REGISTER NOW FOR THE 2016 IASD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, KERKRADE, THE NETHERLANDS WWW.ASDREAMS.ORG/2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
• Don’t miss the April 15, 2016 deadline for the early-bird discount – go to www.asdreams.org/2016/registration/ to register

• Register early for best room accommodations – go to www.asdreams.org/2016/accommodations/ for instructions

• Conference Ads – due date April 15, 2016

• Keynote Speakers and Presenters: Interviews Available

FACT: Did you know that attending an IASD annual conference in Europe might actually be LESS expensive than a conference within the USA, even with the additional flight cost?

How is this possible?

With little change in conference fees, rooms in the $36 to $60 range including breakfast, and meals at $17 for lunch and $23 for dinner, the conference at Rolduc Abbey is extremely affordable - far less than what we are used to paying at hotel based conferences and meals. Even with a European flight some may find that the entire conference expense is no more and maybe less, than when flying within or to the US to attend an IASD conference.

VENUE • The location is the very beautiful 12th century Rolduc Abbey conference facility in Kerkrade in the southern part of the Netherlands. The site is situated on the Dutch-German border, close to several international airports, providing ease of international travel and sightseeing for those who wish to enjoy touring before and after the conference. We warmly invite you to attend. Mark your calendars now for next year’s very special conference.

PROGRAM • The program will feature world-renowned keynote speakers and over 130 presenters from around the globe, an opening reception, a Dream Art Exhibition and Reception, the annual Psi Dreaming Contest, and the ever popular costume Dream Ball and other special events appropriate to enjoyment of the location.

KEYNOTES
Anne Baring is a Jungian analyst and author or co-author of 7 books including The Myth of the Goddess; Evolution of an Image; The Mystic Vision; The Divine Feminine; Soul Power: an Agenda for a Conscious Humanity and The Dream of the Cosmos: a Quest for the Soul. Her work is grounded in a deep interest in the spiritual, mythological, shamanic and artistic traditions of different cultures.

Antti Revonsuo, PhD: Towards a Unified Science of Dreaming and Consciousness. Antti Revonsuo, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist, psychologist, and philosopher of mind, and serves as a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Skövde in Sweden and of Psychology at the University of Turku in Finland. His work focuses on philosophy of consciousness, visual awareness, and altered states of consciousness in general and dreaming in particular. He is well known for his Threat Simulation Theory of dreaming.

Hubert Hermans: The Dream as a Meaningful Experience in a Developing Dialogical Self. Hubert Hermans is professor emeritus at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is best known as the creator of Dialogical Self Theory. He is president of the International Society for Dialogical Science and editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Dialogical Science. He is author of the book Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking: The Emergence of a Dialogical Self Theory and uses dreams in his psychotherapeutic work.

Frank Bosman: Playing the Dream: On Dream and Narrative in Modern-day Digital Games. The cultural theologian Dr. Frank G. Bosman is a senior researcher at the Tilburg Cobbenhagen Center, Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He is author of God Loves a Joke and many articles and three books on culture and religion. In 2011 he was voted the first 'most acclaimed theologian’ in the country. In his lecture he explores how dreams in video game scenes provoke the player to contemplate the concept of reality.

INVITED
Keith Hearne: Obtaining Messages from the ‘Unconscious.’ Keith Hearne, PhD, is a researcher and psychologist from Britain, who pioneered the first sleep laboratory research into ‘lucid’ dreaming at Liverpool University (1975-1978). He devised the ocular-signaling technique from REM sleep and invented the ‘dream machine’ for inducing lucidity. That device and the first chart-record of eye-signals are on permanent display at the Science Museum in London.

Martin Dresler: Cognitive Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming. Martin Dresler, PhD, is an Assistant Professor for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud University Medical Centre and Donders Institute in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He holds Master degrees in Psychology and Philosophy, a PhD from Philipps University Marburg, and performed postdoctoral research on sleep, dreams, and memory function at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Oxford University and Stanford University.

Jan Taal: The Three Stages of Imagination. Jan Taal is a psychologist trained in Assagioli’s psychology of psychosynthesis. He founded the School voor Imaginatie (School for Imagination) in Amsterdam, as well as the Cancer Foundation. He trains therapists, coaches and counsellors in working with inner images and guided or active imagery in many fields of work, from therapy and health care (cancer care), to coaching, human resources and management development.

BUY A CONFERENCE PROGRAM AD

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Do you have a product or business to promote? Do you host a dream group? Are you an artist who would like to reach out to an international audience? Do you offer ongoing workshops? Are you one of the 90 published authors who belong to IASD?

If your ad has not yet been included in the program, don’t get left out again this year. You can provide us with camera-ready artwork – or with advanced notice, we will assign a designer to create your ad for you (for an additional fee.)

The annual conference program is handed out to every conference attendee and contains key information on events, schedule of sessions, workshops, and much more. Attendees constantly refer to the program on-site and hold onto it for future reference, generating multiple impressions for advertisers. Not all conference attendees are IASD members, so advertising in the conference program increases your exposure.

Materials deadline is April 20, 2016!

For information about advertising specifications and pricing, please click here.

Listen to the Interviews with some of Our Keynotes and Invited Speakers

Two Radio Shows have engaged some of our 2016 conference invited presenters and personalities in interviews that are available for you to listen to. The details and information for listening and/or logging on to those interview archives are listed below – both recent shows and upcoming schedules.

ShrinkRap Radio

David Van Nuys, PhD and Professor Emeritus at Sonoma State University, hosts this podcast which is in its10th year with enthusiastic listeners in 195 countries.

To Listen to the Interviews: Go to www.ShrinkRapRadio.com If you don’t immediately see the interview by scrolling down through the guests, there is a search box in the upper right-hand corner on the website home page.

Type in the name of the interviewee you are seeking and it should take you right to that episode. Since these interviews are recorded, you’ll be able to listen to them at any time once they go up.

Interview Schedule:

February 25 - Anne Baring, Jungian Analyst and author of 7 books including award winning The Dream of the Cosmos. This is posted as podcast #495 – In Search of The Divine Feminine with Jungian Analyst Anne Baring

March 3 - Hubert Hermans, professor emeritus of Clinical and Personality Psychology at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Keynote presentation: The Dream as a Meaningful Experience in a Developing Dialogical Self

March 24 - Professor Antti Revonsuo, PhD, cognitive neuroscientist, psychologist, and philosopher of mind. Keynote presentation: Towards a Unified Science of Dreaming and Consciousness

Dreams Unzipped with Kelly Walden

THE ERNEST HARTMANN AWARD FOR STUDENT RESEARCH

DEADLINE EXTENDED

From Curtiss Hoffman, Student Research Awards Chair

We are pleased to announce that the anonymous donor who generously provided funding for the Student Research Award last year has graciously agreed to provide matching funds for the 2016 competition! The IASD Board of Trustees will provide the balance of funds.

Click here for submission details.

As in previous years, there will be two $500 awards. The first is for the best student submission of original scientific research on dreams and dreaming. The second is for the best submission of original historical, literary, artistic, or theoretical research. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to submit papers. Please view this page for additional details.

All participants must submit their presentations in electronic form, preferably through email to office@asdreams.org or if necessary by snail-mailing the files, copied to a CD or a DVD, to the IASD office by April 1 or emailing materials by April 15, 2016.

IASD-Student Research
1672 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703 USA

Mark on any mailed box "OK to leave on porch."

Participants may also electronically submit videos in AVI formats, or music in MIDI or MPS formats. In the case of papers with multiple authors – in terms of the ideas presented as well as the description of the results – the contestant must indicate clearly, in either the text of the paper or in an accompanying letter, what portions are the submitter’s work. Research which has been published prior to the submissions deadline is not eligible for this award.

Submissions must include a copy of the participant’s student ID. Alternatively, a copy can be faxed to the IASD Office at 1-209-724-0889, or scanned and emailed as an attachment to office@asdreams.org A note or cover letter should be included to indicate that this is for the IASD Student Research Award. Participants must specify which of the two awards they are applying for.

Winners will be announced at the IASD annual conference, which will be held at the beautiful Rolduc Abbey in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, from June 24 – 28, 2016, during the General Membership Meeting. Check the schedule of conference events to find out the exact date and time.