In what can only be called a piece of ecological terrorism, I am going to Singapore for a day to attend a conference on the status of Rumours. I will spend more time travelling than talking and part of me thinks this is very bad for the planet.
I’ll post details about the conference, the paper [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Conference'
Conferencing
January 13th, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: Conference · Papers
The Presentation
September 30th, 2009 5 Comments
Well, the Skeptics Conference has been and gone. A complaint was made about me (but not really about the presentation); I’m apparently too young to be giving papers at a Skeptics Conference. I should come back in ten or twenty years time.
I would say that this is good evidence that this older member of the [...]
Tags: Conference · Skeptic
The Slippery Slope of Conspiracy Theories – Skeptics 2009
August 24th, 2009 2 Comments
[ 26 September, 2009; 11:45 am to 12:30 pm. ] I’ve booked me tickets (as a posh pirate might say) for me trip to Wellington; Skeptics Conference 2009 here I come! Given the exclamation mark, a ‘thing’ I hardly like to employ in scribblings such as these (my pirate grammar is interfering with me normal speaky-writey transcription) it seems timely to post some more information [...]
Tags: Conference · Skeptic
Protest or Attend, that is a question
March 18th, 2009 12 Comments
Over at Map’s place (which has a vibrant comments community) discussion goes on about the Uncensored Symposium and the consensus (admittedly not a scientific survey) is that attendance = bad; protest outside = good.
I’m not sure what to think about that.
I’ve never been much of a protester; I can count the number of protests I [...]
Tags: Alternative New Zealand Histories · Conference · Martin Doutré · Uncensored
