{"id":10053,"date":"2018-12-10T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2018-12-12T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:32:46","slug":"publishing-thoughts-after-aar-sbl-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10053","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Thoughts after AAR-SBL 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nothing gladdens an editor’s heart like seeing an author with his new book. Here Jefferson Calico talks about Being Viking: Heathenisn in Contemporary America<\/a><\/em> <\/a>with Giovanna Parmigiani, who also presented a paper in a Contemporary Pagan Studies session.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I got so busy with the “Season of the Witch(crap)” series that I wrote nothing about last month’s joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion<\/a> and the Society of Biblical Literature.<\/a>((The SBL is actually the parent of the AAR, but the child organization is now much bigger and broader.))<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting this year was in Denver for the first time since 2001. Although I live in Colorado, I visit Denver only once or twice a year, and when I do, I feel like a country mouse in the urban canyons. There was a time when I sold print advertising up there once or twice a month and was pretty familiar with the central areas, but so much has changed, that my memories are palimpsests, and I have to learn its geography all over again. That restaurant that I remember as moderately priced is now more expensive, and they don’t have any tables available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, if you are a meeting planner, Denver’s convention center is easy to navigate, is withing about four blocks of thousands of hotel rooms, and also within a short walk from many restaurants, so that 10,000 hungry intellectuals discharged into the city center can find places to eat lunch.
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And you can take an Amtrak train (or a commuter train from the airport) into the city center and then ride a free shuttle bus into the hotel district. M. and I drove, however, handing our mud-splattered Jeep over to the hotel parking valet for the duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But enough boosterism. I was there with a light heart: I am no longer co-chair of the AAR’s Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit, and I had no obligations to anyone about anything, not to mention no obligation to attend the 7:15 a.m. chairs’ breakfast (yawn) or the tense negotiations of the steering committees’ reception, where, drink in hand and shouting in someone’s ear, you attempt to arrange joint sessions for the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, term limits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, I went to sessions and talked to authors, coming away with a possible two books for the Equinox series in Contemporary and Historical Paganism<\/a> and a contribution to an editing collection that is in progress. I will not name these, because I do not wish to jinx them.  The series, I should say, has published more than one book as it has moved from publisher to publisher, but after a merger and a de-merger, we had to re-set the meter to zero. Long story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also came away with plans for a guest-edited issue of The Pomegranate <\/a> <\/em>on
<\/em>Traditionalism <\/a>and Paganism. I had always though of Traditionalism as concerned mainly with esoteric approaches to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but there is also Pagan or Pagan-friendly version, largely traceable back to the French philosopher Alain de Benoist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then we get into some very tricky territory. Here there be dragons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon I will post all the “calls for papers” for three special issues of The Pomegranate<\/em>, each with a well-qualified editor, and if you are working in any one those areas, I hope that you will get in touch.
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I got so busy with the “Season of the Witch(crap)” series that I wrote nothing about last month’s joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature.((The SBL is actually the parent of the AAR, but the child organization is now much bigger and broader.)) 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