ARC Research Seminar and Networking Meeting 2012

Graduate School of Arts and Humanities
University of Bristol
5th December 2012

Our thanks to those who attended the very enjoyable and stimulating Afterlife Research Centre Network Meeting. It was an opportunity to update those present on some of the activities of ARC and its members during the past year, to draw attention to the web site and members discussion forum, and to highlight the success of Paranthropology (the journal, book and Facebook site). Our thanks also to the Arts and Humanities Graduate School at the University of Bristol, which once again provided the venue for the meeting. The main purpose of the Network Meeting was to give those present an opportunity to share what they are doing and to identify common areas of interest. We were very glad to have a mix of academics and practitioners, established academics, graduate and MA students.

Meeting outline

Welcome and update: Fiona Bowie

ARC Programmes and Website: Emily Pierini

Paranthropology; Jack Hunter

Anthropology Consciousness and Culture Seminar Series: Jack Hunter

Current research activities and interests

Discussion

Forthcoming Seminars

30th January 2013 – Dr David Luke - "Anthropology, Parapsychology & Psychedelics"

27th February 2013 – Dr Bettina Schmidt - "Spirit Possession in Brazil"

27th March 2013 – Paul Devereux - "Time, Mind and Place"

24th April 2013 – Dr Nicholas Campion - TBA


List of participants and interests (alphabetical)


Fiona Bowie, ARC: Afterlife communications and mediumship

Sophia Darweish, MA student, social anthropology, Bristol: Shamanism

Franz Graf, PhD candidate, Vienna: Contemporary British Paganism/animism

Fabian Graham, PhD candidate, social anthropology, SOAS: Chinese spirit mediumship in Singapore and Taiwan

Jack Hunter, PhD candidate, social anthropology, Bristol: Physical and trance mediumship in Bristol

Paddy Ladd, Deaf Studies, Bristol: The spiritual and ethical dimensions of disability and eugenics

Rita Langer, Theology and Religious Studies, Bristol: Buddhist women’s domestic feeding rituals (ghosts, deities etc.)

Genevieve Liveley, Classics, Bristol: Classical texts concerning death and immortality

Terence Palmer, Hypnotherapist, North Wales: Hypnotherapy, spirit release and remote viewing

Emily Pierini, PhD candidate, social anthropology, Bristol: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian religion of the Vale do Amanhecer

Tony Walter, Centre for Death and Society, Bath: Discourses around angels and souls in UK bereavement beliefs and practices