Previous Meetings, Conferences and Tour 

                                                    

  Previous Conferences and Tour of Egypt

• 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  Lecture Meetings

1st May 2010, Members afternoon Spring Lecture Meeting.  The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, Redhill, Surrey, UK. (SIS AGM held in the morning). On the occasion of it being 60 years since the publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's  Worlds in Collision, the Members afternoon Lecture Meeting's mainly concerned itself with the SIS and Velikovsky.

• Brian Moore: 'The Defence of Heretics: The Origins of the SIS'
• Emmet J. Sweeney:  'Hatshepsut: "Queen of the South'  (A talk rebutting John Bimson's arguments in C&C Review Vol. VIII, 1986 against           Velikovsky's seminal identification of the Queen of Sheba with Hatshepsut)

19th September 2009, Harlequin Theatree, Warwick Quadrant, Redhill, Surrey. Member's Autumn Lecture Meeting. (Also open to the general public). David Rohl - 'Testing Time -the New Chronology in 2009'. A morning and afternoon presentation of three lectures by the author of A Test of Time, Legend, and several other books concerned with the revision of the chronology of ancient Egypt and surrounding nations. 

•  Lecture 1  -  'Conundrums of the Pharaohs: reasons why the orthodox chronology is wrong'.
•  Lecture 2  -  'Legendary Kings and Chronices: the United Monarchy in the New Chronology'. 
•  Lecture 3  -  'The Israelites in Egypt: evidence for the Sojourn, Exodus and Conquest'.                                 

•  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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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 - University College London.  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 - University College London.  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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Quadrant, 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, The Harlequin Theatre, Warwick Qudrant, 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'