of Fertility
7th November 2002	Bridget McConnell	Scotland’s Cultural Future
21st November 2002	Professor Ian Fells	The Future for Clean Energy
5th December 2002	Tam Dalyell	The Future of the Middle East
19th December 2002	Dr Janet Radcliffe Richards	The Future of Feminism
16th January 2003	Lord (Stewart) Sutherland	Ideologies and Values in the 21st Century
30th January 2003	Kay Hampton, Philip Muinde, Ravinder Nijjar	Symposium – A Fairer Future
13th February 2003	Professor Quintin McKellar	The Future of Animal Welfare
27th February 2003	Heather Reid	Weather Forecasting for the 21st Century
13th March 2003	Sir Roderick MacSween	The Future of Medical Care
27th March 2003	Derek Ogg QC	Do Human Rights Have a Future?

Session 2003-04

Date	Speaker	Title
8th October 2003	Otillia Saxl	‘The Science of the Small – Fact, Fantasy and the Future of Nanotechnology’
22nd October 2003	Professor Jim Hough	‘Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe’
5th November 2003	Professor Ted Cowan	‘5/11 and the Fallout from 1603’
19th November 2003	Barry Winetrobe	‘The Evolution of Devolution’
3rd December 2003	Very Rev Dr Finlay Macdonald	‘The Moderator’s Tale’
17th December 2003	Dr Nigel McMillan	‘Seeing Through You: The Latest Developments in Medical Scanning’
14th January 2004	Dr Robert Dickson	Kelvin Lecture - ‘Global Warming and Our Northern Seas: the Evidence from the Ocean’
28th January 2004	Dr Sheena McDonald	‘Sack the Clown: the Relationship Between Governance, the Media and the Citizenry’
11th February 2004	Professor Ian Wilmut	‘The Future of Cloning’
25th February 2004	Professor Simon Blackburn	‘Fictions, Inventions, and Ethics’
10th March 2004	Dr Andrew Cubie	‘Academic Rigour or Social Policy – Does Society care about Education?’
24th March 2004	AGM / Presidential Lecture	‘Science and Religion in the Third Millennium’

Session 2004-05

Date	Speaker	Title
6th October 2004	Derek Ogg, QC	‘Just Law’
20th October 2004	Keith Hellawell	‘Drugs in Society’
3rd November 2004	Dr. Graham Cairns-Smith	‘A Portrait of a Truly Primitive Gene’
17th November 2004	Prof. Craig Sharp	‘Animal Athletes: Feats of Animal Physiology’
1st December 2004	Dr. Mary Midgley	‘Visions and Values: A Western View of Global Ecology’
15th December 2004	Prof. John Burland	‘Propping up Pisa: Saving the Leaning Tower’
12th January 2005	Jeff Maxwell	‘GM Crops: Parameters of Acceptance and Rejection’
26th January 2005	Prof. Brian Ashcroft	‘New Wealth for an Old Nation: Scotland’s Place in Europe’s Economy’
9th February 2005	Prof. Sir Michael Bond	‘Forty Years in Pain’
23rd February 2005	James MacMillan	‘Music: the Most Spiritual of the Arts’
9th March 2005	Suzi Leather	‘Test Tube Babies and Embryo Research’
23rd March 2005	Dick Wolfson	‘Humour: the Elixir of Life’

Session 2005-06

Date	Speaker	Title
5th October 2005	Prof Haleh Afshar	‘Women’s rights and Islam: can things change?’
19th October 2005	Dr Martin Smith	‘Drifting continents and the Asian tsunami’
2nd November 2005	Prof John Smith	‘Scientific challenges for natural medicines’
16th November 2005	Prof. Sir Michael Atiyah	‘Einstein and the nature of space’ Einstein centenary lecture
30th November 2005	Alexander (Sandy) Stoddart	‘The sartorial imperative: costume, drapery and the decline of the statue’
14th December 2005	Lord (John) McCluskey	‘Whose law? Religion and legal rights’
11th January 2006	Prof. Kevin Warwick	‘Hybrid Intelligence: combining human and machine brains’
25th January 2006	Dr Carol Craig	‘The “Shriek of the Sea-Mew”: the negativity of Scottish culture and consciousness’
8th February 2006	Prof. Steven Mithen	‘The origins of music and language’
22nd February 2006	Philip Muinde, Billy McAnaney and Peter West	A symposium on Africa
8th March 2006	Prof. Tim Crane	‘Can science explain everything about consciousness?’
22nd March 2006	Mark O’Neill	‘Museums and enlightenment’

Session 2006-07

Date	Speaker	Title
4th October 2006	Dr David Reilly	‘Healing in a Post-Industrial Age – emergiLecture archiveng from 20th century medicine’
18th October 2006	Prof Lalage Bown	‘Women, Words, and the World’
1st November 2006	Dr Alison Elliot	‘Moderation in a World of Extremes’
15th November 2006	Prof Brian Caddy	‘Forensic Science – Servant of the Legal Process?’
29th November 2006	Prof Colin McLean	‘The Strange Behaviour of Investors’
13th December 2006	Prof Alister McGrath	‘The Twilight of Atheism? Reflections on the Future of Religion and its Alternatives’
10th January 2007	Dr Ken Skeldon	‘Debunking the Moon Hoax Theories – one small step, many giant myths’
24th January 2007	Prof Philip Hanlon	‘Threats to Public Health in the 21st Century – Can current thinking cope?’
7th February 2007	Prof Patrick Reilly	‘Decoding The Da Vinci Code‘
21st February 2007	Prof Simon Conway-Morris	‘How Evolution Dances to the Song of Creation’
7th March 2007	Prof John Butt	‘Does Classical Music still Exist?’
21st March 2007	Prof A C Grayling	‘Defending the Enlightenment’ Preceded by AGM