BRLSI Events
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EXHIBITION: 2nd AUGUST – OCTOBER 5th 10.00-16.00 Exc. Sundays ****************************************************** Admission Free – Visitors Welcome ”Life in Roman Britain” The Roman Empire as experienced in the province of Britannia: Government, society, industry, lives and beliefs of Romans and Britons living under a military dictatorship. Activities for kids MONDAY SEPTEMBER 6th ************************** PATRICK O’BRIAN GROUP, 7.30pm Discuss: “The 13 Gun Salute” TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7th, 7.30pm *************************** BATH NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Members’ Slides WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 8th 1.00pm ***************************** UNI-VERSE LUNCHTIME POETRY Members/Students £2, Visitors £4 “The English poets' fascination with Persian poetry” Parvin Loloi The influence of Persian poetry on Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, Edward Fitzgerald through to Mimi Khalvati. Parvin Loloi was educated at Melli University (Tehran) and at the University of Wales (Swansea), where she wrote her PhD thesis on the English translations of Hafiz and their influence on English poetry. She is a freelance scholar and writer. Her research interests include various aspects of translation studies, and the way in which Persian literature and culture have influenced (and are reflected in) English literature. Soft drinks provided, please bring your own lunch. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10th, 7.30pm ***************************** ROMANS IN BATH/ANITQUITY SERIES Members/Students £2, Visitors £4 “I know my rights… But what laws were there in Roman Bath?” Professor Derek Roebuck - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London Roman Bath lasted five centuries, but legal records are scarce. Yet, with scholarship and some conjecture, we can imagine how civil and criminal law touched people’s lives, and might have affected grievances such as between a British farmer and a retired Roman wishing to build a house on land acquired from him; and some other troublesome predicaments. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11th ********************** COFFEE MORNING: 11.00-12.30 Your host: Rosemary Marshall
******************** Two events: HERBAL WALK: 10.45 for11-00am Members/Students £2, Visitors £4 Meet at BRLSI “A Herbal Walk In Bath” A Guided Tour Through Nature’s Medicine Chest Led by Anna Gann Christensen & Ruth Mannion Daniels Please wear walking shoes and bring a drink. Lasts about 11/2 – 2 hours. A walk in Victoria Park and the adjacent allotments, looking at plants we often see, to discover the many unsuspected medicinal treasures around us. PAKISTAN FLOODS FUNDRAISING AFTERNOON AT GREEN PARK STATION In the Bath Society Meeting Room, above the Green Park Brasserie, 2.00-5.00pm Admission by donation – Paper money or cheques please! Organised in collaboration with Ethical Property Company and Oxfam Talking will be Faheem Khan from Bristol University who is a Pakistani national who has worked for the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Planning and Development Division, Islamabad. He also has extensive working experience with the International Donor Organisations (like, UNDP, ILO, World Bank, DFID, UNIDO, IFAD, World Economic Forum, UNESCAP and IFPRI). Discussing the medical consequences of these types of disasters will be Dr Bharat Pankhania who is a Consultant in Communicable Diseases. There will also be talks on water management and OXFAM’s experiences with this flood. We are also trying to make contact with some workers currently in the field. COMING SOON: ************ Tues 14 CRM Soc Mackintosh in France Adm £7 Robert Crighton – Author and founder of ‘L’association Charles Rennie Mackintosh en Roussillon’
Thur 16 Philosophy Why I am not a Christian Dr Donald Cameron Fri 17 Science Favourite small molecules - some surprising comparisons David Cunliffe-Jones Sat 18 Anly. Ntw Peter Pan & the Myth of Eternal Youth 10.30am/£8 Anna Yoeman – Jungian Analyst Sat 18 Cercle Fran “Chez Maxim” par David King 2.15pm Talk in French – background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim's_Paris Mon 20 World Affrs The Three Tensions of Latin America Dr Gian Luca Gardini - Lecturer in International Relations and Latin American Politics, University of Bath Tue 21 Lit & Hum Harold Pinter - Beyond Pause & Silence Dr Linda Renton - Part-time Lecturer on Film, Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University OTHER NEWS *********** Courtesy of our industrious Web Editor, Paul Stephens, we are now on “TWITTER”. We know that some of our members are not completely entranced by the IT world but it can be worth giving a go. Just go to our website: www.brlsi.org and look above the black rectangle of recent “Tweets” and click on the blue “FOLLOW US ON twitter” and follow the instructions. It is useful when we have last minute cancellations due to ill-health of a speaker or snow problems like we had last winter. Languages are something that feature a lot in some similar organisations such as ours. Our offerings have been a bit slim since the Bath German Society left us. (Hopefully they will return one day.) We are therefore delighted that Cercle Francais de Bath are going to be having monthly meetings at BRLSI on Saturday afternoons at 2.15pm. Their talks are in French and the first one is on Saturday 18th September when the iconic Chez Maxim’s in Paris will be discussed. Admission is £4 and only £1 for students. It is your editor’s personal opinion that there is probably enough interest in most major European languages to have meetings involving these, and wider afield, looking at the tourists who come in to Bath these days, Chinese too... When we had our Conference last September there was a delegation from Australia. One of these was Jill Bartholomeusz who is Head Librarian at The Melbourne Athenaeum Library. She is spending some time in Bath and has volunteered to do some sessions on the front desk. Make her welcome if you are in the Institution. This is her own establishment: http://www.melbourneathenaeum.org.au/ Terena Sterry takes the minutes at quite a few of our meetings and usually these start with ‘Apologies’. These are normally pretty brief – ‘Sorry can’t make it’ – that kind of thing. It was interesting to see, in comparison, a postcard justifying their absence from the next meeting, by a couple of members of the Patrick O’Brien enthusiasts group: Apologies for absence: "Patrick & I, having sailed from Portishead a few days ago, hope to be broadreaching out across Biscay on a steady nor'nor easter with Bishop Rock already 400 miles astern. All being well, we'll raise Cap Finisterre on the port beam at first light tomorrow on our way to Havana, having touched at Cape Verde in about four days time." |