Events & Notices
AGM 2011 - A Date for the Diary!
BFMS are pleased to announce that the Annual AGM and Conference for 2011 has been booked for Saturday 9th April 2011 from 11am to approx 5pm at a venue in London. We are very hopeful that Pam Freyd, the Executive Director of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in Philadelphia, will be with us on the day to share information on events that are currently taking place in America.
This promises to be a most useful and informative day and we hope as many members as possible will be able to attend.
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It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jill Parker, Chair of the BFMS Board of Trustees, who died peacefully on 11th March 2010. She meant a lot to us in BFMS and we shall miss her immensely because she was with us almost from the beginning. We enjoyed her kind hospitality for many trustees' meetings in London and for that splendid reflection day at Minster Lovell. She had a gentle way of leading us which was very appropriate and all backed up by genuine, deep understanding and compassion coming from her professional background as a General Practitioner and her personal values. We admired her courage and cheerfulness and remember that she really put herself out on our behalf in the Refuge issue when she resigned as one of their trustees when challenged over her work with the BFMS. As I understand it, her garden which my wife and I visited nearly two years ago, was an expression of her spirituality for she said, “I keep my soul in my gumboots”. Rev’d John Young |
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AGM - 2010 The AGM will take place on Saturday 27th March 2010 in London (W1) Presentations at this event will include: A Report from the Chair of the BFMS Scientific and Professional Advisory Board, Dr Peter Naish Emotional Memories can be False Memories, Dr Cara Laney, Lecturer of Forensic Psychology Fifteen Years On: The beliefs of Clinical Psychologists and Hypnotherapists, Dr James Ost, Senior Lecturer in Psychology Can Symptoms be Evidence?, Mr Russell Vallance |
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Professor Chris French, Professor of Anomalistic Psychology at Goldsmiths College, London and BFMS Advisory Board member has published details of the Invited Speaker Series 2009-10 Autumn Term. Of particular interest is a talk to be given on 27 October entitled The Good Daughter: When an Adult Recovers “Memories” of Parental Child Sexual Abuse, How can the Rest of the Family Assess the Charge?. Attendance is free. Click here for details. Chris also has a regular column on the Guardian Online science pages. He has covered the topic of false memories and the work of the BFMS (April's blog).
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BBC Memory Programmes BFMS have had contact with the researchers who have put together this series of BBC Radio 4 programmes on Memory. Professor Martin Conway is advising consultant for the series. The subject of false memory has been covered and you can read the articles online by clicking on the following link - www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/memory/. |
