The Society’s next major event will be the Annual General Meeting, which will be held on April 20th at the McRobert Centre in Stirling. Until then please visit our Local Group Events pages to find out about our other actvities. Information about how to stand for election or how to nominate candidates will be made available early in 2008
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Biomedical Ethics Film Festival |
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23 – 26 November 2007
Ticket Deal: See all three films in this season for £12/£7.50 concessions.
Biological Kinship and Identity
Why will Prince William become King? Is my genetic heritage important? Are my family name and my ancestors part of my identity? Why was I created? These are some of the questions which will be asked in this three-day biomedical ethics film festival. The films screening reflect on the subject of biological kinship and identity, and, at the end of each film, a discussion will take place between a panel of invited biomedical and bioethics experts and the audience.
The festival is organised in partnership with the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Filmhouse, The Humanist Society of Scotland and the Genomics Forum of Edinburgh University. |
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Humanist Annual Conference 2007 |
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The HSS 2007 conference was held at the Fishers Hotel in Pitlochry, 26-28 October. |
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Major Debate In Glasgow |
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A team from the Glasgow Group of the HSS will debate the motion: “Almighty God is no delusion” with a team from the chaplaincy at Glasgow University.
Date: Sunday 21st October 2007.
Time: 2.00 – 4.00 pm (followed by tea and buns).
Place : The chapel at Glasgow University.
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Edinburgh Festival of Spirituality & Peace 2007 |
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The HSS sponsored the Festival of Spirituality & Peace, which took place during the Edinburgh festival, 5 – 26 August 2007, at St John’s Church (at the West End of Princes Street, on the corner with Lothian Road) Edinburgh EH2 4BJ 0131 229 7565. Volunteers handed out leaflets, sold t-shirts and postcards and talked to people about Humanism, our ceremonies and our campaigns in education and for a secular state.
The HSS sponsored two events on Saturday 18 August - Julian Baggini and Imam Ahmad Saad from North London Central Mosque discussed the need for a secular state, in a discussion chaired by political commentator Iain McWhirter at 10.45 followed by a conversation between Judge Balthasar Garzón (who indicted General Pinochet) and Derek Ogg QC, who helped us look at how the rule of law can call the powerful to account.  Interfaith Peace Mandala |
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