Call for Papers: Paranthropology Vol. 3 No. 1 (January 2012)

Submissions are now open for the January 2012 issue of "Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal" (Vol. 3 No. 1). Articles can be on any topic relating to:

Paranormal/Supernatural/Spiritual/Religious belief/experience

Magic, Parapsychology, Afterlife Research, etc.

Mediumship, Shamanism, Occultism, etc.

Psychedelic experience

Extraordinary encounters in the field (particularly focussing on the ethnographic interpretation and presentation of extraordinary experiences)

General issues in the anthropology of consciousness and experience... Amongst others...

Although anthropological and ethnographic approaches are central to the journal, we also welcome contributions from other disciplines including folklore, history, sociology, psychology, parapsychology and indeed any discipline which has an interesting contribution to make.

If you have an idea for an article that you think would be suitable for the publication, or have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the editor via discarnates@googlemail.com

Articles should be written in an academic, though accessible style, and should utilise the Harvard referencing system (for information visit http://paranthropologyjournal.weebly.com/submit.html). All articles should be submitted no later than December 15th so that they have enough time to go through the peer-review process.

I hope to hear from some of you soon.

Jack Hunter (editor)

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www.paranthropology.co.uk

www.afterliferesearch.co.uk

Parapsychological Association Conference - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

54^th Annual Parapsychological Association Convention

Curitiba, Brazil

August 18-21, 2011

The 54^th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association (PA) will be held from Thursday August 18^th, through Sunday August 21^st, 2011, in Curitiba, Brazil.

The deadline for the receipt of all submissions is Monday April 11, 2011. Submissions received after this date will be considered only in exceptional circumstances. Abstracts of all accepted submissions other than workshops will be included in the convention booklet, provided that they are received before the deadline.

All submissions to the 2011 PA convention, except proposed workshops, must be submitted electronically. They should be emailed as attachments, to the chair of the Program Committee, Dr. Marios Kittenis, at m.kittenis@aston.ac.uk. Authors who are not online or who for some other reason cannot meet these requirements should contact Marios prior to submission, either by mail: c/o Dr Marios Kittenis, Psychology, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK or by phone: +44 121 204 3000 ext. 4318.

For more details, please see: http://www.parapsych.org/breaking-news.html#18

Submissions Open for Paranthropology 2:1

Submissions for articles and reviews are now open for the 3rd issue of the Paranthropology Journal (Vol. 2, No. 1) (www.paranthropology.weebly.com/newsletter.html). This issue will have the general theme of "Mediumship and Spirit Possession", so anything pertaining to these issues, and related phenomena (e.g. spirits, ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists etc.) will be considered for inclusion. Articles can be from social scientific, anthropological, experiential, historical, psychological, parapsychological, and personal perspectives (or any other) and should be in the region of 500-2,000 words. Book/event reviews should be no more than 1,000 words in length.

If you would like to submit an article/review please don't hesitate to get in touch via:

discarnates@googlemail.com

Deadline: 4th January 2011.

Call for Articles - "Paranormal Encounters in the Field"

Issue two of "Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal" is set to be released in October 2010. The general theme for this issue will be "Paranormal Encounters in the Field". To this end, therefore, we are now open for article and review submissions.

Articles should be in the region of 1,000 words, though this is not a strict word limit.

If you would like to contribute an article, review or letter, or would like any more information, please get in touch via discarnates@googlemail.com

Call for Papers - 2nd Exploring the Extraordinary Conference at University of York - 24th-25th Sept. 2010

EXPLORING THE EXTRAORDINARY
2nd Conference
University of York, UK
Friday, 24th September – Saturday 25th September, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our second Exploring the Extraordinary network conference. We would like to invite people to submit papers based on contemporary studies of extraordinary experiences. Some examples of topics may be:

• Individual accounts of extraordinary experiences
• Health, well being and extraordinary experiences
• Belief systems that incorporate extraordinary experiences
• Theoretical discussions of extraordinary experiences, and/or the potential for interdisciplinary perspectives
• Developing suitable methodologies to research extraordinary experiences

This conference will be hosted by the Anomalous Experiences Research Unit (http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/research/aeru.htm), members of which established Exploring the Extraordinary in 2007 at the University of York, with the aim of creating a supportive researcher network that would encourage interdisciplinary links and discussions regarding the study of extraordinary experiences. By ‘extraordinary’ we refer to experiences that are considered by experients to be beyond the mundane, having significant spiritual or life changing connotations. We include experiences that have been called supernatural, paranormal, mystical, transcendental, exceptional, spiritual, and religious, as well as the belief systems such experiences may connect to.

Papers should be intended for an interdisciplinary audience.

Please submit a 300-500 word abstract to Dr Hannah Gilbert (heg104@york.ac.uk) by the 2nd April 2010. Papers should ideally be 20 minutes in length. Please include contact information and a brief biographical note. Accepted papers will be decided upon by a committee, and a decision will be made within one week of the closing date.

Accepted papers will also be invited to submit a full paper for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal for the Society for Psychical Research, which will be guest edited by Dr Madeleine Castro and Dr Hannah Gilbert. If you would like to be considered for inclusion in the special issue of the JSPR then submit a full paper of no more than 6,000 words in APA format (for guidance click here ) including an abstract of 300-500 words, by no later than the 28th May. If you wish to be considered for the conference but not the JSPR special issue then submit just an abstract (no later than the 2nd April) for your presentation. Please note all papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission, and acceptance for the conference will not guarantee acceptance for publication.

Timescale:

2nd April 2010: Deadline for abstract submissions
28th May 2010: Deadline for paper submissions
24th -25th September 2010: Exploring the Extraordinary conference

Inquiries can be sent to

Dr Hannah Gilbert,
Anomalous Experiences Research Unit,
Sociology,
University of York,
Heslington, York,
YO10 5DD

heg104@york.ac.uk