INFORM Seminar
"Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist"
Saturday May 12th, 2012
9:30am - 5pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
London School of Economics
Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged pr £20 A-Level students)
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Provisional Programme
9:30-10:00 - Registration
10:00-10:10 - Professor Eileen Barker (Professor, LSE; Chair & Honorary Director, Inform) Welcome
10:10-10:20 - Dr Suzanne Newcombe and Sarah Harvey (Research Officers, Inform) Introduction
10:20-10:45 - Dr Simon Dein (UCL and University of Durham) “Prophecy: Social Scientific Perspectives”
10:45-11:10 - Sheila Tremlett (former member of the Worldwide Church of God) “To a Place of Safety? The Elect in the Great Tribulation”
11:10-11:35 - Coffee
11:35-12:00 - Dr Hugh Beattie (The Open University) “The Mahdi and the End-Times in Islam”
12:00-12:25 - Abi Freeman (mid-lifer) “Living in the Time of the End”
12:25-13:00 - Group Discussions
13:00-14:00 - Lunch
14:00-14:25 - Andrew Fergus Wilson (University of Derby) “From the Mushrooms to the Stars: 2012 and the Apocalyptic Milieu”
14:25-14:50 - Kevin Whitesides (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh) “New Age: (Still) Doing What it Says on the Tin”
14:50-15:15 - David G. Robertson (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh) “(Always) Living in the End Times: The “Rolling Prophecy” of the Conspiracy Milieu”
15:15-15:40 - Tea
15:40-16:05 - Wendy Grossman (freelance writer and founder of The Skeptic Magazine) “Chasing the Horizon: Prophecy in Secular Contexts”
16:05-16:30 - Professor Gordon Melton (Baylor University and founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion) “Looking into the Future: Why Prophecies Will Persist”
16:30-17:00 - Panel Discussion
The presence of speakers on an Inform programme does not mean that Inform endorses their position.
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