Shannon Taggart Symposium!
Opening Event
WEIRD STUDIES Live, with JF Martel & Phil Ford
Thursday, July 25th, 2024, Lily Dale Fire Hall, 8pm-10pm
3-Day Program Ticket, $225
1-Day Program Ticket $40 for 7/25 only; $110 for 7/26 or 7/27 only
Professor Phil Ford and writer J.F. Martel record a live episode of Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast exploring ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call “reality.”
Symposium Day One:
Friday, July 26th, Lily Dale Auditorium, 9am – 6pm
$110 per person | $225 Full Program
The Making of Magical Cornwall, with Amy Hale. Ph.D.; Eusapia Palladino: Epistemological Troublemaker, with Asti Hustvedt, Ph.D.; Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary’s Life Underground, with Susannah Cahalan; Lily Dale and the Spiritual Journey of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, with Anton Wagner, Ph.D.; Ghosts in the machines: A History of Spiritual Communication tools, with Brandon Hodge; SORRAT: The True Story of America’s Most Active Seance Group, 1961-2015, with Shannon Taggart; Echomaking: Sounds of Nothing from Nowhere, with Kristen Gallerneaux.
Symposium, Day Two:
Saturday, July 27th, Lily Dale Auditorium, 9am – 6pm
$110 per person | $225 Full Program
Finding Dawn: A Remote Viewer’s Search for a Missing Woman, with Suzanne Clores; Margery the Medium Revisited, with Anna Thurlow; Lillian Schwartz: Films from the Bell Laboratories Acoustic and Perceptual Division, with Kristen Gallerneaux; The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion, with Larry Arnold; Fifty Years’ Wandering in the Spiritual Realm: Piety, Practice, and Perseverance, with J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D.; Space Brothers Among Us: The Extraterrestrial, Interdimensional Folk Healing Films of Unarius, with Jodi Wille.