institutional support depends on the institution (if there is one) - if i
had all the cash of my own that i've spent on conferences in the last 4
years i'd have quite a nice car instead...
dave e
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From: "mandrake" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] DAIMONIC IMAGINATION
On 05/01/2011 17:15, Angela Voss wrote:
Angela
Question I always ask is whether those who present papers still have to
pay for the conference ?
Academic conferences usually aimed at those who can persuad someone else
to pay the conf fee -
which isn't an option for some practitioners ?
Mogg
> Dear all
>
> Can I remind you of our conference at Kent, Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny
> Intelligence, to be held 6-7 May. Further details, flyer, booking form and
> call for papers are at www.kent.ac.uk/mythconference so please have a look
> and consider sending in an abstract! (and please pass on the link to
> anyone who may be interested). The theme of autonomous spiritual
> intelligence is a controversial one and we hope to address it from many
> different perspectives, with emphasis on the practitioner/scholar question
> which is a concern of many on this list!
>
> bw
> Angela Voss and William Rowlandson
>
>
> Dr Angela Voss
> 10 Arnold Road
> Chartham
> Canterbury CT4 7QL
>
> 07787 434958
> 01227 732457
> www.cosmology-divination.com
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:20 PM
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> Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] CFP: The Matter of Spirit
>
> A recent CFP that might be of interest to some on this list:
>
> The Matter of Spirit: Plasma, Aether, Urstoff and the Emergence of German
> Modernism (Deadline: 2/10/2011; German Studies Association; 09/22-25,
> 2011)
>
> Nineteenth century Germany played host to a whole range of approaches
> designed to conceptualize the material foundations of psychic functions.
> Beginning around 1800 with Friedrich Schellingıs Naturphilosophie, and its
> extraordinarily influential equation of world-soul with primal matter, the
> interest in a physical science of spirit culminated, by the second half of
> the century, in the invention of new disciplines like evolutionary biology
> (Ernst Haeckel, Thomas Henry Huxley) and experimental psychology (Wilhelm
> Wundt, Alfred Binet), which sought to study the empirical substrate of
> mental life. The phenomenon did not, however, remain confined to the
> natural
> sciences. Concepts like "plasma" and "aether," which played the role of
> substrate for the scientists, soon also figured prominently in the context
> of occult experiments (Albert v. Schrenck-Notzing), mystical theosophies
> (Rudolf Steiner, Bruno Wille), philosophical speculations (Arthur
> Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche), modernist poetics (Robert Müller,
> Thomas
> Mann), and avant-garde media aesthetics (Raoul Hausmann, Laszlo
> Moholy-Nagy). The panel seeks to explore the significance of this
> widespread
> fascination with spiritual "matter" for the development of German
> Modernism.
>
> We invite papers addressing topics including but not limited to: the
> impact
> of Naturphilosophie on 19th century natural science; the reimagining of
> "spirit" in the fields of experimental psychology and evolutionary
> biology;
> occult "research" practices like spirit photography/cinematography;
> theories
> of materialist monism and/or theosophical unity; aesthetic appropriations
> of
> concepts like plasma and Urstoff; avant-garde reception of scientific and
> occult models of spiritual matter.
>
> Please send an abstract of approx. 300 words by Feb. 10 to Sarah Pourciau
> ([log in to unmask]), Tobias Wilke ([log in to unmask]), and Lisa
> Cerami ([log in to unmask]).
>
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