Program of the conference

The following is the detailed (full) program of our conference Consciously Illicit : Transgression in Western Esotericism. Download the book of abstracts.

Wednesday, 6 June: First day of Conference
8:30-9:30	Opening
8:30		Registration and refreshments
9:15		Opening ceremony
9:30-10:30	Keynote lecture I.
9:30	Marco Pasi	The art of esoteric transgression, the esoteric transgression of art
10:30		Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Attacking the Order: Satanism and Direct Transgression
11:00	Adam Anczyk	No Sympathy for the Devil? Isaac Bonewits’s satanic adventure and other stories from the life of a Reformed Druid
11:30	Matouš Mokrý	Animal Sacrifice in Chaos-gnosticism: Return to Tradition?
12:00	Miroslav Vrzal	Occult Turn in Czech Black Metal?
12:30		Lunch break
13:45-15:15	Approaching the Ego: Ritual Practices in Addressing the Self
13:45	Tancredi Marrone	Magic, Transgression and Self-development
14:45	Guido Nerger	Dionysus and the Beast: Aleister Crowley’s Dionysian ecstasies and magical frenzies
14:45	Graham John Wheeler	”Do What Thou Wilt”: Transgression and Domestication in Twentieth Century Esoteric Religion
15:15		Coffee break
15:45-17:45	Occult in the heart of Europe: Insight Into Czech Esotericism
15:45	Petr Kalač	Documentary centre of the Czech hermetism (DCCH)
16:15	Marek Dluhoš	The Czech esoteric nationalism and the power of the national egregor
16:45	Jana Valtrová	Between Esoteric Practice and Scholarly Research: Alexandra David-Neel and her Impact in Czech Oriental Studies
17:15	Matouš Vencálek	Western Esotericism and Modern Paganism in the Czech Republic
18:00-22:00	Conference dinner and fire in Open Garden
Thursday, 7 June: Second day of Conference
9:00-10:00	Keynote lecture II.
9:00	Jean-Pierre Brach	Illicit Christianity: Guillaume Postel, Kabbalah and a Transgender Messiah
10:00		Coffee break
10:30-12:30	The Illicit in the Past: Historical Roots of Transgression in Western Spiritual Traditions
10:30	Zdenko Vozár	Besting the Medieval Theology: Nigromancy and Alchemy
11:00	Anna Jedličková	Construction of the Identity of a Learned Magician in Arbatel (1575) and Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (1559) and Its Relation to Demonology
11:30	František Novotný	Luciferianism: Past and Present Ideas, Fictitious and Factual Movements
12:00	Thomas Daffern	Comparative Diabology and Western Esotericism: a much needed discourse
12:30		Lunch break
13:45-15:15	Social and Cultural Transgression: Identities and Behaviors
13:45	William Redwood	Totalising Transgression? Authenticity and Ambivalence in Esoteric Identities
14:15	David William Mac Gillavry	United we Fall; on the Pro-Social Effects of Communal Transgressions of Social Norms, and their Implications for the Study of Western Esotericism
14:45	Michaela Ondrašínová	From a Housewife to a Woman-Goddess? Women Circles and a (Non)Transgression of the Gender Order
15:15		Coffee break
15:45-17:15	Portraits of Transgression: Consciously illicit in literature and visual art
15:45	Jan Miklas-Frankowski	The transgressive Messiah. Jakub Frank and his followers in Olga Tokarczuk’s novel ‘The Book of Jacob’
16:15	Andrej Kapcár	Portrait of the Unknown: Occult Tendencies in Modern and Post-modern Visual Art Movements
16:45	Ivona Schöfrová	Transgression in William Blake's Art
17:15-17:30	Closing ceremony
17:30-??:??	Short sightseeing tour: A view over Brno from Špilberg Castle

Selected conference papers will be considered for publication in a thematic section of the international journal Religio: Revue pro religionistiku.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizers via this e-mail, consciously.illicit@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you in Brno!