Events
passed
Details of past events advertised on the resources pages will be preserved here, as they often contain useful weblinks etc, although it cannot be guaranteed that these links will remain live indefinitely after the event- please attempt to contact the organisers, and not us, with any queries about past events
2003:
10 – 11 January, 2003: Conference: From Vernacular Religion to Contemporary Spirituality, Milton Keynes, UK
9-15 February 2003: Festival; events, lectures, conference, forums, participation, tuition The Experience Festival of Vedic Art, Madras India.
12-15 Feb 2003: Conference: Classical Myths In Recent Literature and Film, New Mexico, USA. Includes Tolkien section.
22-23 February 2003. Conference: 'Magic, Miracle and
Empire,' Bristol, UK. C.Rushton@bris.ac.uk
28 February- 2 March 2003: Conference-Moot: The Great Wiccan Conversation,
Finland.
14 March 2003: Conference: Freemasonry in the Netherlands, Netherlands
21-26 March 2003: Conference: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Prague, Czech Republic
2-4 April 2003: Conference: Society for Reformation Studies Annual Conference Cambridge, UK
2-4 April 2003: Conference: Practical
Experience in Digital Conservation Public Records Office, London, UK
11-12 April: Conference: Shakespeare in Film Riverside, California, USA
19 April 2003: Conference: Gender and Magic. Michigan, USA
25 April 2003: Conference: 'Magical Practice and Belief, 1800 - present' Bristol, UK
2-4 May 2003: Conference: Women's Spirituality San Francisco, USA
3 May 2003: Conference: New
Religious Movements and the Hereafter. London
15 May 2003: Conference: Guising: the historical uses
of masks and disguises London
23-25 May 2003: Conference and Art display: Mind States IV Includes Shamanic and visionary art sections. Berkeley, California, USA
30 May – 1 June 2003: Conference: ASANAS Alternative Spirituality and New Age Studies, Milton Keynes, UK
3-7 June 2003: Conference: Taking the Gaia hypothesis seriously Boston, USA.
14-15 June 2003: Conference: Theosophical History London
11-12 July 2003: Conference: Culture and the unconscious London
14-15 July 2003: Conference: The Wicker Man Dumfries, Scotland.
17-20 July 2003: Conference: Harry Potter Symposium, Florida, USA. Appears to be mix of academic event and fan convention
19 July 2003: Talks, films, stalls, multimedia, performance: Occulture Festival, Brighton, U.K
22 July 2003: Conference: Global Buffy and Local Indentities Adelaide, South Australia
27-29 June 2003: Workshops, events, party: KallistiCon:Discordian (un)Convention, San Franciso, USA
25-28 July 2003: Conference: From Athena to Galadriel:
Wise Woman in Mythopoeic Fiction. Nashville, USA
5-7 August 2003: Conference: Historical Fictions:
Women, History and Authorship. Swansea, UK.
7-9 August 2003: Conference: Jung Society Rhode Island, USA
2-17 August 2003: Conference and events: Experience Festival and World University of Consciousness, Chennai, India
20-25 August 2003: Conference and Historic/Sacred Site Visits: The Great Rethinking- The Prophets Oxford, Oxford, UK
27-31 August 2003: Conference: Italian Society for the Study of Consciousness San Remo, Italy. Includes witchcraft-related lectures
29-31 August 2003: Conference: British Shakespeare Association Leicester, UK
15-17 September 2003: Conference: British Association for the Study of Religions: Religions in Transition. Chester, UK.
18-20 September 2003: Conference: Communities, interdisciplinary
conference on theoretical, practical, cultural, social aspects. Leeds, UK
20 September 2003: Conference: Spirit of Peace 2003:
Esoteric conference Oxford, UK
25-27 September 2003: Conference: Exploring Maltese Temple Culture, Malta
1 October 2003: Convention: A Pen of Light: The Films of Jean Cocteau New York
1-3 October 2003: Conference and book exhibition: Religious book culture
in Europe and Hungary, 15th-18th century, Sarospatak, Hungary.
4 October 2003: Seminar: Early Modern
Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London
9 October 2003: Concert CARTER-TUTTI and CURRENT 93, London
9-12
October 2003: Film Festival HP
Lovecraft, Portland, USA
9-11 October 2003: Conference: Edgar Allan Poe Colorado, USA
10 October 2003: Recital Performance: 'A Night of Aleister
Crowley and FriendZ' London info@treadwells-london.com
10-12 October 2003: Conference and workshops: Grissecom occult
and horror-fantasy, Stafford, UK
11 October 2003: Conference and convention BuffyFest 2003, San Diego, USA
17-19 October 2003: Conference, workshops: Annual Witchcraft Seminar Tintagel, UK
24 October 2003: Conference: Celtic Representations, Colorado, USA
24-26 October 2003: Conference: Mothering, religion and spirituality Toronto, Canada
26-28 October 2003: Conference: Celtic, Catholic and Beyond: Spirituality in Irish Poetry New York, including special sessions on Yeats
1 November 2003: Seminar: Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London
7-9 November 2003: Conference including panels on : Religion and Literature. : Shakespeare and Visual Culture Chicago,
USA.
8-10 November 2003: Conference: The
Biblical Tropes Hebrew Bible, New
Testament, Qur'an as Literary Works. California, USA
14-16 November 2003: Conference: Arthurian Imagery in Women's Fiction Atlanta, USA
14-16 November 2003: Conference: Serious Scholarship and Academic Hocus
Pocus: Conjuring Harry Potter into the Canon Atlanta, USA
15 November 2003: Conference: Joining
New Religions London
15 November 2003: Conference: QuestCon Earth Mysteries etc, London
21 November 2003: Conference: Contemporary Pagan Studies Atlanta, USA
21-23 November 2003: Convention: FantasyCon
2003 Fantasy and supernatural fiction convention, Stafford, UK
29 November 2003: Conference: UK Pagan Fed National Conference, Croydon, London
Oct-Dec 2003 Series: Lectures on Modern Paganism London
8-10 December 2003: Conference Transformations Vienna
10-13 December 2003: Conference: Alterity and Limits Istanbul, Turkey.
11 December 2003: Lecture: 'HEKA and NETURU: Egyptian Magic and the Gods',
London , www.treadwells-london.com
13 December 2003: Seminar: Early Modern
Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London
(Monthly series of seminars)
18 December 2003: Talk: TRANSYLVANIAN PAGANISM AND WITCHCRAFT, London , www.treadwells-london.com
27-30 December 2003: MLA
Convention-Conference, San Diego, USA. Multiple sessions on a variety of
subjects, including
Charles Fort and Fortean Thought, teaching taboos, Rosicrucian influence in early modern literature, Self-disclosure in academia
2004:
3-5 January 2004: Conference: British Society for 18th Century Studies
Oxford, UK
8-11 January 2004: Conference: International
Conference on Arts and Humanities Hawaii
12 January Onwards: Exhibition: Hermetic and alchemical manuscripts 15th- 20th century. Amsterdam, http://www.ritmanlibrary.nl/c/p/h/bel_04.html
17 January 2004: Seminar: Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London (Monthly series of seminars)
23-24 January 2004: Conference: Images of the Sacred: myth, folklore and symbol New
Orleans
7 February 2004: Seminar: Early Modern
Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London
(Monthly series of seminars)
6-8 February 2004: Conference Faith, Theory and Identity-making Indiana, USA
14 February 2004: Conference: Midwestern Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory Champaign Illinois
19-21 February 2004: Conference: Superstition Miami
21-22 February 2004:
Literature of the Margins- Missouri-Columbia sam6wc@mizzou.edu
29 February 2004: Conference: Association of
Social Anthropologists Annual Meeting Durham
3-7 March 2004: Conference including sessions on: Imagining the Salem Witch Trials, Interpreting the myth in the contemporary British novel, William Blake studies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pittsburgh, USA
6 March 2004: Seminar: Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London (Monthly series of seminars)
11-13 March 2004: Conference: Milton in context Pittsburgh, USA
19-20 March 2004: "Traipsing Thin Lines: The Sacred and Profane in Literature, Rhetoric and Popular Culture" Ontario sageconference@rogers.com
19-21 March 2004: Branching Out: An Investigation of Diasporic Studies, Princeton, New Jersey UndergradConference2004@hotmail.com.
24-28 March 2004: Conference: Here be Dragons: the Global fantastic Florida, USA
24-28 March 2004: Conference: Print Culture and Religion (part of American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference) Boston, USA
26-30 March 2004: Chaosmagic.com world meating, Tokyo, http://chaosmagic.com/meating/schedule/schedule-for-the-chaosmag.html
27 March 2004: "The Natural and the Unnatural: On and Beyond Nature in the Middle Ages" Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~medconf
27-28 March 2004: Conference: Outsiders, Stirling, Scotland, http://www.outsiders.stir.ac.uk/call.html
29 March - 1 April 2004: Conference: A Sociology of Spirituality, Bristol, UK
1-3 April 2004: Conference: Exploring the
Renaissance Austin, Texas, USA
1-3 April 2004: The Inklings and Mere Christianity, Longview, Texas, HarveySolganick@letu.edu
1-4 April 2004: Conference: INCS, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Iowa, www.nd.edu/~incshp/
3 April 2004: Conference: Witchcraft and The Acts, 1604-1736, Durham, UK
3 April 2004: Seminar: Early Modern
Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London
(Monthly series of seminars)
7-10 April 2004: Conference, including session
on: Classical myths in Literature and Film,
Joseph Campbell and the power of Myth,
'Bad' Arthurian film Conspiracies
and claims for the paranormal , Myth and
Mysticism in young adult literature, Robert
Heinlein. San Antonio, USA San Antonio, TX
9-10 April 2004: Spirituality and Religion in US Ethnic
Literature, University of California, http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions
10 April 2004: Conference: Book of the Law Centenary, London, starfire.publishing@virgin.net
15-18 April 2004: Conference: Cultural Myth-Mis Translation Michigan, USA
16-18 April 2004: Conference: Victorian Studies: sacred and profane New York State, USA
22 April 2004: Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society Georgia
23-25 April 2004: Conference: Environment and the Humanities-Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference, Austin Texas jmichel@austincollege.edu,
29-30 April 2004: Conference: Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception, Venue: Warburg Institute, London peter.adamson@kcl.ac.uk
29 April – May 1: THE ROAD GOES EVER ON: TRAVELS IN TOLKIEN'S
MIDDLE-EARTH, University of Western Ontario,
travelconference@uwo.ca
1 May 2004: Folklore Event; Obby Oss day Padstow, Cornwall, UK.
5 May 2004: Society for Phenomenology and Media: Provo, Utah, United States, http://ce.byu.edu/cw/spm/
5-7 May 2004: Conference: Drifts and Deviances Reunion Islands, Indian Ocean
6-9 May 2004: Conference: Supernatural Shakespeare Illinois, USA
6-9 May 2004: Conference: The Pearl Poems Michigan, USA
7 May 2004: Seminar: Early Modern
Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London
(Monthly series of seminars)
10-12 May 2004: Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, Budapest, Hungary, http://www.wickedness.net/Monsters/M2/m04cfp.htm
14-16 May 2004: Film,
performance, live music festival; RE-TG Sussex, UK. One-off show by Throbbing
Gristle, also features Coil CANCELLED
15-16
May 2004: The
Mystical Journey - The Station of No Station 21st Symposium of the Ibn 'Arabi
Society in the United Kingdom,
Worcester College, Oxford http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/Events.html#Titles
21-23 May 2004: Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies www.asanas.org.uk, Wolverhampton, England
27-30 May 2004: Conference: Spiritual
Autobiography and Personal Scripture in American Literature San Francisco DLOTT@pilot.lsus.edu
28-30 May 2004: Conference: Slayage:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer in Academia Tennessee, USA
3-4 June 2004: Magical, Religious, Occult and Mystical
Discourse, Famagusta, Cyprus, http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html
3-6 June 2004: Conference: Western Esotericism, Michigan, USA
5 June 2004: Seminar: Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) London (Monthly series of seminars)
24-26 June 2004: Conference: Exploring Consciousness Bath, UK. Multidisciplinary event.
July 10-11 2004: Political Fictions and the Poetics of
Faith, University of Leeds, UK, politicalfictions@hotmail.com
17 July 2004: Tolkien: Influenced and influencing, Carlisle, UK membership@tolkiensociety.org
21-24 July: Conference: International Society of
Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR): Perspectives on contemporary legend.
Aberystwyth, Wales mik@aber.ac.uk
22-26 July 2004: Conference: TOURISM & LITERATURE: TRAVEL, IMAGINATION & MYTH, Harrogate, United Kingdom d.picard@shu.ac.uk
26-28 July 2004: Horoscopes and History, Amsterdam c.k.m.vonstuckrad@uva.nl
29 July – 1 August 2004: Conference: Religious Performance in Changing Contexts. Toronto
July 30-August 1 2004: International Harry Potter Convention, Ontario, convention_alley@yahoo.ca with "Ottawa 2004 Programming Submission" in subject line.
July 30 – August 1 2004: Conference: Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon XXXV), Michigan, http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon35.html
July 2004: date TBC 2004 TOLKIEN SOCIETY SEMINAR
"Tolkien: influenced and influencing", Carlisle, UK pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk
2-4 August 2004: Conference:: (Re)
Creating Arthur Winchester, UK
5 August
2004: Convention Parapsychological
Association Vienna Austria
20-22
August 2004, Weird Weekend, Centre for Fortean Zoology Conference, Exeter, UK ,
cfz@eclipse.co.uk
2-4 September 2004: British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) Annual Conference, Keele , UK d.amigoni@keele.ac.uk
4 September 2004: DruidCon, Glasgow Scotland, http://www.druidcon.vscotland.org.uk
4-5 September 2004: Tesseract, Lancaster, UK http://www.tesseract.org.uk/
9 September 2004: Reasons of the
Heart: Myth, Meaning and Education Edinburgh
10 September 2004: Religion and the Culture of Print: Authors, Publishers, Readers and more since 1876, Madison, United States, jpdanky@whs.wisc.edu
9-15
September 2004: Ars Memoria: Cesky Krumlov, Czechoslovakia, www.ckrumlov.cz
13
September 2004, British Library London, lecture by Dr Rupert Sheldrake:
“how far does your mind go?” no website link
15-20
September 2004: Mind States
Oaxaca, Mexico http://www.mindstates.org
18 September 2004: Spirit of Peace conference with an evening concert, Oxford, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spiritofpeace2k/
18 September 2004: Esoteric Conference, Ludlow, Shropshire, UK: verdeletclun@aol.com
18 September 2004: Victorian Faiths and Doubts, Birmingham, UK, www.studyday.net
30 September –October 2 2004: Literature and Religion, MLA Convention in Boulder, Colorado http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/).
Including session on Yeats
2-3 October 2004: THE IMAGINAL COSMOS, ASTROLOGY, DIVINATION AND THE SACRED, Canterbury, Kent, UK http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/divconference/
13-17 October 2004: American Folklore Society Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, http://afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm
14-16 October 2004. Technology and Religion, York College,
Pennsylvania, http://departments.ycp.edu/department/ehweb/HTA.htm