SkeptiCamp 2012 Event Details

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6 months ago
by nowoo in

Date: Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
Time: 9:30 am to 5 pm
Location: UBC’s Buchanan Bldg., Block A, Room A201, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC

Thanks to generous donors, free breakfast & coffee/juice will be provided for registered attendees from 9:30-10am, so don’t be late!

Vancouver SkeptiCamp is a fun, informative, one-day, free, open, attendee-driven, grassroots skeptic conference featuring many brief (~10 minute) presentations with Q&A sessions. We hope to make this year’s event as successful as the previous five Vancouver SkeptiCamps, but we need your participation. [The speaker list has been finalized, but we still have room for more attendees.]

http://vancouver.skepticamp.org/

By the way, for those who registered, we’ll even have lunch and have lots of free gifts to hand out as door prizes, and we’ll even provide a free lunch to registered attendees. Be sure to register so you don’t miss out!

Here’s the link to the UBC map to the building.

Schedule:

9:30am Doors Open/coffee and goodies
10:00am Orientation and Intros – Joe /Fred

1. Rob Tarzwell – Fever: to treat, or not to treat?
2. Mavaddad Javid – A history of philosophy’s influence on science
3. Nirel Marovsky – How becoming an atheist made my life better
4. David Hutchinson – Cannabis for curative medical purposes

BREAK (around 11am)

11:30am Door prizes #1

5. All day contest – Carrie / X – It Ain’t Necessarily So, SkeptiCamp Edition
6. Pat O’Brien, Dale Beyerstein – Paul Kurtz

LUNCH BREAK (around 12noon)

1:00pm Back from lunch announcements, Door Prizes #2

7. Nienke van Houton – Reverse Engineering Vaccines for a Modern Plague
8. Rodrigo de la Jara – Political Bias
9. Dale Beyerstein – How to Tell the Difference Between Skeptics and True Believers

BREAK (around 2pm)

2:30pm Door Prizes #3

10. Xavier MacDonald – What Shakespeare Wrote: or How to Respond to the Authorship “Controversy”
11. Brian Lynchehaun – Pedestals, And Who We Put On Them
12. Sonia Milbradt – Social Justice and Skepticism: Why should we care?
13. Lisa Gemino – The Emotional Skeptic

BREAK (around 3:30pm)

4:00pm Door Prizes #4

14. All day contest results – Carrie / X
15. Donna Barker – Drug Policy in a Prohibitionist Context
16. Jaymie Matthews – Invasion of the Fornicating Manbats: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835

Wrap up (around 5pm)

Our sponsors include:

Vancouver SkeptiCamp 2012 Registration is open!

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7 months ago
by nowoo in

You can register now for Vancouver SkeptiCamp 2012 at http://vancouver.skepticamp.org/registration/

Date: Saturday, November 3rd, 2012

Time: 10 am to 5 pm (doors open at 9:30 am)

Location: UBC’s Buchanan Bldg., Block A, Room A201, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC

Maps: Google map or UBC’s Wayfinding map

This will be Vancouver’s sixth SkeptiCamp event, and we expect it to be the biggest and best yet. Come out to see and hear local skeptics give presentations, perform demonstrations, and discuss a wide range of topics related to science, skepticism, and critical thinking. Your participation will help make this event a success.

Admission: Free! And thanks to donors, we even plan to offer free breakfast/coffee at 9:30am and pizza/sandwiches for lunch.

Register at: http://vancouver.skepticamp.org/ to be eligible for cool door prizes and guarantee your spot. Invite your skepti-curious friends and help promote skepticism.

Want to give a presentation? Talks will be lightning presentations of 10 minutes or less, so trim your content down to just the essentials. There’s always an opportunity for questions and audience interaction after each presentation. Anyone can volunteer to give a talk, but slots are limited. Register now, indicate your desire to give a presentation, and let us know your intended topic. Speaking time slots are filling up fast, but I ask all local skeptics to think of a topic that *YOU* would like to give a short talk about.

There is free wifi Internet access at UBC, so feel free to live-blog and Twitter during the event, and post your photos to Flickr. Use the tag “#VanSkeptiCamp” so others can search for your tweets and pictures.

Register through the website today!

Vancouver SkeptiCamp 2011 Sponsors and Links

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1 year ago
by Joe Fulgham in

Need more skepticism? Check out some groups and activities available to Vancouver Skeptics:

Our sponsors

Related Links

This great program will automatically warm your monitor’s color later in the day: http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Interested in an atheist women’s meetup in Vancouver? Email Natalie Nikolaeva!

Physics, General Relativity, Curvature, etc. additional information by Jim Richardson

Salman Khan’s TED talk about new educational techniques at Khan Academy.

Vancouver SkeptiCamp 2011 Schedule

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1 year ago
by Joe Fulgham in

10:00 AM Doors Open

 

10:15am

Orientation and Intros – Joe Fulgham/Fred Bremmer

Infallible IQ Test – Carrie Chapman

Friendships, Skepticism and Social Media- Kerry Hassan

Psychological and Rhetorical Pitfalls in Oppositional Dialogues - Mavaddat Javid

Martial Arts and Magical Thinking – Lisa Gemino

BREAK

11:30am

Mormonism from a Skeptic’s Perspective – Ginny Landry

Why You Should Support CFI - Jamie Williams

Green Washing and Bogus Health Claims in the Lighting Industry – Marilee Welch and Douglas Welch

LUNCH BREAK

1:45pm

Back from lunch announcements – Joe Fulgham

Physics, General Relativity, Curvature, etc. – Jim Richardson

The Psychology of Religious Extremism – Simon Pratt

Mind/Body Dualism - Veronika Dikoun

Colour Science: Colour Only Exists in Your Brain – Ray Maxwell

BREAK

3:30pm

Infallible IQ Test Results – Carrie

“Mr. Nice Guy”: How to be an Interfaith Ambassador - Jakob Liljenwall

Mexican Government’s Use of GT200 to Detect Drugs – Lino Coria Mendoza

Applying Science to Science Education – Sonia Milbradt

A Mythology of Skepticism? - Rob Tarzwell

BREAK

5:15pm

Mystery Topic - Miranda Boire

The Evolution-Creation Debate – Greg Bole

Invisible Monsters, Fatal Vaginal Infections and Skeptical Thinking - Jennifer Adamson

Wrap up

 

6:30pm


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