Hauntings:The Science of Ghosts

Join renowned psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman and a host of leading experts to examine the science and history of hauntings. Are spirit photographs evidence of the afterlife or ingenious trickery? How do scientists investigate haunted houses, and what have they found? Can your brain fool you into seeing an apparition? Come along and witness a genuine Victorian phantasmagoria, discover how poltergeists once panicked the nation, and meet the man responsible for ghostly goings-on in Harry Potter movies.

MORNING SESSION

10.00 to 10.10
Introduction

10.10 to 10.45
Investigating 'haunted' locations: A scientific approach
- Professor Richard Wiseman

10.45 - 11.25
The Haunted: A social history of ghosts
- Professor Owen Davies

11.25 - 11.45
BREAK

11.45- 12.20
Things that go bump in the mind: The psychology of apparitions
- Dr Caroline Watt

12.20 - 1.00
'No More Ghosts!': The Regency Phantasmagoria
- Dr Mervyn Heard

AFTERNOON SESSION

2.15 - 2.50
Imaging the impossible: The truth about spirit photography
- Gordon Rutter

2.50 - 3.30
"Dialogue with the Dead": Creating ghosts for television
- Stephen Volk

3.30 - 3.50
BREAK

3.50-4.20
Inside Most Haunted
- Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe

4.20- 5.00
Grappling with Ghosts: Staging ghost effects in the modern theatre
- Paul Kieve

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