Wisdom sits in Places SAC Spring Conference Program
SAC Spring Conference Program
Thursday, March 31, 2016
WILLAMETTE BALLROOM
Thursday Morning
9:30
Check-in
10:00–10:45
President’s Welcome and Opening Ceremony: The Wolf Spirit Singers
11:00 am–12:30
Colonialism and Community Identity: Geopolitical, Indigenous, and Archaeological Implications of Space
Session Chair: Lee Gilmore
11:00–11:20
Julia K. Bilek “Crossing and Dwelling”: Episcopal Hogans in Navajoland
11:20–11:40
Alexandra Peck Tamanowas Rock, Intertribal Conflict, and Settler Colonialism: A Sacred Coast Salish Site in Northwestern Washington and Its Contemporary Implications for Historical Archaeology
11:40–12:00
Lee Gilmore Turn the World Upside Down: Indigenous Activists at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
12:00–12:20
Discussion
12:30–2:00
LUNCH
Thursday Afternoon
2:00 – 3:30
Mapping Individual and Cultural Space: Occultism, Inner Ecology and Embodied Cognition
Session Chair: Sharon G. Mijares
2:00 – 2:20
David Miller Biocultural Bases of Places and Spaces
2:20 – 2:40
Brian Bartelt and Mr. Njakoi John Bah Making the Invisible Visible: The Epistemology of Spatial Experience and the Efficacy of Occult Phenomena in Cameroon.
2:40 – 3:00
Sharon G. Mijares: Inner Ecology and Liminal Spaces
3:00 – 3:20
Discussion
3:30 – 4:00
BREAK
4:00 – 5:30
Creation & Consciousness: Paleolithic, Archaeological, & Human-Centered Mappings of Place and Space
Session Chair: Andrew Gurevich
4:00 – 4:20
Benjamin Campbell: Consciousness and Place Making in European Paleolithic Cave Art
4:20 – 4:40
Mark Thomas Shekoyan: Partnering with Anima Mundi: From Enframing to Co-‐Creative Partnership through Shamanic Biomimicry
4:40 – 5:00
Andrew Gurevich: The Wisdom of THIS place: The Paisley Caves and the Origins of Symbolic Consciousness in North America
5:00 – 5:20
Discussion
5:30 – 7:00 PM
SAC Board Meeting: (Location TBA)
Conference Program
Friday, April 1, 2016
WILLAMETTE BALLROOM
Friday Morning
9:30
Check in
10:00 – 11:30
Landscapes of Transformation – Encountering the Sacred Session Chair: Bryan Rill
10:00 – 10:20
Nancy Grace: Music and Ecopsychology: Making Place Through Sound in Space
10:20 – 10:40
Dennis L. Merritt: The Soul of Glacier Country
10:40 – 11:00
Bryan Rill: Making Sacred the Mundane: Transforming the Mountain
11:00 – 11:20
Discussion
11:30 – 1:30
LUNCH
Friday Afternoon
1:30 – 3:00
Romancing the Philosopher’s Stone: Romantic, Pyrotechnic, & Architectonic Perceptions of Place
Session Chair: Jordan Burich
1:30 – 1:50
Jordan Anthony Burich: Fire In the Mind: Kindling a Discourse On the Role of Pyrotechnics In Physical and Cultural Evolution
1:50 – 2:10
John (Sean) Hinton: Subconscious Aspects of Place: Positivistic vs. Romantic Views of Place and Consciousness
2:10 – 2:30
el-‐Sayed el-‐Aswad: Architectonic Space and Cultural Identity: A Case Study of the United Arab Emirates
2:30 – 2:50
Discussion
3:00 – 3:30
BREAK
3:30 – 5:15
Sacred Spaces of the Academic Mind
Session Chair: Jeff MacDonald
3:30 – 3:50
Matthew C. Bronson: “Your Rubric Caged My Songbird”: Reclaiming Assessment as a Sacred Space of Reflection
3:50 – 4:10
Jeff MacDonald: Recreating Sacred Space among Refugees
4:10 – 4:30
Timothy J. Lavalli: Spaces Seldom Considered Sacred
4:30 – 4:50
Mira Z. Amiras: Walk through that door, and something will emerge—
Friday Evening
Experiential Workshop
5:30 – 7:30 Mira Z. Amiras and Erin Vang Sacred Space / Sacred Time: the Jewish Obsession with Creation, Ritual, and the Alphabet.
Conference Program
Saturday, April 2, 2016
WILLAMETTE BALLROOM
Saturday Morning
9:30
Check in
10:00 – 11:15
The Wisdom of Shamanic Initiations
10:00 – 11:15
Susan Ross Grimaldi and John R. Lawrence, Jr.: Traveling in Tandem to Invisible Places: A Video Presentation
11:15 – 11:30
BREAK
11:30 – 1:00
Zen & the Art of Cultural Healing: Navigating Community and
Session Chair: Andrew Gurevich
11:30 – 11:50
Tara Gallagher: The Shamans of Riverwest: The Anti-power of Community Radio in Social Action
11:50 -12:10
Justin Panneck: Migratory Ascension and Human Potential: Decoding the Wisdom of Culture
12:10 – 12:30
Donna Emsel Schill: Corporeal Navigation and Human Potential
12:30 – 12:45 Discussion
1:00 – 2:30 LUNCH
Saturday Afternoon
2:30 – 4:00
Death and Resurrection: Exploring Mythological and Virtual Concepts of Death and Crisis
Session Chair: Sydney Yeager
2:30 – 2:50 Sydney Yeager: Making Sacred in Virtual Space
2:50 – 3:10 Greg Wright: The Sea of Trees – Suicide, Mental Health, and Place in Japan’s Aokigahara
3:10 – 3:30 Stanley Krippner: Anomalies and Stigmatic Activity in Brasilia
3:30 – 3:45 Discussion
Saturday Evening
6:00 – 7:15
Keynote Address – Tina Fields, PhD
“I am He as You are He as You are Me, and We are All Together” Fostering Ecopsychological Relationship with Place
7:30 – 9:30 Closing Buffet Dinner and Celebration
