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Belfast Monthly Meetings
Members meet in Belfast on the second Thursday of  each month at 8pm. The meetings are a forum for like-minded people from all over the region to meet and exchange ideas. We have debates and discussions and frequenty invite guest speakers to talk on issues of social, political, religious, philosophical and scientific interest.

Meetings
Date
Thursday February 14   2008 8pm

Venue Malone Lodge Hotel, Eglantine Avenue Belfast
Topic
      "Is pride now a deadly sin?"
P A Maglochlainn, President of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association


Date Thursday  March 13  2008  8pm

Venue Malone Lodge Hotel, Eglantine Avenue Belfast

Topic
  "The widening gap in reproductive health care for Northern Irish women".   
Georgie McCormick, Manager, Training and Services,  Family Planning Association.


Darwin Day Dinner
Friday Evening  8th February 2008- Malone Lodge Hotel £22.50.
Speaker is confirmed as Robert Elwood, Professor of Behavioral Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University.
Topic:  Darwin's problem with sex
Please contact Brian McClinton 
brianmcclinton@btinternet.com if you would like to attend


North Coast Humanists Monthly Meetings
The North Coast Humanists group meet on the second Tuesday of each month in the Lodge Hotel, Coleraine at 6.30pm. Vistitors are welcome. Contact: jennifer Sturgeon, tel 028 7035 4287 jennifer.sturgeon@btinetnet.com

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International Darwin Day celebrations

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Chris Copsey (right) of Humani talks to Prof  Thomas Lawson who delivered a fascinating talk on the anthropology of religion at the The Darwin Day Celebrations 2006

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Brian McClinton (left) of Humani talks to Prof Rich Roberts, Nobel laureate for medicine, who delivered a public lecture on his Bright journey from Science to Atheism in April 2006.
Summer School The Joy of Humanism
Friday 17th- Sunday 19th August 2007, Carlingford, Co Louth


The 2007 annual summer school was another resounding success. The speakers included :
Glenn Patterson, Novelist, Martin McLoone on Irish Cimema, Fergus Finlay, Irish Labour Party and Phillipe Besson on Europe's Humanist Legacy.

The annual all Ireland summer school is held  in conjunction with The Humanist Association of Ireland and the Belfast Humanist Group. The event is a chance for Humanists from all over Ireland to come together for great lectures and good company.

View Carlingford 2007 photos

Carlingford accommodation


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Julian Baggini addresses the 2005 Summer School

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Chairpersons of the 3 Humanist groups involved with organising the 2005 event along with Roy Brown President, IHEU

More summer School photos


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Humani members at the 2004 annual dinner