Forthcoming SMN Events


Day Conferences

  • 23 October 2010 9am - 4pm (Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE)

    Event
    Criminal Intent and Responsibility: Exploring Conscious and Unconscious Motivation
    Speakers: Lord Justice Toulson (law), Prof Sean Spence (neuroscience), Prof G Wagstaff (forensic psychology), Prof David Canter (investigative psychology)

    This conference will explore the subtle interface between conscious and unconscious motivation with respect to criminal intent and behaviour. While many neuroscientists stress the role of neurochemicals in the brain as a key driver of behaviour, our legal system is based on the ethical notion of personal responsibility, albeit to different degrees. This sets up an interesting tension between differing accounts of behaviour and motivation and poses the intriguing question: to what extent are we really responsible for our actions? This question will be examined by our panel of distinguished speakers from four different angles: social psychology, clinical hypnosis, neuroscience and law. The resulting discussion will give us a clearer and probably more complex understanding of the relationship between inner psychological and outer social factors. This will have significant implications in all four of the fields we will be covering.

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  • 6 November 2010 9am - 4pm (Queen Mary College, London)

    Event
    New Renaissance dialogue and book launch
    Prof. Ervin Laszlo, Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Satish Kumar, Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris, Dr. Frank Parkinson, Prof. Chris Clarke, Paul Devereux, Dr. David Peat, Anne Baring and more...

    This event will be launching the book A New Renaissance: Transforming Science, Spirit and Society, edited by David Lorimer and Oliver Robinson. All speakers at the event are contributing authors to the book.

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Residential Conferences

  • 27 August 2010 - 29 August 2010 (Latimer Place, Chesham HP5 1UG (just north west of the M25))

    Event
    Mind as Healer, Mind as Destroyer: Psychosomatic Influences on Health
    Dr. David Beales, Prof. Paul Gilbert, Dr. Michel Odent, Prof. David Spiegel, Prof. Kavita Vedhara

    This is the second residential conference in the Body and Beyond series. The conference is focusing on the power of the mind and unconscious to influence health, for better or for worse.

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