Michael Glock, PhD candidate, to present at upcoming International Jungian Conference

Glock's paper, "Cultural Futuristics: Foresight and Wisdom and the Construction of Smooth Minds" has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming International Association of Jungian Studies conference:

Psyche and Imagination: A Multidisciplinary Academic Conference of Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies
University of Greenwich, London England 6-9 July 2006

Abstract:
This transdisciplinary, cultural hermeneutical paper posits that significant and numinous cultural events such as occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001 (9/11) contain material that if read, seen and heard through a cultural futuristic lens may reveal as yet unknown tomorrows and future scenarios. In particular, it constructs a set of precise unmasking methodologies and deconstructive processes, that when applied to significant cultural events produces an x-ray view into the unconscious forces at work within cultural events. Cultural futuristics is an imaginative endeavor which uncovers not opposite meanings or logical rational predictions or extrapolations but deeper complex truths concealed beneath layers of colonial rhetoric, cultural imperialism and globalization.

The study establishes significant event as both geographical place and metaphorical client, which inhabits us as we inhabit it. Through listening to event as dream and place‹as though undergoing psychoanalysis, this study unconceals the unconscious in events. This procedure brings to meaning the teleological function of the unconscious in cultural events and how the unconscious is currently at work, forming and forging the future.

This paper proposes a process and methodology that may be integrated into scenario planning. Where scenario planning is re-visioned by including the unconscious voices within cultural events. This paper posits an anti-dote for scientific materialism's tragedy: failure-of-imagination.

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Conference on The Legacy of Joseph Campbell

Date: April 16-18th.
Location: Radisson Hotel Santa Barbara.
Information: Conference web site

"In a lifetime dedicated to understanding the great mythologies of mankind, Joseph Campbell was always clear that these sacred stories were at the heart of the human psyche. They were never to be studied as dry, academic curiosities, but instead he insisted that they were vital and relevant to each of us, in our own lives, right now.

In this centennial year of Campbell's birth, we invite you join us in working with myth just as he taught us. Here at Pacifica, where Campbell's personal archives are housed, we will each undertake a Hero's Journey right to the center of "our own hearts."

This three-day process of active dialogue between the great archetypes and the figures of our own psyche will give each of us the chance to experience the power, beauty, and profundity of myth that was Joseph Campbell's greatest legacy and gift to us.

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Upcoming Conferences

Why bother going to work? Go to conferences instead...

Upcoming events in the fields of Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, and Mythology.

Journey Fall Conference -- Featuring Andrew Harvey, John Martin, J. Gary Sparks, Barry Williams, and more.

The Vermont Conference -- Mythological and Archetypal Underpinnings of Life (Assisi Conferences and Seminars).

Here's a handy list of public programs sponsored by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles for Fall 2003.

The C.G. Jung Club of Orange County will be sponsoring a Friday Night Lecture with Connie Zweig, The Holy Longing, which is also the title of her most recent publication.

Don't forget to check out the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco for their Fall 2003 listings of What's New.

And finally, Mythic Journeys is hosting the Summer, 2004 Exploring Story and Ritual in Contemporary Life, Art, Education and Psychology conference, celebrating the life of Joseph Campbell.

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Irreconcilable Differences?

Jacques Derrida and the Question of Religion

An International Conference Convened by Elisabeth Weber and Thomas A. Carlson
Hosted by the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara
October 23-25, 2003

"This will be the first major public conference to focus on Jacques Derrida's work in relation to the question of religion and conflict in today's world. The conference promises to be distinctive thanks both to the plurality of religious traditions examined and to the multiplicity of disciplinary approaches engaged. It will include scholars of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism who work in and between fields as diverse as anthropology, sociology, philosophy, political theory, literary studies, theology, religious studies, media studies, and gender studies."

Learn More: Conference Description | Conference Speakers and Paper Titles | About the Speakers

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