The SPR’s 38th International Annual conference will be held at Vanbrugh College, at the University of York between Friday 5 and Sunday 7 September 2014. University of York is on the edge of the city centre and has very easy links to transport and all the attratctions of this historic city, so we hope you will enjoy the location. As always, our full conference programme will address a broad range of topics, covering both spontaneous cases and laboratory research. In addition to the talks, conferences are a marvelous opportunity to network and share views, and there will be time to socialise over lunch and the regular coffee breaks, not to mention during the President’s drinks reception on Friday evening and Saturday’s conference banquet. Speakers will come from all over the UK, as well as from Europe and around the world, making it truly an international event. Those who attend, whether this is their first conference or their thirty-eight, can be sure of having both an informative and a very enjoyable time. We look forward to seeing you in York!
Registration is now open.
PROGRAMME:
FRIDAY 5th September
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14:20 – 14:30 |
Welcoming Remarks |
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PSI AND STATES OF MIND |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Michael Potts |
Gabriel Marcel’s Contribution to Psychical Research |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Terence Palmer |
Telepathic Hypnosis – The Neglected Concept |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Andrew Hodrien |
A Novel Approach to Testing Irwin’s Dissociational Theory |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
TEA/COFFEE |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Chris Connelly |
Comparing the Emotional Arousal That May Occur Between Alleged Genuine Spirit Trance and Pseudo-Trance. Preliminary Results |
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17:00 – 17:30 |
Sean O’Donnell |
Rethinking Psi: Is Anti-Memory the Most Scientific Hypothesis? |
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18:15 |
DRINKS RECEPTION |
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19:00 |
DINNER |
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SATURDAY 6th September
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PSI BELIEFS AND EXPERIENCE |
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09:30 – 10:00 |
Melvyn Willin |
An Initial Exploration and Overview of the Paranormal within the Context of the Martial Arts |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Malcolm Schofield |
Mental Representations of the Supernatural; a Cluster Analysis of Religious, Spiritual and Paranormal Belief |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Ann Winsper & Paul Rogers |
Individual Differences in Electronic Voice Phenomena Experience |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
TEA/COFFEE |
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DREAMS, PRECOGNITION AND TIME |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Caroline Watt & Milan Valasek |
Precognitive Dreaming: A Report on the Perrott-Warrick Dream Registry |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
David Saunders |
Comparing Individual versus Group Judgements and Testing Displacement Effects in a Dream ESP Study |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Bernard Carr |
Psi and the Specious Present |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
LUNCH |
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PSI, PHYSICS AND CAUSALITY |
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14:30– 15:00 |
Fotini Pallikari |
The Balancing Effect Revisited – PK and Random Number Generators |
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15:00– 15:30 |
Germaine Gunther |
The Interpretation and Evaluation of Meaningful Coincidences in Everyday Life |
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15:30– 16:00 |
Paul Rogers & John Fisk |
Further Investigations of Paranormal Believer’s Susceptibility to the Conjunction Fallacy: Differences Across Conditionally Related versus Unrelated Constituent Events |
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16:00– 16:30 |
TEA/COFFEE |
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CHALLENGES FACING PSYCHICAL RESEARCH IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
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16:30– 17:00 |
Sarah Metcalfe |
Using Systematic Embodied Reflexivity (SEER) When Exploring the Emotional Management of Extrasensory Practitioners |
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17:00– 17:30 |
Robert McLuhan |
The Wikipedia Problem |
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17:30– 18:00 |
Peter McCue |
Monitoring and Harassment of Anomaly Researchers |
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19:30 – 21:15 |
GALA DINNER |
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(circa 21:15) |
After-dinner talk: Poetics, Conversation and Psi in Everyday Life by Robin Wooffitt, Professor of Sociology, Dept. of Sociology, University of York |
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SUNDAY 7th September
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SPONTANEOUS CASES AND THE EXTENSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
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09:00 – 9:30 |
Alan Murdie |
Sex and the Poltergeist. The Influence of Sigmund Freud on the Repressed Sexuality Theory of Poltergeist Activity |
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09:30 – 10:00 |
David J Wilde & Andrew D Hodrien |
Out-of-Body Experiences: an Exploration of Phenomenological Features and Development of an Experience Screening Questionnaire |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Damon Lycourinos |
Grimoires, Conjured Spirits and the Occult Body: a Phenomenology of Ritual Experience and the Body |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Charmaine Sonnex, Chris Roe & Elizabeth Roxburgh |
Magic(k): Essential Aspects of Successful Neo-Pagan Spell Work |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
TEA/COFFEE |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Ross Friday & David Luke |
Now See Hear! Detecting Being Watched or Listened to via Extrasensory Means |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Ian Baker |
A New Measure of Belief in Remote Staring Detection and its Personality Correlates |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
SYMPOSIUM |
Panel Discussion on Spontaneous Cases. The Increase in Cases Reported to the SPR |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
LUNCH ….. and Farewells |
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York
North Yorkshire
YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
| Registration options | |
| Friday sessions | £55.00 |
| Friday evening informal Dinner | £18.00 |
| Saturday sessions including buffet Lunch | £120.00 |
| Saturday evening Gala Dinner (with wine/juice/water) | £42.00 |
| Sunday sessions including Lunch | £67.00 |
| Accommodation (includes breakfast) | |
| SINGLE room - Friday | £45.00 |
| SINGLE room - Saturday | £45.00 |
| Non-member surcharge per HALF-day | £15.00 |
| Student discount per HALF-day | -£15.00 |