The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic

Dear All

We are happy to announce that Issue one of the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic will be available imminently, priced at £UK 13.99 (plus postage) orders can be made via a secure credit card server now http://www.sasm.co.uk/journal2.html including international orders where the sum due will be converted into other currencies. Mail order customers will also find the ordering address on that page. Educational Institutions may send an official purchase order and receive an invoice with the Journal.

A contents list can be viewed here:

http://www.sasm.co.uk/1contents.html For those in the UK during April there is also an academic conference, open to the public under the auspices of the Dept of Historical Studies, Bristol University, entitled Magical Practice and Belief: 1800-Present on 25th April, 2003. Keynote Lecture is by Professor Ronald Hutton: 'A General Framework for the History of European Magic'. Other speakers include Owen Davies, Ann Heilmann, Joanne Pearson, Hannah Sanders, and Melvyn Willin. Funded partially by the University of Bristol Alumni Foundation and the Royal Historical Society... for more information including ticket prices and arrangements for free entry to postgraduate students please see http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/Resources/cmagic2003.htm

If you wish to receive further information please sign up at the website if you have not done so already (link below). Equally, if you have friends or colleagues who you think may be interested in the journal and-or conference, please pass this mail on to them. Please accept our apologies for a few of you who will have got this message twice, a computer glitch meant that part of the mailing list was despatched to in error .

With best wishes
Dave Evans
General Editor, JSM Journal homepage: www.sasm.co.uk/index.html