This Symposium invites the VCU and wider community to learn about Witch Studies, an emerging transdisciplinary field that explores intersections among knowledge practices; religious, spiritual, and magical traditions; healing practices; politics, gender, race, colonialism, ecology, creativity, aesthetics, and more.

This one-day symposium features research presentations by VCU undergraduate and graduate students, a faculty roundtable on pedagogy, and a keynote lecture by Nathan Snaza, Ph.D., University of Richmond and author of “Beyond Reclaiming: Summoning Witch Studies.”

Specific research presentations may address subjects such as histories of health care and healing; feminist epistemologies; ecospirituality; new religious movements including Vodou, Spiritualism, Theosophy; “occulture” (a coinage referring the culture of occultism); “rejected knowledges”; myth and folklore; metaphors of power and persecution; magic and technology; economics and commercialization; and the supernatural.

Attendees are welcome to come for part or all of the event. More details and registration coming soon.