Jackie Danicki

These are the events I would be going to over the next week (all via email from Christian Michel, to whom many thanks):

Wednesday 2 January, 7 for 7:30pm
A light-hearted philosophical discussion of New Year’s resolutions:
Why do we make them (if we do) and do we ever keep them?
The Exmouth Arms at 1 Starcross Street, London NW1
Tube: Warren Street, Euston and Euston Square stations
A Philosophy For All debate

Saturday 5th January, 10:20 for a prompt start at 10:30
Café philo at the French Institute (discussion in English of a topic chosen by participants on the day)
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT

Monday 7 January, 6pm
Demonisation and witch hunts in religion and politics
The origins, character and life of political and religious witch hunts, and the relation between what people say, what they believe and what they do.
Speaker: Professor Rodney Barker
Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH
(almost impossible to find, on High Holborn, just east of Chancery Lane tube)

Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 19:00 - 20:30
A year older, a year wiser?
This is another timely talk on the steely resolutions we make, which do not outlive the end of January. At the Dana Centre, psychologist Richard Wiseman returns armed with new knowledge from his 2007 resolution study to help you revitalise your resolve.
The Dana Centre
165 Queen’s Gate
South Kensington
London
SW7 5HD

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