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Time |
Event |
Room |
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8:30 AM
9:00 PM
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Bookstore & Registration
THURSDAY - SATURDAY |
Galleria & 201
Board Room |
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Thursday, June 12 Preconference
Activities |
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10:00 - 5:00 *
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Workshop for Former Group Members
Carol
Giambalvo & Joseph Kelly |
Lyceum 206A |
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10:00 - 5:00 |
Workshop for Family Members
Livia Bardin,
M.S.W. & Patrick Ryan |
Conference Room 205 |
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12:30 1:30 |
Lunch |
Argyros Forum Cafeteria |
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3:00 3:30 |
Break |
Piazza |
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6:00 -
7:30 |
Dinner (Cafeteria is open 6:00 7:00) |
Argyros Forum Cafeteria |
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7:30 -
11:00 |
Evening Social |
Lyceum 206 |
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Friday, June 13 |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Welcome and Introduction
Herbert
Rosedale, Esq.; Michael Langone, Ph.D. |
Lyceum 209 |
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9:30 - 10:30 |
Helping Families and Ex-Members: New
Directions
Michael
Langone, Ph.D. |
Lyceum 209 |
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10:30 11:00 |
Break |
Piazza |
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11:00 - 12:30 |
Open |
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Children of God
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D., Coordinator (Generational Revolt By the
Adult Children of First Generation Members of The Children of
God/The Family); Julia McNeil (Moving On: Creating an On-line
Community for the Second Generation of the Family); Daniel Roselle
(The Vandari Prophecy- The Family/COG's Response to their Estranged
Children) |
208
Cinema Theater |
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11:00 11:45 |
Psychological and Spiritual Issues for
Jewish Ex-Members
John Hochman,
M.D. |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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11:45 12:30 |
White Supremacy
Richard Abanes |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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12:30 2:00 |
Lunch Break (Cafeteria is open 12:30
1:30) |
Argyros Forum Cafeteria |
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2:00
3:30 |
Cults,
Corruption, & Crime in Latin America
Paul Carden,
Coordinator; Lourdes Arguelles, Ph.D. & Anne Rivero, L.C.S.W.
(Votes, Illegal Immigrants and Human Rights: The Case of La Luz del
Mundo, A Transnational Mexican Cult) ; Jorge Erdely, Ph.D. (The
Legionaries of Christ: Disturbing Dissonance in a Secrecy Shrouded
Sect); Raymundo Mezar, Esq. & Cesar Mascarenas, M.D. (Human Rights
Abuses in Cultic Groups) |
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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Psychological Research (Part I)
Jonibeth. Whitney, Ph.D., Coordinator
(Review of Research Findings); Livia Bardin, M.S.W (An Exploration
of the Interactions of the Child Protection System and
Fundamentalist Mormon Communities); Doni Whitsett, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
(Clinical Implications of Research Findings) |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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Development of
Japanese Cultic Studies
Kimiaki Nishida, Ph.D.,
Coordinator; Fuzuki Kuroda, M.A.; Yoshihide Sakurai, M.A. (A Cult
Controversy and Freedom of Religion); Shingo Takahashi, M.D. (The
Practice of Exit Counseling in Japan) |
208
Cinema Theater |
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3:30 4:00 |
Break |
Piazza |
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4:00 -5:30 |
Gender and Cultic Groups, Part 1
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D., Coordinator; Massimo Introvigne (Gender and Cult
Controversies in the Milingo-Moon Affair); J. Anna Looney (Marriages
within Cult Groups: A Comparative Study of the Characteristics and
Survival Rates of Intimate Relationships);
Yoshihide Sakurai, Ph.D. (Constructing Family by Religious
Ideology: A Case Study of Female Members of the
Unification Church in
Japan) |
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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The Jim Roberts
Group (JRG) and the Roberts Group Parents Network (TRGPN)
Ronald N. Loomis,
Coordinator (A Brief History of TRGPN and the Apparent Dissolution
of the JRG); Katherine Clemons & Chris Olson (The JRG: The Early
Years); James Guerra (The JRG,: The Middle Years) |
208
Cinema Theater |
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Clinical
Assessment and Treatment Issues
Mary Jo Cysewski, M.A.,
L.M.F.T., Coordinator; Rachel Bernstein, MS.Ed., L.M.F.T.
(Destruction and Healing in Group Dynamics); Chanon Bloch, L.C.S.W.
(The Therapist as Exit Counselor: a Case Presentation); Jonibeth
Whitney, Ph.D. (Cults and New Religions: Findings from the
Psychological Research); Doni Whitsett, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. (Assessment
and Treatment Considerations). |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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6:00 7:30 |
Dinner Break
(Cafeteria is open 6:00 7:00) |
Argyros Forum Cafeteria |
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7:30 9:00 |
New Theoretical Approaches to Cult
Involvement
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D., Coordinator (Bounded Choice: Brainwashing vs. "Free Choice");
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D. (The Conservative Perspective on Brainwashing
Theory);.Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. (A Behavioral Approach to
Brainwashing Theory) |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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Suing Cults: Cases Won, Lost, and Rejected
Lawrence Levy,
Esq.; Discussants: Herbert L. Rosedale, Esq.; Alan Scheflin, J.D. |
208
Cinema Theater |
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Open |
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9:00 - 11:00 |
Evening Social |
Lyceum 206 |
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Saturday, June 14 |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
Gender and Cultic Groups, Part 2
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D., Coordinator; Andrea Moore Emmett (The Father-Child
Relationship in Polygamist Cults); Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff (Cultic
Oppression of Women in the Religious Homeschooling Movement);
Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. (Gender Divergences A Quarter Century After
the Initial Cult Stimulus) |
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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9:00 10:30 |
Conflicts Between
Scholarship and Advocacy
Herbert L. Rosedale, Esq.; Alan Scheflin, J.D. |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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9:00 10:30 |
Spiritual Abuse
Paul Carden,
Coordinator; Ronald Enroth, Ph.D.( Spiritual Abuse and Spousal
Abuse: Are There Any
Commonalities?); Jorge Erdely, Ph.D. (Made in the USA: Prosperity
Theology Goes South); Harold Bussell, D.Div. (How the New Testament
Deals with the Question of Authority) |
208
Cinema Theater |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
Piazza |
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11:00 12:30 |
Falun Gong
Zixian Deng, Coordinator (Across one Strait, Two Cults); Samuel
Luo (Falun Gong: A Family Member's Perspective); Elizabeth Wang, M.D.(Falun Gong: A Practitioner's Perspective);
Discussant: Herbert L. Rosedale, Esq. |
208
Cinema Theater |
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Cultic Studies
and Graduate Students: Obstacles and Opportunities - A Discussion
Stephen Kent,
Ph.D.; Janja Lalich, Ph.D.; Anna Looney; Rod Marshall, Ph.D.;
Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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11:00 11:45 |
Heresy and
Paddling: Growing Up in a Fringe Fundamentalist Family
Kathleen Danielson |
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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11:45 12:30 |
Contemporary
Occultism
Richard Abanes
|
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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12:30 2:00 |
Lunch Break
(Cafeteria is open 12:30 1:30) |
Argyros Forum Cafeteria |
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2:00 3:30 |
Psychological Research Part II
Jonibeth.
Whitney, Ph.D., Coordinator;
Vincent Egan, Ph.D. (Individual Differences and Cults: The Power of
Critical Thinking); Rod Marshall, Ph.D. (Examining Patterns of
Psychological Harm in Ex-Member Populations: Initial Explorations);
Discussant: Paul Martin, Ph.D.) |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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Exit Counseling Case Study: Bible Group
David Clark;
Scott Shaw |
208
Cinema Theater |
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2:00
2:45 |
Writing Down the Pain: A Case Study of the
Benefits of Writing for Cult Survivors
K. Gordon
Neufeld, M.F.A. |
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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2:45 3:30 |
Running Support Groups for Those Affected by
Cults
Rachel
Bernstein, L.M.F.T.. |
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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3:30 4:00 |
Break |
Piazza |
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4:00- 5:30 |
Gender and Cultic Groups, Part 3
Janja Lalich,
Ph.D., Coordinator; Cliff Cheng, Ph.D.
(Sexist Gender Roles in a Patriarchal Organizational Story); Sarah
Edmonds, Ph.D. (Transference and Countertransference in the
Guru-Disciple Relationship); Marina Sarran & Miriam Williams
Boeri (Sex with Children: The Last Sexual Frontier) |
Small
Lecture Hall 207 |
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4:00 5:30 |
Religious
Terrorism
Jorge Erderly, Ph.D. & Lourdes Arguelles, Ph.D. (The New Jihad:
Myths and States of Denial) |
208
Cinema Theater |
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Exit Counseling Case Study: Eastern Group
Patrick Ryan;
Joseph Kell |
202
Large Lecture Hall |
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6:00 7:30 |
Dinner Break
(Cafeteria is open 6:00 7:00) |
Argyros Forum Cafeteria |
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7:30 9:00 |
Trauma Research and Cults
David Foy,
Ph.D. |
Lyceum 209 |
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9:00 11:00 |
Evening Social |
Lyceum 206 |
