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Registration deadline is 31^st March 2024.

An evening with two very special talks.

1. Myers Memorial  Lecture - Dr Edward Kelly.

My tangled path to Myers and James

"The talk will recount how I went from being a garden-variety physicalist/materialist as a grad student in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics to a realist idealist here in the twilight of my career, including some fairly contentious messages for psychical researchers based on my experiences along the way."

Dr Kelly is the most recent recipient of the SPR's Myers Memorial Medal.

Edward F. Kelly is currently a Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics and cognitive science from Harvard in 1971, and spent the next 15-plus years working mainly in parapsychology, initially at J. B. Rhine’s Institute for Parapsychology, then for ten years through the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke, and finally through a private research institute in Chapel Hill. Between 1988 and 2002 he worked with a large neuroscience group at UNC-Chapel Hill, mainly carrying out EEG and fMRI studies of human somatosensory cortical adaptation to natural tactile stimuli. He returned full-time to psychical research in 2002, serving as lead author of Irreducible Mind  (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007) and Beyond Physicalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He is now returning to his central long-term research interest – application of modern functional neuroimaging methods to intensive psychophysiological studies of psi and ASCs in exceptional subjects.

2. Presidential  Address - Prof. Chris Roe.

Psi and altered states of consciousness

Each of our presidents is asked to deliver a Presidential Address to the Society. This one will be given by Prof. Roe (SPR President from April 2018 to May 2021).

Prof. Chris Roe, BSc, MSc, PhD, AFBPsS, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Northampton in the UK. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes and is Course Leader for Northampton’s MSc in Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies. Chris was awarded his PhD by the University of Edinburgh for research on how psychic effects might be simulated using conventional psychology. His research at Northampton has continued his interest in the psychology of anomalous experience and has concerned topics ranging from spirituality and wellbeing, psychic deception, correlates of paranormal belief and experience, and experimental tests of claimed phenomena of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. He is a past Editor of the SPR Journal, a Board Member of the Parapsychological Association, a Council Member of the Society for Psychical Research, and a Committee member for the BPS Transpersonal Psychology Section. He was appointed as a Vice President in May 2021.

This event will be held at the prestigious Royal Society in central London.

The two talks, one hour each, will be followed by a reception with drinks and canapes.

This is a very special opportunity to hear from two important researchers in the field of psychical research.

Please arrive from 6.30 pm. for registration. The talks will begin at 7 p.m.

Following our normal procedure, this meeting will be open to the public and the charge for non-members will be £15 per head for the Address only.  The front rows will be reserved for members and their guests.  There will be no charge to members for the Address alone.

The evening will end at 10 p.m.