Chair
Helena CapkovaWaseda University, School of International Liberal Studies
Respondent
Wouter HanegraaffUniversity of Amsterdam
“The Colors of Conversion: Swedenborg, Theosophy, and Transcultural Mysticism”
Devin ZuberGraduate Theological Union, Berkeley
“Images of Buddha and Christ in French Symbolist Art: Interpreting East and West through a Theosophical Lens”
Serena KeshavjeeUniversity of Winnipeg
“The Reception and Propagation of Theosophy in China”
Chuang Chien HuiOsaka University
Chair
Marco PasiUniversity of Amsterdam
Respondent
Cóilín ParsonsGeorgetown University
“Theosophical Individualism and the Politics of Neutrality”
Colin DugganUniveristy College Cork, Ireland
“The International Lodge Reconsidered: The Theosophical Network and its Impact on Japanese Interbellum Modernity”
Toshio AkaiKobe Gakuin University
“Transmutations of Theosophy in Russian and East European Literary and Philosophical-Scientific Contexts (c.1880s-1950s)”
Yuri StoyanovUniversity of London School of Oriental and African Studies
Chair
Rachel CowgillUniversity of Huddersfield
Respondent
Matthew HartColumbia University
“The Theosophical Gothic: Propaganda and Positive Epistemology in H.P. Blavatsky’s 'Nightmare Tales' (1892)”
Christine FergusonUniversity of Glasgow
“Revivalism as ‘Beautiful Necessity’: Tracing a Transatlantic Gothic Spirit”
Ayla LepineUniversity of Essex
“Fables of Enchantment: Spiritualism, Anarchism and the Politics of Affection between Women in Spain and Latin-America”
Marta Ferrer GómezColumbia University
Chair
Sarah Victoria TurnerPaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Respondent
Marco PasiUniversity of Amsterdam
“Kandinsky, Boccioni, and the Ether in the International Cultures of Science and Theosophy”
Linda D. HendersonUniversity of Texas at Austin
“A Theosophical Portrait of Ruzena Zatkova, Futurist”
“Evolving Androgynous Astrobodies: Hélène Dufau's Occult Transformism”
Fae BrauerUniversity of East London
Chair
Gauri ViswanathanColumbia University
Chair
James MansellUniversity of Nottingham
Waseda University, School of International Liberal Studies
University of Huddersfield
University of Amsterdam
Utah State University
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art