{"id":11832,"date":"2020-10-23T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11832"},"modified":"2020-10-23T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T01:28:06","slug":"conference-on-current-pagan-studies-seeks-presenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11832","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Current Pagan Studies Seeks Presenters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last year I had the honor to give a keynote address at the Conference on Current Pagan Studies<\/a> in Claremont, California. Last year’s conference involved a train trip.<\/a> This year, like everything else, it’s virtual. Dates are January 16\u201317, 2021. The keynote speakers are scholar Michael York<\/a>\u00a0 and writer and Heathen leader Diana Paxon. <\/a>I expect that virtual-attendance details and pricing will be announced later.<\/p>\n

From program manager Jeffrey Albaugh<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This upcoming meeting of the Conference on Current Pagan Studies, now in its 17th year, will take place in a virtual setting. While the restrictions that keep Pagan studies scholars from gathering together physically are necessary to check the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, these restrictions offer us a unique opportunity to gather utilizing the digital magic of the internet, and opens the conference up to individuals that may not otherwise attend or present. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s conference theme concerns “Contemporary Paganisms During Extreme Change,” and the online nature of the 2021 Conference on Current Pagan Studies is an aspect of the adaptations all of us are making within our practices of Contemporary Paganisms and Witchcrafts. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is this year’s Call for Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Like a living organism, historic and contemporary Paganisms adapt to shifts in the environment, the swelling and shrinking of populations, or the migration of peoples across the landscape. History, practices, belief, even the masks worn by the divine, dance to the music of change, revealing and vanishing within the ka- leidoscope of human experience.<\/p>\n

Contemporary Pagans look toward the traditions of the past, observing the ways that we have traveled from some distant place and time, and using the tra- jectory of those journeys to chart paths forward into the future. Many of these \u201cold ways\u201d may be deemed worthy, and others may be found wanting and in- compatible to modern sensibilities. What do we keep? What do we discard? What do we transform? Who do we become?<\/p>\n

How do the conditions surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic change the content and shape of contemporary Paganisms? How does social distancing practices strengthen or weaken coming together in community, the teaching of magical practices, and the continuation of the various traditions of Witchcraft, Wicca, Reconstructionist, and other practices?<\/p>\n

The Conference on Current Pagan Studies is looking for papers that explore these possibilities. How will we endure the extremities of change and find new ways of being in a brave new world? From this point in the here and now, how do we demonstrate respect to those who have gone before, and how will we create a heathy and sustainable future for those who will follow?<\/p>\n

The Conference on Current Pagan Studies invites papers that explore this theme from historical, creative, psychological, spiritual and other points of view. We are looking for\u00a0 papers from all disciplines, because a community needs artists, teachers, scientists, healers, historians, philosophers, educators, thinkers, activists, etc. As usual we are using the word \u201cPagan\u201d in its most in- clusive form, covering Pagans, Wiccans, Witches and the numerous hybrids that have sprung up as well as any indigenous groups that feel akin to or want to be in conversation with Contemporary Pagans.<\/p>\n

Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and are due by October 31, 2020. Go to our website<\/a>\u00a0 for advice on presenting papers. Please email abstracts to pagan_conference@yahoo.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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