You can read a review of the second Exploring the Extraordinary conference at our website: http://www.etenetwork.weebly.com. Many thanks to Sophie Drennan for the review.
The third Exploring the Extraordinary conference will be held in York in late 2011. Call for papers and further details will be released shortly. Enquiries should be sent to ete.network@gmail.com
Monday, 6 December 2010
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
EtE Conference Schedule
There are still a couple of places left for the conference should you be free and wish to go! Also here are the details of speakers and the conference schedule for your perusal.
EXPLORING THE EXTRAORDINARY 2nd Conference
University of York, UK
Friday, 24th September – Saturday 25th September, 2010
Friday 24th September
9.00-9.45 Registration
10.00-10.10 Introduction
Session 1: Extraordinary experiences and bereavement
10.10-10.40 ‘Extraordinary encounters with love and light: Psycho-spiritual transformation through bereavement, death bed phenomena and near death experiences’
Josefine Speyer & Dr Mary Murray
10.40-11.10 ‘“Whisper of the bones, echoes from an embodied life”: Communiqué as a process of emotional, psychological and spiritual growth and education’
Michele Knight
11.10-11.30 Coffee break
Session 2: Religion and Spirituality
11.30-12.00 ‘Mystical experience in a new religious movement: A case study’
Alice Herron
12.00-12.30 ‘Inner knowing and spiritual knowledge: An investigation into the construction of religion and unstructured spirituality’
Dr Jenny Hallam & Candice Sunney
12.30-2.00 Lunch break
Session 3: Theory, experience and meaning
2.00-2.30 ‘The importance of extraordinary experiences for the adoption of heterodox beliefs’
Dr Gerhard Mayer & René Gründer
2.30-3.00 ‘And then what? How to assimilate extraordinary experiences, and why’
Keith Beasley
3.00-3.30 Coffee break
Keynote Lecture
3.30-4.30 ‘“I know what I saw”: Extraordinary experiences with UFOs’
Dr David Clarke
Closing Remarks – Dr Madeleine Castro
7.00 Dinner
Saturday, 25th September, 2010
Session 4: Embodiment, ethics and extraordinary experiences
10.00-10.30 ‘'Waking the entranced: Reassessing Spiritualist mediumship through a comparison of Spiritualist and shamanic spirit possession practices’
David Gordon Wilson
10.30-11.00 ‘Therapeutic emotional labour, relational dynamics and ethics in the work of mediums and psychic practitioners’
Sarah Metcalfe
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Session 5: Spirit mediumship in the UK
11.30-12.00 ‘Talking with the spirits: An experiential exploration of contemporary trance physical mediumship’
Jack Hunter
12.00-12.30 ‘The Awakening Letters: Exploring the mediumship of Lady Cynthia Sandys’
Dr Fiona Bowie
12.45-2.00 Lunch break
Session 6: Experiencing spirit
2.00-2.30 ‘Discerning spirit: Phenomenological art’
Ann Davies
2.30-3.00 ‘The journey in and out of “the extraordinary”: Long-term research with mediums in Los Angeles and Brazil’
Dr Yves Marton
3.00-3.30 Coffee break
Session 7: Incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives
3.30-4.00 ‘Anthropology and parapsychology: Still hostile sisters in science?’
Dr David Luke
4.00-4.30 ‘The psychical and the mystical: Is there a connection?’
Dr Paul Marshall
4.30-5.30 General discussion
EXPLORING THE EXTRAORDINARY 2nd Conference
University of York, UK
Friday, 24th September – Saturday 25th September, 2010
Friday 24th September
9.00-9.45 Registration
10.00-10.10 Introduction
Session 1: Extraordinary experiences and bereavement
10.10-10.40 ‘Extraordinary encounters with love and light: Psycho-spiritual transformation through bereavement, death bed phenomena and near death experiences’
Josefine Speyer & Dr Mary Murray
10.40-11.10 ‘“Whisper of the bones, echoes from an embodied life”: Communiqué as a process of emotional, psychological and spiritual growth and education’
Michele Knight
11.10-11.30 Coffee break
Session 2: Religion and Spirituality
11.30-12.00 ‘Mystical experience in a new religious movement: A case study’
Alice Herron
12.00-12.30 ‘Inner knowing and spiritual knowledge: An investigation into the construction of religion and unstructured spirituality’
Dr Jenny Hallam & Candice Sunney
12.30-2.00 Lunch break
Session 3: Theory, experience and meaning
2.00-2.30 ‘The importance of extraordinary experiences for the adoption of heterodox beliefs’
Dr Gerhard Mayer & René Gründer
2.30-3.00 ‘And then what? How to assimilate extraordinary experiences, and why’
Keith Beasley
3.00-3.30 Coffee break
Keynote Lecture
3.30-4.30 ‘“I know what I saw”: Extraordinary experiences with UFOs’
Dr David Clarke
Closing Remarks – Dr Madeleine Castro
7.00 Dinner
Saturday, 25th September, 2010
Session 4: Embodiment, ethics and extraordinary experiences
10.00-10.30 ‘'Waking the entranced: Reassessing Spiritualist mediumship through a comparison of Spiritualist and shamanic spirit possession practices’
David Gordon Wilson
10.30-11.00 ‘Therapeutic emotional labour, relational dynamics and ethics in the work of mediums and psychic practitioners’
Sarah Metcalfe
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Session 5: Spirit mediumship in the UK
11.30-12.00 ‘Talking with the spirits: An experiential exploration of contemporary trance physical mediumship’
Jack Hunter
12.00-12.30 ‘The Awakening Letters: Exploring the mediumship of Lady Cynthia Sandys’
Dr Fiona Bowie
12.45-2.00 Lunch break
Session 6: Experiencing spirit
2.00-2.30 ‘Discerning spirit: Phenomenological art’
Ann Davies
2.30-3.00 ‘The journey in and out of “the extraordinary”: Long-term research with mediums in Los Angeles and Brazil’
Dr Yves Marton
3.00-3.30 Coffee break
Session 7: Incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives
3.30-4.00 ‘Anthropology and parapsychology: Still hostile sisters in science?’
Dr David Luke
4.00-4.30 ‘The psychical and the mystical: Is there a connection?’
Dr Paul Marshall
4.30-5.30 General discussion
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
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Exploring the Extraordinary 2nd Conference
Forthcoming event = our second conference at the University of York on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th September, 2010. More details to follow very shortly...
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