News (with date when news was posted)

CONFERENCE: Weird Weekend North. Rixton with Glazebrook Community Hall, 4-5 April 2020. Among the speakers are SPR Council member ​Alan Murdie, who will be speaking about poltergeists and possession, and Ann Winsper, who will be speaking about the mystic Teresa Helena Higginson. Read more
Registration is open for the 13th Symposium of the BIAL Foundation Behind and Beyond the Brain: The mystery of time. Among the presenters are: Prof. Etzel Cardeña, Prof. Caroline Watt, and Prof. Bernard Carr. Read more
LECTURE: SPR Council member Dr Callum Cooper will give a talk, Ghosts, Hauntings and the Science, 15 February, 2020, Kirkby-in-Ashfield Library, Nottingham. Read more
Times Higher Education has published a review of the book The New Prometheans: Faith, Science and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siècle, which was published late last year. Read more
We are very sad to report the death of Prof. Donald J. West, MD, DLitt, FRCPsych., who died 31st January, 2020, aged 95.  Read more
Abby Gray at Buckinghamshire New University is doing a study about near-death experiences and has issued a call for research participants. Read more
Rev. Dr Georgina Byrne has written an article, Spiritualism: Some Element as yet Unexplained, for Church Times. Read more
Entries are still being added to the Psi Encyclopedia, recent additions include: Diane Hennacy Powell, Christine Simmonds-Moore, and Serena Roney-Dougal, Read more
Call for Papers for 2020 Vision: Looking Forward conference (16-19 June). Deadline: March 15. Read more
LECTURE: Chris Josiffe will give a talk about Gef! The strange tale of an extra-special talking mongoose, 24 February, 2020, Kensington Central Library Lecture Theatre. Read more