Exploring the Extraordinary 4th Conference
21st-23rd September, 2012
Holiday Inn, York, UK
Holiday Inn, York, UK
FRIDAY, 21st September
1.00-1.15 Introduction
1.15-1.45 ‘A qualitative study of anomalous telephonic experiences’ Callum Cooper, University of Northampton
1.45-2.15 'The nature and quality of child-parent relationships as predictors of adult paranormal and new age beliefs’ Dr Paul Rogers, University of Central Lancashire
2.15-2.40 Coffee break
2.40-3.10 ‘Extraordinary claims, uncanny history: Testing historical
interpretations of Spiritualism and the First World War’ Ben McDonald, University of Melbourne
3.10-3.40 ‘Reconstructing Seaford: A historical methodology to trace the rise of the psychokinetic theory of the poltergeist phenomenon’ Christopher Laursen, University of British Columbia
3.40-4.10 ‘The spectacular supernatural: Victoria Spiritualism and the rise of modern show business’ Dr Simone Natale, University of Cologne
4.10-4.30 Coffee break
4.30-5.00 ‘Revenant revolutions’ Jonathan Ferguson, Leeds Royal Armouries
5.00-5.30 ‘Limbos of destruction: Ghosts, malevolence and tragedy’ Dr Hannah Gilbert, York St John University
6.30-8.00 Dinner
Evening Activity: Films
8.00 The Fortean tales of Lapis Lazu, Christopher Laursen, University of British Columbia
8.30 Science and spirit(s), Prof Charles Emmons, Gettysburg College
SATURDAY, 22nd September
10.00-10.30 ‘Exploring extraordinary geographies: The overlapping spaces of the practical, the social and the otherworldly’, Dr Nadia Bartolini, Dr Sara MacKian & Dr Steve Pile, Open University
10.30-11.00 ‘Crystals, angels and a discourse of healing: Exploring extraordinary therapeutic landscapes,’ Dr Sara MacKian, Open University
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-11.45 ‘GHosts, guests and hosts, and how to make them’ Sarah Sparkes, University of London
11.45-12.15 ‘English heretic: An application of magical psychogeography and modern necromancy’ Andy Sharp
12.15-12.45 ‘Expressions of spirithood: Performance and the manifestation of spirits,’ Jack Hunter, University of Bristol
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.30 ‘In the light and shadow: Turning the dead to keep the world alive,’ Dr Christel Mattheeuws, University of Aberdeen
2.30-3.00 ‘Magic, materialism and mushrooms: Psilocybin mushrooms user’s constructions of the reality of psychedelic entity encounters’ James Thompson, University of Bath
3.00-3.30 ‘The shamanic journey: Ordinary into extraordinary reality’, Dr Zoë Brân
3.30-3.45 Coffee Break
3.45-4.15 ‘“Knock, knock… who’s there?” Orientating to spirits in the spatial and personal environment’ Rachael Hayward, University of York
4.15-4.45 ‘The material remains of presence on an excavated hauntscape: A transductive ethnography of a spectral soundscape’ John Sabol
Evening Activity
6.15-7.15
‘Everyday Spirituality’ book launch and wine reception
7.30
Dinner at 1331 Bar & Restaurant
SUNDAY, 23rd September
10.00-10.30 ‘Noise and the infinite’ Adam Potts, Newcastle University
10.30-11.00 ‘Paramusicology: The fusion of music and the paranormal’ Dr Melvyn Willin
11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20-11.50 ‘It takes one to know one: Imaginal cognition and the question of spiritual reality’ Dr Angela Voss
11.50-12.10 'Emotion, extraordinary experience and ethics’ Dr Madeleine Castro, Leeds Metropolitan University
12.10-1.00 Group discussion
1.00 Lunch
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