Schedule for the 19th Conference on Current Pagan Studies--
Tyranny and Law, Rebellion and Duty:
Witches are Born Out of the True Hungers of Their Time

Saturday, January 14, 2023
8:00 – 8:45 Registration and coffee & pastries
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome talk – Kahena Dorathea Viale

9:00 – 10:30 Session 1​

• Jeffrey Albaugh The Act of Becoming a Witch is an Act of Rebellion
• Murtagh A. anDoile Musing on the Witch as Rebel in Three Acts

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45 -12:15 Session 2

• Margaret L. Meggs & Norris Binet Women on the Inner Journey…and Beyond: Intercultural Women’s Spirituality and Community Leadership in “The Athens of the South”
• Karen Tate A Wild Woman in a Tame Land
• Jo Carson The Naked Gods of Nature

12:15 – 12:45 Lunch merging into…
 
12:45 – 2:00 Keynote Speaker

• Katrina Messenger-- Bewitchery in a Time of Terror

2:00 – 2:15 – Break

2:15 – 3:45 Session 3

• Angela Pearson-- And We Rebel: Magic and Art as Rebellion
• Kahena Viale-- Dance Dramas as an Instrument of Political Change
• Deoin Cleveland -- In the Words of the Gods: Personal Gnosis as Scripture Among Contemporary Pagans

 

 
Sunday, January 15, 2023
8:00 – 8:45 Registration and coffee & pastries
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome talk – Kahena

9:15 – 10:30 Session 4

• Aline O’Brien Shapeshifters & Edgewalkers: Living Craft in the Mundane World
• Mark Green Naturalistic Non-Theist Paganism: A Direct Challenge to the Overculture

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45 -12:15 Session 5

• Sabina Magliocco The Sunflower Curse: Witchcraft as an Emergent Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Byron Ballard Re-Enchantment as Resistance

12:15 – 12:45 Lunch merging into…

12:45 – 2:00 Keynote Speaker

• dress wedding—Bet a Life!

2:00 – 2:15 – Break

​2:15 – 3:45 Session 6

• Mogg Morgan Seth the Rebel
• Ayamanatara The Magdalene as a Revolutionary Figure
• Krystal Rains Examining our Practices: AgroEcology & Spirituality