Events and Symposia
Help organize workshops, speaker invitations, schedules, venues, and post-event documentation.
What ALIUS Membership Means
ALIUS is an academic association maintained by the voluntary participation of its members. Membership is a way of taking part in a scholarly community devoted to the systematic study of diverse conscious states, including non-ordinary and understudied forms of experience.
Members may contribute through research exchange, events, the Bulletin, journal clubs, documentation, mentoring, and infrastructure work. The association aims to remain horizontal in spirit: coordinators help keep projects moving, but active roles can be proposed, shared, and taken up by members according to time, interest, and capacity.
Voluntary Active Roles
Active roles are practical ways to help ALIUS function. They are not rigid offices. A member can suggest a role, join an existing effort, help temporarily around an event or publication cycle, or step back when other commitments become heavier.
Bulletin and Editorial Work
Support interviews, editing, proofreading, issue planning, layout checks, and publication logistics.
Journal Clubs
Propose readings, invite discussants, host sessions, and keep notes accessible for the group.
Communication
Maintain announcements, public-facing summaries, mailing-list updates, and archived materials.
Website and Data
Improve the website, organize assets, preserve event records, and keep member information current.
Membership Care
Welcome new members, help coordinate referrals, and make participation easier across time zones.
Joining and Participation
Research Membership
Prospective research members are usually affiliated with an academic institution, and their work should contribute to or be informed by empirical, theoretical, clinical, anthropological, or philosophical research on consciousness and conscious states. New members are referred by an existing member and considered during periodic membership votes.
Active Participation
Active participation is open-ended and voluntary. Members can assume responsibilities by contacting the coordinators, proposing a concrete task, joining a committee, or helping with a bounded project such as an event, Bulletin issue, website update, or journal-club session.
Governance, Fees, and Contact
Coordinators oversee the everyday functioning of ALIUS and are elected every three years. Research members participate in organizational decisions such as coordinator elections, amendments to rules, new membership invitations, and budget questions.
Financial contributions are voluntary and based on ability to pay. Members who contribute significant time through active roles can choose a lower contribution or no fee. For membership inquiries, role proposals, or mailing-list questions, contact contact@aliusresearch.org.