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SUMMARY:Reflections on How We Think About\, Classify\, and Treat Disorders of Consciousness and Awareness
DESCRIPTION:Oral Presentation (Baltimore\, In-Person) \nTime: 1:30-3:15 Pacific/4:30 PM – 6:15 PM Eastern \nPresenters: Lewis Mehl-Madrona\, Barbara Mainguy\, Patrick McFarlane\, and Albert Marshall
URL:https://sac.americananthro.org/event/15-eastern-reflections-on-how-we-think-about-classify-and-treat-disorders-of-consciousness-and-awareness/
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SUMMARY:AAC Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Location: Virtual Zoom (look for the Zoom link in the AAA Communities Section on Friday\, November 12th) \nTime: 1:00-2:00 pm\, Pacific/4:00-5:00 Eastern \nJoin us for an informal\, Happy Hour style business meeting. Topics will include: \n\nYear-in-Review\nTruth and Responsibility within the context of our section interests\nBoard Recruitment – we need your perspectives and participation!\nFundraising for Student Prizes\nStudent Needs – Students – bring your ideas and wish lists!
URL:https://sac.americananthro.org/event/aac-business-meeting/
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SUMMARY:The Mythology and Depth Psychology of Octavia Butler – Dr. Ayana Jamieson
DESCRIPTION:The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated\, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives\, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest. In this intimate Saturday morning seminar\, our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm or pretend hopes. Stepping back from the present situation\, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy\, theology\, history\, psychoanalysis\, neuroscience\, and anthropology. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future. \nWhile award-winning speculative and science fiction author\, Octavia E. Butler\, passed away nearly fifteen years ago\, 2020 has been a big year in her career. Her novel Parable of the Sower\, written in 1993\, just hit the New York Times Best Seller’s list for the first time in September 2020\, while Ava Duverney\, Viola Davis\, and others continue to work to bring her works to the small screen\, adapting her novels Dawn\, Wild Seed and Kindred for television. Over the last several decades\, Butler’s prescience in Parable of the Sower has not gone unnoticed. Set in the 2020s in Los Angeles\, this novel references a nation beset by climate change\, widespread illness\, economic collapse\, scarcity of necessities\, and yes\, a zealot politician running on the platform to “Make America Great Again.” \nIn this session with Depth Psychologist and founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network\, Ayana Jamieson\, we’ll explore the mythology and meaning of Octavia E. Butler’s empathetic and remarkable science fiction. In addition to her role as founder of the Legacy Network\, Ayana is also an expert on Butler’s life and work\, the Butler archives at the Butler’s life and work serve as a case study for moving toward psychological wholeness\, surviving trauma and developing resilient narratives in unprecedented times. \nSaturday\, October 2\, 2021\, from 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM Pacific time– via Zoom
URL:https://sac.americananthro.org/event/the-mythology-and-depth-psychology-of-octavia-butler-dr-ayana-jamieson/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
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SUMMARY:Violence\, Trauma And The Making Of Racial Identity – Dr. Sheldon George
DESCRIPTION:The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated\, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives\, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest. In these intimate Saturday morning seminars our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm\, or pretend hopes. Stepping back from the present situation\, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy\, theology\, history\, psychoanalysis\, neuroscience\, and anthropology. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future. \nIn a historical moment when the news media has repeatedly displayed the wanton killing of black men and women\, the connection between African American identity and trauma seems especially salient. This talk will work through Lacanian psychoanalytic notions of subjectivity to ground an understanding of African American identity as mediated by social trauma. It will address\, in particular\, the 2012 Florida shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn\, a white male whose excessive response to the loud rap music played by Davis and his friends demonstrates a Lacanian understanding of jouissance\, or the other’s mode of enjoyment\, as a root-source of notions of racial alterity. Moving through a series of Lacanian concepts relevant to race and racism (from hainamoration\, to aggressivity\, invidia and Atè)\, the talk will discuss how this jouissance\, bound to fantasies of race\, often structures both racism and racial identity around acts of violence and trauma\, inducing African Americans to embrace willfully the very racial identities against which this violence is directed. \n \nSheldon George is Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Simmons University in Boston\, Massachusetts. His scholarship centers most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African-American literature and culture. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity and co-editor\, with Jean Wyatt\, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race\, Ethics\, Narrative Form. He is currently completing a collection\, co-edited with Derek Hook for Routledge press\, that is titled Lacan and Race: Racism\, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory. \nContinuing education credits will be provided. \n2 CEU hours provided for Licensed Counselors\, Marriage & Family Therapists\, and Social Workers \nCEU Learning Objectives (2 CEUs offered – including ethics): \n\nTo increase critical thinking skills in order to apply interdisciplinary knowledge into clinical work and practice.\nTo increase understanding of the dynamics of historical foundations behind racialized thinking and current forms of political violence.\nTo better understand how we as clinicians can identify how race and racism may serve as tools that produce psychic pleasure for clients and how that function relates to contemporary manifestations of discontent\, social suffering\, and ethical dilemmas.\n\nFor more information and registration\, please visit: \nViolence\, Trauma and the Making of Racial Identity – Dr. Sheldon George
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SUMMARY:Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous Approaches to Healing Trauma – Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy
DESCRIPTION:“Two-eyed seeing” is a concept that was originated by Elder Albert Marshall of Sydney\, Nova Scotia\, and Cape Breton University to give indigenous epistemology and knowledge equal status with mainstream scientific perspectives and knowledge. In M’iqmaq\, the word is Etuaptmunk. In English\, it means the idea of explanatory pluralism. Within most indigenous cultures\, the mind is not considered separately from body\, community\, and spirituality\, unlike the silos created in the dominant culture. \nHealing must involve the body\, the community\, and the spirits. In this lecture\, we are going to introduce the two-eyed seeing concept to explore how to work with trauma from both an indigenous perspective and contemporary neuroscience and psychological research. We are especially interested in the role that trauma plays in addictions and in the so-called “severe mental illnesses\,” and how our approach to people in distress must also be trauma-informed. \nThis introductory lecture is designed for practitioners who provide counselling in indigenous communities. It is also open to those providing counseling in other communities who want to see how indigenous practices could enrich their work\, as well as to others who are just curious about Indigenous cultures and mental health. \nLewis Mehl-Madrona\, MD  is the author of “Coyote Medicine”\, “Coyote Healing”\, and “Coyote Wisdom”\, focusing on what Native culture has to offer the modern world. He has also written “Narrative Medicine”; “Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry”; and his most recent book\, with Barbara Mainguy\, “Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story”. He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools\, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of New England. \nBarbara Mainguy\, LICSW  studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Toronto and received her master’s degree in Creative Arts Psychotherapy at Concordia University in Montreal. She has co-written Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story with Lewis Mehl-Madrona. Currently\, she is completing her MFA in documentary filmmaking at York University\, Toronto\, and working with Lewis in Orono\, Maine. She is the Director of Education for the Coyote Institute in Orono.
URL:https://sac.americananthro.org/event/two-eyed-seeing-indigenous-approaches-to-healing-trauma-dr-lewis-mehl-madrona-and-barbara-mainguy/
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SUMMARY:AOC 2021 Conference Program
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN STANDARD TIME. AND ALSO\, WE HAVE A DAYLIGHT SAVINGS EVENT ON SATURDAY EVENING. \nHello everyone\, \nPlease download the full conference program here. Any last minute changes will be made on the conference Communities page itself. This program will inform you as to the times and content of each session\, as well as other goings on with the conference and the organization itself. Presenters will be sent special Zoom links for their specific sessions directly by email\, and attendees will join sessions through the links posted in the Communities page the day of each session. PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THESE LINKS WITH ANYONE so we can keep the conference safe and secure. \nAoC 2021 Conference Program \nRegistration Instructions\nPlease go to the following link and follow the registration instructions there: \nhttps://secure.americananthro.org/eWeb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=AAAWeb&WebKey=e63ef3e6-a61c-4508-9b61-084b2ac9bb98&RegPath=EventRegFees&REg_evt_key=a7232bf8-7fed-48b1-b0a5-29bc4838436e \n(NOTE: You will be asked to create a username and password for the AAA system\, if you do not already have one\, before you can register. No payment is required to do this. You do not need to be a member of the AAA to attend this conference.) \nParticipants will receive further information and secure links to the online conference once registered. In order to be officially registered\, all attendees will need to create a user account and register on the AAA website: (http://www.americananthro.org)\, after which they can select their registration type and check out. You will them get an email with access to the Communities page with all up to date announcements\, links\, and the conference program. \nPlease send an email to conferencesac@gmail.com to be considered for a free registration grant. If selected\, we will send you a unique code to enter when registering that will zero your payment for the entire conference. Please do not share this link with anyone as it will only work for the individual we have given it to. \nPlease also direct any questions to: \nconferencesac@gmail.com \n——————————\nAndrew Gurevich\,\nHe/Him/His\nPresident\, Anthropology of Consciousness\nProfessor of Literature\, Mythology\, & World Religion\nMt. Hood Community College\nPortland OR\nhttps://sac.americananthro.org\nhttps://www.jcf.org/people/andrew-gurevich/
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SUMMARY:AC 2021 Section Meeting: Sea Change: Consciousness\, Lifeworlds & Ecological Upheaval
DESCRIPTION:  \nSea Change: Lifeworlds & Ecological Upheaval\nSociety for the Anthropology of Consciousness\n39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE\nMarch 12th – 14th\, 2021 (Online)\n“How do people imagine the landscapes they find themselves in? How does the land shape the imagination of the people who dwell in it? How does desire itself\, the desire to comprehend\, shape knowledge?” \n–Barry Lopez\, Arctic Dreams \nThe Society of the Anthropology of Consciousness invites you to join us online over three days to investigate how we engage with communities around ongoing concerns of ecological change. The title “Sea Change” points to the context and social climate in which we currently live: a time in which drastic social\, political\, and environmental change is occurring. During these times of chaos and ecological upheaval\, conflict and despair inevitably arise as responses to the ongoing precarity and uncertainty. As anthropologists and consciousness researchers\, there are many ways to interpret and understand these changes. “Sea Change” also acknowledges that we live in a time in which all forms of life are experiencing radical changes on the planet (such as rising sea levels)\, and with such changes\, suffering and conflict increases. Therefore\, we invite presenters and attendees to reflect and engage with subjects related to change\, embodied transformation\, and ecological disruption. \nWe consider this conference an opportunity to build networks for collective engagement\, restorative practices\, healing\, and reconciliation. We will be highlighting projects which explore indigenous and/or plant-based practices that might provide transformational learning and opportunities for collective action. It is our goal to elevate oppressed voices and wisdom that honor those communities and challenge the power dynamics of colonization. We also welcome members\, collaborators\, and those new to the conference to engage in discussions related to exploring consciousness in all lived experiences\, both human and non-human consciousness. \nJoin us over the weekend of March 12-14\, 2021 to explore these issues through live streamed Zoom sessions with academics\, activists\, and specialists; a pre-recorded asynchronous media gallery with a curated selection of podcasts\, short films\, and other media; and some interactive workshops and meditation sessions to help facilitate mind/body learning and individual and communal transformations. Stop by for the afterparty each night on our Zoom Happy Hours and Twitch sessions if you dare! Registration information below. \nInstructions\nPlease go to the following link and follow the registration instructions there: \nhttps://secure.americananthro.org/eWeb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=AAAWeb&WebKey=e63ef3e6-a61c-4508-9b61-084b2ac9bb98&RegPath=EventRegFees&REg_evt_key=a7232bf8-7fed-48b1-b0a5-29bc4838436e \n(NOTE: You will be asked to create a username and password for the AAA system\, if you do not already have one\, before you can register. No payment is required to do this. You do not need to be a member of the AAA to attend this conference.) \nPlease send an email to conferencesac@gmail.com to be considered for a free registration grant. If selected\, we will send you a unique code to enter when registering that will zero your payment for the entire conference. Please do not share this link with anyone as it will only work for the individual we have given it to. \nParticipants will receive further information and secure links to the online conference once registered. In order to be officially registered\, all attendees will need to create a user account and register on the AAA website: (http://www.americananthro.org)\, after which they can select their registration type and check out. You will them get an email with access to the Communities page with all up to date announcements\, links\, and the conference program. \nFor more information\, please contact: \nconferencesac@gmail.com \nor \nMark Flanagan\, Program Chair — markwflanagan1@gmail.com \nAndy Gurevich\, President — agingprophet@gmail.com
URL:https://sac.americananthro.org/event/ac-2021-section-meeting-sea-change-consciousness-lifeworlds-ecological-upheaval/
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