Event Reports

A report of the David Fontana study day on 5 November 2011 is carried in Issue 42 of the ITC Journal edited by Dr Anabela Cardoso. read more >>

SPR 2011 conference abstracts and a participant's report are now available. read more >>

This morning's (1 March) "Today" programme included a debate on the paranormal. read more >>

Rupert Sheldrake’s Perrot Warrick Public Lecture on “The Evolution of Telepathy” is now available online. read more >>

The Study Day dealt with Near Death, End-of-Life and Out-of-Body experiences. read more >>

The SPR's 2010 conference took place in the pleasant surroundings of Sheffield University's recently-built Endcliffe Village. read more >>

Myers Memorial Lecture by Erlendur Haraldsson: Frederic Myers and the perfect case. read more >>

Report by Tom Ruffles The study day held on 17 April 2010, organised and chaired by Robert Charman, was on the subject of Healers and Healing. Five speakers supplied a broad overview of some of the theory and practice of healing, applied to both humans and animals in a variety of situations. read more >>

The subject for October 2009’s Study Day was poltergeists, with the emphasis on continuities in different places and at different times, and John Newton – the organiser and chair for the day – introduced the proceedings with a brief historical perspective. The format was an unusual one, each speaker discussing a pair (or sometimes more in practice) of cases that would allow differences and similarities to be teased out. read more >>

This year's 33rd International SPR Conference, held at Nottingham on 4-6 September, was extremely successful. Housed on the astonishing Jubilee Campus of Nottingham University (site of the old Raleigh cycle-factory), the eighty-plus delegates could marvel at the leading-edge architecture and hear stimulating papers on a wide range of topics. read more >>