For our European and UK friends, here is a conference that will be of considerable interest to you. Best of all, IT'S FREE!

The British skeptics group the Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE) will shortly be staging the first skeptical conference in the UK for some years. Some preliminary information about the conference is given below.

Wayne Spencer
Council Member
ASKE

Paranormal and Superstitious Beliefs:
A One-Day Conference

Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.

The Association for Skeptical Enquiry (ASKE) and the Manchester Humanists are holding a one-day conference on paranormal and superstitious beliefs. The conference is sponsored by the MMU Dept. of Sociology and will take place in the Manton Building, MMU, from 12:00 - 19:30 on Friday 13th November 1998.

The speakers will be:

Dr. Christopher French. Department of Psychology, Goldsmith's College:
The Psychology Of Superstition

Dr. Michael Heap. Dept. of Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield:
Ideomotor Movements

Kevin McClure. Writer and Investigator:
Alien Abductions

Dr. David Stretch. Dept. of Mathematical Psychology, University of Leicester:
Critical Thinking And Alternative Medicine

Dr. Timothy Taylor. Dept of Archaeology, University of Bradford:
Graham Hancock and Pseudo-Archaeology

Dr. Richard Wiseman. Perrott-Warrick Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire:
The Psychology of Luck

Tony Youens. Conjurer:
Demonstration of pseudo-psychic tricks

The conference will be free of charge.

For further information on this event please contact ASKE at 15 Ramsden Wood Road, Walsden, Todmorden, Lancs, OL14 7UD, United Kingdom or