Upcoming Events

Courtesy of Jason Colavito - here's news of a forthcoming research archive at Rice University, due to be launched at a conference in October and November:
"For over the past year, student archivists at Rice University in Houston have been compiling, digitizing, transcribing and organizing massive archives from the works of Jacques Vallee, Whitey Strieber, Ed May (physicist contracted by CIA during Stargate program) ,Richard Haines (ex-NASA scientist), and Larry Bryant. Ultimately, the goal is to have the archives processed and ready for public viewing/ access to researchers by October, which is when the university will host “Opening The Archives Of The Impossible” paranormal conference from Oct.28-Nov.2 that will include guests like Vallee, Strieber, Diana Pasulka, and others."
https://www.punkrockandufos.com/blog/202...rieber-etc

Two forthcoming lectures have been announced by the Society for Psychical Research. Both will be given at the Society's HQ in London:

Simon Duan
PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Space for Psi
2nd April, 2020 7:00pm
https://www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info...6reset%3D1

Matthew Colborn
STICKY BUNDLES, LEAKY BUCKETS AND RABBIT HOLES: Understanding the Survival Experience (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture)
5th March, 2020 7:00pm
https://www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info...6reset%3D1

The lecture on 2 April 2020 has been cancelled owing to the coronavirus epidemic.

Courtesy of the SPR Twitter page - the Koestler Parapsychology Unit's 11-week online course, entitled "Introduction to Parapsychology" is due to run from 6 April to 19 June this year:
https://koestlerunit.wordpress.com/online-course/

The Parapsychological Association and the Society for Scientific Exploration are hosting a four-day event on 16-19 June 2020 at Durham, North Carolina:
https://mailchi.mp/scientificexploration...-durham-nc

This Convention has now been postponed until 2021:
https://meetings.parapsych.org/meeting/2020

In fact nearly all the upcoming events in the next few months that aren't online have now been either postponed or cancelled.

Cancelled:

25 April 2020: London
The Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society - symposium entitled "End-of-Life: Inner experience and unusual awareness in the dying" at the Society's headquarters
https://www.bps.org.uk/events/end-life-i...ness-dying

Postponed:

1 - 4 April 2020: Porto, Portugal
The 13th Symposium in a series organised by the Bial Foundation on the theme "Behind and Beyond the Brain", entitled "The mystery of time,"
https://www.bial.com/com/bial-foundation...rticipants

13 - 18 April 2020: Tucson, Arizona
The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona - six-day meeting entitled "The Science of Consciousness 2020"
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/

2 July 2020: London
Paul Gaunt - lecture entitled "Helen Duncan: Genuine or fraudulent?" (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture) at the Society for Psychical Research
https://www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info...6reset%3D1

[Laird]

We've received an email that the Society for Scientific Exploration and the Parapsychological Association are calling for papers for an online event SSE-PA Connections on July 23-31, 2021. Submissions are due by 11:59pm on May 10, 2021, Eastern US Time, and can be submitted here. The potential subject matter of a submission is very broad - basically anything the SSE or PA would study, including "anomalous experiences, remote viewing, subtle energies of the body, intentional and unconscious effects on objects and electronics, encounters, and other experiences related to the nature of consciousness".

A wide range of topics is appropriate for this conference, regardless of the discipline or focus, provided the work demonstrates a scientific approach and passes the program committee’s peer-review process.

Appropriate submissions will have a scientific focus in the form of research studies, investigative experiential reports, robust critical evaluations of existing literature or research, or theoretical foundations for anomalous experiences and psi phenomena. Panel proposals on specific topics, including potential panel members, are also welcome.

More on the PA website:

• SSE-PA Connections 2021 Announcement
  
• Event: SSE-PA Connections 2021
  

And the conference even has a Facebook event page where you can indicate whether you're interested/going:

• SSE-PA Connections 2021