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# Sam Gill

Movings, Images, Publications

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- [Blog](https://sam-gill.com/?page_id=2) - Sam Gill writes blogs on a variety of topics including dance, play, university, academic, academy, higher education, religion, religious studies, study of religion, writing, writing theory, human senses, proprioception, brain acuity, health, fitness, SalsAmigos, Salsa Challenge, salsa dance, salsa dancing, how to salsa dance, Encore Life, Encore Dance, education, dance and teen development, aging, education theory, dance teaching, dance videos, movement, brain body connection, teen education theory, teen development, how to dance, how to dance salsa, salsa connection, dance partnering, brain body connection, play theory, play and religion, dance theory,
- [Cyborgs R Us](https://sam-gill.com/2014/12/27/cyborgs-r-us/) - Like a few million others, I got a new iPhone for Christmas. I think it has 56 gigabytes of memory. I’m eagerly anticipating the release of the Apple Watch in a few months. I’ve promised my daughter I’ll buy her one and doubtless I’ll get one for myself. Then I’ll be a full on cyborg
- [Giftwrap](https://sam-gill.com/2014/12/28/giftwrap/) - When I noticed the big gift-wrapped box under the tree I was so excited. I couldn’t really believe it when I saw it. I was perhaps nine years old and my passion was photography. I’d managed to acquire a little basic photography darkroom setup. I had a little Kodak Brownie camera that had film (think
- ["Remembering"](https://sam-gill.com/2011/05/30/remembering/) - Memorial Day, 2011for Corbin, Jenny, & FatumataSam GillI awoke this morning with the sobering thought that, as important as we feel our own lives to be, the specificity of us, our personal identity, the “me” stuff, doesn’t survive us for very long. I tried to remember the lives of my ancestors that I have known
- [I Don't Want to be a Mystic!](https://sam-gill.com/2012/07/30/i-dont-want-to-be-a-mystic/) - July 26, 2012 Sam Gill for Meghan Zibby It was a pause that left a trace really, just one of those moments that sometimes surprise us when, in the midst of reading, a word speaks emotional volumes to us even when we aren’t altogether all that sure that we know why or even what the
- [Origins and Evolution: Writing in the Long View](https://sam-gill.com/2012/08/20/origins-and-evolution-writing-in-the-long-vie/) - Origins is not something that I have ever found engaging. In the formation of the academic study of religion (a good place to learn more details is Walter Capps’s 2000 book Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline), the question of origins was a constituting issue. The concern has a late nineteenth century flavor because
- [A Horse is an Automobile without Wheels](https://sam-gill.com/2012/09/10/a-horse-is-an-automobile-without-wheels/) - September 8, 2012 In memory of Kenneth Morrison Thirty years ago I published a book titled Beyond “the Primitive:” the Religions of Nonliterate Peoples (1982) that was intended to establish some less biased position or stance from which to appreciate and understand folks living in small-scale cultures, tribal or, what was for some time called
- [Religion Writer](https://sam-gill.com/2012/09/13/religion-writer/) - The study of religion is bound in the often uncomfortable tension between opposing positions and forces. It seems we would need to know what religion is in order to study religions, yet how do we know what religion is without encountering religions. How do we state what we know about religion without predisposing these definitional
- [Enhancing in the Fat Present](https://sam-gill.com/2014/12/27/enhancing-in-the-fat-present/) - Paleoethnographer André Leroi-Gourhan understood the hand as the first tool; I prefer to think of the finger as claiming that honor. The first intentional point of a finger, both phylogenetic and ontogenetic, is a gesture that directs the eye beyond the physical body to an object “there” that aligns with the finger “here.” The act
- [Cowrys on an African Bracelet](https://sam-gill.com/2010/12/12/cowrys-on-an-african-bracelet/) - for Krista Keil The surf was pounding. It was difficult to make out the details of the lava rock formations ahead because of the wind-swirled sea spray. Fishy wetness filled our nostrils and our lungs. A beach near Busua, deserted now that Jenny and I had passed a group of squishy fat ruddy Australian miners
- [Christmas Conspiracy](https://sam-gill.com/2010/12/25/christmas-hike/) - It was about 12:30 p.m. when I started up Flagstaff Mountain Trail, perhaps my favorite close-in hike, just to the west of Boulder. I’d eaten a quick lunch of leftovers from yesterday’s family celebration of Christmas because I wanted to get on the trail early, knowing that, this time of the year, the sun dips
- [That Little Thing](https://sam-gill.com/2010/12/18/that-little-thing/) - Completing my undergraduate major requirements in mathematics before I was a senior, I had grown impatient with mathematics largely because it seemed to me at the time so isolating from people. I was utterly naïve of course and had become a math major simply because my mom told me to do so believing, why I
- [My Great Awakening](https://sam-gill.com/2010/12/18/my-great-awakening/) - for Alex Perry I’d been sitting across the desk from him for what seemed an eternity. He was hunched over my paper commenting on every one of the dozens of red notations he had written there. We were still on the first page. Jonathan Smith, “You describe Dwight L. Moody as ‘infamous’. Do you have
- [BBM Vol. 11 Emotion, Depth, and Flesh](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-11-emotion-depth-and-flesh/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [Spooked on Halloween](https://sam-gill.com/2010/11/03/spooked-on-halloween/) - for Eduardo The Pearl Street Mall was a sea of little ghouls and goblins each carrying a plastic pumpkin filled with colorfully wrapped sweet substances of bodily abuse, a manic high soon to plummet into screams and sobs. That parents enable this is the mystery of Halloween. The wild swings of my emotions, rafts of
- [Simpson's latest](https://sam-gill.com/2010/10/11/simpsons-latest/) - This clip deserves some extensive consideration. Will look forward to finding time to do so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo&feature=player_embedded
- [The Incipience of Dancing](https://sam-gill.com/2010/09/28/the-incipience-of-dancing/) - Incipience refers to something that is about to begin, that is on the verge of becoming, that is nascent. Incipience is that quality of expectation, excitement, anticipation, vitality that comes with the almost. As a student of dance of all kinds in cultures the world over, I think that dancing can be characterized by its
- [Thoughts on Considering New CU Religion Programs](https://sam-gill.com/2010/09/14/thoughts-on-considering-new-cu-religion-programs/) - Not since Gutenberg has a revolution in media impacted the world as greatly as e-media are today. Although invented in the fifteenth century it took many decades for the impact of typography to be widely felt, yet it is clear looking back that the world changed in fundamental ways as a result of this change
- [Michel Serres and Coenaesthesia](https://sam-gill.com/2010/08/28/michel-serres-and-coenaesthesia/) - I know that I’m not an intellectual in the true sense of the word. I like to dance way too much and I read way too slowly. This means that more often than I’d like, but then this is a lie, I discover someone whose works/writings are amazing and I am ashamed that I was
- [Writing is Gesture: Leroi-Gourhan](https://sam-gill.com/2010/08/26/writing-is-gesture-leroi-gourhan/) - In his fascinating Gesture and Speech (1964, 1993) André Leroi-Gourhan traces the development of alphabetic writing considering it a distant consequence of the upright posture that allowed the hand to be free to draw the focus of communication from the face to the techniques of the hand. The face and graphics are more strongly associated
- [Education is Not Information](https://sam-gill.com/2010/08/26/education-is-not-information/) - The future of education must carefully and critically question the current broadly held understanding that education is information. Late in the twentieth century research began to demonstrate conclusively that meaning and value are based in and founded on bodily experience. The western Cartesian perspective separates mind and body (and experience, subjectivity, and emotion). In many
- [Future of University - Writing Conventions](https://sam-gill.com/2010/08/24/future-of-university-writing-conventions/) - The Future of the University: Writing Conventions August 24, 2010 It is somewhat confounding to me that while one of the most important images and charges of the university is that it represents the freedom to experiment and think, privileged and enabled by a separation from society, it appears in some respects to be
- [How to Save the University: Lessons from the Possible Saving of the News](https://sam-gill.com/2010/08/26/how-to-save-the-university-lessons-from-the-possible-saving-of-the-news/) - We are all well aware of the decline of the newspaper industry. A number of factors have contributed to this decline: shift to on-line news sources, decline of newspaper advertisers who find other media are more cost effective, a shift to news packaged and presented as politics and entertainment, and the inefficiencies of news agencies
- [Coenaesthesia](https://sam-gill.com/2010/08/16/coenaesthesia-2/) - Coenaesthesia: a project, a blog, and an e-mission Summer 2010 On the project and the selection of “coenaesthesia” as its name On Writing “Writing” is a verb and a noun and I don’t want to lose the verb in the noun or vice versa. Writing is the activity of creating written words and writing is
- [Babies Dancing](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/20/babies-dancing/) - I want to comment about this soon. sam
- [BBM Vol. 3 Tradition and Change: Memory and Neuroplasty](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-3-tradition-and-change-memory-and-neuroplasty/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 2 The Meaning of the Body](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-2-the-meaning-of-the-body/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 1 Introduction](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-1-introduction/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [Dancing as Making Podcast Vol. 2](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/dancing-as-making-podcast-vol-2-2/) - Dance education in school, why dance should this be considered a valuable education media. A lecture podcast presentation by Sam Gill
- [Dancing as Making Podcast Vol. 1](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/dancing-as-making-podcast-vol-1-2/) - Podcast presentation by Sam Gill PhD and professor at University of Colorado
- [Encore Dance Introduction Podcast](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/encore-dance-introduction-podcast/) - While it is self-evident that happiness and joy of living correlate with good health, with being physically active, with mental acuity, it is important to note that far too few of us are able to live in ways that create these qualities. I want to talk to you about a number of things, each essential to understanding how to live an ever-increasingly happy and satisfying life. excerpt by Sam Gill
- [BBM Vol. 14 The Backside of God](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-14-the-backside-of-god/) -  Neutrinos … remind me of pure depth, of flesh, of seduction and the many other homologous primitives that we know and can experience, yet are not actually graspable by our efforts
- [BBM Vol. 13 Thought and Cognition](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-13-thought-and-cognition/) - Simply because we are human bodies we come equipped with at least two kinds of structures to preconceptual experiences  metaphor structurality is better characterized as an incomplete reversibility more...
- [BBM Vol. 12 Metaphor, Gesture, Language](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-12-metaphor-gesture-language/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 10 Touch, Flesh, and Vision](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-10-touch-flesh-and-vision/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 9 Consciousness and Emotion](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-9-consciousness-and-emotion/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 8 Self and Other: Proprioception and Exteroception](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-8-self-and-other-proprioception-and-exteroception/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 7 Making, Agency, Action, Artifice](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-7-making-agency-action-artifice/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 6 Phantom and Reality](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-6-phantom-and-reality/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 5 Color and Reality](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-5-color-and-reality/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [BBM Vol. 4 Imagination, Theory, Story](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/bbm-vol-4-imagination-theory-story/) - Sam Gill delivered a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder during Spring term 2009. The lectures discuss implications of human embodiment from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. He discusses the implications in terms of the academic study of religion, the academy in general, and the way we understand dancing. These podcasts are drawn from these lectures.
- [SC Vol. 1 Introduction to the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/12/sc-vol-1-introduction-to-the-salsa-connection/) - The moment came when in the middle of leading Elise in a simple right turn I was suddenly inspired to change it into a left turn. I was astounded that Elise followed this without a hitch or jerk. She smiled to show her pleasure at executing this surprise lead. We were truly connected in our dancing; we had what I call the salsa connection.
- [SC Vol. 2 Salsa Connection What is it?](https://sam-gill.com/2010/03/11/sc-vol-2-salsa-connection-what-is-it/) - So what is this salsa connection and how do we get it? Sam Gill tells all in this podcast
- [SC Vol. 3 Touch and the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-3-touch-and-the-salsa-connection/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. What is the salsa connection and how can it help you become a smooth, confident, beautiful dancer?
- [SC Vol. 4 Negotiating the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-4-negotiating-the-salsa-connection/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. What is the Salsa Connection and how can it help you become a more connected, smooth, confident, beautiful salsa dancer?
- [SC Vol. 5 Eye Contact and the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-5-eye-contact-and-the-salsa-connection/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. What is the Salsa Connection and how can it help you become a more connected, smooth, confident, beautiful salsa dancer?
- [SC Vol. 6 Music and the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-6-music-and-the-salsa-connection/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. What is the Salsa Connection and how can it help you become a more connected, smooth, confident, beautiful salsa dancer?
- [SC Vol. 7 Women Get Equal Attention…Finally!](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-7-women-get-equal-attention…finally/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. What is the Salsa Connection and how can it help you become a more connected, confident, beautiful salsa dancer?
- [SC Vol. 8 The Salsa Connection from a Relationship Perspective for Men](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-8-the-salsa-connection-from-a-relationship-perspective-for-men/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. How can the Salsa Connection give you insight on how to relate to women on the dance floor in a way that they will enjoy??
- [SC Vol. 9 For Women:  Relationship Clues in the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-9-for-women-relationship-clues-in-the-salsa-connection/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. How can the Salsa Connection give you some clues if your dance partner might be a good person to be in a relationship??
- [SC Vol. 10 Flow and the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-10-flow-and-the-salsa-connection/) - salsa, dance, salsa connection, sam gill, partner, lead, follow, still, technique, style, grace, ease, beautiful, dancing, flow, meditation, movement,
- [SC Vol. 11 Existentialism and the Salsa Connection](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-11-existentialism-and-the-salsa-connection/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill Existentialism and the Salsa Connection
- [SC Vol. 12 Thumbs Up!](https://sam-gill.com/2009/06/23/sc-vol-12-thumbs-up/) - The Salsa Connection Podcast Series by Sam Gill. Vol. 12 Thumbs Up!
- [Crises and Opportunities[1]](https://sam-gill.com/2009/08/11/333/) - Crises and Opportunities[1] Sam-Gill.com Blog - August 2009 Sam Gill Since last spring I have become increasingly passionate about crises and opportunities. First I have come to accept the inevitability that in the next half century (beginning sooner than we dare imagine) there will be unprecedented crises precipitated by climate change even if the current
- [Children, Imagination, and Philosophy[1]](https://sam-gill.com/2009/08/11/336/) - Children, Imagination, and Philosophy[1] Blog - August 2009 Sam Gill Philosopher Anthony Gottlieb spoke about children and philosophy, as reported by an interviewer, “Philosophy is the human mind at play and we all have a deep hunger for it, Anthony Gottlieb believes. Just look at how children pose philosophical questions to the point of being
- [The New Education:  Digital Media Enables Whole Bodies[1]](https://sam-gill.com/2009/08/11/the-new-education-digital-media-enables-whole-bodies1/) - The New Education: Digital Media Enables Whole Bodies[1] August 10, 2009 Sam Gill, PhD The day that digital media will replace paper textbooks is rapidly approaching as financially distressed States measure the cost savings of digital delivery of information to students.[2] The issue is setting off a debate about the dangers, values, and costs of
- [The Example:  The Implications of Exemplification](https://sam-gill.com/2009/11/11/the-example-the-implications-of-exemplification/) - Sam Gill I have been thinking about the implications of providing an example in service to academic writing, although I suppose it is relevant to other kinds of writing. An example shows or illustrates something by being a typical or model example of it. The focus of my attention is the “something,” the “it,” that
- [Bias as Interest](https://sam-gill.com/2009/11/11/bias-as-interest/) - In writing, the word bias invariably denotes prejudice, unfairness, partiality and carries a negative connotation. Bias, when associated with fabric refers to a diagonal, usually a 45⁰ angle. The two meanings are related in that they both refer to the slant or direction. Etymologically bias comes from early sixteenth century French and meant oblique. So

## Pages

- [Home](https://sam-gill.com/) - As we live and work through the decades of life, we accumulate not only information, but hopefully some useful experience, a few insights, some bits of wisdom. I’m not so sure I can boast any of these things, but I do now find myself being driven to put forth work that I have done and
- [RECENT WORK](https://sam-gill.com/new-work/) - BOOKS "Reality Under Siege" Two Volumes (March 2024) Gathering favorites among the writings & publications I have done during the last 6 years, I realized that a common theme is the issue of Reality Under Siege (AI, disinformation, conspiracy) and that all my work at some level has included Explorations of the Creative Role of
- [MUSIC](https://sam-gill.com/music/) - While most of the classes offered at Bantaba were focused on dancing, many dance classes had life music provided as practice and performance for groups studying the music. Some drumming classes were also offered. Many renowned musicians from various cultures visited Bantaba and offered master classes and performances. Kora (Senegal) & Tabla (North India) Music
- [BANTABA](https://sam-gill.com/bantaba/) - Bantaba World Dance & Music In 1997 I had been teaching Religion and Dancing courses at the University of Colorado for a few years. One of these coursed had become a two-semester sequence that met in lecture hall two days a week and studio on Friday afternoons. For over a decade it filled quickly at
- [CURRENT WORK](https://sam-gill.com/current-works/) - Complementing the archival function of this site is the foregrounding of my current interests and the evidence of what I've been working on and the direction I am going. With the freedom from the responsibilities of an institutional position I have been exploring hybrid forms of work that include text as well as images. I
- [PHOTO BOOKS](https://sam-gill.com/photo-books/) - A few years ago I was inspired to help Fatu, my granddaughter, celebrate her sixteenth birthday by putting together a photo book with pages of photos for each of her sixteen years. Kind of a print version of Quinceañera plus one or a Sweet Sixteen. I had thousands of photos of her from which to
- [Occasional Writings](https://sam-gill.com/occasional-writings/) - Over the years I've been inspired to write reflections, reactions, comments, remembrances in various forms; what might be called "occasional writings." Some are personal, some rants, some attempts at clever or engaging writing. In the spirit of a hoarder I collect them. Humble Hymn to Humans (2022) PDF Honest Reflections on Legacy (March 2020) PDF
- [BOOKS](https://sam-gill.com/books/) - I have published books on a variety of subjects including Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, dancing, technology, religion, photography. In 2021 my book The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith (Oxford) won a national book award. Podcasts on The Proper Study of Religion Religious Studied News podcast on "The Proper Study of Religion"
- [PHOTOGRAPHY](https://sam-gill.com/photography/) - Photography Portfolios While I have enjoyed taking photographs from an early age and especially during my foreign travels, it has been only in the last decade that I have become more seriously interested in the technical and artistic aspects of making, rather than snapping, pictures. To me to use the term "making pictures" indicates a
- [PHOTOGRAPHS](https://sam-gill.com/photos/) - Sam Gill has taken thousands of photographs during his travels to study cultures and dancing. In this gallery he presents select photos.
- [Articles](https://sam-gill.com/articles/) - Publication is the constant work of the academic. Apart from the large research projects that produce books, the expectation is for the regular publication of articles in refereed reputable academic journals. Many of these are specialist and burdened with insider jargon, the precious discourse among a few specialists. Only a few are widely read and
- [PERFORMANCE VIDS](https://sam-gill.com/videos/) - videos of sam gill's dancing and choreography
- [DANCING CULTURE RELIGION](https://sam-gill.com/dancing-culture-religion/) - Video podcast lectures and PDFs for written lectures for the course "Dancing Culture & Religion"
- [DANCING PODCASTS](https://sam-gill.com/dancing-podcasts/) - Salsa Connection Podcast Series PDF When we were developing our own salsa teaching techniques and styles, I simply couldn't keep from imagining all these technical details as relating to larger philosophical and social issues. To me learning salsa partner dancing to the degree that it became dancing, rather than studiously going through one move after
- [PARTNER SALSA INSTR VIDS](https://sam-gill.com/instructional-vids/) - Partner Salsa Dance Instructional Videos Once I began to teach salsa dancing I found that my decades of academic teaching experience helped me think about how my dance students could best learn. There is an influence that no doubt dates back to being a mathematics major in college and having began my adult life as
- [Dancing](https://sam-gill.com/dancing/) - Mid-life crises led me to dancing. As an overweight out of shape academic with a failing marriage, part of marriage therapy was to do something new and different for both of us. Our daughter, Jenny, was taking a dance class and at a recital event for her, her teacher announced a beginning adult jazz dance
- [PLAY](https://sam-gill.com/play/) - Years ago when I was studying masking in Native American cultures, I realized that the fundamental theoretical issue is the interplay between two faces and two identities, represented by the mask and the masker. Unlike disguise, mask requires the copresence of two faces that are at once different--often ontologically different--and also the same. Before I
- [Podcasts](https://sam-gill.com/podcasts/) - Spring term 2009 I did a series of fourteen lectures in a graduate course “Brain Body Movement” at the University of Colorado Boulder.The lectures discuss implications of human moving body from a variety of perspectives including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, critical theory, and medicine. I discusses the implications in terms of the academic study
- [RUEDA DE CASINO INSTR VIDS](https://sam-gill.com/rueda-de-casino-instr-vids/) - Rueda de Casino Salsa Dance Instructional Videos A remarkable form of salsa developed in Cuba in the 1950s is called rueda de casino. It is a partner based dance yet done as a group formed in a circle. There are hundreds of called moves, mostly in Spanish, with one of the dancers serving as the
- [THE STRIP](https://sam-gill.com/the-strip/) - Among the most important of my teaching experiences began in 1996, well actually it started a bit earlier. I had for several years taught the “theory and method” course to incoming graduate students in the CU Religious Studies Department. I found the group that I taught amazingly talented and engaging, receptive and eager. Late one
- [ARTBOOK SERIES](https://sam-gill.com/aesthetic-of-impossibles-series/) - “Aesthetic of Impossibles” ArtBook Series Exploring and celebrating being human is an abiding passion. I especially honor as a distinctive human gift our capacity to hold together without resolution things declaring them to be the same, even identical, while knowing they are not the same at all. A metaphor is to understand one thing by “Aesthetic of Impossibles” ArtBook Series Exploring and celebrating being human is an abiding passion. I especially honor as a distinctive human gift our capacity to hold together without resolution things declaring them to be the same, even identical, while knowing they are not the same at all. A metaphor is to understand one thing by
- [WRITINGS & MORE](https://sam-gill.com/writings-more/) - A long career produces many works in several genres: books, articles, occasional writings, academic podcasts, and articles about the author. While much of the material in the several associated pages is archival with links to PDFs and podcasts, since I am still publishing I'm regularly adding items.
- [Play](https://sam-gill.com/conversations-controversies/) - Sam Gill presents conversations on a number of topics including making available, in PDF form, a number of resources for the conversation. Sam frames the conversations in an essay with focus on central resources. The first conversation is on the topic “Play and the Future of the Study of Religion … and the Academy.” He has plans for other conversations on prayer, Mother Earth, Storytracking, and ethics of the study of religion.
- [Publications](https://sam-gill.com/print-matter/) - Sam Gill makes available many of his traditionally published articles and short pieces as PDFs as well as not previously published articles, books, lectures, podcasts, blogs, etc. also as PDFs.
- [Teaching](https://sam-gill.com/teaching/) - Sam Gill has taught at the university level for nearly 40 years, at the high school level for 10 years, and dance to adults of all ages for 10 years. Here Sam presents information on his teaching, educational projects such as the mid-1990s development of an online student journal called TheStrip, syllabi from his course, and other relevant materials.
- [Podcasts](https://sam-gill.com/podcast-2/) - Sam Gill makes available a variety of podcasts some of them in extended series: “Brain, Body, Movement” (14 podcasts), “Encore Life,” “SalsAmigos” (6 video podcasts), “DanceTALK: Salsa Connection” (12 podcasts), “DanceTALK: Dance as Making” (2 podcasts). PDF files are also available for download for all podcasts.

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://sam-gill.com/category/uncategorized/)
- [Sam Gill's Podcast: Body Dance Play](https://sam-gill.com/category/podcast/) - Sam Gill Podcasts: Body Dance Play Podcasts presented by Sam Gill in titled series focused on such topics as dance, play, body, health, and religion.
- [Dance](https://sam-gill.com/category/dance/) - Sam Gill’s work on the study of dance.
- [Religion](https://sam-gill.com/category/religion/) - Sam Gill’s discussion of Religion and the Study of Religion.
- [Salsa Connection Podcast Series](https://sam-gill.com/category/podcast/salsa-connection-podcast-series/)
- [Dancing as Making Podcasts](https://sam-gill.com/category/podcast/dancing-as-making-podcasts/)
- [Play](https://sam-gill.com/category/play/)
- [Neuroscience and Humanities](https://sam-gill.com/category/neuroscience-humanities/)
- [Aging and Brain/Body Acuity](https://sam-gill.com/category/aging-brain-body-acuity/)
- [Youth Education and Dancing](https://sam-gill.com/category/youth-education-dancing/)
- [Encore Life Podcast](https://sam-gill.com/category/podcast/encore-life-podcast/)
- [Brain Body Movement Podcasts](https://sam-gill.com/category/podcast/brain-body-movement-podcasts/)
- [Education](https://sam-gill.com/category/education/)
- [Future Studies](https://sam-gill.com/category/future-studies/)
- [Writing](https://sam-gill.com/category/writing/)
- [Movement](https://sam-gill.com/category/movement-2/)

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