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'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

'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

'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'.
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event

Supernatural defences activated through death

Brian Hoggard (Folklorist), gives the first talk in the fourth panel of the conference, The Dark Side, chaired by Oliver Cox.
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event

Magic and Medicine in Early Roman Britain

Nicky Garland (Durham), gives the first talk in the second panel, Tales in Place: Change and Continuity, in the conference. Chaired by Alice Purkiss.
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event

Panel 1 - Who Owns this Place? Pondering Identities Questions

Questions and answers from the first panel of the seminar. Moderated by Alice Purkiss (National Trust Partnership and University of Oxford).
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event

The Byland Abbey ghost stories: using the dead to bring a medieval monastery to life

Michael Carter (English Heritage) gives the second talk for the seminar.
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event

How sacred is an ancient sacred site? The interface between academics, heritage managers and modern Paganism

First talk of Panel 1 - Who Owns this Place? Pondering Identities, chaired by Alice Purkiss, talk by Ronald Hutton (Bristol).
Digging for Meaning: Research from the Oxford School of Archaeology

Social Status and Recycling in Bronze Age China

What does recycling have to do with social standing in Bronze Age China? Dr Victoria Sainsbury discusses the recent work of the FLAME team, lead by Dr Ray Liu, on the metal work at Anyang, and how powerful people controlled how metal moved through society
Digging for Meaning: Research from the Oxford School of Archaeology

The History of Magic

What is magic, when did it begin, and does it still have a place in the modern world? Professor Chris Gosden discusses the long history of magic from the Ice Age, through antiquity, to the present.
Anthropology

Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?

Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017.
Medieval English

Old English in Context Lecture 3 - Religion and Magic

Lecture 3 in a series on placing Old English in Context, Religion and magic. Delivered by Dr S D Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford - 31/1/08.

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