Public Works

Selection of non-routine lectures & seminars (Reverse temporal order)*

(d). More formal/academic papers

31. 1998. 'Human population competition'. Address to the XXII Writer's Workshop, Alexandria, Virginia. October 16.

30.1998. 'The Rev. T.R. Malthus, AM, FRS: Demi-Devil, Saint, or Merely Great Benefactor?'. Commemoration Lecture for the Bicentenary of the first publication of Malthus' Essay on Population .... Cardiff University. Under the aegis of the Sir David Owen Population Centre, Dept. of Biosciences. March 10. (Pub. for limited circulation as a university monograph, Feb. 2000)

29.1994. 'Introduction to "CO-ORD". Address to the XVIII Writer's Workshop. Washington, DC. October 20. (CO-ORD is the name of a computerised database on the problems of managing heterogeneous societies, which I created at the invitation of, and on funds supplied by, The Social Contract, of Petoskey, Mich.,)

28. 1993. 'Optimising populations: a perennial problem?'. Keynote Address, 1^st World Congress on the Optimum Population. Trinity College, Cambridge. August 9. Proceedings as yet unpub.

27. 1992. 'Population, Environment and Policy Relations. An Historical Overview'. Address to the Conference, 'Population and Environment'. Exeter College, Oxford, 9-11 Sept. Organised jointly by the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) & the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. (IUSSP). Pub. in book form. (See Bib.)

28.1987. 'Human population competition'. ???? University of Southern California, Los Angeles. ??????

27.1987. 'Overview of JP work in progress'. Staff & advisers meeting. Population-Environment Balance. Washington, DC. April 29.

26. 1984. 'Human competitive breeding'. Address to British Social Biology Council Symposium on Population. Whitelands College, London. February 18. Pub. In Social Biology & Human Affairs. 49 (1) pp.1-22

25. 1981. 'Populations as black boxes'. Paper to the Fertility Studies Group meeting at Gregynog, (a mid-Wales outstation of Cardiff University), Nr. Newtown. January 9.

24. 1979. 'The importance of theory in population studies and policy-making'. The Asian Centre for Population & Community Development, Sukhumvit Soi, Bangkok, Thailand. December ??

23. 1979. 'Rationality and fertility'. Staff Research Seminar, Dept. of Demography, Australian National University (ANU). Canberra. ?? November.

22. 1979. 'Application of the principle of difference-control in the explanation of fertility behaviour.' Venue ANU, as above.

21. 1979. 'Reflections on population and development'. Address to the Conference on Population and Development organised by the Development Areas Study Group, Population Study Group, Institute of British Geographers. St. John's College, Cambridge. September 19-20. Mimeo.

20. 1979. 'Socio-cultural carrying capacity and migration control'. Paper to the Fertility Studies Group meeting at Nottingham University. July 13.

19. 1978. 'Population, manpower, and the quality of life'. Global Problems Study Group of the Operational Research Society. Centre for Environmental Studies. London, April 21.

18. 1978. 'Is there a world population problem?'. Lecture to a 6^th form conference on the environment, organised by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs. Coleg Harlech, Harlech. March 31-April 2

17. 1978 'The demographic transition in reverse'. Staff seminar, Centre for Development Studies, Swansea University. February 24.

16. 1977. 'Appropriate policies for a below-replacement birth rate?' Fertility Studies Group meeting, Sheffield University, April 1-3.

15. 1976. 'The end of economic growth?'. Management Centre. University of Aston. January 16.

14. 1976, 'The population problem'. Conference, 'Towards 2000', Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. November 2.

13. 1976. 'Sociology and the steady-state animal'. Paper to conference on 'Britain's Crisis in Sociological Perspective'. Reading University. June 26. Pub. in Hamilton,M.B. & Robertson, K.G. (eds.) (1977) title as above.

12. 1975. 'Economic growth and politics'. Institute of Further Education. Nottingham University. March 14.

11. 1975. 'Population and social structure'. Address to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. University of Nottingham. April 4. Mimeo.

10. 1974. 'Population problems'. Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University. Nov. 11

9. 1974. 'British population policy in a world context'. Paper delivered at the Tribune of the World Population Conference. Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest. August 27. Mimeo

8. 1973. 'Population & manpower'. Talk to the Futures Group, Confederation of British Industry. London. March 15

7. 1973. 'Social instability and the economic transition'. Paper to the Salzburg Assembly on the Impact of New Technology (SAINT). Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria. September 15-19

6. 1973. 'Population and liberty'. Paper to the Symposium on 'Population and the quality of life'. Royal Society of Arts, London. December 11. Proceedings pub. in the journal. (See JP Bibliog.)

5.1968. 'Population trends and policies'. Address to the Institute of Welfare Officers. Oxford House. London. Oct. 29

4. 1960. 'Cybernetics & management'. An analysis of the recent book by Stafford Beer. Venue as 1958, below. May 23

3. 1958. 'Cybernetics & organisations'. Management Department Seminar, Brunel College of Technology.

2. 1958. 'Aberrations of organisational equilibrium'. Theoretical & Comparative Sociology Study Group, British Sociological Association., (BSA) Skepper House, London. March 15

1. 1957. 'Elements of cybernetics. Talk to MENSA. London branch

*NB. Many scores of public and civic lectures on population and related matters not included.