S E P T E M B E R 2016

Calendar of Lectures & Exhibitions

Registered Charity no 304477

S E P T E M B E R PROGRAMME OF LECTURES & EVENTS

bold = Lectures / Special Events italics = Visiting Organisations ● Meetings start at 7.30pm (unless otherwise stated)

Thu 1 Bath Geological Society ‘Survivors’ the Living Fossils Dr Richard Fortey, Natural History Museum

Fri 2 Herschel Astronomy The Life Cycle of Galaxies Dr Stijn Wuyts University of Bath

Tue 6 Philosophy / Café Philo What is Happiness? Discussion chaired by Dr Gerard Kilroy

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Mon 19 Literature & Humanities Virginia Woolf as a painterly writer Sarah Phillips Freelance writer & lecturer

Tue 20 World Affairs The Legacy of Terrorism in Italy:

Victimhood and difficult pasts

Prof Anna Bull, University of Bath

Thu 22 Geography & Adventure

with RGS-IBG

South with Scott: 100 years on Julian Broke-Evans Grandson of Lt ‘Teddy’ Evans

Fri 23 Bath Film Society Gemma Bovery Fr / UK 2016 Dir: Anne Fontaine

Mon 26 Bath Family History Society Maps and Research Anne Buchanan, Bath Librarian

Mon 26 Patrick O’Brian Society Dava Sobel’s ‘Longitude’ Group book discussion—all welcome

Tue 27 Visual Arts John Singer Sargent and I/impression(ist)/m Dr Liz Renes, Visual Arts Convenor

Wed 28 Poetry Translating ‘The Waste Land’ into Arabic Ghareeb Iskander

Wed 28 Institution Lecture

Pioneers of English Ballooning

King of the Balloons: The adventurous life of

James Sadler the first English aeronaut

Mark J Davies

Author & Oxford Local historian

Fri 30 Speaking of Research The Alien Within Emma Geen; Joan Passey; Andrew Jones

Fri 30 Museum of East Asian Art

with BRLSI 7 pm £6 / £3

Discovering Mooncakes Sienna Parulis-Cook, writer & editor

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Bath Royal Literary

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16 Queen Square Bath BA1 2HN reception@brlsi.org 01225 312084

www.brlsi.org

Coffee Mornings Saturdays 11 am

Members Library Saturday 11 - 12 noon

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Wednesday 28 September ● 7.30 pm

Mark J Davies Author

and Oxford Historian

The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, the First English Aeronaut

100 years on

Julian Broke-Evans grandson of Lt. ‘Teddy’ Evans

Thursday 22 September ● 7.30 pm

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2016 BRLSI ADVENTURE LECTURE

HERITAGE OPEN DAY 10 to 4 pm BRLSI welcomes all visitors to view its elegant rooms. See the

Casali paintings and the fossil cast of a 24 foot Dinosaur. FREE Poetry Workshop 10 am –12 noon. All welcome.

PLUS FREE Family Science drop in 1pm- 3.30pm. An afternoon of fun science activities for the family. All ages

welcome, but children must be accompanied. No advance booking (but doors close at 3.30 pm).

J O H N S I N G E R S A R G E N T and I/impression(ist)/m

Dr Liz Renes Visual Arts Convenor

Tuesday 27 September ● 7.30 pm

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The Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution

(founded in 1824) is based in a unique listed

building in the heart of the historic city of Bath.

Here we put on a programme of talks and

discussions, which is unrivalled for the range of

subjects covered, and featuring some of today’s

leading thinkers and researchers.

Here also are housed our Collections:

internationally recognized items of geology,

natural history, ethnography, and archaeology;

a library of 10,000 antiquarian books and the

correspondence of many eminent 19th century

scientists including Charles Darwin.

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Entry to our talks cost

£4 visitors or £2 members / students

Exhibitions are FREE

Some S E P T E M B E R events at 16 Queen Square, Bath

F R E E E X H I B I T I O N

14 May —1 October 2016

Monday - Saturday 10 am - 4 pm

in partnership with

Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

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The Life Cycle of Galaxies

Dr Stijn Wuyts, University of Bath

Friday 2 September ● 7.30 pm

What is Happiness?

Chaired by Dr Gerard Kilroy, UCL

Tuesday 6 September ● 7.30 pm

V I R G I N I A W O O L F as a painterly writer

Sarah Phillips

Freelance Writer & Lecturer

Monday 19 September ● 7.30 pm

V I C T I M H O O D A N D D I F F I C U L T P A S T S

The Legacy of Terrorism in Italy

Professor Anna Bull University of Bath

Tuesday 20 September ● 7.30 pm

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Emma Geen, Joan Passey, Andrew Jones Friday 30 Sept ● 7.30 pm

What does it mean to be alienated? Three researchers will confront the idea ‘being separate’.