Macc Lit & Phil meetings 2021-2022

Membership

Membership of the Macclesfield Literary and Philosophical Society for the 2021-2022 season costs £20 per person which covers access to all meetings. 18 year-olds and under are free.

Non-members can attend a meeting for a guest fee of £5. For Zoom meetings please email us.

To join the society or just to be kept informed of our meetings, please complete the form below and send it to:

Macclesfield Literary and Philosophical Society c/o 93 Ryles Park Road Macclesfield SK11 8AL

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Programme of Meetings 2021-2022

The Society usually meets at 7.30 pm at Macclesfield Library

The September, October and April talks will be online only via Zoom at the usual starting time (7.30 pm). Members will be informed of the means of accessing Zoom talks beforehand. The remainder are at Macclesfield Library.

Thursday 23rd September 2021 (Zoom)

Why should we read Ruskin?

Professor Dinah Birch is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement and Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University. She is President of the British Association for Victorian Studies. She has a longstanding interest in the life and work of John Ruskin.

Tuesday 19th October 2021 (Zoom)

How Universities and Industries can work together—despite their differences

David B Williams was Dean of Engineering at Ohio State University. Before that he was President of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and VP Research at Lehigh University. His degrees were from Cambridge University and he is an expert in electron microscopy of materials.

The AGM will follow the talk and discussion.

Thursday 18th November 2021

President Joe Biden—Radical or Retread?

Jon Herbert is a senior lecturer at Keele University’s Research Institute for the Social Sciences. He has a particular interest in the American Presidency and the US government as a whole.

Tuesday 18th January 2022

The Common Freedom of the People— John Lilburne and the English Revolution

Michael Braddick, professor of history at Sheffield University, introduces the life of John Lilburne. Lilburne, who lived at the time of the 17th-century civil wars, was a leader of the Levellers in politics. Starting life as a Puritan he eventually became a Quaker.

Thursday 17th February 2022 To be confirmed. To be confirmed.

Tuesday 15th March 2022

Housing in the Climate Crisis

Claire Brown is a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research in Manchester. She focuses on housing, in particular its energy demand. She is also a Teaching Fellow at Salford University.

Thursday 21st April 2022 (Zoom)

Orkney and the Ness of Brodgar: a 5,000 year old enigma.

Nick Card is an archaeologist and director of the dig at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney. His interests lie in all aspects of the prehistory of the Britain and the Highlands and Islands with particular reference to the Neolithic. He has been given many awards, including the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year.

Tuesday 17h May 2022

Music, Magic and Dance in Latin America

Grevel Lindop is a freelance poet, biographer and travel writer. His book Travels on the Dance Floor was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He represented the UK at the Granada, Nicaragua Poetry Festival in 2012.

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