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Programme for the 40th Anniversary Conference Released

The Society is proud to announce that the programme for the 40th Anniversary Conference is now available! Join us in Edinburgh on April 5th for four days of talks and cosmological exchanges. You can view and download the full programme below, and more details on the conference are available on the dedicated page here.


Registrations are now closed, but day passes will be available for visitors to purchase at the door at a third of the normal rate. We will accept payments in pound sterling preferably, or alternatively in euros and dollars with an additional 6% transaction charge. TCS volunteers will be at hand to welcome you, and a special selection of rare mythology publications will be on sale at a special conference price.

We look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh!

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COSMOS #33-35 Hot Off the Press

Hooray! The Traditional Cosmology Society is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of the latest, triple issue of our scholarly journal! COSMOS vol. 33-35 is in the final stages of typesetting, and will soon be available for print-to-order for everyone.

It is fair to say that this issue has been long in the making, but we are proud that it is finally about to see the light.

On the occasion of tomorrow’s one day conference, we have decided to make available a free preview of the issue for 24 hours only.

After the launch, a dedicated private page will appear here on this website, in the COSMOS section, for those members who want to access it.

AGM 2019-2021

Members of the Traditional Cosmology society are invited to attend our Annual General Meeting on Friday November 5th at 50 George Square, Room G.05, Edinburgh, 16:00 – 17:30 GMT. Members who wish to participate remotely have been sent a Zoom invitation: if you have not received it, please contact us at tradcossoc@gmail.com

The meeting will cover the last two membership years, on account of the pandemic. Once again, many positions within the Committee are open, and we warmly invite anyone who would like to get more involved to step forward, and help us make our calendar of events more diverse and accessible to all.

Here is the tentative agenda for the meeting:

  • Welcome and Apologies
  • Minutes from the last AGM
  • President’s (Chair’s) Report
  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Election of the Committee
  • Membership Campaign for 2021-22
  • Expansion of Commitee
  • A.O.B

Minutes will be circulated after the meeting for those who could not attend.

14th Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology

A message from TCS President Louise Milne, concerning the upcoming Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, which this year will take place online, August 23rd to August 27th.

Full details here.

Dear Members and Friends!

I am writing to tell you about the 14th Annual Conference on Comparative Mythology, titled Death and Migration in World Mythology, which will be held online via Zoom from August 23-27. It will be an excellent conference full of interesting and stimulating ideas.

The International Association for Comparative Mythology is the sister organisation of the Traditional Cosmology Society and both I, as current President, and Emily Lyle, as President Emeritus of the TCS, will be presenting papers at this conference. Additionally, among the people giving papers are also those who have presented at TCS events in the past. Please see the program for dates and times.

To participate as an audience member, ask questions, and contribute to the discussion, please register using this form.

The conference fee is $10 for participants from US, Canada, Australia, EU, EEA, Switzerland, Israel, and Northeast Asia; $5 for students and participants from all other regions.

If  you cannot pay the conference fee online or are unable to pay due to financial hardship and still want to participate in the conference, please write to this address: iacm.admin@gmail.com.

Please note that a Zoom link to the conference sessions will only be sent to those who register.

[LM]

Minutes from 2019-20 AGM now available

At the end of August, the Traditional Cosmology Society held its 2019-20 Annual General Meeting and elected a new Committee. As was announced in the original notice, the minutes from the meeting are now (finally) available for those who could not attend. We especially invite all e-members, as well as those who could not make it to Edinburgh, to take a look, and let us know if they have any comments/suggestions/opinions/cosmological musings!

Please follow this link to access the .doc transcript of the minutes.