(2019-03-29, 08:25 AM)Chris Wrote: Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - here are details of the Society for Scientific Exploration's 2019 conference, to held 5-8 June at Broomfield, Colorado. The theme is "Consilience", which apparently means "the principle that evidence from unrelated sources, especially science and the humanities, can converge and produce unified conclusions" (though that definition doesn't leave me much the wiser). https://www.scientificexploration.org/conferences/2019
I think "eclectic" is the polite word for the subject matter of the presentations, which range from mainstream parapsychology through homeopathy and the I Ching, all the way to the authorship of Shakespeare. I've never really understood why people should want to lump fringe theories in conventional fields, with the study of anomalous phenomena (except when sceptics due it for the purpose of ridicule).
Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - as part of its 20th birthday celebrations the Edinburgh Fortean Society is holding a one-day conference on 13 July: http://www.gordonrutter.com/edfort-at-20/
The speakers are:-
Jan Bondeson – Talking Dogs of Germany
Richard Freeman – Death by Cryptid
Alison Rutter – Earth Hounds
Innes Smith – Paranormal Investigating – what’s the F****** point!?!? (F is for Fortean)
Caroline Watt – Investigating the Impossible: The work of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit
Richard Wiseman – Explaining the Unexplained: Magic, Mystery and Mayhem
Here are the abstracts of presented papers for the forthcoming 62nd Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, to be held in Paris, 4-6 July 2019: https://www.parapsych.org/articles/37/48...ts_of.aspx
Multi award-winning stand-up comedian, screenwriter and actor Ricky Gervais will be presented with this year’s Richard Dawkins Award. The RD Foundation campaigns to remove the influence of religion in science education and public policy, and to eliminate the stigma that surrounds atheism and non-belief.
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The event that follows will be an unscripted conversation between Gervais and Dawkins, in which everything is on the table and nothing is sacred. They will be joined by host, best-selling author and professor of psychology, Richard Wiseman.
Venue: Limehouse, East London. Tickets available for just £38.50. (I think we may all need to club together and send just one representative.)
Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Edinburgh Skeptics will present a free talk by Caroline Watt entitled "From Seance to Science: The Koestler Parapsychology Unit" on 15 August as part of their contribution to the Edinburgh Fringe: https://www.edinburghskeptics.co.uk/even...ology-unit
The keynote speakers will be:
Michael Nahm, on "A Historical Study Concerning Apports."
Steve Taylor, on "Awakening Experiences."
Paul H. Smith, on "A Brief Introduction to Remote Viewing: An overview of remote viewing – its history, applications, results, and the science behind it."
Chris Robinson, on "What My Psychic Experiences Have Taught me."
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(I think we may all need to club together and send just one representative.)
