{"id":11257,"date":"2020-02-12T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:53:10","slug":"conference-on-current-pagan-studies-4-albrecht-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11257","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Current Pagan Studies 4: Albrecht Auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeffrey Albaugh drawing a winning raffle ticket for something from Equinox Publishing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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

Part 3: Harper Hall<\/a><\/p>\n

I titled this post<\/strong> because my friend Jeffrey Albaugh<\/a>, one of the conference organizers, more than once admitted that he just loved saying “Albrecht Auditorium.” It’s a German given name and surname and also connects to “Alberich,” the dwarf who guards a treasure<\/a> in Wagner’s operatic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

On the opening day, Saturday, January 25th, I admit that among the various talks on dealing with bad changes \u2014 extinctions, elections, end times\u2014 the one talk that really stuck with me was Murtagh anDoile’s<\/a> “With a Whimper, not a Bang: The ‘Death’ of Pagan and Magical Traditions.” It put me in mind of a talk that I had with my friend Evan John Jones (English witch, member of Robert Cochrane’s coven in the mid-1960s)<\/a>, who said that on his death, all his Craft-related papers were supposed to be burnt.<\/p>\n

From my vantage point, a very long way away, I do not know what happened. As a writer, John left behind at least some records that deserve to be archived. Maybe not everything, but some things.<\/p>\n

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This is not the Pagan studies conference (photo: Claremont Graduate University).<\/p><\/div>\n

At any rate, the Albrecht Auditorium is an up-to-date lecture hall at Claremont Graduate University, with lots of elbow room, AC and USB chargers at every seat, and other good stuff. So when I finally had to stand up and fill an hour on the history of Pagan studies and some things that I would like to see more covered in the future, it was a pleasure to be in that room.<\/p>\n

It was a good conference where you could hear thoughtful Pagans discuss our response to some of the Big Issues \u2014 and like all conferences, the best parts were in the restaurants and bars afterwards! But about about 6:30 on Sunday evening I had to pry myself from the big table at Packing House Wines<\/a> (in the same complex as Augie’s Coffee<\/a>, where my Claremont visit began) and accept a ride from a conference-goer who was headed east through San Bernardino anyway.<\/p>\n

The train rolled in on time. I had booked a roomette (sleeper) because I knew I would be tired. I dropped my bags, went to the dining car for supper (included), and when I came back the attendant had my bed made up, into which I fell.<\/p>\n

Around 2 a.m. an announcement from the conductor woke me (and everyone else).\u00a0 A man in my car was having an acute asthma attack. “Does anyone have an EpiPen<\/a>?)”<\/p>\n

I thought for a moment \u2014 I did not have my first-aid kit with me, so I could not even offer pseudopehedrine<\/a>. And does a Wilderness First Aid card<\/a> let you give drugs? I think so, if they are over-the-counter things like that. But I had none. Twenty minutes later we were stopped in Kingman, Arizona<\/a>, and as another passenger told me at breakfast, the ambulance was waiting and took him away.<\/p>\n

And thus on across New Mexico and southern Colorado, where I retrieved the Jeep at the railway station and drove home at night through an increasing snowstorm, past the signs that warn that roads are not plowed after 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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