Workshop Program
Thursday, 26.06.2014
16.30 Registration
17.00 Almut-Barbara Renger (Berlin), Dylan Burns (Leipzig) Introduction: New Antiquities in the New Age and Beyond
Panel 1 – Traditionalism and Antiquity |
17.30 Pavel Nosachev (Moscow) The Dazzling Darkness of Paganism: the Theme of Antiquity in the Works of Evgeniy Golovin |
18.00 Discussion |
Panel 2 – Unearthing Gods and Goddesses? I: Goddess-Worship |
18.30 Meret Fehlmann (Zürich) Ancient Goddesses for Modern Times or New Goddesses from Ancient Times? |
19.00 Kathryn Rountree (New Zealand) Transforming Goddesses: Neo-Pagan Projects of Revival and Reinvention |
19.30 Discussion |
20.00 Reception
Friday, 27.06.2014
09.30 Registration
Panel 3 – Unearthing Gods and Goddesses? II: Modern Minoica and More |
10.00 Caroline Tully (Melbourne) The Artifice of Daedalus: Modern Minoica as Religious Focus in Contemporary Paganism |
10.30 Ethan Doyle White (London) The Revived Cult of Antinous |
11.00 Discussion |
Panel 4 – Unearthing Gods and Goddesses? III: Çatal Höyük and Beyond |
11.30 Lily Bonga (Crete) Mother-Goddess Misconceptions |
12.00 Helga Vogel (Berlin) ‘The Goddess is alive!’ – Goddess Feminism and Archaeology: the Case of Çatal Höyük |
12.30 Discussion |
13.00 Lunch
Panel 5 – Neo-Gnosticism from Colombia to Croatia |
14.00 Franz Winter (Vienna) The Use of Ancient Gnostic Texts in Modern Esoteric Movements: the Case of Samael Aun Weor |
14.30 Nemanja Radulović (Belgrade) The Role of Gnosticism in Neo-Bogomilism |
15.00 Discussion |
15.30 Coffee break
Panel 6 – New Scholarship, New Media I: Qumran, Theurgy |
16.00 Anne Kreps (Singapore) The Essenes in Southern Oregon |
16.30 Nicholas Marshall (Århus) Robes and Gowns: the Relationship between Scholarship and the Occult in the 20th Century |
17.00 Discussion |
Panel 7 – New Scholarship, New Media II: Neo-Gnosticism |
17.30 Matthew Dillon (Houston) Unearthed Rituals, Recollected Theologies, Mnemohistory and the Role of Scholarship in Contemporary ‘Gnosticism(s)’ |
18.00 Linda Simonis (Bochum) Neo-Gnosticism in Contemporary Popular Music: Current 93 and Nox Aurea |
18.30 Discussion |
19.00 Hubert Mohr (Basel) Final Presentation: Online Temples – a New Cultic Form of Neo-Ancient Cyberpaganism |
19.30 Almut-Barbara Renger (Berlin), Dylan Burns (U. Leipzig) Final Discussion |