Meetings

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month (October-May).

All events take place at 7.30pm (meet 7pm for coffee), at Swarthmore, 3-7 Woodhouse Sqaure, Leeds, LS3 1AD (click here for map).

You may park for free in the Joseph's Well car park in the evenings.

13th May 2010CE	“Humanism and Public Services in Yorkshire” Brian Quinn, Yorkshire Regional Representative.
29th April 2010CE	The AGM and “Dear Sir“ a selection of the letters Peter Wilson wrote to the Bradford T. & A.
11th March 2010CE	“The Catholic Church - Big Church or Big Business” - Mike Granville, Sheffield Humanist Soc
11th February 2010CE	“What Darwin Didn’t know” - Written and presented by the Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Imperial College.  This programme was on BBC4 at a late hour, so you may well not have seen it.
14th January 2010CE	“The New Atheists” Tim Stephenson, North Yorkshire Humanist Group
*3rd* December 2010CE	“Just Suppose” - Mike Lawrence
*Thurs* 8th November 2009CE	“Student Atheist, Humanist & Secular Societies” - Norman Ralph, former president of the national federation
*Thurs* 8th October 2009CE	“Intelligence and Scepticism” - Gijbert Stoet, member and NHS psychologist
Sat 4th July 2009CE	Outing to Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley.  Meeting there at 11.00am. Details in the July Newsletter
2ndth June 2009CE	“The coming crisis and how we might survive the challenge  of peak oil”, Colin Campbell
28th April 2009CE	AGM - 7.30 to 9.30. Note change of date. After the formal business and a break for ’drinks and nibbles’  Douglas Dale will give a  light-hearted talk on“How I became a Humanist” .
10th March 2009CE	“Ashley Montagu as Humanist Critic of Darwin” Gregory Radick
10th February 2009CE	“Neo-Darwinism - Darwinism Plus Genetics”  Richard Parker
13th January 2009CE	“The Religions of Pre-Christian Britain” Paul Dean.“Neo-Darwinism - Darwinism Plus Genetics”  Richard Parker
9th December 2008CE	“Humanism & the Search for Meaning in the Post-modern world” Prof. Colin Campbell (Dept of Sociology, York University).
11th Novemberl 2008CE	TBA
14th October 2008CE	“Humanism - The National Scene” Naomi Phillips (BHA, Public Affairs)

*See the Archive for previous meetings and newsletters.

The summer social is held in July. Our AGM is "on a Tuesday in April" (fitting in with the various dates of Swarthmore Easter vacation).