'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference

'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 3: 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead'

Talks from Alice Huxley, Amy Blakemore, Nancy Caciola and more, under the themes 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead'. 'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 3, Saturday 15 July 2022. Session 7: Urban Alice Huxley, ‘Before Barrie: Eighteenth-Century Fairies in Kensington Garden’ Todd Borlik, ‘Malaria and Maleficium in The Witch of Edmonton’ Amy Blakemore, novelist Ellen Kushner, writer Session 8: Rome Leia Tilley, ‘Free From Ancient Fears’: Deciphering Ritual Associations Of Plant Remains At Traprain Law, Iron Age hillfort. Laura Glover, ‘The restless dead of ancient Rome’ Delia Sherman, writer Maria Dahvana Headley, novelist and translator, ‘Undoing Vergil’s Aeneid’ Session 9: Placing the dead Finale: Nancy Caciola, ‘Learning from Folk Horror’

'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 2: 'Making a Place', 'Between' and 'Getting Lost'

Talks from Caroline Tully, Elizabeth Garner, Gwendolyne Knight and more on the themes of 'Making a Place', 'Between' and 'Getting Lost'. 'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 2, Friday 15 July 2022. Session 4: Making a Place Caroline Tully, ‘Cosmothonia, henges and wildercharms: the magical earth-sky-love-body in Feraferia’ Steve Gladwin, ‘“The woods are lovely, dark and deep”: An Encounter in Time, Story, and Duality’ Elizabeth Garner and Tim Campbell-Green, ‘Blackden: boundaries and blessings’ Session 5: Between Gwendolyne Knight, ‘Sámi “Magic” Between Primary and Secondary Worlds’ Sophie Page, ‘Magic and Living things in Medieval Europe: Extinct, Everyday and Extraordinary Creatures’ Karen Mahony and Alex Ukolov, tarot designers, ‘Omens and the sense of place in divination and cartomancy’ Session 6: Getting Lost Alexandra Paddock and Diane Purkiss, ‘Sinking into a place: bog bodies, Grendel, and the Green Chapel’ Sabina Magliocco, ‘Crafting Enchantment: Fairy Gardens and Emplacement in North America’ Flora McLachlan, artist

'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 1: Opening Session, plus 'Who Owns This Place?' and 'The New World'.

Opening Session featuring Ronald Hutton and Chris Gosden, plus talks under the topics 'Who Owns This Place?' and 'The New World'. 'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 2, Friday 15 July 2022. 1. Opening Session Ronald Hutton, ‘How Sacred Are The Dead?’ Chris Gosden, ‘Magic and Archaeology: the importance of place’ Session 2: Who Owns This Place? Neil Philip, ‘“All that he owned”: Alan Garner and the sentient landscape’ Andrew Sneddon, ‘Creative, Digital Public History and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Islandmagee Witches Project, part 2’ Michael Ostling, ‘Evicting the Landlords: Or “Spirits and the Spirit of Capitalism” Revisited’ Session 3: The New World Andrew Chesnut, ‘Holy Death in Times of Pestilence: Santa Muerte, the Newest Plague Saint’ Dan Kline, ‘The Re-education of a Medievalist and Toward a Place-based Medievalism: Indigeneity, Pedagogy, and Place in the North Pacific Rim’ Will Badger, ‘Metallurgy and Magic at the World-Margin: Joachim Gans and the Roanoke Colony’