Ragged events are about getting together in social spaces, putting our feet up, breaking bread, and enjoy learning something new.

Anyone can do a talk, you just have to love your subject.  You can talk on any subject, at any level; the point here is people animate their subject when they care about it.  It is also good to learn through teaching and discussing.

The content has to fit within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  The Ragged spaces are a-religious, a-political, and a-corporate; in as much as these institutions of Politics, Religion and Corporacy occupy other primary areas of life.

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Here are some of the talks which have happened…

 

• 10th Apr 2014: Schizophrenia; Reflections by an Insider by Kenneth Wilson
• 10th Apr 2014: Why Don't People Vote? By Helena Catt
• 10th April 2018: Psychology and Behavioural Modelling Meetup: Psychological Phenomena; The Experiential Dimensions of Mind, Body and Spirit by Leon Paterson
• 10th August 2011: Future Sleep; The Nocturnal Fast, Cerebral Energy and the Honey/Insulin/Melatonin (HYMN) Cycle by Mike McInnes
• 10th July 2014: A Different Kind Of Humanity by Ciaran Healy
• 10th July 2014: Participation, Motivation and Adult Learning… by Ellen Boeren
• 10th July 2018: Autism; The Plot Against Consciousness, Cognition and Language by Mike McInnes
• 10th Oct 2015: Daddy's Daughters and Sons; Perspectives on Male Factor Infertility Treatments and Trends by Dr Ruby Raheem
• 11 Dec 2011: Alexander of Macedon: an exercise in perspective by Warwick Ball
• 11th April 2013: Brewing redux; centuries of brewing art and science in 45minutes by Andrew Barnett aka Barney
• 11th August 2011: Scotland's Census 2011; The Cyber Pathway to the Killing Fields by Tom Muirhead
• 11th Feb 2016: Nineteenth-Century Science, Medicine, and Monsters by Jessica Roberts
• 11th June 2015: Making Manchester a Centre of Excellence for Dyslexia by Roger Broadbent
• 11th May 2011: Cottonopolis; Building the first industrial city by Ken Moth
• 11th May 2011: Into the Vortex: when Western Medicine met Divine Healing by Zahra Patel
• 11th Oct 2012: Why did the financial crisis happen? (and what to do about it) by Ben Stollery and Fran Boait
• 11th October 2012: Setting up a Technology Business by Dr Tim Willis
• 11th Sept 2014: 'How Accents Work' By Lauren Hall-Lew
• 11th Sept 2014: A Different Kind Of Revolution by Ciaran Healy
• 11th Sept 2018: Spinoza’s Spectacles: Philosophy, Science and the Dutch Masters by Josef Darlington
• 11th Sept 2018: Thinkers or Junkers? Germans in England 1860-1915 by Anne Hill Fernie
• 12th Aug 2014: ‘Plebs’; The Ruskin College ‘Strike’ of 1909 by Colin Waugh
• 12th Aug 2014: The Plebs League in the North East of England 1908/1926 by Robert Clive Turnbull
• 12th August 2011: The Great Human Rights Swindle by Tom Muirhead
• 12th June 2014: Enemies, Friends and Lovers; The Social Psychology of Relationships by Prof Ray Miller
• 12th June 2014: Strange Terrain Part One; On A New Understanding Of The Nature Of Human Beings by Ciaran Healy
• 12th June 2018: Climate Change and the Need to Change Behaviour in the West by Prof Kevin Anderson; Screening and Discussion
• 12th Nov 2017: Film Screening of Poppies For Peace Films For Freedom by Simon Byrom
• 12th Sept 2013: Digital Culture, Mindfulness and Existential Threat by Nadine Andrews
• 12th Sept 2013: The Networked World And The Individual… by Steve McIndoe
• 13th April 2011: Growing into sound by Charlie Mydlarz
• 13th April 2011: Keeping Urban Bees by Chris Guthrie
• 13th March 2014: The Ancient Art of Dreamwhispering by Geoff Baines
• 13th March 2014: The Science of Food Additives and Behaviour by Alex Dunedin
• 13th Nov 2014: 3D Printing; No-hype, Promise, Just Extraordinary Art and Design by Ann Marie Shillito
• 13th Nov 2014: 3D Printing; No-hype, Promise, Just Extraordinary Art and Design! by Ann Marie Shillito
• 13th Nov 2014: Cerebral Diabetes and the Reversal of the Flynn Effect by Mike McInnes
• 13th Oct 2015: What Is A Fair Scotland ? Workshops by Glenn Liddal and Alex Dunedin
• 13th Oct 2016: Enjoying the Scenery; Slow Education and the Slow Movement in a Fast World by Joe Harrison Greaves
• 13th Oct 2016: Treasures in phone boxes; street games and play in the city by Jana Wendler
• 14th August 2011: Right to a Fair Trial Part 1; ‘The Painted Bird’ by Tom Muirhead
• 14th Dec 2010: Greek Myth by Heather Rae and Ayurveda by Diana Kras
• 14th Feb 2020: Visit, Listen, Learn, Write – Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest
• 14th March 2018: Mood Hacker – Feelings, Emotions and Moods (what are they, how do they work, and how you can manage them better) by Leon Paterson
• 14th Sept 2011: One brain, two language, many advantages by Antonella Sorace
• 14th Sept 2011: Sales Makes the world go round. Errr doesn't it? by Tim Dew
• 14th Sept 2017: From the Problems of Our Nature, to The Nature of our Problems by Rowland Urey
• 15th Nov 2012: Manchester; Nature and museums by Henry McGhie and Manchester History by Dominique Tessier; Music by Kinaesthetic; 7 to 10pm at The Castle Hotel
• 15th Oct 2015: The Arrogance and the Empathy; An Everyday Introduction to Non-Judgmental Language by Julian Edge
• 15th Oct 2015: Thermodynamics; The Laws the History and How it Shaped Cottonopolis by Simon Ward
• 16th August 2011: What do you get when you cross The Mcdonaldization of society, the Slow movement and the Industrial food system? by Adam Smyth
• 16th Jan 2020: The Extended Mind talk and tour at Talbot Rice Gallery by James Clegg
• 16th March: Language learning in children and adults; A day with Antonella Sorace
• 16th Nov 2017: Objects, Perception and Communication by Mark Johnson
• 16th Oct 2014: Exploring the Dream of the Earth; My First Person Inquiry by Helena Kettleborough
• 16th Oct 2014: The Ragged Schools of Angel Meadow by Simon Ward
• 17th August 2012: Makmed the Miller presents The Grief of Isis
• 17th August 2013: Food; Speculation, Accumulation and Starvation by Alex Dunedin
• 17th August 2016: Face Value by James Clegg
• 18th Aug 2015: A World To Win; Learning From The Past, Making The Future by Keith Venables
• 18th Aug 2015: Singing the Law and Riding the City: The Rule of Genghis Khan by Donald Carrick
• 18th August 2011: The Poetry Of W.S. Graham; Knocking From The Other Side Of The Page by David Greig
• 18th July 2018: An Evening In Dialogue with Prof Antonia Darder Exploring Critical Pedagogy
• 19th August 2011: 'Robert Burns: Shortbread Tin Icon, or Radical Subversive?' by Kevin Williamson
• 19th Feb 2013: Manchester's De-Industrial Food Revolution by Jules Bagnoli
• 19th Feb 2013: Wangari Maathai; some lessons for a Steady State Manchester by Judith Emanuel
• 19th Feb 2015: Education and The Permanent Revolution of Reform; A Journey to the Dark Side by Dave Hall
• 19th Feb 2015: International Waste Management in 2015 and Beyond; Crisis and Opportunity by David Brown
• 19th June 2014: Fostering Vandalism of the Earth or Stewardship? Towards Education for Sustainability by Susan Brown
• 19th June 2014: Give And Ye Shall Receive by Joel White
• 1st Dec 2016: Get Together For Lunch to Discuss What it is Exhibitions Can Do with James Clegg
• 1st June 2011 Sleep and The Exercise Theory of Relativity by Mike McInnes
• 1st June 2011 The Long Tail and the Scottish Short Films
• 1st June 2016: Above Us, The Sky; A Documentary by Lin Li
• 1st June 2016: Lost Horizon or Living Landscape? Place, Time and People in Gaelic Scotland by Virginia Blankenhorn
• 1st Nov 2015: Not The Mafia You Know by Amber Phillips
• 1st Nov 2015: The Effect Of The Internet On Dating In The 21st Century By Ian Forrester
• 2 Languages in 1 Brain by Antonella Sorace
• 20th April 2015: The British Experimental Novelists of the 1960s; A Forgotten Avant Garde by Joseph Darlington
• 20th April 2015: The Countercultural Imperative; From Lebensreform to the Kibbo Kift (1890-1930) by Anne Fernie
• 20th Oct 2011: Deacon Brodie; The Wretch of Today May Be Happy Tomorrow by Jen McGregor
• 20th Oct 2011: Robert Louis Stevenson & the Pirates by Dr Eric J Graham
• 21st April 2016: Cinema, Women, Drugs and Nationalism in India by Sonia Soans
• 21st April 2016: Stress and Emotional Resilience by Joel White
• 21st Aug 2011: The Consciousness of the Long Distance Runner; The Exercise Theory of Relativity by Mike McInnes
• 21st July 2018: The Art of Argumentation: Philosophy, Reason and the Universe; The Mind and the World by Tina Röck
• 21st Oct 2018: The Art of Argumentation: Philosophy, Reason and the Universe; The Mind and the World Part II – Phenomenology by Tina Röck
• 22nd June 2017: Improvised Fiction meets research: Creative and pioneering ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch’s lasting legacy by John Morrison
• 22nd June 2017: The Importance of Being Smelly by Mairi MacLeod
• 23rd Aug 2011: Striptease in Scotland: Tits, Tassles and Ten Pound Notes by Gypsy Charms
• 23rd Feb 2017: Film Screening of ‘I Daniel Blake’ followed by Mike Cormack discussing of benefits sanctions
• 23rd Feb 2017: Welfare Cuts and Sanctions by Mike Cormack
• 24th Nov 2016: Curators Tour of Rob Kennedy’s ‘acts of dis play’ followed by social chat
• 24th Nov 2016: Get Together For Lunch to Discuss What it is Exhibitions Can Do with Rob Kennedy
• 24th Sept 2015: Evolving for Girls by Doreen Soutar
• 24th Sept 2015: Power, People and Process; How We Make Decisions About What We Want For The City And Its Communities by Ewan Aitken
• 25th Aug 2011: Memoirs of an Edinburgh Poacher by Bob Redwater
• 25th June 2015: International Carbon Conscious Bicycle Powered Pedalling Adventures! by Simon Byrom
• 25th June 2015: Temüjin Rising; How a Slave Would Change World History by Donald Carrick
• 26th April 2012: Alcohol and the Brain Drain by Mike McInnes
• 26th April 2012: The Chemistry of Alcohol or How to Remember Not to Forget by Alex Dunedin
• 26th April 2012: The Post Industrialisation of Beer or How Pale Ale Became Cool by Andrew Barnett
• 26th April 2016: Terence Sawyers presents About Film; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• 26th April 2018: The Post Modern Doctorate – Short Presentation and Discussion by Alex Dunedin
• 26th Aug 2011: Music in India; Music in Me by Jatin Puri
• 26th Jan 2017: Myths of Attraction by Mairi Macleod
• 26th July 2016: Terence Sawyers presents About Film; The Producers and Fraser Allan
• 26th July Cannabis and the Munchies by Mike McInnes
• 26th June 2017: Manchester Sound(s); Silent Notes From the Past by Dominique Tessier
• 26th June 2017: The Psychology of Dehumanization by Alex Dunedin
• 26th March 2019: Philosophy and Truth by Tina Röck
• 26th Nov 2015: I’m not a designer. Am I? by Jamie Cooke
• 26th Nov 2015: Multiple Sclerosis; Scotland’s Disease by Alex Dunedin
• 26th Oct 2018: Visit, Listen, Think, Discuss, Write; The Inner Level – Author talk with Profs Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
• 27th April 2017: Adventures in Transformation; Becoming Conscious of Your Unconscious by Lester Smulski
• 27th Feb 2020: The Colonisation of Economics and the Reduction of Everything to Finance
• 27th July 2017: The D-word; opening up conversations about death and dying by Danuta Orlowska
• 27th June 2018: Psychology and Behavioural Modelling Meetup; Self Activation and Flow by Leon Paterson
• 27th May 2013: A Walk Through Colinton Dell by Alex Dunedin
• 27th Sept 2016: Terence Sawyers Presents Films and Discussion; The Music Box (1932) and La Jetée (1962)
• 27th Sept 2018: Resilience to Succeed; A Highly Interactive Approach to Restoring, Recovering and Overcoming by Leon Paterson
• 28th Aug 2011: Banana Me Beautiful by Emily Dodd
• 28th June 2016: About Film Screens Punishment Park by Peter Watkins followed by Realist Film Theory Discussion
• 28th June 2017: Asylum Magazine 30th Anniversary Conference Party
• 28th May 2015: Fostering Vandalism of the Earth or Stewardship? Towards Education for Sustainability by Susan Brown
• 28th May 2015: News from the littoral Zone By Julia Barton
• 29th June 2013: Common Sense by Richard Gunn
• 29th June 2015: Development With Dignity and The Limits of Growth by Shahid Khan
• 29th Mar 2016: Terence Sawyers presents About Film; Vertigo (1958)
• 29th March 2018: Psychology and Behaviour Modelling Meetup by Leon Paterson
• 29th Nov 2012: Greening Up Your City by Kate Gilliam
• 29th Nov 2012: Unravelling Humpback Whale Behaviour by Dr Alison Craig
• 29th Nov 2018: Mind Management Workshop; Learn and Explore the Realistic Benefits of Mindfulness, Meditation and Self Hypnosis for Managing Your Mind by Leon Paterson
• 29th Oct 2015: A Memory of Blood; Livestreaming and the Fall of the Mongolian Empire by Donald Carrick
• 29th Oct 2015: Why Should One See Oneself ‘With The Eyes of Other People?’? Adam Smith and the Human Condition by Richard Gunn
• 29th Oct 2016: Ragged University; Visit, Listen, Discuss, Write
• 29th Sept 2016: HOMO PASSIENS: Man the Footballer by Mike McInnes
• 29th Sept 2016: Mad Studies; The Emergence of a New Field of Knowledge by Alex Dunedin
• 29th Sept 2018: Field Visit to St. Columba’s Hospice on Edinburgh Doors Open Day by Danuta Orlowska
• 29th Sept: Mad World; Repeat Prescription Art Exhibition Opening
• 2nd March 2011: Discovering Card Magic by Geoff Tibbs
• 2nd March 2011: Right Handed; Living with Syndactyly by Stephen Bell
• 2nd May 2013: Exploring Science and the Natural World Through Exhibitions of Craft and Design by Rowie Hamilton
• 2nd May 2013: Gamified Educational E-tivities? by Karenne Sylvester
• 30th Apr 2015: Syndicalism; An International and Historical Perspective by Derek Keenan
• 30th Apr 2015: The Meanings of the Chakras & How They Affect Your Health by Richard Barriball
• 30th April 2018: James Clegg Talks Art; Lunch at Talbot Rice Gallery
• 30th July 2015: An Ancient Syrian All-girl Band; the Maryamin Mosaic and its Implications by Warwick Ball
• 30th July 2015: We Control You; The Psychology of Obedience and Authority By Prof Ray Miller
• 30th June 2013: Nepal; My Cultural Story by Shane Harte
• 31st May 2016: Terence Sawyers presents About Film; Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr plus Un Chien Andalou
• 3rd August 2011: Maggie Kang Doing Business between UK and China
• 3rd August 2011: Social Capital; Fancy words for working together by Alex Dunedin
• 3rd May 2018: The Art of Argumentation: Philosophy, Reason and the Universe Series with Tina Röck; Why do philosophy, if you can do science?
• 3rd Oct 2013: What is systems thinking? by Fiona Savage
• 4th April 2013: Barefoot in the Head; How the way we think, feel and behave produces mental and physical health by Prof Ray Miller
• 4th April 2013: How We Grow; My Life, My Garden by Nim Kibbler
• 4th August 2011: Lets Talk About Population Baby! By Brian Chrystal
• 4th Dec 2014: One Brain, Two Languages; Bringing Up a Bilingual Child by Madeleine Beveridge
• 4th December 2014: Dyslexia; What It Is And How It Has Affected Me by Alex Dunedin
• 4th July 2013: The Incredible Shrinking Brain by Mike McInnes
• 4th July 2016: International Carbon Conscious Bicycle Powered Pedalling Adventures; Part 2! by Simon Byrom
• 4th July 2016: Loving Yourself Inside & Out by Faith Canter
• 4th May 2016: Myths of Popular Psychology by Professor Ray Miller
• 4th May 2016: What is Condensed Matter Physics ? By Gino Jabbar
• 5th August 2011: The Anorexic Brain and Why Obese Westerners are Starving by Mike McInnes
• 5th Dec 2013: Beyond Words; From Music To Cinema, An Interactive Story by Julien Pearly
• 5th Dec 2013: Who Is Helping Survivors Of Sexual Violence? by Anne Byrne
• 5th Sept 2013: Mad knowledge, difficult knowledge… by Dina Poursanidou
• 5th Sept 2013: The Power of the Elder by Eli Anderson
• 6th April 2016: Performance on Grand Piano by Sam Makin
• 6th August 2011: Psychology of Vocal Performance by Dr Denise Borland
• 6th Dec 2018: Tremble Tremble and At the Gates; Tour and Discussion by James Clegg
• 6th Feb 2014: A History of Manchester as Seen in its Historic Buildings by Ken Moth
• 6th Feb 2014: COOCs and the Rhizome; A World Where Everyone Is A Teacher And Knowledge Is Up To You by Peter Shukie
• 6th July 2011: Let's talk about sex baby; Sexual communication explored through survey results by Fiona McQueen
• 6th July 2011: Striptease in Scotland; Tits, Tassles and Ten Pound Notes by Dr Sarah Vernon
• 6th June 2013: Basics of Computer Programming but No Actual Code! by Dr Tim Willis
• 6th June 2013: We don’t need no Educashun; The brain as a learning machine by Prof Ray Miller
• 7th August 2011: A Short History of Skiing in Scotland by Patrick D. Whelan
• 7th December 2015: Music by Sukh
• 7th Feb 2013: How do children learn two languages? by Prof Antonella Sorace
• 7th Feb 2013: What has Psychology ever done for us? by Prof Ray Miller
• 7th July 2011: My Fascination with Chords by Dan Zambas
• 7th July 2011: Prehistoric and Roman Roads of North Wales by Tim Prevett
• 7th March 2013: Introduction to Linguistics & Phonetics by Dr Tim Willis
• 7th March 2013: Life by Chocolate; An Adventure Into Cacao By Ali Gower
• 7th Nov 2013: Noumenal Contouring; The Secret Of Science, The Secret Of Skill by Ciaran Healy
• 7th Nov 2013: To sleep, perchance to dream: 30 years in the land of Morpheus by Prof Ray Miller
• 7th Nov 2015: Cattle Yarn and Horse Tale; History and Industry of Artificial Insemination by Dr Ruby Raheem
• 8th Dec 2016: Get Together For Lunch to Discuss What it is Exhibitions Can Do with Artist Rob Kennedy and Curator James Clegg
• 8th May 2014: The Placebo Effect by Derek Howden
• 8th May 2014: Urban Fox; Memoirs of an Edinburgh Poacher by Bob Redwater
• 8th May 2018: Psychology and Behavioural Modelling Meetup; Perception for Self Effectiveness by Leon Paterson
• 9th Feb 2020: Annual General Questions and a Walk and Talk
• 9th June 2016: A Critical Examination of Self by Donna Peach
• 9th June 2016: Riding Through History by Ursula Harries
• 9th Mar 2012: Forum Theatre by David Roberts
• 9th Mar 2012: Tackling Internal Oppression by Emily Steedman
• 9th March 2012 David Turner: The Arms Trade; The Winners and Losers
• 9th May 2013: Plant Now, Ask Questions Later by Kate Gilliam
• 9th May 2013: The Slave's Lament; Robert Burns, Scotland & Empire by Kevin Williamson
• 9th Nov 2016: Visit, Listen, Discuss, Write – Dealing With Each Other In The Spirit of Ubuntu
• 9th Oct 2014: Welcome to the Mid-life Revolution by Andy Ferguson
• April 11th 2013: From Moonshine to Masters and the distillation of beer by Cory Mason
• Betting on Famine; Why The World Still Goes Hungry
• Butterfly Kisses from the Hunchback (whilst driving on the M6) by Craig Hammond
• Carl Rosa; The Entrepreneur Who Made Opera Popular: or From ‘Juvenile Paganini’ to Operatic Entrepreneur by Iain Fraser
• Civil War; Ranters, Quakers and Revolution by Richard Gunn
• DADA and the Drum Kit by Aiden Pilling
• Discussion of M.E. with Knowledgeable Patient Elizabeth Moncrieff following Film Screening of Unrest
• Film Screening of ‘European voices in Edinburgh’ Followed by Discussion by Lin Li
• Freedom in the Fridge by Sara Louise Dobson
• Glasgow Ragged University
• Home Wine Making by Andrea Fuhrmann
• How Creativity, Exercise and Nutrition can help to Better Manage Mental Health Conditions by Louise Lord
• Human Library – Challenge your prejudices by Helen Harvey
• James Clegg Talks About The Art Exhibition ‘Trading Zone’
• June 11th: Slow TV; Its Story and Its Surprises by Tim Prevett
• Lets Talk About Population Baby! by Brian Chrystal
• Lions Led by Donkeys – The Catastrophic Failures of WW1 British High Command; A Memorial to Commemorate Those Lost at the Battle of Loos
• Loneliness and Social Isolation
• Medical Imaging Physics; Seeing Beyond the Skin by Tommy McMullan
• Music, Mathematics and the Harmony of the Spheres by Hugh Peters
• Oct 3rd 2013: Aye, Minister (what civil servants really do) by Colin MacLean
• Oct 9th 2014: Slow Leadership; Reframing Your Leadership Behaviour by Don Ledingham
• Podcast: Happiness Revisited: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishments by Prof. Ray Miller
• Podcast: Multilingualism; An Investment For A Better Society by Prof Antonella Sorace
• Podcast: News Stories and Popular Fiction by Julian Edge
• Podcast: Universities as Anchor Institutes; University of Manchester and Brunswick Estate, A Socially Just Model? by Dr Carl Emery
• Poppies for Peace, Films for Freedom! by Simon Byrom
• Prison and Dehumanisation; Film Screening and Talks on Crime, Prison and Us
• Ragged at the Fringe Festival 2011
• Romantic Radicals & Intellectual Barbarians; John Hargrave, the KibboKift & Beyond by Anne Fernie
• Teachers in Bangladesh; Ways of Seeing and Expressing Reality by Taslima Ivy
• The Art of Not-Knowing by James Clegg
• The Free Project; Opening Doors To Freedom by Emma Hammond
• The Green Man, The Work of Lucy Skaer by James Clegg
• The History of the RSA by Jamie Cooke
• The Philosophy of Mutual Recognition by Richard Gunn
• The Problematic Links Between Technology Use in Learning and Sustainability: Views From An Educator
• The Scottish Highland and Lowland Clearances; When sheep became more profitable than people
• What is Feminism ? by Brigitte Lechner