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CFI UK EVENT: Event Title: Searching for Satan: Miscarriages of memory, fractured families and Satanic panics

(Photo: Wikipedia/Creative Commons; design: Lauren Wade) Centre for Inquiry UK and Anomalistic Psychology research Unit, Goldsmiths present: Searching for Satan: Miscarriages of memory, fractured families and Satanic panics Discover how the unreliability of memory has led to grave miscarriages of justice, including panics about Satanic abuse. Can memories really be ‘recovered’ by therapists? To what extent can we rely on the memories of witnesses in historic abuse cases? Some deeply disturbing cases will be investigated. 6th June 2015 Venue: Room LG02 in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (formerly the New Academic Building), Goldsmiths College, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW Find us: https://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ PLEASE NOTE VENUE IS NOT CONWAY HALL Talk 1: Time: 11:00-12:00 Title: What people believe about memory that ain’t necessarily so. Speakers: Prof Chris French & Dr James Ost Bi

RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY: A CONFERENCE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AT HEYTHROP COLLEGE

The Royal Institute of Philosophy presents RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY: A CONFERENCE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AT HEYTHROP COLLEGE 19th and 20th June 2015 Heythrop College, University of London, Kensington Square, London W8 5HN (very close to Kensington High St. tube) Funds for video-recording talks have been provided by The Templeton Foundation. This is a free, two-day conference aimed at the general public. It makes accessible some of the exciting, cutting edge work recently done in religious epistemology. All speakers are leading figures in the field (two are flying in specially from the States). Talks will be jargon-light and non-technical, presenting new ideas and insights to help inform and illuminate on-going public debate. This event will appeal to anyone with an interest in continuing public debates about the rationality of religious belief (particularly post The God Delusion ). A-Level students are very welcome to attend. The talks will be o