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- All That Jazz: Improvising Ethics Today Stanley Nisbet Educational Colloquium Lecture Date: Wednesday, April 17 2013 Time: 6pm Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building – Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow – 1 University Avenue Category: Public lectures Speaker: Dr Richard Holloway, Writer and Broadcaster Light refreshments will be served at 5.30 pm before the Lecture. RSVP Eleanor Macleod, School of Education St Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon Street Glasgow G3 6NH Direct Line: 0141 330 3001 Fax: 0141 330 3499 Email: Eleanor.Macleod@glasgow.ac.uk Dr Richard Holloway Richard Holloway is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Godless Morality, Doubts & Loves, Looking in the Distance and Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition. His latest book, Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt, was published by Canongate in March 2012. He was Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church till he stood down in 2000. He was Gresham Professor of Divinity in the City of London 1997-2001. He was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority from its inception in 1990 till 1997, and chaired its ethics committee. He was on the BMA’s steering group on Ethics and Genetics 1995-19998. He was a member of the Broadcasting Standards Commission from 2000-2003. He was Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council 2005-2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and received its Gold Meal in 2008. He is the Chairman of Sistema Scotland, the charity that has brought the Venezuelan youth orchestra system to Scotland. A frequent broadcaster, he has presented a number of television series, including Holloway’s Road, The Sword and the Cross and Art and Soul. He regularly presents Sunday Morning with Richard Holloway for BBC Radio Scotland.
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New Session – Committee information
AGM 29/5/12 St. Andrew’s Building University of Glasgow Further details will be posted in due course but thanks to all who attended the AGM on Tuesday 29/5/12 and thanks for those who submitted apologies. Apologies: Joe McDowell Christine Wicklow … Continue reading
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Possible change to the meeting of 19th April 2012
Colleagues The executive will have had a copy of Tom’s suggestion re’ the re-secheduling of Michael Wood’s talk. Tom makes a good point about the similarity of topics (Short and Wood) and offers an alternative. Can we reflect on this? Drop … Continue reading
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Committee Update
Committee Update Donald Gillies, Bryce Harsthorn have been approached formally and have agreed to serve on the committee. Walter, we assumed, would continue but I have approached him and he has indeed (thankfully) confirmed this. My understanding is that Dan, at … Continue reading
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Be brave please
The idea of the Blog will only work if colleagues actually contribute. You do not need to think of anything fancy to say just now. Just subscribe (see the bottom of the page). Say anything – say something. At the … Continue reading
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Committee Members
We discussed the possibility of approaching certain others re’ committee membership. Who is taking this forward. Did we agree? If you require anything of me please do not communicate this here but E-Mail me.
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