Dr Robert J. Wallis
Professor of Visual Culture
Director of the MA in Art History & Visual Culture
I joined the Richmond Faculty in Summer 2002, after coordinating the MA Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art and lecturing in the Archaeology of Art and Representation at the University of Southampton (where I am a Visiting Research Fellow). I have taught widely within the British university system, including at the University of Winchester, and as an Associate Lecturer in the Humanities with The Open University.
I am passionate about postgraduate teaching and research on the visual arts and material culture, particularly theoretical issues which challenge Western thought, and my research-led teaching engages students with how this theory and the visual/material impact upon our daily lives and the ways in which we approach the world. London offers a fantastic array of museum and galleries which we use as learning resources to this end, and it is a great pleasure to see many of our alumni go on to work in these institutions, and in the art world in the UK, Europe and USA.
My research interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, encompassing indigenous and prehistoric visual and material culture produced by shamans in animist communities; and the re-presentation of the past in the present by contemporary pagans and neo-shamans, and the implications of such engagements for heritage management.
I have published extensively on these topics, including seven books, among them the monograph Shamans / neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans (Routledge 2003, short-listed for the Folklore Society Prize 2003), co-authored the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism (Scarecrow Press 2007) and co-edited A Permeability of Boundaries: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore (Oxford BAR 2001) and Antiquaries and Archaists: The Past in the Past, the Past in the Present (Spire Press 2009).
With Dr Jenny Blain, an anthropologist at
I have been published in such internationally recognised journals as World Archaeology (2000), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2002), Journal of Material Culture (2004), Public Archaeology (2004), Journal of Ritual Studies (2006) and Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (2009). My publications also include papers in the volumes The Archaeology of Shamanism (Routledge 2001), Shamanism: A Reader (Routledge 2002), Researching Paganisms (2004), (Im)permanence: Cultures In/Out of Time (Carnegie Mellon Center for the Arts in Society 2008), Handbook of Contemporary Paganism (Brill Academic Publishers 2009), The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography (Ashgate 2009), and most recently, Sculpture and Archaeology (2011) and Animism (2012).
I regularly present on my work at conferences and with guest lectures, in recent years at: the US College Art Association, the
In addition, I have produced numerous book reviews and encyclopaedia entries, and am on the Editorial Board of the following peer-reviewed journals:
- Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology and Consciousness
- The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies
My current works in progress include Contested Visions, a monograph critically examining the widely perceived and assumed interface between shamanism and art from prehistory to the present, an edited volume on Archaeology, Paganism and Ancestors, and a chapter in The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic.
PUBLICATIONS
Books (monographs, co-authored and edited volumes)
Aldrich, A. and R.J. Wallis (eds) 2009. Antiquaries and Archaists: The Past in the Past, the Past in the Present.
Blain, J. and R.J. Wallis. 2007. Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Contemporary Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments. Brighton:
Harvey, G. and R.J Wallis. 2007. Historical Dictionary of Shamanism.
Wallis, R.J. 2003. Shamans / neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans.
Wallis R.J. and K. Lymer (eds) 2001. A Permeability of Boundaries: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore. BAR International Series 936.
Journal Articles (single and co-authored)
Wallis, R.J. 2009. Re-enchanting Rock Art Landscapes: animic ontologies, non-human agency and rhizomic personhood. Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 2(1): 47-70.
- 2004. Comment on: B.W. Smith and
- 2002. The Bwili or ‘Flying Tricksters’ of Malakula: a critical discussion of recent debates on rock art, ethnography and shamanisms. Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute 8(4): 735-760.
- 2000. Queer Shamans: autoarchaeology and neo-shamanism. World Archaeology 32(2): 251-261.
- 1999. Altered States, Conflicting Cultures: shamans, neo-shamans and academics. Anthropology of Consciousness 10 (2-3): 41-49.
Wallis, R.J. and J. Blain 2011. From Respect to Reburial: Negotiating Pagan Interest in Prehistoric Human Remains in Britain, through the Avebury Consultation. Public Archaeology 10(1): 23-45.
- 2003. Sites, sacredness, and stories: interactions of archaeology and contemporary Paganism. Folklore 114(3): 307-321.
Blain, J. and R.J. Wallis 2009. Beyond Sacred: Recent Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments – Current findings of the Sacred Sites Project. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 11(1): 97-123.
- 2006. Pasts and pagan practices: moving beyond
- 2006. Ritual reflections, practitioner meanings: ‘performance’ disputed. Journal of Ritual Studies 20.1: 21-36.
- 2004. Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past. Journal of Material Culture 9(3): 237-261.
- 2004. Sites, texts, contexts and inscriptions of meaning: investigating pagan ‘authenticities’ in a text-based society. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 6(2): 231-252.
- 2000. The ‘ergi’ seidman: contestations of gender, shamanism and sexuality in northern religion, past and present. Journal of Contemporary Religion 15(3): 395-411.
Chapters in edited volumes (single and co-authored)
Wallis, R.J. 2011. Animism, Ancestors and Adjusted Styles of Communication: Hidden Art in Irish Passage Tombs. In: T. Meier and P. Tillessen (eds) Archaeological Imaginations of Religion: in press.
- 2011. Shimmering Steel / Standing Stones: reflections on the intervention of Anish Kapoor at the Rollright Stones. In: J. Wood (ed.) Object-Excavation-Intervention: Dialogues between Sculpture and Archaeology: in press. Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture Series.
Blain, J. and R.J. Wallis 2009. Heathenry and its Development. In: J. Lewis & M. Pizza (eds) Handbook of Contemporary Paganism: 413-31. Handbook of Contemporary Religion.
- 2009. Men and “Women’s” Magic: gender, seidhr and ‘ergi’ in the contemporary Heathen Community. In: B. Davy (ed.) Studies in Paganism: in press.
- 2008. Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? Prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites Project in
- 2006. Re-presenting spirit: Heathenry, new-indigenes, and the imaged past. In: I.A. Russel (ed.) Image, Simulation and Meaning in Archaeology: n archaeology and the Industrialisation and Marketing of Heritage and Tourism: 89-118.
Blain, J., Letcher, A., and R. J. Wallis. 2009. Re-Viewing the Past: discourse and power inimages of prehistory. In: M. Robinson and D. Picard (eds) The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography: 169-183. Farnham,
- 2009. Modern Antiquarians? Pagans, ‘Sacred Sites’, Respect and Reburial. In: Megan Aldrich and Robert J. Wallis (eds) Antiquaries and Archaists: The Past in the Past, the Past in the Present: 103-21.
- 2004. Between the Worlds: autoarchaeology and neo-shamans. In: J. Blain, D. Ezzy and G. Harvey (eds). Researching Paganisms: Religious Experiences and Academic Methodologies: 191-215.
- 2002. Waking the Ancestors: neo-shamanism and archaeology. In: G. Harvey (ed.) Shamanism: A Reader: 402-423.
- 2001. Waking the Ancestors: neo-shamanism and archaeology. In: N. Price (ed.) 2001. The Archaeology of Shamanism: 213-330.
Wallis, R.J. and J. Blain 2009. ‘Sacred’ Sites, Artefacts and Museum Collections: pagan engagements with archaeology in
- 2007. A Live issue: Ancestors, Pagan Identity and the ‘Reburial Issue’ in
Reports / Public Output from Research (co-authored)
Blain, J. and R.J. Wallis 2004. Comments on
- 2004. Whose quarry? Whose landscape? A Peak District dilemma peaks. Available online: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/comments.php?sid=2146411360&tid=1556&mode=&order=&thold=
- 2002. Submission to All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group (APPAG). Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites Project. Available online: www.sacredsites.org.uk
- 2001. Stonehenge Solstice access, 20-21 June, 2001. Report submitted to English Heritage by the Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites Project, 5 July 2001. Available online: www.sacredsites.org.uk
Blain, J., R. J. Wallis and A. Letcher 2004. Sacred Sites, Contested Rights: Heritage discourse, Pagan resistance. Final report to ESRC. Available online: http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/; also http://www.sacredsites.org.uk/reports/esrc2003endreport.html
Wallis, R.J. and J. Blain 2007. The Sanctity of Burial: Pagan Views, Ancient and Modern. Paper delivered at the conference‘ Respect for Ancient British Human Remains: Philosophy and Practice’,
- 2004.
- 2002. Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Contemporary Pagan Engagements with the Past. Discussion Document and Report of Current Research. Available online: www.sacredsites.org.uk
- 2001. A British Reburial Issue? Statement by the Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites Project. Available online: www.sacredsites.org.uk
Encyclopaedia Contributions (single and co-authored)
Wallis, R.J. 2009. ‘Shamanism’. In: W. Jenkins (ed.)
- 2007. Shamanism. In: C. Summers (ed.) GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture. Available online: http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/shamanism.html
- 2004. Shamanism and Art. In: M.N. Walter and E.J.N. Fridman (eds) Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture, Volume I: 21-28.
- 2004. Bioenergetic. In: M.N. Walter and E.J.N. Fridman (eds) Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture, Volume I: 29-30.
- 2002. Neo-Shamanisms. In: S. Rabinovitch and J.Lewis (eds) The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism: 186-188.
Wallis, R.J. and J. Blain 2005. ‘Sacred Sites in
Book Reviews (single authored)
Wallis, R.J. 2011. Review of J. Harris (ed.) 2008. Identity Theft: The Cultural Colonization of Contemporary Art. Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool. Journal of Postcolonial Theory and Theology 2 (May): available online: http://postcolonialjournal.com/Resources/Review%20Harris.pdf.
- 2009. Review of D.A. Barrowclough and C. Malone (eds) Cult in Context: Reconsidering Ritual in Archaeology.
- 2009. Review of H. O'Donoghue, 2008. From Asgard to
- 2009. Review of H. Whitehouse and L.H. Martin (eds) 2004. Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History and Cognition.
- 2009. Review of J.D. Lewis-Williams and David Pearce. 2005. Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realms of the Gods.
- 2009. Review of J. Cruikshank 2005. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination.
- 2009. Review of
- 2007. Review of K. Granholm 2004. Embracing The Dark: The Magic Order of Dragon Rouge - Its Practice in Dark Magic and Meaning Making.
- 2007. Review of E. Wilby 2005. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic. Brighton:
- 2006. Review of: G. Harvey 2005. Animism: Respecting the Living World.
- 2005. Review of N. Drury 2003. Magic and Witchcraft: From Shamanism to the Technopagans.
- 2004. Review of J. Cowan, James 2002 [1992]. Aborigine Dreaming: An introduction to the wisdom and thought of the Aboriginal traditions of
- 2004. Review of A. Sayers 1996. Aboriginal Art of the Nineteenth Century.
- 2004. Review of J.D. Lewis-Williams 2002. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art.
- 2004. Book Reviews Special on ‘Shamanism’ including reviews of M. Stutley 2003. Shamanism: An Introduction.
- 2003. Review of S. Beckensall 2002. Prehistoric Rock Art in
- 2003. Review of B. David 2002. Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming. Leicester:
Selected other (non-academic) Publications
Wallis, R.J. 2011 ‘Austin Osman Spare, Visionary Shaman: Deconstructing the Myth’. In: S. Pochen (ed.) Austin Osman Spare: Fallen Visionary, limited edition pamphlet to accompany the exhibition ‘Austin Osman Spare: Fallen Visionary’ and companion series of lectures at the Cuming Museum, 14 Sep - 14 Nov 2010. London: The Jerusalem Press.
2010. Review: High Society at the Wellcome Collection. (Online: http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com/2010/12/review-high-society-at-wellcome.html)
Blain, J. and R.J. Wallis 2008. Contributors to ‘
- 2006. A Live Issue: Ancestors, Archaeologists and the 'Reburial Issue' in
- 2002. A living landscape? Pagans and archaeological discourse. 3rd Stone: Archaeology, Folklore and Myth – The Magazine for the New Antiquarian 43 (Summer): 20-27.
- 2000. Seidr and Gender. Idunna: A Journal of Northern Tradition (Spring): 30-38.
- 1999. Men and “Women’s” Magic: gender, seidhr and ‘ergi’ in the contemporary Heathen Community. The Pomegranate: A Journal of Neo-Pagan Thought 8: 4-16.
Ronayne, Maggie (and various signatories including myself), ‘Archaeology in
Wallis, R.J. 2006. Review of Harvey, Graham. 2005. Animism: Respecting the Living World.
- 2002. Sacred Sites? Neo-Shamans and prehistoric monuments. Hagia Chora 12-13 (Summer): 50-54 (in German).
- 2002. Journeying the Politics of Ecstasy: Anthropological Perspectives on Neoshamanism. Lila: Journal Of Cosmic Play - Explorations into Shamanism and the Transpersonal Vision. Online: http://www.lila.info/document_view.phtml?document_id=9
- 2002. Taliesin’s Trip – Celtic Shamanisms? The Druid’s Voice 1 (10): 38-48.
- 1998. Journeying the Politics of Ecstasy: archaeological and anthropological perspectives on Neo-shamanism. The Pomegranate: A Journal of Neo-Pagan Thought 6: 20-28.
Wallis, R. and J. Blain 2004. ‘No One Voice: Ancestors, Pagan Identity and the ‘Reburial Issue’ in
Academic Conference Papers, Conference Contributions and Lectures
2011, September. Co-convenor of the session ‘British landscape, heterotopia and 'new animism', Association of Social Anthropologists, University of Wales Trinity St David’s, 12-16 September.
2011, April. Autoarchaeology and Animist Ontologies: examining today’s pagan engagements with the prehistoric past with a focus on human remains. Guest lecture for the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Sheffield Hallam University, 14 April.
2011, March. Shamanism and Art: From Cave Painting to the White Cube. Guest lecture for the MA in Cultural Studies, Kingston University, 16 March.
2011, March. From Archaeology to Art: An Unconventional Early Career in Academia. Careers Guidance seminar, Association of Art Historians, Kingston University, 4 March.
2010, November. From Autoanthropology and Neuropsychology to Animist Ontologies: new directions in studies on rock art, shamanism and neoshamanism. Key-note lecture, Anthropological Consciousness Research Conference, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and MASN-Austria (Moving Anthropology Social Network Austria), University of Vienna, 19 November.
2010, November. Co-organiser with Anthea Callen and Tania Woloshyn of the New Directions in Neo-Impressionism conference, Richmond University, London, 20 November.
2010, November. Reenchanting the Present: Art, Archaeology, Paganism and Sacred Sites. Key-note lecture, Shadow Play: Alchemy, Redolence and Enchantment, 2-4 November, Cardiff University, with Cardiff School of Art and Design at the Wales Millennium Centre and Chapter Arts, in association with Material Ludlow and Carnaby Street, and the Courtyard Press.
2010, September. The Coevalness of Persons and Things: New Approaches to Animism in Rock Art Studies. Things and Spirits: New Approaches to Materiality and Immateriality, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, 15-17 September.
2010, May. Death, Ancestors and Contesting the Past: from Oracular Seidr to the Reburial of Prehistoric Human Remains, in Today’s Paganisms. ‘Death Day’,
2010, May. Animism, Ancestors and Adjusted Styles of Communication: Hidden Art in Irish Passage Tombs. Paper presented at the British Rock Art Group conference, Department of Archaeology,
2009, October. Pagans in Place, from Seahenge to
2009, June. From Respect to Reburial: Examining today's pagan interest in prehistoric human remains in Britain. Archaeology and Paganism,
2009, April. Autoarchaeology and Alternative Archaeology: Contemporary Paganism, ‘Sacred’ Sites, and Reburial Guest lecture, ‘Archaeology & Society’ undergraduate module, Archaeology Department,
2009, April. Interpreting the sacred: issues of knowledge and power in the construction of 'sacred sites' in today's
2009, April. Engaging Pagan Pasts: Approaching British ‘Sacred Sites’ through Anthropological and Archaeological Theory and Method. Paper presented at the ‘Engaging anthropology and archaeology: theory, practice and publics’ conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists,
2008, June/July. Re-enchanting rock art landscapes: animic ontologies, adjusted styles of communication and non-human agency. ‘Prehistoric Concepts of Spirituality as Reflected in Rock Art’ session in the ‘Archaeology of Art’ theme, Sixth World Archaeological Congress,
2008, June/July. Reclaiming the Dead: Pagans, Heritage and the Reburial Issue in
2008, June. Enchanting the Living, Reclaiming the Dead: Pagans, Heritage and the Reburial Issue in
2008, May. Organiser of Where we are now: a colloquium on professional development in careers in the arts, MA Art History 10-Year Anniversary Event,
2008, April. Animism and Rock Art: Expanding the frame beyond ‘the human condition’.Keynote speaker’ at the Philosophy Society Annual Conference, ‘The Human Condition’,
2007, December. Whose past is it anyway?: Pagans, ‘Sacred Sites’ and Alternative Archaeologies. Guest lecture, ‘Archaeology & Society’ undergraduate module, Archaeology Department,
2007, November. Animism, Agency and Adjusted Styles of Communication in Rock Art. Metageum 07: Exploring the Megalithic Mind.
2007, October. Co-organiser of: Antiquaries And Archaists: Interpretations of Material Culture from the Distant Past. A Conference Organised by
2007, October. New Antiquarians?: Pagans, Heritage and Alternative Archaeologies. ‘Antiquaries And Archaists: Interpretations of Material Culture from the Distant Past’: A Conference Organised by
2007, April. Whose past is it anyway?: Pagans, ‘Sacred Sites’ and Alternative Archaeologies. Guest lecture, ‘Archaeology and Society’ undergraduate module, Department of Archaeology,
2007, April. Pagans, ‘Sacred Sites’ and Faith-Based Social Change. ‘Faith, Spirituality and Social Change’,
2007, April. Reburying the past, re-enchanting the present: pagans, archaeological landscapes and reburying the dead, presented in the panel ‘Contesting Sacred Landscapes: challenges of tourism, heritage, and spirituality’, Association of Social Anthropologists of the
2007, April. Pagans, polytheists, protests and places of ancestors in today's
2006, November. The Sanctity of Burial: Pagan Views, Ancient and Modern. Respect For Ancient British Human Remains: Philosophy And Practice: A conference organised by The
2006, April. Movement, place, and sacredness: pagans and cosmopolitan landscapes of past and present. Association of Social Anthropologists, ‘Anthropology and Cosmopolitanism’,
2005, December. Alternative worldviews and the performance of heritage. Session theme: Situating Performances of Humanity. TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group), Department of Archaeology,
2005, November. Contemporary Shamanism in
2005, October. Contemporary Paganism in
2005, June. ‘I born of giants remember very early: Pagan Pasts and New Folklore. Fifth Celtic-Nordic-Baltic Folklore Symposium,
2004, June. Shimmering Steel / Standing Stones: Reflections on the Intervention of Turning the World Inside Out (Anish Kapoor 1996CE) at the Rollright Stones (Megalithic Circle c3000BCE). Object – Excavation – Intervention: Dialogues Between Sculpture and Archaeology, Henry Moore Institute,
2004, April. Contemporary Paganism and the Re-Presentation of the Past. Guest lecture for MA Art and Representation, Department of Archaeology,
2004, March. Siting Sacred Heritage: Contestations of Place and Field in Pagan Interpretations of Sacred Sites. Association of Social Anthropologists,
2003, December. Pasts and pagan practices: Moving Beyond
2003, October. Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights. 7th Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Seminar in European Ethnology, University of the West of
2003, July. Re-viewing the Past: Discourse and Power in Images of Prehistory. Tourism and Photography: Still Visions – Changing Lives. Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change,
2003, May/June. Shamans / neo-Shamans: Diversity of interpretation in the study of a ‘new’ ‘alternative’ spirituality. 11th Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies, the Open University,
2003, May/June. 'Claiming our say': sacred sites and contested identities. 11th Annual Contemporary and New Age Religions Conference / Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies, the Open University,
2003, May. The ‘Bwili’ or ‘Flying Tricksters’ of Malakula: A Critical Discussion of Recent Debates on Rock Art, Ethnography and Shamanism. Cambridge Rock Art Group: ‘Practices in Rock-Art Research’, McDonald Institute for Archaeology, University of
2003, April. Sites, texts, contexts and inscriptions of meaning: investigating pagan ‘authenticities’ in text-based society. The British Sociological Association Study Group on Religion, Annual Conference: ‘Texts and Religious Contexts’.
2002, November. Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Contemporary Pagan Engagements with the Past. Guest lecture for The Archaeology Society, Department of Archaeology,
2002, November. Heritage, Paganisms and a climate of ‘transparency’: Autoarchaeological method and the Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project. 5th
2002, April. E-learning Archaeology with Blackboard. E-Learning in the Faculty of Arts: A Symposium,
2002, March. Sites, sacredness, and stories: interactions of archaeology and contemporary Paganism. Archaeology and Folklore, The Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Department of Archaeology,
2002, March. Contemporary Paganism and Archaeology: Irreconcilable? Archaeology in the Public Domain, Department of Prehistory,
2002, February. A Living Landscape? Pagans and Archaeological Discourse. Landscapes and Seascapes, Department of Prehistory,
2002, January. 'Sacred' Sites / 'Archaeological' Sites: Contestations and Contexts of Ancient Places in Developments of Contemporary Paganisms. Belief Beyond Boundaries - The Development of Paganism: History, Influences and Contexts 1880-2002, The Open University Religious Studies Research Group.
2001, September. Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/rights: Community and Diversity in Pagan Approaches to Archaeological Monuments. British Association for the Study of Religions Annual Conference: Religion and Community. Faculty of Divinity, University of
2001, September. Community and Individualism in Neo-shamanism. British Association for the Study of Religions: Religion and Community. Faculty of Divinity, University of
2001, July. Permeating the Boundaries: Neo-shamans, Trance and Healing in the Modern West. Medicine, Magic and Religion; Society for the Social History of Medicine Annual Conference.
2001, April. Defining the ‘sacred’ site: neo-shamans, archaeological monuments and heritage management in
2001, April. Ritual Reflections, practitioner meanings: ‘performance’ contested. The British Sociological Association Study Group on Religion, Annual Conference: ‘Materialising Religion: Expression, Performance and Ritual’.
2000, September. Seidr, Gender and Transformation: from the Sagas to the New Millennium. Viking Millennium International Symposium,
1999, December. Conference Co-ordinator. A Permeability of Boundaries? New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore,
1999, December. Debate Chair: ‘Spin-Doctors of the Past: Alternative Archaeology, Has it Happened? A Permeability of Boundaries? New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore. Department of Archaeology,
1999, September. Footprints of the Rain: Rock Art and the Shamanic Landscape of the
1999, September. Avebury’s Neolithic Shamans, from Stone Age to Twenty-First Century. EAA (European Association of Archaeologists),
1999, May. Conflict and Reciprocity in the Cosmologies of Indigenous Shamans and Neo-Shamans. Seventh Annual New and Contemporary Religions Conference,
1998, June. Drumming Home the Polemics of Neo-shamanism: Conflicting Views and Contested Monuments in south-west
1998, March. Altered States, Conflicting Voices: Shamans, Neo-shamans and Academics. SAC (Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness) Annual International Spring Meeting,
1997, April. Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Neo-shamanism. Postgraduate Research Meeting. National Trust Base Camp, Stourhead, Wiltshire.
1996, December. Tombs for Living Death: Irish Passage Tomb Art and Shamanism. TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group), Department of Archaeology,
Selected Public Conference Papers, Conference Contributions and Lectures
2010, January. Panel member for the Strange Attractor Salon, ‘Art, Magic and the Imagination: Visions of Inhabited Worlds’, Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc,
2009, July. Meeting Others Halfway: Shamans, Animists and Art. Paper presented at ‘The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness 2009 lecture series’, the October Gallery,
2009, June. ‘Remember Mugwort, what you made known’: The Nine Herbs Charm, Mugwort Lore and Elf-persons – an animic approach to Anglo-Saxon Magick. Paper presented at the Equinox Festival, Conway Hall,
2008, February. Member of discussion panel for the launch of Archaeolgies of Consiousness by Gyrus. Treadwell’s Bookshop, Covent Garden,
2008. February. Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments. The Synergy Project,
2007, November. Portraits in Prehistoric
2004, November. Discussion panel with contributors to Researching Paganisms (AltaMira 2004). Pagan Federation Conference, Croydon Exhibition Centre,
2004, March. Ancestral Connections: Pagans, Sacred Sites and Contest. Pagan Federation Devon and
2002, October. Pagans, Sacred Sites, Archaeologists: contexts, relations, and futures. Megalithomania: Celebrating 5000 Years at the Monuments, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square,
2002, June. Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Contemporary Pagan Engagements with the Past. ASLaN (Ancient Sacred Landscape Network) Meeting,
2000, June. Between the Worlds: The Neo-Shamanic Path in Contemporary Paganism. Pagan Federation South Conference. Farnham,
