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Recent and Upcoming Conferences

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Les partages de la parole: Langue sacrée, éloquence vulgaire, prose spéculative (org.: L’Association d’Études Spirituelles Comparées), Sorbonne, Paris (France), 14– 15.06.2008. Papers: Bruno Pinchard, ‘Qu’est-ce qu’une parole vulgaire?’; Raffaele Carbone, ‘Consulter ou redire? La Parole et les discours’; Abbé Guillaume Tanouarn, ‘Analogie des noms, analogie du Verbe’; Iannis Constantinidès, ‘La parole platonicienne’; Frédéric Vengeon, ‘La parole est-elle l’oeuvre de l’homme?’; Christophe Libaude, ‘Une écriture de sang: la mémoire de Béatrice, du Convivio au chant V de l’Enfer de Dante’; Vincenzo Rossi Ercolani, ‘La parole des géants’; Aurélien Merle, ‘Hegel et Dumézil: le système trifonctionnel dans son procès dialectique’; Maxime Lefèbvre, ‘“Nous n’habitons que sur des ruines”: Hermann et le possible selon Leibniz’. Information: [email protected]

Third Annual Alternative Expressions of the Numinous Conference (org.: The Esoteric Studies Research and Teaching Group in conjunction with the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland), University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), 15–17.08.2008. Papers: Carl Vadivella Belle, ‘Trance, Thaipusam, and the “Divine Crossing”’; Ralf Mühlberger, ‘777 = 1100001001: Tables of Correspondence and their Application in Affective Computung’; Catherine Laudine, ‘Dangerous Art— Working in the Shamanic Mode’; Håkan Sandgren, ‘Atsaras, Court Jesters and Religion’; Steven Gil, ‘“Life and Death”: Spirituality in Rock Music’; Adam Rock and Julie Beischel (via Skype), ‘Toward a Process-focused Approach to Mediumship Research’; Nevill Drury, ‘Black Magic, White Magic, and the Pagan Cosmology of Rosaleen Norton’; Emily Bauman, ‘Roadside Annunci-

© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156798908X379765 132 ARIES 9.1 (2009) 131–136 ations: Angel Encouter Narratives and the Enspirited Mundane’; Julie Wash- ington, ‘Los Penitentes: A Dying Tradition’; Gordon David Keyworth, ‘Blood- Suckers, Vampire-Slayers and Werewolves: An Emerging Criminal Threat?’; Glen Mazar, ‘My God Wears Doc Marten Boots: Race, Religion and the Extreme Radical Right’; Carole Cusack, ‘Imagination, Fiction and Faith: The Case of Discordianism’; Alex Norman, ‘Great Freedom: Disambiguation and the Project of the Self in an Emerging New Religious Movement’; Wahid Azal, ‘Rûhânîya: The White Magic Heritage within Islamicate Esotericism’; Sam Burch, ‘The Soma of the Thirteen Spheres: An Irano-Abrahamic Syncretistic Esotericism of Australia and the Postmodern Revelation of the God(ess)head in the (Entheo)genesis of the Fatimiya Sufi Order’; Amzad Hossain and Dor Marinova; ‘Mystical Culture in Bangladesh: A Symbol of Sustainability’; Ray- mond Jahae; ‘Religion and Rationality’; Philip Almond, ‘King James I and the Burning of Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft: An Exercise in Forensic History’; Tim Scott, ‘Symbolic Exegesis’; Wendy Sargent, ‘Develop- ing the Intellectual Component of Spirituality: A Case Study of the Meaning and Practice of Yoga as a Sacrificial Fire’; John Paul Healy, ‘Schisms of Swami Muktananda’s Siddha Yoga’; Athol Brewster, ‘Nirankari: Is it Hinduism? Is it Sikhism? What is it?’; Roel van Leeuwen, ‘Of Tracing Boards and Tarot Cards’; Jean-Michel David, ‘Tarot’s Expression of the Numinous’; Jonathon Midgely, ‘Mo: A Tibetan Buddhist System of Divination’; Daniel Walker, ‘The Secret Life of Marie Laveau’; Michael Hart, ‘Can Feminism be Considered a New Religion?’; Marco Motta, ‘God and the Essence of Time in the Greek and Jewish Tradition’; Sam Burch, ‘Return to the Theophanic Theatre: Henry Corbin, Narrative Theophany and the Ontological Staging Grounds of Mag- ical Realism’; Eric Repphun, ‘The Crow as Standing on the Sky: The Role of the Esoteric in the Fiction of Douglas Coupland’; Laura Ennis, ‘Harry Potter and the Curious Undergrad’; Jessica Garrahy, ‘Identifying His Dark Materi- als: Religious Narrative Identity viewed in Light of Philip Pullman’s Trilogy’; Christine Wilby; ‘Practicing One’s Way to the Gods’; Glenn Manga, ‘Buddhist Doctrine and General Systems Theory, for an Empirically Based Economics, Vs Blind Faith and Dogma of the Old Neo-Classical Economic Religious Order’; Aaron Cheak; ‘In Shakti’s Leftward Flow: The Left Hand Path, East to West’; Ksenij Napan, ‘Participatory Spirituality—Collaborative Inquiry as a Method of exploring Spirituality in an Academic Environment’; Morgan Leigh, ‘The Way You do the Things You Do: Circle Rituals in the Southern Hemisphere’; Katherine Storrs, ‘What Does Magic Do?: Notes on the “Cognitive Science of Magic”’; Doug Ezzy, ‘Religion as an Etiquette of Relationships’; Piotr Wiench, ‘Ethnic Religion in Central-Eastern Europe: Neopagans facing the Presence of