SSE Meetings
The SSE holds annual meetings in North America, and biennial meetings in Europe. Admission is open to the public. Full members may present on any topic; presentations by Associate, Student, and non-members must be sponsored by a Full member.
Meeting Program
ANNOUNCEMENT
The 32ndAnnual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration will be held in Dearborn, Michigan, June 6-8, 2013 (Thursday through Saturday). Local arrangements are being coordinated by Carl Medwedeff. Patrick Huyghe chairs the Program Committee.Hotel
The conference will take place at The Dearborn Inn, 20301 Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, MI 48124 (313) 271-2700. Located about 12 miles from the Detroit Metro Airport (DTW), the Dearborn Inn with its spacious manicured grounds offers a beautiful and unique historic ambiance with easy access to the nearby Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village complex. The Inn offers a free shuttle bus service to nearby restaurants.
A large block of rooms has been reserved for the SSE at a special conference rate of $110/night. Reservations must be made by April 27, 2013 to receive this rate. Ask for the SSE block when making reservations, or use “SSESSEA.”
Other Hotels
There are more economical accommodations at the nearby Comfort Inn, 20061 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, which offers complimentary breakfasts and shuttle service to nearby locations, such as local restaurants and the Henry Ford Museum. There are many other nearby hotels.
Reception, Outing, Banquet
A welcoming reception will be held at the hotel on Wednesday, June 5th, starting at 6 PM. The SSE's traditional recreational excursion will take place on Friday afternoon, June 7th. This “Dearborn to Detroit” excursion will begin with lunch at a much loved middle eastern restaurant, La Pita, then move on to a tour of the magnificent Edsel and Eleanor Ford house and its landscaped grounds, before ending the day with a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts, which houses Diego Rivera's famous mural and “one of the largest most significant collections in the US.” Our evening banquet will take place Saturday, June 8.
The Society encourages the attendance of students and young investigators, and the meetings are open to the public.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The overall theme of the meeting is “Unsettled Science.” All science is a work-in-progress and therefore unsettled, with some disciplines being more unsettled than others. Anomalies are the biggest threat to the foundations of mainstream science and the focus of the presentations at the Society for Scientific Exploration annual meeting. Three areas of interest will be explored by our invited speakers and the SSE membership is invited to further develop these themes, or others, at the conference. All conference meetings will be held in the Alexandria Ballroom.Themes & Invited Speakers
Aerial Anomalies
• UFO Reports: How to Defend an Anomaly with Less-Than-Ideal Evidence
Eddie Bullard (Invited), University of Indiana, Bloomington
• Pattern Changes in the UFO Phenomenon
Mark Rodeghier, Center for UFO Studies
• Military and Intelligence-Sponsored UFO Research: Was Science on the Agenda?
Michael Swords, Western Michigan University
Historical Anomalies
• Six Evidentiary Revolutions in the Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contact Controversy
Stephen C. Jett (Invited), University of California, Davis
Body/Mind Anomalies
• A Reappraisal of Yoga in Light of Recent Developments in Cognitive Neuroscience
Donald J. DeGracia (Invited), Wayne State University School of Medicine
• Telesomatic Events: When Distant Bodies Behave as One
Larry Dossey, New Mexico
• Big Data: The Myth of Independent Variables?
Erik Schultes, Leiden University
Evening Panel
• Anomalies: Do topics under the SSE umbrella have enough in common that can we learn from one another?
Contributed Papers
Contributed papers by full members on any topic of interest to the Society are welcome. Papers related to the themes of the meeting will be grouped with relevant invited talks when possible. A poster session may be provided for selected papers or on request.
Titles and abstracts for contributed papers should be sent to the Program Chairman, Patrick Huyghe, by email: huyghe@anomalist.com. Electronic submission is required. The Title should be short and informative. Please include Author name and Affiliation, and contact information. Abstracts should be 300 to 500 words (one page of single spaced text), and should summarize the main points of the paper. If special formatting is required for intelligibility, please submit a Word document.
Deadline for Submissions
The cutoff date for submissions is February 15, 2013. Submissions received subsequent to that date will only be considered for inclusion if time is available in the program.
Program Committee:
Patrick Huyghe (Chair), Erik Schulte, Henry Bauer
Local Host:
Carl Medwedeff
2012 SSE Meeting DVDs Available
DVDs are available of talks given at the 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2008 SSE Meetings. Thematic or full-set copies are available. Click HERE to buy Meeting DVDs.
PAST MEETINGS
| Meeting | Date | Location | Program & Abstracts |
| 32nd Annual | June 5-8, 2013 | Dearborn, MI | Program |
| 9th Annual | October 18-21, 2012 | Drogheda, Ireland | Program & Abstracts |
| 31st Annual | June 20-24, 2012 | Boulder, CO | Program & Abstracts |
| 30th Annual | June 9-11, 2011 | Boulder, CO | Program & Abstracts |
| 29th Annual | June 10-12, 2010 | Boulder, CO | Program & Abstracts |
| 8th European | August 13-16, 2009 | Viterbo, Italy | Program & Abstracts |
| 28th Annual | May 28-30, 2009 | Charlottesville, VA | Program & Abstracts |
| 27th Annual | June 25-28, 2008 | Boulder, CO | Program & Abstracts |
| 7th European | August 17-19, 2007 | Roros, Norway | Program & Abstracts |
| 26th Annual | June 2, 2007 | East Lansing, MI | Program & Abstracts |
| 25th Annual | June 8-10, 2006 | Orem, UT | Program & Abstracts |
| 24th Annual | May 19-21, 2005 | Gainesville, FL | Program & Abstracts |
| 23rd Annual | May 20-22, 2004 | Las Vegas, NV | Program & Abstracts |
| 6th European | August 29-31, 2003 | Paris, France | Program & Abstracts |
| 22nd Annual | June 12-14, 2003 | Kalispell, MT | Program & Abstracts |
| 21st Annual | May 29-31, 2002 | Charlottesville, VA | Program & Abstracts |
| 20th Annual | June 7-9, 2001 | LaJolla, CA | Program & Abstracts |
| 5th European | October 20-22, 2000 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Program & Abstracts |
| 19th Annual | June 8-10, 2000 | London, ON | Program & Abstracts |
| 18th Annual | June 3-5, 1999 | Albuquerque, NM | Program & Abstracts |
| 4th European | October 9-11, 1998 | Valencia, Spain | Program & Abstracts |
| 17th Annual | May 28-30, 1998 | Charlottesville, VA | Program & Abstracts |
| 16th Annual | June 5-7, 1997 | Las Vegas, NV | Program & Abstracts |
| 3rd European | October 11-13, 1996 | Freiburg, Germany | Program & Abstracts |
| 15th Annual | May 23-25, 1996 | Charlottesville, VA | Program & Abstracts |
| 14th Annual | June 15-17, 1995 | Huntington Beach, CA | Program & Abstracts |
| 13th Annual | June 9-11, 1994 | Austin, TX | Program & Abstracts |
| 12th Annual | June 24-26, 1993 | Santa Fe, NM | Program & Abstracts |
| 11th Annual | June 11-13, 1992 | Princeton, NJ | Program & Abstracts |
| 10th Annual | June 24-26, 1991 | Charlottesville, VA | Program & Abstracts |
| 9th Annual | August 9-11, 1990 | Stanford, CA | Program & Abstracts |
| 8th Annual | June 15-17, 1989 | Boulder, CO | Program & Abstracts |
| 7th Annual | June 2-4, 1988 | Ithaca, NY | Program & Abstracts |
| 6th Annual | May 29-30, 1987 | Austin, TX | Program & Abstracts |
| 5th Annual | June 20-21, 1986 | San Francisco, CA | Program & Abstracts |
| 4th Annual | May 29-31, 1985 | Charlottesville, VA | Program & Abstracts |
| 3rd Annual | October 29-31, 1984 | Princeton, NJ | Program & Abstracts |
| 2nd Annual | June 2-4, 1983 | Charlottesville, VA | Program & Abstracts |
| 1st Annual | June 3-5, 1982 | College Park, MD | Program & Abstracts |
