Forthcoming
Events
Organisers of conferences and other relevant events to users of this website are most welcome to submit their details for inclusion here, please email us at socacademicstudymagic AT btopenworld.com, replacing AT with the @ symbol, and give details of the event title, date, location, subject areas and a webpage or email link for the use of enquirers. Many conferences and events publicised below will have a larger focus that the remit of the JSM; for example ‘Shakespeare’ or contemporary religions, within which there may be an occult or magical sub-section… such events are included here based on reading their online descriptions and we cannot be held accountable if the event on the day does not match up with how they are advertised. If we hear of an event being cancelled we will post the news here, but cannot be responsible if you travel to something that is cancelled- we are totally reliant on news coming in, as proactively keeping up to date on this number of conferences on a 24-7 basis would be impossible.
Interested potential delegates and those wishing to submit papers please contact the event organisers and not us if you need further details, many events will be of limited ticket numbers, some are only open to members of particular academic associations, or postgraduate students only… and most will require booking well in advance. We would be interested to receive short reviews of any of these events. This is neither claimed to be a definitive list nor should mention here be taken as an endorsement, or failure to mention be taken as a criticism, of any particular event over any other event.
In addition to those
events mentioned below we can heartily recommend The Conference Alerts Service,
the Festival Eye Site as a guide to
folkloric, pagan, activism –style events all over Europe, and some regular
London-based events are publicised here
and here and a regular series of
talks here www.treadwells-london.com and
here http://www.selfs.co.uk/
If you are travelling to any conferences these links may be of help to you:
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So far as accommodation for conferences etc goes, due to personal very poor experience with the vacation-bookable accommodation at the London School of Economics, can we respectfully suggest that you do NOT attempt to book a room there, as we would not wish you to be put in the disastrous position that we were.
2004
18-19 October 2004: Locating the ancestors, Milton Keynes, UK Arts-Rel-Studies-Conferences@open.ac.uk
21-14 October 2004: Pilgrimages, Ancient and Post-Modern, panel for The
Voyage Out: Fourth Biennial Conference of the
International Society for Travel Writing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. m.aune@ndsu.nodak.edu
22-24 October 2004: Neurotheology and
the Biological and Evolutionary Aspects of Religion, The Society for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City Missouri. Michael.Winkelman@asu.edu
22-24 October 2004: Magic
and the Occult in Medieval British Literature, Midwest Conference on British
Studies, Michigan State U, East Lansing MI.
cneufeld@emich.edu
22-24 October 2004: Annual Witchcraft Seminar Cornwall, UK
November 4-7 2004: MMLA Conference including sessions on "From the Spiritual to the Religious: American Literature From 1870 to the Present." St. Louis, Missouri, karlyn.crowley@snc.edu and “Magicians, Jugglers, Swindlers: Representations of Magic, Natural Philosophy, and the Occult in Renaissance Literature" vtheile@wsu.edu and "Religious Faith in the Academy." dwall12@lsu.edu and
5-6 November 2004: Spiritual Identities, Lancaster
University, UK, j.carruthers@lancaster.ac.uk
November 14-16 2004: Romancing the Philosopher's
Stone: Harry Potter, Literary Portkey Roanoke, Virginia http://www.samla.org/ challett@bennett.edu
17-21 November 2004: TOURISM, PILGRIMAGE, AND "THE SACRED"
- EXPLORING BOUNDARIES, RETHINKING
IDENTITIES, CONTESTING DISCOURSES, American Anthropological Assoc Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, CA http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/04cfp.htm
19 November 2004: Contemporary pagan Studies, San Antonio, Texas, http://paganstudies.org/confs/ccps/call.htm
Dec 2004: date tbc, MLA Convention, including sessions on Christopher Marlowe's plays or poetry Bruce_Brandt@sdstate.edu
2005
6 January 2005 [boundaries] Goldsmiths College, University of London www.bcla.org/boundaries
9 - 12 February 2005, Auckland, New Zealand, Victorians and the Other, j.wilkes@auckland.ac.nz
February 9-12, 2005 SW Pop Culture Assoc Conference including: CLASSICAL MYTHS IN RECENT LITERATURE AND FILM , Medievalism and Popular Culture , Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Buffy and Angel http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
8th - 23rd March 2005 Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.wickedness.net/index1.htm
24-30 March 2005: Conference: Western Esotericism and Polemics Tokyo
March 16-20, 2005 Blurring the Boundaries: Transrealism and Other Movements Fort Lauderdale, USA http://www.iafa.org
March 23-26, 2005 TAROT San Diego www.h-net.org/~pcaaca
31 March 2005 "Space(s)" Indianapolis, Indiana ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
31 March – 2 April 2005: NEMLA Conference including panels on
Forms of Ethnographic Spectacle and The Status Of Truth In Docudrama and
Documentary, domalley@massart.edu,
Sexual Horror in the Gothic: Anxious Representations of the Gendered Other ruth.anolik@villanova.edu,
The X-Files and Literature,
The X-Files and Literature (no web link), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
April 20-24, 2005 , The Woman Warrior, Los Angeles http://www.aaastudies.org/conferences/conferences.html.
11 May 2005 Workshop: Custom, Ritual, Habit, Fetish: The Idols of the Eighteenth Century Indiana
May 19-21, 2005 Earth Rites: Imagination and Practice
in Sci-Arts Eco-Cultures University of Washington-Bothell (http://faculty.uwb.edu/kkochhar/ACN)
21-25 June 2005 "Being in the World, Living with the Land" The
University of Oregon http://www.asle.umn.edu/
date tba, June 2005: "Holy Men in Tights!"
Superheroes and Mythology Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia djoymib@unimelb.edu.au, http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au
5-8 July 2005: Embodiment and Environment, Westminster Institute, Oxford
Brookes University, Oxford, UK, Beverly Clack (bclack@brookes.ac.uk) and Graham Harvey
(g.harvey@open.ac.uk)
July 29-31, 2005 Harry Potter, http://www.accio.org.uk/call4papers.shtml University of Reading, UK
11-15 August 2005: Conference: THE RING GOES EVER ON- CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE
RINGS
BIRMINGHAM, UK http://www.tolkiensociety.org/2005/
16-18 September 2005 Indigenous Religions, Milton Keynes, UK, Arts-Rel-Studies-Conferences@open.ac.uk
November 3-4, 2005 The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze, Copenhagen, Denmark kimsu@hum.ku.dk
Events passed- the details of past conferences will be preserved here, as they often contain useful weblinks