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The Society for Ritual Arts
2018 Spring Gathering
Berkeley, CA

The Society for Ritual Arts gathering by and for Ritual, Folk and Sacred Artists and Scholars working in this field. This will be our first gathering of ritual, sacred, and folk artists. All scholars and artists are welcome!

To contact us, volunteer, or just keep abreast of the Spring Festival developments, please click here.

2018 Awards Chair: Hallie Frazer
2018 Gathering Host and Incoming President: Luisah Teish

Awardees for 2017/18:
Eos Scholars: Stacy Karis Dulan, Pauline Stangl
Lost Chord Award: Margaret Davis & Kristoph Klover
Keynote: Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
Convocation: Zsuzsanna Budapest
With Gratitude to The Qal’bu Maryam Women’s Mosque

PCA/ACA, Indianapolis, IN, 2018 National Conference, March 28–31, 2018

Join PCA/ACA in Indianapolis for the 2018 National Conference, March 28–31.

Registration will open soon. Our apologies for the delay.

We will convene at the J.W. Marriott in Indianapolis, IN. The PCA/ACA is highly regarded in academe with well over 5,000 academic oral presentations given internationally, two top-tier journals (The Journal of American Culture and The Journal of Popular Culture), and over 3,000 members. This year’s conference should be exciting with papers on an enormous array of subjects. The deadline for online submission of papers has been extended to October 10th, 2017.

Signs Special Issue: Gender and the Rise of the Global Right

As political events across the world have made clear, the right wing is ascendant: from the election of Donald J. Trump in the United States; to the Brexit victory in the United Kingdom; to the rise of rise of rightist, nationalist, anti-immigrant, and neo-Nazi parties across Europe; to the election of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in India; to the Philippine president’s professed admiration for Adolf Hitler; to the impeachment of a democratically elected woman leader in Brazil; to the military coup and gendered crackdown in Egypt; to the virulently antigay legislation in Uganda, in which US–based Christian evangelicals played no small role. Far less studied are the myriad ways in which the global Right represents a particular politics of gender. Indeed, backlash against perceived shifts in gender and sexual norms may have partly spurred the Right’s rise. And right-wing movements have often justified themselves by invoking gender and sexuality—whether through a desire to return to or preserve “tradition” and “shared values” or by stoking anxieties about the sexual threats represented by racial, foreign, or religious others.

These developments present an urgent need for feminist theorizing, across regions and disciplines. It is of critical importance that the central role of gender and sexuality in the rise of the Right be recognized and that the voices of critique be feminist ones, including investigations of the Rights’ representational politics, its workings in discourse, mass media, human rights, law, and culture broadly conceived. We welcome submissions from all disciplines, and especially submissions that are engaging across disciplines and that are themselves inter- or transdisciplinary.

The full call and submission instructions are available here.

2019 Catharine R. Stimpson Prize, for Oustanding Feminist Scholarship

The University of Chicago Press and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society are pleased to announce the competition for the 2019 Catharine R. Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs, the Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.

The Stimpson Prize is awarded biennially to the best paper in an international competition. Leading feminist scholars from around the globe will select the winner. The prizewinning paper will be published in Signs, and the author will be provided an honorarium of $1,000. All papers submitted for the Stimpson Prize will be considered for peer review and possible publication in Signs.

Eligibility: Feminist scholars in the early years of their careers (fewer than seven years since receipt of the terminal degree) are invited to submit papers for the Stimpson Prize. This includes current graduate students. Papers may be on any topic that falls under the broad rubric of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. Submissions must be no longer than 10,000 words (including notes and references) and must conform to the guidelines for Signs contributors (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/signs/instruct).

Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2018.

Please submit papers online at http://signs.edmgr.com. Be sure to indicate submission for consideration for the Catharine Stimpson Prize. The honorarium will be awarded upon publication of the prizewinning article.

Society for Humanistic Psychology Annual Conference 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS!

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS AND ATTENDEES
“Liberation through Wisdom and Love: Humanistic Psychology, Social Justice, and Contemplative Practice”
11th Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology
Division 32 of the American Psychological Association
Naropa University, Boulder. CO
March 22 – 25, 2018

ATTN: SHP NEW CONFERENCE WEBSITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND WILL BE LIVE SOON.
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2017.

The 17th annual Yachats Celtic Music Festival, Céad Míle Fáilte!
Yachats, Oregon, November 10 -12

The 17th annual Yachats Celtic Music Festival returns to the beautiful coastal city of Yachats, Oregon, November 10 -12, 2017. A glorious weekend of Celtic music awaits you. The festival is always a delight featuring world class traditional and contemporary music of the Celtic countries, showcasing the influence of Celtic music throughout the world. This year festival entertainment features: The Seamus Egan Project, The Bronnie Griffin Band featuring Bronnie Griffin with Cary Novotny and Johnny B Connolly, Kevin Carr and Family, Lindsay Straw, Na Rosai, Bob Soper and Elizabeth Nicholson, plus many surprises. The entire town of Yachats embraces the festival. Experience a new “pub style” format at the Yachats Commons, along with mini concerts at the Little Log Church, and dance workshops on the wooden floor of the Yachats Lions Club. Workshops, story-telling, dancing, jam sessions, gourmet food and drinks, plus a variety of vendors all await you. Friday activities start at 12 noon this year with a mix of free and paid events throughout the weekend. Slainte’ !

The 32nd Annual Christmas Revels

With the skirling of pipes and the swirling of kilts, the Christmas Revels celebrates the turning of the year in Scottish style. Join us this December in the land of Robbie Burns as we pass the shortest day in song, dance, and spirited folk tales. Be there for haggis and Hogmanay, first-footing, wool-waulking, mouth music, and even Guising! Of course the Lord of the Dance will welcome you, and the Abbots Bromley Antler Dance will cast its mysterious spell.

There will be plaids a-plenty, as Scots of all ages gather the clans to observe the return of the sun in the Bay Area’s most treasured holiday tradition.

December 8th through 17th / Scottish Rite Theater /1547 Lakeside Drive / Oakland, CA 94612 /Fully Accessible on the Main Floor

Call us for accessible seating, 510-452-9334. Tickets