{"id":11233,"date":"2020-02-11T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11233"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:54:15","slug":"conference-on-current-pagan-studies-3-harper-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11233","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Current Pagan Studies 3: Harper Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A cup of the free hotel coffee, and Black Philip and I are ready to conference deliciously.<\/p><\/div>\n

Part 1: The Southwest Chief<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2: Holing up in Claremont<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a 20-minute walk<\/strong> from the hotel to Claremont Graduate University, where the Conference on Current Pagan Studies rents space during CGU’s winter break. CGU is one of the seven “Claremont Colleges<\/a>” \u2014 five undergrad, two graduate schools \u2014 that together form a “collegiate university.” Six of them share a campus with a combined library and other facilities. Pomona College, the oldest, dates from 1887; the others were founded in the 1920s, which must have been when Claremont shifted from “citrus town” to residential suburb of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Walking to CGU, I did not see anything that resembled a “student ghetto,” which made me wonder if there is such a thing as off-campus housing, or if those students must all commute.<\/p>\n

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No, definitely not the “student ghetto.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nWas I on the right street? I looked at some license plates. Yes, this must be the right building.<\/p>\n

When Fritz Muntean started The Pomegranate<\/em> in<\/a> 1997, its subtitle was “A New Journal of Neopagan Thought.” That approach fits this conference too, and in fact, a new online journal is in the works that will take up that strand of Pagan publishing, I was told. More on that when I learn more.<\/p>\n

The conference draws a mixture of older and younger Pagan academics, at least one outside PhD student researching Paganism in academia, some writers, some original West Coast Pagan figures from the 1960s\u201370s, and other members of the (chiefly) West Coast Pagan community.<\/p>\n

The difference between this and the American Academy of Religion Pagan studies sessions that I am used to is that there is less of a sense of working on issues in the larger world(s) of religious studies and more a sense of telling our own stories, working on our own issues (like what happens to archives when groups shut down?), examining our origin stories, and talking about what is changing.<\/p>\n

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The first day’s venue: CGU’s Harper Hall, a fine example of 1930s Romano-Californian architecture.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Conference attendees begin to gather in the CGU Board of Trustees room, a comfortable space with open doors onto a courtyard \u2014 but pretty soon there were chairs jammed everywhere.<\/p><\/div>\n

Part 4: Albrecht Auditorium<\/a>
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