George Hay Memorial Lecture
From Eastercon
The George Hay Memorial Lecture is provided to an Eastercon by the Science Fiction Foundation who provide a speaker and pay for her/his expenses in coming to the con. It's a serious scientific talk about some area of science that may be of interest to the Eastercon membership.
According to their website:
The Science Fiction Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1041052) was founded in 1970 by the writer/social activist George Hay and others as a semi-autonomous association of writers, academics, critics and others with an active interest in science fiction, with Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin as patrons.
There's an obituary of George Hay in the Autumn 1997 issue of Foundation.
The memorial lecture started at the 2000 Eastercon (2Kon), and here's a list of the speakers and subjects each year to date (thanks to Susan Stepney who has the best UK convention programme item review site I've found on the web)
| Date | Presenter | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | David Southwood | Space Programmes in Fact and Fiction |
| 2007 | Guillaume Thierry | Braintrix: The Brain and Illusions |
| 2006 | Alice Jenkins | Science and Literature in the Victorian Era |
| 2005 | Armand Leroi | Human Mutants |
| 2004 | Francis Spufford | The Fall and Rise of the British Boffin |
| 2003 | Simon Conway Morris | Meeting the Aliens |
| 2002 | Alistair Reynolds | Catching Starlight: ESA's new advanced optical camera |
| 2001 | Helen Priddle | Cloning: Science Fact and Science Fiction |
| 2000 | Amanda Baker | The Chemical Evolution of the Universe (nucleosynthesis etc.) |
