• 8:30am 9:00am
    Registration
  • 9:00am 9:30am
    Conference Welcome (Room 1501)
    • Gauri Viswanathan

      Columbia University

  • 9:30am 10:30am
    Keynote Address I: The Theosophical Imagination (Room 1501)
    • Wouter Hanegraaff

      University of Amsterdam

    • Chair

      Gauri Viswanathan

      Columbia University

  • 10:30am 12:15pm
    Panel I: Art, Media, and Aesthetics (Room 1501)
    • Chair

      Christopher Scheer

      Utah State University

    • Respondent

      Stefan Andriopoulos

      Columbia University

    • "Claude Bragdon and the Art of Invisible Dimensions"

      Christopher White

      Vassar College

    • "Astral Bodies: From Clairvoyant Perception to Technological Mediation"

      Jeremy Stolow

      Concordia University, Montreal

    • "'My Theory of Soul Atoms': Theosophy and Occult Mysticism in Sadakichi Hartmann's Aesthetics"

      Emily Gephart

      School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • 12:15pm 2:00pm
    Lunch break: Concert by the Fry Street Quartet (Room 1501). Food available for sale through Camille's.
  • 2:00pm 3:45pm
    Panel II: Canons and Margins (Room 1501)
    • Chair

      Gauri Viswanathan

      Columbia University

    • Respondent

      Sarah Cole

      Columbia University

    • "Henrietta Frances Lord - a Translator of Ibsen for the Theosophical Movement"

      Giuliano D’Amico

      Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    • "Jessie L. Weston's Occult Anthropology: Theosophy in 'From Ritual to Romance'"

      Mimi Winick

      Rutgers University

    • "Unveiling Isis and Other Victorian Literary Pastimes"

      Michael Gomes

      Emily Sellon Memorial Library in New York

  • 3:45pm 4:15pm
    Break III
  • 4:15pm 6:00pm
    Panel III: Self and Affect (Room 1512)
    • Chair

      Rachel Cowgill

      University of Huddersfield

    • Respondent

      Christopher Scheer

      Utah State University

    • "Practical Asceticism: On Theosophy's Astral Ethics"

      J. Barton Scott

      University of Toronto

    • "'Oneness with the Infinite': Self and Symbol in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow'(1915)"

      Christina Iglesias

      Columbia University

    • "Serialism Enchanted: The Theosophical Basis of Elisabeth Lutyens's Modernism"

      Annika Forkert

      University of Bristol

  • 4:15pm 6:00pm
    Panel IV: Color and Sound (Room 1501)
    • Chair

      Carmel Raz

      Columbia University

    • Respondent

      James Mansell

      University of Nottingham

    • “Every Picture Tells a Story: Édouard Schuré’s 'The Great Initiates': Theosophy, Text, Context, and Influence on the Visual Arts in France”

      Massimo Introvigne

      Pontifical Salesian University

    • “Alexander Hector’s Color Music Instruments and Unified Theories of Sonic and Visual Frequencies"

      Pia van Gelder

      University of New South Wales Australia

    • “Theosophical Impulses in the Work of John Varian: Mystic, Poet, Inventor, Masseur”

      Paul Ivey

      University of Arizona, College of Fine Arts

  • 6:00pm 7:15pm
    Reception (Foyer)