Columbia University
University of Amsterdam
Chair
Gauri ViswanathanColumbia University
Chair
Christopher ScheerUtah State University
Respondent
Stefan AndriopoulosColumbia University
"Claude Bragdon and the Art of Invisible Dimensions"
Christopher WhiteVassar College
"Astral Bodies: From Clairvoyant Perception to Technological Mediation"
Jeremy StolowConcordia University, Montreal
"'My Theory of Soul Atoms': Theosophy and Occult Mysticism in Sadakichi Hartmann's Aesthetics"
Emily GephartSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Chair
Gauri ViswanathanColumbia University
Respondent
Sarah ColeColumbia University
"Henrietta Frances Lord - a Translator of Ibsen for the Theosophical Movement"
Giuliano D’AmicoNorwegian University of Science and Technology
"Jessie L. Weston's Occult Anthropology: Theosophy in 'From Ritual to Romance'"
Mimi WinickRutgers University
"Unveiling Isis and Other Victorian Literary Pastimes"
Michael GomesEmily Sellon Memorial Library in New York
Chair
Rachel CowgillUniversity of Huddersfield
Respondent
Christopher ScheerUtah State University
"Practical Asceticism: On Theosophy's Astral Ethics"
J. Barton ScottUniversity of Toronto
"'Oneness with the Infinite': Self and Symbol in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow'(1915)"
Christina IglesiasColumbia University
"Serialism Enchanted: The Theosophical Basis of Elisabeth Lutyens's Modernism"
Annika ForkertUniversity of Bristol
Chair
Carmel RazColumbia University
Respondent
James MansellUniversity 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 IntrovignePontifical Salesian University
“Alexander Hector’s Color Music Instruments and Unified Theories of Sonic and Visual Frequencies"
Pia van GelderUniversity of New South Wales Australia
“Theosophical Impulses in the Work of John Varian: Mystic, Poet, Inventor, Masseur”
Paul IveyUniversity of Arizona, College of Fine Arts