This year marks the 80th anniversary of the
first sighting of the modern age of the Loch Ness Monster and to mark this
milestone a symposium is to be held in the city of Edinburgh on the 6th of April
2013. A variety of speakers have been lined up to talk on various aspects of
this enduring story ending with a panel discussion on what the Loch Ness Monster
is and is not. The speaker roster is below and the official website is here and if this is not yet up and running
try the website of co-organise Gordon Rutter at this link.- Adrian Shine - The biology of Loch Ness and an overview of geography.
- Roland Watson - The pre-1933 history of Loch Ness Monster and its folklore.
- Paul Harrison - Loch Ness Monster History 1933-1971.
- Tony Harmsworth - Loch Ness 1972 to present.
- David Martin-Jones - Nessie on Film.
- Charles Paxton - Statistical analysis of eyewitness reports.
- Gordon Rutter - Photographic evidence of the Loch Ness monster.
- Panel Discussion - Hypotheses for the Loch Ness monster: different explanations for the Loch Ness monster as both a non-monstrous and monstrous phenomena: (panel includes Adrian Shine, Paul Harrison, Steuart Campbell and Roland Watson).
The event will be sponsored by Kraken Rum and will be run under the
umbrella of the Edinburgh
International Science Festival which runs from the 23rd March to the 7th
April. The venue will be The
Counting House and further details of the event can be found again at the
aforementioned websites.
Ticket purchase is essential to attend. To buy tickets, send a paypal transfer to co-organiser Charles Paxton (cgp2@st-andrews.ac.uk) for £20 – no physical tickets will be issued but the printed Paypal receipt on the day we be matched to the attendee list.
While we are on the subject of Loch Ness Monster symposiums, I would say this is the fourth event to bear that title. The word "symposium" itself comes from the Greek word for a drinking party which seems appropriate considering the event is sponsored by a rum manufacturer and some form of alcohol will no doubt flow later. These ancient events would be held to debate, recite or celebrate events or works. I guess the drink lubricated the smooth running of the event and the "symposiarch" would decide on the strength of the drink served up depending on the type of event. Who will have that task in April is uncertain!
As far as Nessie is concerned the most famous symposium was the one that never happened in 1975. The word was out that Robert Rines and his team had got close up head, neck and body pictures of the creatures and various people from scientific and academic backgrounds were to be invited to a symposium in Edinburgh under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Scott and the sponsorship of the Royal Society to discuss these images.
Ticket purchase is essential to attend. To buy tickets, send a paypal transfer to co-organiser Charles Paxton (cgp2@st-andrews.ac.uk) for £20 – no physical tickets will be issued but the printed Paypal receipt on the day we be matched to the attendee list.
While we are on the subject of Loch Ness Monster symposiums, I would say this is the fourth event to bear that title. The word "symposium" itself comes from the Greek word for a drinking party which seems appropriate considering the event is sponsored by a rum manufacturer and some form of alcohol will no doubt flow later. These ancient events would be held to debate, recite or celebrate events or works. I guess the drink lubricated the smooth running of the event and the "symposiarch" would decide on the strength of the drink served up depending on the type of event. Who will have that task in April is uncertain!
As far as Nessie is concerned the most famous symposium was the one that never happened in 1975. The word was out that Robert Rines and his team had got close up head, neck and body pictures of the creatures and various people from scientific and academic backgrounds were to be invited to a symposium in Edinburgh under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Scott and the sponsorship of the Royal Society to discuss these images.
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