Yes, a third one. Northwest Free-thought Alliance Conference is taking place on 30 March-1 April in Renton, Washington, just south of Seattle. Fly into Sea-Tac, it’s not that far. Richard Dawkins is speaking at this one, too — he does get around — as well as Anu Garg, who gave an excellent talk last time I heard him.
All right, divvy it up. Southerners and East Coasters, go to Rock Beyond Belief; Upper Midwest, go to our Midwest Science of Origins Conference; West Coasters, head up to the Northwest Free-thought Alliance.
Man, I remember when godless conferences were scarce, and you’d have a choice of a couple of them every year; now you’ve got a couple of them on the same day.
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Patricia, OM
28 March 2012 at 2:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh of course, Richard Dawkins will speak at this one. This isn’t the ONE I can go to. Damn.
chigau (一番)
28 March 2012 at 2:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Or everyone could go to a conference in another place and swap house-sitting duties.
reasonbeing
28 March 2012 at 2:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sadly I can’t make any of them. You will find this perhaps a bit funny PZ, but I have to be in Morris, MN on Sunday! Not exactly a hotbed for travel destinations!
Gregory in Seattle
28 March 2012 at 2:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ack. I’m already booked for Comicon in Seattle, with Norwescon the weekend after (best way to spend Easter: at a science fiction and fantasy convention!)
fastlane
28 March 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m actually here in the Seattle area, but I’m going to be at the track all weekend.
Ophelia Benson
28 March 2012 at 4:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Richard Dawkins is also speaking in Bellevue on April 1 with Sean Faircloth and Elisabeth Cornwell. 3:30 p.m. Details at RDF.
Sili
28 March 2012 at 4:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Being a Dawkins groupie is expensive.
Thomas Lawson
28 March 2012 at 6:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’ll be attending both of Dawkins’s talks in Washington. Too much of a good thing?
Deanna Joy Lyons
28 March 2012 at 8:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
My favorite husband and I will be tabling in the lobby at the NW Freethought convention. Come say hi if y’all want to!
newname
29 March 2012 at 5:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You know you’re getting old when all weekends start to blur together.