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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