{"id":5289,"date":"2018-08-03T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:38:40","slug":"david-clarke-keynote-supernatural-contemporary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/david-clarke-keynote-supernatural-contemporary-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr David Clarke to give Keynote at the Supernatural in Contemporary Society Conference 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reader and Principal Lecturer\u00a0in Journalism, Dr David Clarke<\/a> , will give a keynote address to the Supernatural in Contemporary Society Conference (SCSC) on 23 – 24 August in Aberdeen. His talk, entitled, “What’s all this stuff about flying saucers?”: Extraordinary personal experiences from The National Archives UFO Project<\/em> will discuss his work that led to the online release of hundreds of files on UFOs at Britain’s National Archives.<\/p>\n

For more information please see the conference programme here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions about SCSC please contact<\/a> conference organiser, Dr Rachael Ironside at Robert Gordon University.<\/p>\n

You can also follow the conference via social media.
\nTwitter (@SCSC2018 #SCSC2018) and Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reader and Principal Lecturer\u00a0in Journalism, Dr David Clarke , will give a keynote address to the Supernatural in Contemporary Society Conference (SCSC) on 23 – 24 August in Aberdeen. His talk, entitled, “What’s all this stuff about flying saucers?”: Extraordinary personal experiences from The National Archives UFO Project will discuss his work that led to the online release of hundreds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9742,"featured_media":5291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[6,822,172,574,820,821,411],"class_list":["post-5289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-communication-and-computing-research-centre","tag-contemporary-society","tag-david-clarke","tag-national-archives","tag-scsc","tag-supernatural","tag-ufos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/08\/CLARKE-DAVID-SCSC-image.jpg?fit=860%2C331&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1nj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12722,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/do-you-want-to-believe-legend-ufos-x-files\/","url_meta":{"origin":5289,"position":0},"title":"Do You Want To believe? \u2013 Talking about Legend, UFOs and the X Files","author":"Amy Lander","date":"13\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"SHU academics entertained a large public audience with their analysis of the folklore, legend, and popular culture surrounding the X-Files, as part of the recent Off-The-Shelf Festival. 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