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SUMMARY:The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman – Zoom Lecture \nHoffman reveals both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the one of our last wild places. \nThis will be recorded for ticketholders only \nTwo modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary” Wild Men of Borneo.” One found riches. The other vanished forever. Had he shed “civilization” or gone mad? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries\, Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth\, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world’s last Eden. Tracing the entwined tales of Michael Palmieri\, one of the world’s most successful tribal art field collectors\, and Bruno Manser\, the Swiss environmentalist who abandoned Western society to live among the Penan nomads of the rainforest\, Hoffman reveals both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the one of our last wild places. \nCarl Hoffman is the critically acclaimed author of five books. His New York Times bestselling Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals\, Colonialism\, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest\, was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice\,” a NY Times best seller and one of the Washington Post’s 50 notable books of 2014. The Last Wild Men of Borneo was a finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Competition and an Edgar Award. The Lunatic Express was one of the Wall Street Journal’s ten best books of 2010. His most recent\, Liar’s Circus\, was named one of Kirkus Review’s 100 best books of 2020. He is a former contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler and Wired magazines and he has travelled on assignment to eighty countries.
URL:https://cryptoworld.co.uk/event/the-last-wild-men-of-borneo-by-carl-hoffman/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Talks
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SUMMARY:City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley by Phil Baker
DESCRIPTION:Phil Baker will talk about his new book – City of The Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley \n“I dreamed I was paying a visit to London\,” Aleister Crowley wrote in Italy\, continuing\, “It was a vivid\, long\, coherent\, detailed affair of several days\, with so much incident that it would make a good-sized volume.” Crowley had a love-hate relationship with London\, but the city was where he spent much of his adult life\, and it was the capital of the culture that created him: Crowley was a post-decadent with deviant Victorian roots in the cultural ferment of the 1890s and the magical revival of the Golden Dawn. \nNot a walking guide\, although many routes could be pieced together from its pages\, this is a biography by sites. A fusion of life-writing with psychogeography\, steeped in London’s social history from Victoria to the Blitz\, it draws extensively on unpublished material and offers an exceptionally intimate picture of the Great Beast. We follow Crowley as he searches for prostitutes in Hyde Park and Pimlico\, drinks absinthe and eats Chinese food in Soho\, and finds himself down on his luck in Paddington Green–and yet never quite losing sight of the illumination that drove him: the abiding rapture\, he wrote in his diary\, which makes a ‘bus in the street sound like an angel choir! \nBio\nPhil Baker’s previous books include the definitive biography of Austin Osman Spare\, London: City of Cities\, a critical study of Samuel Beckett and a cultural history of absinthe. He lives in London and walks everywhere. \nDon’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day
URL:https://cryptoworld.co.uk/event/city-of-the-beast-the-london-of-aleister-crowley-by-phil-baker/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:The Science of Weird Shit: Twenty Years of Weird Science at Goldsmiths
DESCRIPTION:The Science of Weird Shit: Twenty Years of Weird Science at Goldsmiths\nFollowing his retirement in October 2020\, Emeritus Professor Chris French reflects on the work of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit\, founded in the year 2000. \nEver since records began\, in every known society\, a substantial proportion of the population has reported unusual experiences many of which we would today label as “paranormal”. Opinion polls show that the majority of the general public accepts that paranormal phenomena do occur. Such widespread experience of and belief in the paranormal can only mean one of two things. Either the paranormal is real\, in which case this should be accepted by the wider scientific community which currently rejects such claims; or else belief in and experience of ostensibly paranormal phenomena can be fully explained in terms of psychological factors.\nChris tells us about anomalistic psychology\, the study of extraordinary phenomena of behaviour and experience\, in an attempt to provide non-paranormal explanations in terms of known psychological and physical factors. \n7.30 for 8pm start
URL:https://cryptoworld.co.uk/event/the-science-of-weird-shit-twenty-years-of-weird-science-at-goldsmiths/
LOCATION:The Bell\, 50 Middlesex Street\, London\, London\, E1 7EX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:History,Talks
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SUMMARY:The Haunted Landscape: Folklore\, Monsters and Ghosts Live Stream
DESCRIPTION:The Haunted Landscape: Folklore\, Monsters and Ghosts Live Stream\nThe Haunted Landscape calls again with demons in the landscape\, kings sleeping beneath the ground and the ghosts that have followed us through all of human history. Join the London Fortean Society at Conway Hall or on a live streamed for a day of talks and short films on the folklore of Britain and beyond.\nA link to all live stream will be sent out to all online participants after booking. \nTalks confirmed so far:\n— Irving Finkel – The First Ghosts\n— Lisa Schneidau – Monsters from the Deep: River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland\n— Jasper Goodhall – Into The Wild Night\n— Dr Victoria Flood – Alderley Edge and the Dead Man\n— Roy Vickery – Eerie Planet Folklore\n— Daniel & Clara – Avebury Imaginary: a personal history of a stone circle & hill\n— Jeremy Harte – John Wesley and the Devil: Hell-Wrestling with the Magic Methodists. \nIrving Finkel – The First Ghosts\nIrving Finkel takes us back to the very beginning. A world-renowned authority on cuneiform\, the form of writing on clay tablets which dates back to 3400BC\, Finkel has embarked upon an ancient ghost hunt\, scouring these tablets to unlock the secrets of the Sumerians\, Babylonians and Assyrians to breathe new life into the first ghost stories ever written. In his book The First Ghosts\, he uncovers an extraordinarily rich seam of ancient spirit wisdom which has remained hidden for nearly 4000 years\, covering practical details of how to live with ghosts\, how to get rid of them and bring them back\, and how to avoid becoming one\, as well as exploring more philosophical questions: what are ghosts\, why does the idea of them remain so powerful despite the lack of concrete evidence\, and what do they tell us about being human? \nDr Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian (i.e. Sumerian\, Babylonian and Assyrian) script\, languages and cultures Department: Middle East at the British Museum\, headquartered in London’s Bloomsbury. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia\, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection – some 130\,000 pieces – of any modern museum. This work involves reading and translating all sorts of inscriptions\, sometimes working on ancient archives to identify manuscripts that belong together\, or even join to one another. \nLisa Schneidau – Monsters from the Deep: River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland\nWeed-strewn crones\, just waiting to pull you into the river. Swans with serious grudges and eels with drinking problems. Hideous creatures that never see the light of day… until you fish them out of the river. Lisa Schneidau tells tall tales from the dark side of our freshwater folklore.\nLisa Schneidau is a storyteller and environmentalist based on Dartmoor. She seeks out\, and shares\, traditional stories about the land and our complex relationship with it. Lisa is the author of River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland\, Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland and Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (all History Press). She tells stories at events\, nature reserves\, arts centres and schools\, including performance storytelling\, training and storytelling development within education\, as well as helping to run South Devon Storytellers and Dartmoor Storytellers. Lisa trained as an ecologist and has worked in British nature conservation for twenty-five years. \nJeremy Harte – John Wesley and the Devil: Hell-Wrestling with the Magic Methodists\nThe black flapping thing at the end of the lane was no trivial superstition but the Devil in person. Had not John Wesley himself grown up in the fear of the Lord through living in a haunted house? Many giants great and tall went stalking through the land\, his followers sang; and if the thunder of the ogre’s voice usually reduced itself into the catcalling of an unregenerate mob\, that only confirmed its diabolical nature.\nSatan was a physical presence who clutched and dragged; supernatural visitants gave not just advice and solace but enough light to illuminate a cottage room; spiritual progress was noisy and physical\, trembling\, crying\, struggling. Men of the people\, the popular preachers dreamed of what was to come and were guided by special providences\, shadows of the fortune-telling tracts that they had condemned. Through grace they cast out fiends\, dispelled ghosts\, and crushed the horrid powers of witches. Everything claimed for magic by the unworthy was done for the saints by zeal.\nJeremy Harte is curator of the Bourne Hall Museum at Epsom and Ewell. He is secretary of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society and created the Surrey Gypsy Archive. He is the author of Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape (Reaktion\, 2022). \nJasper Goodhall – Into The Wild Night\nJasper Goodhall describes his work portraying the haunted nightscape. Inspired by\, among many things\, the historical Swedish folk tradition of Årsgång\, translated as ‘the omen walk’. It is traditionally performed on new year’s eve or the winter solstice. At midnight one must walk alone and in the dark through woods to a specific location\, often the village church. Inside the woods one was said to encounter entities or manifestations that acted as omens for the coming year. His photographs are an attempt to capture stillness\, solitude and the sense of a hushed\, waiting presence that is perhaps more palpably felt in the hours of darkness.\nGoodall’s nocturnal photographs have been described as at once beautiful and terrifying. The images reference the idea that a kind of thrilling delight can be gleaned from viewing something eerie or disconcerting — imagining yourself in the dark places he visits. He teaches creativity and visual communication. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton where he has taught generations of visual communicators for almost 20 years \nDr Victoria Flood – Alderley Edge and the Dead Man\nAlderley Edge in North-east Cheshire (UK) is a red stand-stone escarpment above a subterranean network of mines\, associated with a long-lived legend of sleeping heroes\, who will awaken at a time of national crisis. A non-built heritage site\, now managed by the National Trust\, the Edge is intensely meaningful to a relatively small group of local stakeholders alongside a worldwide audience of readers engaged with the works of the novelist Alan Garner. Garner is perhaps best known for his Weirdstone trilogy\, set in (and underneath the surface of) Alderley Edge\, and his 2022 Booker prize longlisted novella Treacle Walker\, which is similarly engaged with the haunted and mythologically resonant landscape of the wider region.\nBased on research undertaken as part of the Arts and Humanities Research-funded Invisible Worlds project\, this paper traces engagement with medieval prophecy at the Edge from the eighteenth century to the present\, exploring the emotional resonance of its multifaceted medievalisms. It takes as it centre the contested uses of the figure of the (un)dead man\, the waking sleeper beneath the Edge. \nRoy Vickery – Eerie Planet Folklore\nPlants have had symbolic as well as practical meanings and uses since the beginning of human civilisation. This talk on the rich variety of British and Irish folklore draws on Roy Vickery ‘s own unsurpassed archives collated over forty years\, and a wide range of historical and contemporary literature. Based on new material collected by Roy and showing that we still cling to the symbolic importance of plants. Putting conkers in wardrobes keeps moths away\, and parsley – the Devil’s plant – only germinates if sown on Good Friday. \nRoy worked as a botanist at the Natural History Museum\, London for over 30 years\, as the museum’s curator of vascular plants. He has published five books on plant folklore and is a former Honorary Secretary of the Folklore Society. He is president of the South London Botanical Institute. \nDaniel & Clara – Avebury Imaginary: a personal history of a stone circle & hill\nArtist Daniel & Clara take us on a personal journey to Avebury stone circle and Silbury Hill\, reflecting on a body of work made in response to these ancient sites.\n‘Avebury is not just a place\, it is a dream built into the landscape’\nSince meeting in 2010 Daniel & Clara have dedicated themselves to a shared life of creative exploration\, working across moving image\, photography\, performance\, installation and correspondence art. Using themselves and their life together as their material\, their work explores the nature of human experience\, perception and reality. Set against the backdrop of the British landscape\, their work presents narratives of psychological disorientation and the human creature in crisis.
URL:https://cryptoworld.co.uk/event/the-haunted-landscape-folklore-monsters-and-ghosts-live-stream/
LOCATION:Conway Hall Ethical Society\, 25 Red Lion Square\, London\, London\, WC1R 4RL\, United Kingdom
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