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This book traces the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques for visualizing auras, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how pictures of aura have been put to work in diverse domains of psychical and parapsychological research, esotericism and occultism, art photography, and popular culture, as well as the New Age market for alternative medicine and spiritual well-being. These histories\u2014sometimes complementary, sometimes conflicting\u2014shaped by exchanges between professionals and amateurs, scientists and occultists, countercultural artists and entrepreneurs, metropolitan figures and peripheral actors, show how the aura functions as a boundary object: an ontologically plural entity amenable to the varied tasks of creating art, healing bodies, and mapping a hidden cosmos. My presentation will introduce some of the book\u2019s key figures, technologies, and notable migrations of images, while reflecting on the very endeavour of making the aura visible and the challenges it poses to established assumptions about science, religion, and art.\n\nJeremy Stolow is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montr\u00e9al, Canada. He works in the interdisciplinary field of \u201creligion and media,\u201d where he conducts research on the religious, esoteric, and occult dimensions of technology, as well as the technological and material dimensions of religion. In addition to Picturing Aura, his publications include Orthodox by Design (California UP, 2010), a study of contemporary Orthodox Jewish print culture and its political implications; Deus in Machina (Fordham UP, 2013), an edited volume exploring the relationship between religion and technology from a historical and transcultural perspective; as well as several co-edited journal issues focusing on the genealogy of animation, religious visibility and invisibility, and \u201clight\u201d as a medium of religious practice and imagination.", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"152526-21913882@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/152526", "building_id":"1000152", "building_name":"Tisch Hall", "campus_maps_id":"541", "room":"1014", "location_name":"Tisch Hall", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Science","Society","Technology"], "website":"", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Science, Technology and Society", "group_id":"3327", "website":"http:\/\/www.lsa.umich.edu\/sts" }, { "group_name":"Communication and Media", "group_id":"3532", "website":"" }, { "group_name":"The Center for History, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Ethics in Medicine CHHASSEM", "group_id":"5480", "website":"" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/09\/event_152526_original-1.jpg" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21913882 } , "153536-21915972": { "datetime_modified":"20261011T160518", "datetime_start":"20261012T160000", "datetime_end":"20261012T170000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-10-12", "date_end":"2026-10-12", "time_start":"16:00:00", "time_end":"17:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Student Combinatorics: Clusters and Webs for SL_3 Invariant Rings", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Student Combinatorics: Clusters and Webs for SL_3 Invariant Rings: Joao Pedro Carvalho", "event_subtitle":"Joao Pedro Carvalho", "event_type":"Meeting", "event_type_id":"14", "description":"Let V be a 3-dimensional complex vector space and V' its dual. 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