Category Archives: paranormal

Call for Papers on Paranormal Media

August 14th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, paranormal

Call for Papers for Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, 2013 (Chicago) Paranormal Media Annette Hill, in Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture, observes that in recent years, paranormal beliefs have entered the mainstream. Although the paranormal had a presence in popular culture and various media forms for centuries, […]

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Call for Papers: Representations of Ghosts in Media and Popular Culture

July 2nd, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, ghost, paranormal

CFP: Representations of Ghosts in Media and Popular Culture Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2013 Annual Conference Chicago, 6-10 March 2013 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 7 August 2012 Spirits and ghosts have been part of our culture for hundreds of years. On the stage of Shakespeare’s dramas and in religious rituals, in Dickens’ […]

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Call for Abstracts: A “Supernatural” History of Central Europe, 1870-Present

April 26th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, folklore, monsters, paranormal, Witchcraft

Call for Abstracts: “A ‘Supernatural’ History of Central Europe, 1870-present” Editors: Eric Kurlander (Stetson U.) and Monica Black (U. of Tenn., Knoxville) Deadline: August 1, 2012 Despite the ostensible “disenchantment of the world” proclaimed by Max Weber at the beginning of the twentieth century, Central Europe has a rich modern history of occultism, folklore, paganism, […]

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Ghost Images: Cinema of the Afterlife

April 12th, 2012 | Posted in ghost, horror, paranormal

Some recent research turned up a book title that I found helpful, Ghost Images: Cinema of the Afterlife by Tom Ruffles (McFarland, 2004). The back cover of the book describes Ruffles as a teacher in communication skills and film studies in the United Kingdom, but the promotional materials from the publisher indicate another interesting facet […]

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Cal Cooper: Telephone Calls From the Dead

March 18th, 2012 | Posted in paranormal

A friend and colleague recently made me aware of a BBC News report about people allegedly receiving telephone calls and text messages from a deceased friend and family member. I was intrigued by this and my friend suggested I consult the work of Cal Cooper on the phenomenon. I tracked him down via the Internet […]

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Nova Religio Call for Papers: Paranormal, Religion, and Culture

February 20th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, paranormal

Joseph Laycock has recently been given the privilege of guest editing a special issue of Nova Religio on the paranormal. In the last few years, several good books have appeared that consider so-called “paranormal” beliefs, discourses, and experiences as an object of inquiry for religion scholars. Like the category “religion,” the category “paranormal” is poorly […]

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Phantom Clowns, Bogus Social Workers, and Men in Black

November 30th, 2011 | Posted in paranormal, Paul Meehan, UFOs

                      Paul Meehan has been the focus of interviews here previously on the subject of UFOs and the paranormal in cinema. He has also contributed his own written articles from time to time, and below you will find his latest essay touching on phantom clowns […]

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Jeffrey Kripal Interview on Mutants & Mystics: Comics, Sci-Fi and the Paranormal

November 25th, 2011 | Posted in comics, Jeffrey Kripal, paranormal, science fiction

Jeffrey Kripal has returned to discuss his latest book addressing the esoteric and the paranormal in popular culture. In this case his new book is Mutants & Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal (University of Chicago Press, 2011). From the book’s description: In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and […]

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TheoFantastique Podcast: Erik Davis on Modern Esoterica in Popular Culture

July 18th, 2011 | Posted in Avatar, H. P. Lovecraft, paranormal, podcast, psychedelics, Star Trek, UFOs, Western esotericism

TheoFantastique Podcast 2.3 is available, an interview with Erik Davis, author of Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (YETI/Verse Chorus Press, 2010). Davis defines “modern esoterica” in his preface as “a no-man’s land located somewhere between anthropology and mystical pulp, between the zendo and the metal club, between cultural criticism and extraordinary experience, whether psychedelic, […]

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Exploring the Extraordinary 3rd Conference

June 20th, 2011 | Posted in conference, Exploring the Extraordinary, paranormal

Since its inception in 2007, members of Exploring the Extraordinary have organised two very successful academic conferences that have brought together researchers from a variety of different disciplines and backgrounds. The purpose of these events has been to encourage a wider dissemination of knowledge and research, and an interdisciplinary discussion of extraordinary phenomena and experience. […]

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