Something momentous is brewing within contemporary witchcraft scholarship. Borne from calls for revolution, justice, and cultural emendation, new voices in witchcraft studies can be found amending antiquity within the pages of journals, educating others in forums, offering new biographical sketches for lore-based figures, or reinventing the coven for the postmodern age on #WitchTok. This scholarly, cultural, social, and preservational revolution re-frames the witch as a complicated and agential individual rather than a stereotype. Together, we are shaping new examinations of the ways that previous portrayals have contributed to marginalization, gender inequity, and a deeply politicized social order. This shift changes entrenched narratives and opens space for depictions of radical witchcraft and revolutionary witches that are represented through individual identity, within a community, or through scholarship and historical reconsideration.

This Magick Moment seeks progressive and radical interpretations of the witch’s place in the wide scope of humanities scholarship. The panel encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the contemporary witchcraft revolution, including (but not limited to):

- Literary criticism

- Cultural studies

- Preservation, museum, and archival studies

- Digital and media

- Art / art history

- Folklore or local history

- Popular culture

- Gender studies