"The New Zealand Skeptics" First Annual Convention
- 1st November 1986
8-10 August, 1986, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Friday, 8th August
- 12 - 2 p.m.,
- Press Conference,
- Committee Members and guests
Saturday, 9th August
- 9 - 10 a.m.
- “What Is Pseudoscience?”
- Denis Dutton (University of Canterbury) Secretary, NZCSICOP.
- 10 - 11 a.m.,
- “Creationism & the Misuse of Biology”
- Gordon Hewitt, (Victoria University), Committee Member, NZCSICOP
- 11 - 11.30 a.m.,
- COFFEE/TEA
- 11.30 - 12.30
- “The Australia- New Zealand Stop-Over For International Psychics”
- Mark Plummer, (Melbourne), Founding Chairman, Australian Skeptics.
- 12.30 - 1.30 p.m.
- LUNCH
- 1.30 - 2.30 p.m.
- “Psychics I Have Known”
- David Marks, (University of Otago), Founding Chairman, NZ Skeptics
- 2.30 - 3.00 p.m.
- ’Psychic Powers: A First-Person Account”
- A prominent psychic will be invited to speak.
- 3.00 ~ 3.30 p.m.
- COFFEE/TEA
- 3.30 - 4.30 p.m.
- “Psychics, Clairvoyants, & Cold Reading”
- Denis Dutton
- 4.30 - 5.30 p.m.
- Open Forum & Discussion
- 5.30 - 7.00 p.m.
- Drinks, University Staff Club
- 7.00 - 11.00 p.m.
- Convention Dinner & Annual Press Awards, University Staff Club.
- (Tickets, $25)
Sunday, 10th August
- 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
- Other speakers, to be announced.
- 12 - 1 p.m.
- A.G.M.
REGISTRATION FORM (Please return to Dr D. Marks, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin)
I would like to pre-enrol for NZCISCOP’s First Annual Convention
Member $5
Non-member $10
I would like to attend the Conference Dinner $25
I would like to reserve accommodation for the nights of:
University College ($19/night bed & breakfast)
Motel ($55 room, double occupancy) ($65 room, triple occupancy)
8 - 9 August
9 - 10 August
10 - 11 August