Upcoming Humanist Events
Event
- Title:
- Jim Herrick will answer the question: "What is Humanism?"
- When:
- 15/07/2009 18:30 - 20:30
- Where:
- Hughes Parry Hall (Chancellor's Room) -London
- Category:
- Talk Lecture
Description
Jim Herrick is a Humanist and secularist. He studied history and English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then worked as a school teacher for seven years. He has written or edited several books on humanism or the history of freethought.
He is a director of the Rationalist Press Association and was editor of its journal New Humanist for 18 years from 1984. He subsequently became literary editor of New Humanist until his retirement in 2005. He was the recipient of the second International Rationalist Award in the year 2002.
He was editor of International Humanist News, published by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU). In 1996 he received the Distinguished Humanist Service Award from the IHEU.
From January 1977 until 1981, Herrick edited The Freethinker. He later wrote that publication's centenary history. He was a founder member of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association.
Currently he is also a vice-president of the National Secular Society.
His published works include:
- Humanism: An Introduction (2009). New edition published by the Rationalist Association.
(Also published by Prometheus Books, 2005.) - Humanist Anthology: From Confucius to David Attenborough. (1995). London, Rationalist Press Association. Edited by Margaret Knight; 2nd edition, revised by Jim Herrick.
- Against the Faith: Some Deists, Skeptics and Atheists. (1985). London: Glover & Blair. ISBN (Also published by Prometheus Books, 1994.
- Vision and Realism: A Hundred Years of The Freethinker. (1982). London: GW Foote & Co.
Venue
- Venue:
- Hughes Parry Hall (Chancellor's Room) - Website
- Street:
- The Garden Halls 19-26 Cartwright Gardens
- ZIP:
- WC1H 9EF
- City:
- London
- Country:
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Description
Hughes Parry Hall is one of eight intercollegiate halls of the University of London.
The Hall is administered by a bursarial team that also exercises responsibility for Canterbury Hall. Since 1995, the Warden of Hughes Parry Hall has been Professor Martyn Rady; the Bursar is Fiona Elder.
With 300 residents, it is primarily intended for undergraduate students. The hall was opened in 1969 and its design and facilities bear witness to the exigencies of that time: bathroom facilities are shared; there is little by way of communal kitchen arrangements (although the hall provides both breakfast and evening meals); and the lifts are frequently broken (the hall is arranged as a tower block and has fourteen floors). There are squash courts, tv and games rooms, and a less than active student society. The hall also benefits from its location overlooking Cartwright Gardens in WC1 where tennis courts are available to residents. Every Christmas, the students are accustomed to wrap decorative paper around the life-size statue of John Cartwright (political reformer) in the Gardens that are named after him.
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