Forthcoming
SIS Autumn 2009 Lecture Meeting - Saturday 19th September, Harlequin Centre, Warwick Quadrant, Redhill, Surrey (free car parking). Doors open 10.15 and close at 5.00 pm. Also open to the general public.
'Testing Time - the New Chronology in 2009'
A morning and afternoon presentation by David Rohl, author of A Test of Time
The meeting is by pre-booked ticket admission to both members and non-members. SIS members free - Non-Members £10.00. Tickets can be applied for via the SIS Secretary, 'Innisfree', Highsted Valley, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 0AD, UK, or booked using the email address at the top of the 'Contact us' page (see menu opposite) and then paid online via PayPal (Payments online). Members requiring a hot lunch should apply using one of the methods given above and lunch options and prices can then be given. The hot lunch is also available to non-members if required.
Programme:
Discussion/Forum session
Lunch
Refreshments
Lecture 3: 'The Israelites in Egypt: evidence for the Sojourn, Exodus and Conquest.'
Discussion/Forum session
For further information on David Rohl and the New Chronology click here.
Previous Conferences and Tour

Conference 2007 participants

1999 SIS Silver Jubilee Event

Discussion on m.s. 'Nile Star' - 1984
SIS 10th Anniversary Egyptian 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.
Some Previous One-Day Lecture Meetings
25th April 2009, Harlequin Centre, Warwick Quadrant, Redhill, Surrey. Morning AGM & Members Afternoon Spring Lecture Meeting
- 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
- Dark Earth: A Metaphor for the Dark-Ages of the First Millennium AD? - A talk by Steve Mitchell
- Jeremiah and His Time - a talk bearing, in particular, on Egypt at the time of the prophet Jeremiah - Barry Curnock
- Tall Tails: Comets in Irish Mythology (with a section on 'red rain') - Patrick McCafferty (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
- Pharaoh's Holy Treasure - Robert Feather (author of The Copper Scroll). Illustrated with slides, the talk includes new material and centres on Akhenaten and the famous Copper Scroll
- Part II of Robert Feather's talk.
Sat 13 October 2001, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey.
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs -- A Chinese Puzzle? Steve Mitchell will present evidence to show that Egyptian hieroglyphs occur in early Chinese writing. And asks how and when this could have occurred.
- David Eccott will speak on Pre-Columbian Trans-oceanic Contact
- Nesta Caiger will give a short talk on the Valley of Colours
5 May 2001, Harlequin Centre, Redhill, Surrey.
- David Rohl - The Followers of Horus. Implications for contact between Egypt and Mesopotamia
Saturday 21st October 2000, University College London, UK. 'A New Universe for a New Millennium'
- Halton C. Arp: 'Observational Cosmology Impacts Modern Physics'
- Wal Thornhill: on an 'Electric Universe'
