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| 04/02/18 | Dr Joanna Burch-Brown | Theme: Break the Chain Talk: Talking about the complicated relationship Bristol has with it’s past – having been a major part of the slave trade. |
| 07/01/18 | Sophie Stevens | Theme: How to win a Million Dollars Talk: Talking to us about one of the biggest prizes in Maths that YOU COULD WIN. |
| 03/12/17 | The Sunday Assembly Crew | Theme: P-p-p-pick up a Penguin Talk: Improvised due to unforeseen circumstances for the planned speaker – we’re hoping they’ll be able to give the talk in the future! |
| 05/11/17 | Katiuska Ferrer Portillo | Theme: You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth Talk: ‘Help us put the Bristol dialect on the map!’ |
| 01/10/17 | James Fleming | Theme: A Sight to Behold Talk: “Reconstructing ancient vision” |
| 03/09/17 | Jess Brydon & Rohan Chadwick | Theme: What’s Your Moral Compass? Talk: The ethics of driverless cars – interactive. |
| 06/08/17 | Jem Roberts | Theme: Tales of Britain Talk: Background on the Tales of Britain |
| 02/07/17 | Crispin Allard | Theme: It’s Your Birthday – Throw Some shapes! (S.A.B. 4 years old) Talk: What shapes say about your personality |
| 04/06/17 | The Marmalade Trust | Theme: Fighting Loneliness one Spoon at a Time Talk: “Fighting loneliness, one spoon of marmalade at a time” |
| 07/05/17 | Professor Alan Winfield | Theme: Home Talk:Talking about conducting research in Cognitive Robotics in the Bristol Robotics Lab, with a particular focus on robot ethics. |
| 02/04/17 | Vicky Anderson | Theme: Rumours Talk: The Importance of Telling Stories – from folklore to fiction to “fake news” |
| 05/03/17 | Caring In Bristol | Theme: Have a Care in the World Talk: Caring In Bristol – talking about the charity |
| 05/02/17 | Bristol Refugee Rights | Theme: Home Talk: Bristol Refugee Rights – talking about the charity, with an account from an asylum seeker. |
| 08/01/17 | Jon Turney | Theme: It’s in Our Nature Talk: Telling us all about the microbiome/unity of nature and ourselves |
| 04/12/16 | Nathalia Gjersoe | Theme: Dinosaurs vs. Dragons Talk: A returning speaker, this time talking about belief through childhood – are children as gullible as we are led to believe? |
| 06/11/16 | Ben Garrod | Theme: Monkey Business Talk: Primate Adventure – talking about some surprising characteristics of our close relatives using stories from his own experiences. |
| 02/10/16 | Josie McLellan | Theme: What Lurks in the Night Talk: ‘Night School’ – How being more flexible with higher education could improve access beyond the traditional white middle class majority. |
| 04/09/16 | Richard Pancost | Theme: Sorry, Nature Talk: Climate Change’s Effect on Society: Highlighting some of the ways in which climate change could seriously effect society, particularly how unjust these effects could be. |
| 07/08/16 | Euan Allen | Theme: Colour Me Assembled Talk: Colour in Nature: Exploring the amazing and ingenious ways organisms use colour and the practical technological applications that come from them. |
| 24/07/16 | TED Talk video | Theme: 2nd Assembly: Shoot for the Moon Talk: Video about ‘moon shot’ ideas. Tried two assemblies in one month and a new location! |
| 03/07/16 | Mark from Sunday Assembly Bristol | Theme: Bouncing Back! Talk: Alternate Election Systems: Exploring a remarkable alternative to the first past the post election system. |
| 05/06/16 | Mark from Sunday Assembly Bristol | Theme: All Together now! Talk: Interactive assembly using a game to demonstrate how segregation can occur unintentionally |
| 01/05/16 | Dr. Suzi Gage | Theme: Feelings Talk: No Turn Unstoned: the harms and potential benefits of recreational drugs |
| 03/04/16 | Ben Ashby | Theme: 100% Proof Talk: Ask For Evidence |
| 06/03/16 | Aislinn Keogh | Theme: Bristol Talk: Umming and uhhing about language change – how (and why) our gender affects the way we fill pauses in our speech |
| 07/02/16 | Jordan Hughes | Theme: The Only Way is Ethics Talk: Amnesty International – overview |
| 17/01/16 | Mark from Sunday Assembly Bristol | Theme: Sharing Talk: Game theory, with games |
| 06/12/15 | Richard Pettigrew | Theme: Knowledge Talk: The epistemology of uncertain beliefs; Rational decisions, metaphysics and epistemology of mathematics |
| 01/11/15 | TBC | Theme: Death |
| 11/10/15 | Rich Pancost – Director of the Cabot Intitue for the Environment, Organic Geochemistry and History of Earth Environment | Theme: So Long Summer Talk: Living with Uncertainty |
| 06/09/15 | Natalia Gjersoe | Talk: Kids Say the Darndest Things http://www.theguardian.com/profile/nathalia-gjersoe |
| 02/08/15 | Jem Roberts | http://jemroberts.com/ |
| 05/07/15 | Mark from Sunday Assembly Bristol | Theme: Language Talk: Applied Neurolinguistics |
| 07/06/15 | Speak Easy: Bristol’s True Story Slam | Theme: Storytelling https://www.facebook.com/SpeakEasyStorySlam |
| 10/05/15 | Bruce Hood | Talk: Inside the Brain https://www.speakezee.org/speaker/profile/444/bruce-hood |
| 12/04/15 | Audrey Nailor | Theme: Science! Talk: The Science of Springtime https://www.linkedin.com/pub/audrey-nailor/16/35/a48 |