PROPHECY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM:
When Prophecies Persist
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,
London School of Economics, Saturday 12 May 2012
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
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The aim of Inform Seminars is to help participants to understand, or at least recognise, different perspectives.
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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
