Brian Moore:                  'The Defence of Heretics: The Origins of the SIS'

                                        Previous Meetings, Conferences and Tour

• 2007:  Cosmic Catastrophes - Asteroids, Comets and Planets:
  Possibilities and Probabilities in the Light of Today's Findings and the Testimony of Ancient Man
  Friday 31st August - Sunday 2nd September 2007. 3rd SIS Cambridge Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge., UK 

   

• 2002:  Ages Still in Chaos:
  An investigation into the progress made in the revision of ancient history
  13 - 15 September 2002. Residential Weekend Conference, London.

   

• 1999:  SIS Silver Jubilee Event:
  Incorporating a conference on Chronology & Catastrophism.
  Fri 17th - Sun 19th Sept. Residential Weekend cCnference, Easthampstead Park, Berkshire, UK

   

• 1997:  Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations:
  Archaeological, Geological and Astronomical Perspectives.
  Fri 11th - Sun 13th July 1997. 2nd SIS Cambridge Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK.

   

• 1995:  Velikovsky's 100th Birthday Memorial Weekend.
  30th Sept - 1st Oct 1995. Residential Weekend Conference at Braziers College, Oxford, UK

   

• 1993:  Evidence that the Earth has suffered Catastrophes of Cosmic Origin in Historical Times
  16th - 18th July 1993. Residential Weekend Conference, Fitzwiliam College, Cambridge, UK 

   

• 1984:  SIS Tenth Anniversary Tour
  29th August - 14 September 1985. Egypt 

   

• 1978:  Ages in chaos? How valid are Velikovsky's views on Ancient History? ('The Glasgow Proceedings')
  7-9 April 1978. Residential Weekend Conference, Jordanhill College, Glasgow University.

                                         Previous One-Day Lecture Meetings

• David Rohl - 'Testing Time -the New Chronology in 2009'.   A morning and afternoon presentation by the author of A Test of Time

•  Mark Bailey - 'The Origin of Comets: New Results and Implications for  Time-Variability of  the  Interplanetary  Complex'
•  Peter Warlow - 'Global Warming Nonsense'

20th September 2008 11.30 am to 4.30 pm, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey - Members Autumn Lecture Meeting

• Steve Mitchell - 'Dark Earth: A Metaphor for the Dark-Ages of the First Millennium AD?' 
• Barry Curnock - 'Jeremiah and His Time' (a talk bearing, in particular, on Egypt at the time of the prophet Jeremiah)
• Patrick McCafferty - 'Tall Tails: Comets in Irish Mythology' (with a section on 'red rain'). Patrick McCafferty is co-author with Professor Mike Baillie of The Celtic Gods: Comets in Irish Mythology.

26th April 2008, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey.  AGM and Members Afternoon Spring Lecture Meeting

• Barry Curnock - A Unified Hittite History
• Dr Bernard Newgrosh - The Key to Ancient Chronology: Kingship and the Assyrian King List

Sat 21st Oct 2006, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey - Members Autumn Meeting

• Laurence Dixon - Plasma Events in the Solar System in the 20th Century
• Robert Porter - Radiocarbon Dates for Thera
• John Bimson- Possible Dates for the Exodus

Sat 22nd Oct 2005, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey - Members Autumn Meeting.  'Megalithic Builders and Neolithic Catastrophes'

• Paul Dunbavin - Catastrophism and Neolithic Britain (Pole and rotational shift of the Earth - focusing on British monuments and a Neolithic 'event' )
• Christopher Knight - Civilisation One (Construction of the megaliths by an earlier advanced civilisation than our own)
• Frank Wallace - North American Earthworks and European Megaliths as Codifiers of the Last Glacial Maximum

Sat 21st May 2005, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey - Morning AGM and Members Afternoon Spring Lecture Meeting 

• Wal Thornhill - The Electric Universe and the Saturn Configuration - or how to explain the impossible.  DVD available

Sat 25th Sept 2004, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey  - Members Autumn Meeting.  'Sea-Level Changes, Tree-Ring Dating and other Evidence in Relation to Catastrophes and the 6th Century AD'

• Mike Baille, Steve Mitchell, Trevor Palmer

Sat 24th Apr 2004, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey  - Morning AGM and Afternoon Members Spring Meeting

• Han Kloosterman - The Tippe-Top Earth and Apparent Geomagnetic Reversals: proofs from geology and mythology
• Trevor Palmer - Perilous Planet Earth (A talk based on the book of the same name)

Sat 18th Oct 2003, London - UCL.  Members Autumn Lecture Meeting.  'New Directions for the Interpretation of Stonehenge' 

•  Dr Mark Gillings and Dr Joshua Pollard (University of Leicester) - A joint lecture on their field work at Avebury and the wider Avebury landscape
•  Len Saunders - Hitherto Unrecognised Excavation Data Solves Enigma of Stonehenge.

Sat 22nd March 2003 London - UCL.  SIS AGM and Afternoon Spring Meeting   

• Robert Feather (author of The Copper Scroll) - 'Pharaoh's Holy Treasure'. Illustrated with slides, the talk includes new material and centres on Akhenaten and the famous Copper Scroll
• Robert Feather - Part II of the above talk.

Sat 13 October 2001, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey.

• Steve Mitchell - 'Egyptian Hieroglyphs - A Chinese Puzzle?'  Presenting evidence to show that Egyptian hieroglyphs occured in early Chinese writing and asking how and when this could have occurred. 
• David Eccott will speak on 'Pre-Columbian Trans-oceanic Contact'. 
• Nesta Caiger - 'Valley of Colours'.

5 May 2001, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey. 

• David Rohl - 'The Followers of Horus' Implications for contact between Egypt and Mesopotamia'.  

• Halton C. Arp: 'Observational Cosmology Impacts Modern Physics'
• Wal Thornhill: on an 'Electric Universe'