This year’s Conference on Current Pagan Studies will be in Claremont, California on January 26^th and 27^th.  This conference costs $55.00 for regular admission, with the option of discounted prices for students. The conference will be at the ClaremontGraduate University, in the Burkle Building.  The website states that this building is located on the corner of 10th & Dartmouth.

This year’s theme is Pagan Sensibilities in Action. The key note speakers include two notable Pagan voices; Peter Dybing and Sabrina Magliocco.  Peter Dybing, national disaster team Section Chief, is an activist in humanitarian work and within the Pagan community.  His topic for this year is called Stirring the Cauldron of Pagan Sensibilities, where he talks about and sustainability.   “These sensibilities both enable our collective actions and establish prohibitions on topics of collaborative discourse.”

Sabrina Magliocco, Professor of Anthropology at CaliforniaStateUniversity, Northridge, will be speaking about her paper on The Rise of Pagan Fundamentalism.  Magliocco approaches the topic of “the rise of radical religious ideologies within modern Paganisms in the early 21^st century, with emphasis on the American religious landscape”.

The Bay Area’s own Aline O’brien, (Macha Nightmare), will also be presenting at this conference on the topic of the Pagan History Project.

There are a variety of different subjects covered by numerous Pagan teachers, leaders and academics.  The conference website states, “Embodied knowledge, practically learned knowledge, and inherited knowledge are important contributions to the epistemology of Pagan thought when viewed through the analytical lens that all knowledge is seen through in the academy. Especially this year, we are interested in the practical work that emerges from a sustainable theoretical framework. We are also interested in ways to affect the future through writings, politics, research, consciousness or other ways that you have found to think of saving the planet for future generations.”

This year’s schedule became available online in November for public viewing.  The website also has registration options and instructions.

Schedule

Saturday

8:00 – 8:45: Registration and coffee & pastries

8:45 – 9:00: Welcome talk – Kahena

9:00 – 10:30 Session One

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45 -12:15 Session Two: Panel- Putting Descartes before the horse: Pagan identities and challenges to serving the Pagan body politic, moderated by Sabina Magliocco

12:15 – 12:45: Lunch merging into…

12:45 – 2:00: Key Note Presentation

Sabina Magliocco: The Rise of Pagan Fundametalism

2:00 – 2:15: Break

2:15 – 3:45: Session Three

3:45 – 4:00: Break

4:00 – 5:30: Session Four. Panel: Community Engagement through the Lens of a Pagan-Buddhist Perspective

5:30-5:45 Yoga with Marie Cartier

6:00: Ritual

Sunday

8:00 – 8:45: Registration and coffee & pastries

8:45 – 9:00: Welcome talk – Kahena

9:15 – 10:30: Session Five

Panel: Bringing Pagan Sensibilities into Classroom Pedagogy

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45 -12:15: Session Six

Panel: Pagan History Project

12:15 – 12:45: Lunch merging into…

12:45 – 2:00: Key Note Presentation

Peter Dybing: Stirring the Cauldron of Pagan Sensibilities

2 – 2:15: Break

2:15 – 3:45: Session Seven

More information can be found on the conference website at http://paganconference.com/.

Crystal Blanton reporting, Pagan Newswire Collective Bay Area