Study of Psychic Phenomena - Saturday Symposium

Study of Psychic Phenomena: Mediumship, Spirit Guides, Table Levitations, Ectoplasm, and Photography

To coincide with the launch of Serena Keshavjee’s The Undead Archive exhibition, the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections (UMASC) and the Survival Research Institute of Canada are co-sponsoring a symposium on the study of psychic phenomena.  The event will open Friday evening with a keynote address by symposium organizer Walter Meyer zu Erpen.  

Symposium participants will have the opportunity to view original photographs and documents from the Hamilton Family Fonds, on display in the UMASC reading room as part of  The Undead Archive exhibition.

Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (doors open 9:30 am)

Speakers will include:

• Brian Hubner – Winnipeg’s Relationship with the Paranormal
• Shannon Taggart – Photographs from The Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT)
• Anton Wagner - The Influence of Spiritualism and the Occult on Mackenzie King's Appeasement of Adolf Hitler
• Anna Thurlow – Remembering the Medium
• Heidi Rimke – Afterlife Studies at the University of Winnipeg

Doors open at 9:30 am

Admission is free, but donations to the  T.G. Hamilton Family Memorial Research Fund are welcome

Donations may be eligible to receive a Canadian charitable donation tax receipt.

For full event information please consult the event page HERE