Invited Speaker Series 2009-10
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 6.10pm in Room 256, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.
All talks are open to staff, students and members of the public. Attendance is free and there is no need to book in advance. For further information, contact Tamas Borbely (email: t.borbely@gold.ac.uk).
A full list of previous lectures and presentations is available here. It is also possible to watch, listen and download some of these presentations.
NB: You are strongly recommended to register (at no cost) with the APRU’s “Psychology of the Paranormal” email list to ensure that you are informed of any future changes to the programme. Visit: www.gold.ac.uk/apru/email-network/
Autumn term 2009
| 6 Oct | Dr Cara Laney Department of Psychology, University of Leicester True vs. False Memories: Is There a Definitive Difference? |
| 27 Oct | Anonymous Writer The Good Daughter: When an Adult Recovers “Memories” of Parental Child Sexual Abuse, How can the Rest of the Family Assess the Charge? |
| 10 Nov | Professor Chris French Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths Something Wicked This Way Comes: Causes and Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis |
| 24 Nov | Dr Mark Vernon Writer, broadcaster and journalist Happiness: The Failure of a New Science |
| 8 Dec | Professor Bruce Hood Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol Supernatural Belief: Me or Memes? |
Spring term 2010
| 2 Feb | Dr Emmanuelle Peters
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London Understanding Delusional Thinking: A Scientist-Practitioner Perspective |
| 9 Feb | Nick Campion
Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales, Lampeter How Many People Really Believe in Astrology? |
| 23 Feb | Dr Stephen Law
Department of Philosophy, Heythrop College, University of London Intellectual Black Holes |
| 2 Mar | Dr Miguel Farias
Goldsmiths, Oxford and Cambridge Universities Believing in the Da Vinci Code: Social-Cognitive Predictors and Correlates |
| 9 Mar | Dr Gustav Kuhn
*** CANCELLED ***
Department of Psychology, Brunel University The Science of Magic: How Magic Changes our Expectations About Autism |
| 16 Mar | Professor Richard Wiseman Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose”: How Parapsychologists Nullify Null Results |
| 23 Mar | Dr Sam Parnia University of Cornell and University of Southampton Near Death Experiences During Cardiac Arrest |
Summer term 2010
| 18 May | Peter Brookesmith *** CANCELLED ***
Writer and Publisher The Unextraordinary Oddity of Alan Godfrey’s ‘Alien Abduction’ |
| 15 June | Professor Erlendur Haraldsson
University of Iceland in Reykjavik Empirical Enquiry into Cases of Children who Claim to Remember a Past Life |