Interesting Conferences for 2013

**Occult Geographies: (im)material agents and the geographical imagination.

RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 28th-30th August 2013.

 

Society for The Academic Study of Magic <ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>

 

**The 11th Conference of International Society for Shamanistic Research (ISSR)

 6-9 September 2013, Guiyang，Guizhou Province，China

 

Conference Main Theme:

'Traditional Rituals and Spiritual Harmony in the Changing Globalized World'

 

Commissioned by International Society for Shamanistic Research (ISSR）

Guizhou Normal College, No.115 Gaoxin Road, Wudang District, Guiyang
Guizhou Province 550013, China

naranbilik@163.com, and naranbilik@gmail.com (For Naran Bilik)

longyuxiao@gzhnc.edu.cn and jason.y.long@gmail.com (For Jason Y. Long)

 

** Eleventh Annual Sophia Centre Conference  'CELESTIAL MAGIC'

 22-23 June 2013  Venue: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, England

http://www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk/en/sophia/

Conference Theme

Magic, loosely defined, is the attempt to engage with the world through the imagination or psyche, in order to obtain some form of knowledge, benefit or advantage. Celestial magic engages with the cosmos through stellar, planetary or celestial symbolism, influences or intelligences. This academic conference will explore the history, philosophy and practice of celestial magic in past or present societies.

 

3rd Global Conference
Re-framing Punishment and the Body

Sunday 1st September - 3rd September 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford

Joint Organising Chairs:

Shona Hil & Shilinka Smith: shs@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: punish3@inter-disciplinary.net