{"id":8361,"date":"2016-12-10T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T19:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2016-12-10T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T19:49:49","slug":"2017-pagan-studies-call-completed-will-be-published-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8361","title":{"rendered":"2017 Pagan Studies “Call” Completed, Will Be Published Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned,<\/a> my term has co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Contemporary Pagan Studies Group ended this year. It’s been a log run, if you figure that this effort to bring Pagan studies into the academy started in 1995, with an informal “who are we” meeting, more of the same in 1996, and a first proposal for an official program unit in 1997.<\/p>\n

That proposal was shot down by the program committee, who said in effect, “You have no proven that you cannot get your needs met elsewhere, such as in the New Religious Movements Group.” (It was already getting to the point where some NRM scholars felt that Pagan stuff was dominating their program to the detriment of other subject matter.)<\/p>\n

So we started our own “additional meeting,” listed in the program book but not official\u2014and we had to pay a fee. We heard papers presented and discussed them, just like in a regular session.<\/p>\n

Some internal changes at the AAR made it possible to get our first official session in 2005; meanwhile, doctoral student Cat McEarchern<\/a> had taken over the “additional meeting” and built it into an all-day event for a couple of years in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

I shifted to the steeering committee of the new, official Contemporary Pagan Studies Group and eventually took my turn as co-chair. I will not miss the annual ritual of having to draft a call-for-papers within two weeks after the annual meting, so that the program committee can confirm it in January for the next<\/em> annual meeting. This usually happens during finals week, at least for North American universities. How was it done before email? Lots of calls from your office phone, I suppose. It takes a lot of unpaid hours to run the AAR or any similar society.<\/p>\n

I will post the text of the call here when it is official. Meanwhile, it was great to see Amy Hale<\/a> and Shawn Arthur<\/a> get the job done with relative ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned, my term has co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Contemporary Pagan Studies Group ended this year. It’s been a log run, if you figure that this effort to bring Pagan studies into the academy started in 1995, with an informal “who are we” meeting, more of the same in 1996, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,5],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2aR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=318","url_meta":{"origin":8361,"position":0},"title":"Pagan Studies in the Academy\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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