Please join the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness for our 33rd Annual Conference to be held April 4-6 in New Orleans! The theme of this year’s conference is “Times of Transition: Shifting Individual and Collective Consciousness.” In it, we will consider (among other things) shifting paradigms of thought, both globally and within the discipline of the anthropology of consciousness specifically.
The preliminary program includes:
Session: Catalysts for Changing Collective Consciousness
“A Life Dedicated for the World Peace Through Global Education” [Hulya Dogan]
“Forgotten Wisdom of Chauvet Cave: The Sacred Feminine and the (Re)Birth of Culture” [Andrew Gurevich]
“The Ancient Maya did Drugs!?!?: Reflections on Marlene Dobkin de Rios’ Archeological Legacy” [Marc Blainey]
Session: Shifting Political and Cultural Consciousness
“Navajo Nation v United States Forest Service: The ‘Substantial Burden’ of Epistemic Translation” [Rachel Carbonara]
“BÁRAKÚ ORI … Habits of the Head” [Antionette Brown-Waithe]
“The Shifting Seascape of St. Michael, Alaska” [Katherine Worthington]
Session: Ritual Reconsidered
“Mien Taoism Reconsidered” [Jeffery MacDonald]
“When Closure Fails: A Reconsideration of Ritual at Its Most Incomplete” [Mira Amiras]
Session: Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and the Future of a Discipline
“What Should the Future Hold?: Reconsidering Our Language, Our Relationships, and Our Dialogues Within the Anthropology of Consciousness” [Hillary S Webb]
“Perspectives on Teaching Indigenous Religions in College” [Evgenia Fotiou]
“Earth, Gender, and Ceremony: Legend, Land, and Sacred Plants in Latin America” [Sharon Mijares]
“Objective/Subjective and Ethical/Transpersonal: Investigating Reality with Both Eyes Open [Heather Walker]
“Shamanism and the Anthropology of Consciousness” [Steve Beyer]
“Rolling Thunder’s Life: Indigenous Wisdom, Shamanism, and Earth’s Future” [Stanley Krippner]
Session: Trauma and Healing
“Resurrecting the Dead: A Living Practice of Introspective Self-Recovery” [Enoch Page]
“Loss, Mourning, and Shifting Consciousness” [John Naropa]
“Televised Mediumship: Healing and the Spirit World” [Cassandra White]
Session: Blending Consciousness Science and Art
“PSI and the Problem of Consciousness” [George Williams]
“Spectrum No. 1 and No. 2” [Gretchen Wagner]
“A Revised State Model of Consciousness and Its Application to Rock Art” [David Miller]
“Historical Applications of Psychological Theory to Cultural Studies: A Systematic Review” [Afshan Kamrudin]
“Absorption and Awareness: A Pilot Study of Cell Phone Induced Transitions of Awareness” [Sydney Yeager]
“Accessing Lost Realms of Color” [Roberta Pignanelli]
Also to be included:
- A showing of the film Chitzen Itza Revelations
- Workshop: “Cheoreography of Objects” [Lori Esposito and Duane McDiarmid]
- Workshop: “Drawing in the Dark” [Donna Schill]
Please join us! To register for the conference and get more information about the conference site and lodging, visit our website.
Send correspondence and communications to SAC Contributing Editor Hillary S Webb at hillaryswebb@comcast.net.
via Anthropology-News http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/03/15/join-sac-in-new-orleans/
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