Lecture Series
As a supplement to the unit and the Goldsmiths Psychology programme, the APRU organised a series of lectures presented by invited speakers from other institutions or organisations. These speakers, who are all specialists within their respective fields of Psychology and anomalistic research, kindly agreed for their presentations to be recorded and made available through this page. The links below provide complete and free access to these recordings, and will also be updated as new presentations are given. We have also endeavoured to provide any support materials, such as the lecture slides, where appropriate and possible.
Video files vary between 40MB and 100MB. Audio files are approximately 10MB.
From the 2007 - 2008 lecture series:
Dr
Brian Hughes
School of Psychology, National University
of Ireland, Galway (16.10.07) : Making Sense of Miracle Cures: How Psychology Makes Alternative
Medicine 'Work'
- View slides [pdf format]
From the 2006 - 2007 lecture series:
Dr Rupert Sheldrake
What if Telepathy Really
Happens?
Also, listen to a copy of the debate between Dr Rupert Sheldrake and
Prof. Chris French, conducted at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Live debate (29.11.2006) : Does Telepathy Happen?
Listen to debate
Dr
James Ost
University of Portsmouth (5.12.2006) :The Recovered Memory Debate – A
Collective False Memory?
Prof. Chris French
Goldsmiths College (16.01.2007) : The Placebo Effect: Myths, Muddle
and Methodology.
- View slides [pdf format]
Dr Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
Konrad Lorenz Institute (06.02.2007) : In a Mirror, Darkly; Does
rationality reflect superstition?
- View slides [pdf format]