Readers of H-Commununal-Societies may enjoy Benjamin Klein's recent photo essay "Photographs of Countercultural Celebrations in Northern New Mexico." It is posted on H-Celebration and describes, with photos, the wedding and Fourth of July celebrations of The Hog Farm and other 1960's American countercultural communities in New Mexico. The essay also links to a review on H-1960s of Klein's book Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico that also may be of interest.
H-Communal Societies is concerned with topics related to intentional communities, including the academic study of communities, participation and membership in them, and curatorship and other activities related to the preservation of historic communal sites and artifacts.
We would like to encourage submission of articles for a special issue on psychedelics in the context of radicalism. LSD, mescaline, psilocybin and peyote in particular have played varied and important roles in countercultural movements over the past century. This issue of JSR will be dedicated to the investigation of the political and cultural role(s) played by psychedelics, and the degree to which their use may be deemed radical, and in what contexts
In recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco, California, Northwestern University’s Center for Civic Engagement and the California Historical Society are hosting a three-day, interdisciplinary academic conference celebrating and reexamining the Summer of Love and its associated events, contexts and implications.
The conference will take place 27-29 July
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana annually invites submissions for its prize competition for the best undergraduate and graduate student papers on historic or contemporary communal groups, intentional communities and utopias.
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana also annually invites applications for a Research Travel Grant to fund research at the Communal Studies Collection at USI's David L. Rice Library. The Communal Studies Collection's rich archival materials hold information on over 600 historic and contemporary communal