PERUVIAN HUMANIST & RATIONALIST NEWS (January-August, 2012)

ACTIVITIES OF THE PERUVIAN ATHEIST ASSOCIATION (APERAT): 

-History of Atheísm Course

Part I: Ancient Age (January Fridays 13, 20 & 27 and February 23) and Part II: Medieval & Modern Age (February Thursday 9, March 1º. & 8) with Manuel Paz y Miño (APERAT’s President until July 2012).

-Video-forum: The Enemies of Reason with Richard Dawkins (March Thursday 15, 7.30 pm).

-Contemporary Atheísm Seminar

The Anti-Christ by Fredriech Nietzsche (March Thursday 22), God and State by Mihail Bakunin (March Thursday 29), and The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (April Thursday 12) with Aurelio Miní (Bachelor in Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru).

What did Karl Marx mean with “Religion is people’s opium”? (June Saturday 2) a philosophical café.

The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion & The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (July Thursday 19 & August Friday 3) with Iván Antezana (editor, Sugoi Magazine & (APERAT’s President from August 2012).

-Video-forums of Classic Music (January-April Wednesdays, 7.30 pm):

January 4, 11, 18, 25: Bach and Beethoven.

February 1, 8, 15, 22, 29: Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Haydn.

March 7, 14, 21, 28: Dudamel and the Youth Sinphonical Orchestra "Simón Bolívar" from Venezuela

Abril 4, 11, 18, 25: Mozart, Brahms, Vivaldi
-Video-forum: The Enemies of Reason with Richard Dawkins (March Thursday 15, 7.30 pm)

-Video-forum: The Pillars of the Earth (April Thursday 5, Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday, 5-7 pm).

-Atheist conversations:

June Thursday 21: Believers yesterday, atheists today

July Friday 6: Functions of religion

July Friday 13: Free topic

APERAT’s web page is at: www.ateosperuanos.org and its activities were performed in the ‘Búho Rojo’ (Red Owl) Cultural Educative Association’s auditorium in Lima.

“ESCÉPTICOS EN LA RADIO” (SKEPTICS ON THE RADIO) (January-March)

Twelve more emissions (number 13 to 24) were transmitted on Canto Grande Radio (97.7 FM, www.cantograndefm.com) at Fridays, 10-11 p.m., with the following topics: “Does God Exist?” (January 11), “Cults, brain-washing and mind control” (with Héctor Guillén as a guest, January 18), “Mounsters and Legendary Myths” (January 25), “Evolution and Creationism” (with Luis Arbaiza as a guest, February 3), “Sex Myths” (February 10), “Love Myths” (February 17), “Does Soul exist?” (with Glenys Alvarez as a guest, February 24), “Pseudo-Sciences” (with Alejandro Borgo as a guest as a guest, March 2), “Magic and Skepticism” (with Guillermo Carranza as a guest, 9 de marzo), “The Origen of Universe” (with Modesto Montoya and Adrián Núñez as guests, 16 de marzo), “Demons and Exorcisms” (March 23), and “Urban Myths and conspiranoia” (March 30) being the first season's last program of the first Peruvian talk-show questioning paranormal, supernatural and pseudo-scientific claims

 

Announcements of 3 emissions of Skeptics on the Radio

(above: Evolution and Creationism, center: “Magic and Skepticism”, and below: “The Origen of Universe”)   

Hosts of Skeptics on the Radio (left to right):

Manuel Paz y Miño, Iván Antezana, Miguel Yáñez and Anddy Landacay.

SEMINAR UNDER THE AUSPICIES OF HUMANISTS & RACIONALISTS OF PERÚ

AND SKEPTICS ON THE RADIO:

The 2^nd. Seminar "Sciences, Pseudo-Sciences & Pseudo-Scientific Therapies" (May Fridays 11 & 25, June Friday 1^st. 6-9.30 p.m.) was co-organizated with the the Faculty of Education Post-Graduate Unit, UNMSM from Lima: May Friday 11: “Science or Pseudoscience?” (Manuel Paz y Miño, Lic. in Philosophy, UNMSM, and Mag. in Applied Ethics, Linköping University, Sweden) and “Inteligent Design and Evolution” (Luis Arbaiza, biologist, UNMSM, and author of the novel Thecnetos: The last days of the Universe); May Friday 25: “Is Psychoanalysis a Science?” (César Sparrow Leiva, Psychologist, UNMSM) and “Is Parapsychology a Science?” with M.A. Paz y Miño (Mag. en Ética Aplicada, Universidad de Linköping, Suecia); and June Friday 1^st.: “Alternative Therapies in Medicine” (Humberto Vásquez Cubas, physician-infectologist by the UNMSM at the Peruvian Social Health Security  (ESSALUD), and “Magic and the Paranormal” (Magician Khalid).

Poster of the II Seminar "Sciences, Pseudo-Sciences & Pseudo-Scientific Therapies"

The Peruvian Rationalists & Humanists (HURA-Peru) web page is at peruhumanaratio.blogspot.com.