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Published in The Senses and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Cette journée d’étude propose d’explorer des entités aux frontières du réel (ovnis, cryptides, phénomènes invisibles ou expériences paranormales) à travers différentes approches issues des sciences hu...

Si cette biographie visuelle du phénomène des auras peut surprendre à plus d’un titre, c’est d’abord par le choix de l’image figurant en première de couverture. Il s’agit de l’empreinte de la paume...

Picturing Aura (MIT Press 2025), is a historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualise the hidden radiant force encompassing the living body know

Of the more than one hundred images included in Jeremy Stolow’s beautiful, generative, and utterly original history of the “enterprise” of picturing aura,

Connor Martini, anthropologist of religion interested in questions of presence, technology, and enchantment, will be in conversation with Jeremy Stolow about his new book, Picturing Aura: A Visual Bio...

Jeremy Stolow On 28 October, I was fortunate to be able to give a talk to CAS-E about my recently published book, Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025): a historical, anthropological, a...

YouTube video by CAS-E

Join us for the book presentation of Picturing Aura. A study of modern efforts to visualise the hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as the aura.

The website of the Parapsychological Association, a professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, and a resource for those interested in ...

Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

YouTube video by 4TH SPACE Concordia University

If you wish to be considered a scientific-minded person, you probably know that you really shouldn’t believe in the occurrence of events commonly referred to as ‘supernatural’. If there was something…

From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.

From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.

Join us as Jeremy Stolow discusses his book, Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography.