{"id":1229,"date":"2024-09-24T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/magic\/?page_id=1229"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:56:05","slug":"previous-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/magic\/meetings\/previous-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Some of the past events hosted by the Centre for Magic and Esotericism and its members<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd November 2024<\/strong>, Warburg Institute Symposium: That Enigmatic Aspect: Magic Art, then and now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>In collaboration with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fulgur.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FULGUR PRESS(Opens in new window)<\/a>, the Warburg Institute hosted a one-day symposium to celebrate the first English publication of Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s\u00a0L\u2019Art magique.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1st November 2024<\/strong>, online seminar with Dr Dorka Tam\u00e1s: Burning witches and exorcism: Witchcraft Imagery in Taylor Swift\u2019s Music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Dorka Tam\u00e1s held a fascinating online seminar in a celebration of Halloween and witches in the music of Taylor Swift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7th October 2024<\/strong>, Monday Majilis: On Animals, Stones, and Alphabets: The 14th-Century Egyptian Alchemist Aydamir al-Jildak\u012b and His Natural Encyclopaedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2-3 July 2024,<\/strong> ENSIE 2024 Conference: Dreams and Visions in Islam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Meeting of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can read about the conference&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/magic\/2024\/07\/12\/dreams-and-visions-in-islam-ensie-2024\/\">here<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9th March 2024<\/strong>, Therapeutic Landscapes: ritual, folklore and wellbeing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drama PGR, Sarah Scaife, presented on her current&nbsp;practice-based research project at:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/therapeuticlandscapes.wordpress.com\/\">Therapeutic Landscapes: ritual, folklore and wellbeing<\/a><\/em> at the University of Worcester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah\u2019s paper,&nbsp;<em>Walking within and beyond spells of illness,&nbsp;<\/em>reflects on her current practice-based research project which takes place in South Devon from deep winter to late spring, 2024. It takes the form of a series of six gentle, walking-based enquiries with people who have lived experience of breast cancer treatment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This phase of her PhD research, supervised by Dr Bryan Brown, is an artistic- rather than clinical- trial to investigate the efficacy of a walking medicine in community. The series will include gentle but provocative prompts to create conversation and live experience which fertilises radical re-imaginings of our future selves. The enquiry with participants will range from \u2018What brought you here?\u2019 to \u2018How might ritual space hold rich and honest dialogue about tender matters?\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more info here:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcargocollective.com%2Fragged-robin%2FGentle-walking-enquiries-with-Sarah-Em&amp;data=05%7C02%7CT.H.J.Stanmore%40exeter.ac.uk%7Ce9a9896c930848bf086408dbffe17dee%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638385116155951244%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=azUKySMI%2BhcSwogsBLX0v280hUDuT6aICxf3yLxO9Z4%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/cargocollective.com\/ragged-robin\/Gentle-walking-enquiries-with-Sarah-Em<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 21, 2023<\/strong>&nbsp;Visiting Speaker Professor Noah Gardiner, University of South Carolina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>New Research on A\u1e25mad al-B\u016bn\u012b and the Rise of Sufi Lettrism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 24, 2023&nbsp;<\/strong>Magic and Psychedelics part 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>A roundtable event with the University of Exeter\u2019s transdisciplinary Psychedelic Colloquium. On the theme of&nbsp;<strong>Magic Medicine<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 23, 2023&nbsp;<\/strong>Roundtable discussion: \u2018Magic, Esotericism, and the Psychedelic\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Studies of significant overlaps or shared territories between the fields of study of magic, esotericism, and psychedelics,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>theoretical reflections on avenues of exchange across these academic fields&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aspects of magic and\/or esotericism viewed from consciousness-studies or psychedelic perspectives&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assessment of historical or contemporary uses of psychedelics or psychotropic substances in magical and\/or esoteric religious contexts&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comparisons of and reflections on psychedelic and ritual magical means by which to form relationships with non-human communities or to access alternative realities&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explorations of alternative epistemologies and creative approaches to pedagogy arising from a psychedelic and\/or magical worldviews<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Opportunities to engage in radical ecological reimaginings offered by the joint study of magical and psychedelic experiences&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explorations of panpsychism as a philosophical theory through which to approach the shared study of psychedelics and magic&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 8th, 2023<\/strong>&nbsp;Michael Noble: Reflections on research on the Islamic occult as a window into cosmology and the hard problem of consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 19, 2022<\/strong>&nbsp;co-hosted with the University of Exeter\u2019s Center for Early Modern Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank Klaassen&nbsp;(University of Saskatchewan), \u2018Encomium nigromantici: A Reconsideration of Conventional Histories of Western Magic\u2019.&nbsp;Frank is a specialist in this history of medieval and early modern magical texts and will be talking about how they fit into wider histories of western magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>September 28, 2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Professor Tim Insoll: The \u2018Magical\u2019 Properties of Shrines and Figurines in Northern Ghana&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The application of the term \u2018magic\u2019 to the study of West African archaeological and ethnographic material can be problematic in evoking grand evolutionary narratives, within which these materials were often categorized at the bottom of such schema, and essentialized as the \u2018primitive other\u2019. Yet, has the interpretive and descriptive potential of \u2018magic\u2019 altered and, like the use of \u2018magical\u2019 in African contexts now become more acceptable. This will be explored in relation to archaeological and ethnographic research completed on Tallensi shrines, substances, and medicine in the Tong Hills, and on archaeological figurines from Komaland, both in northern Ghana. It will be argued that \u2018magic\u2019 may have value if considered as part of a \u2018bundle\u2019 of phenomena rather than a unique descriptor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 27, 2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Sarah Scaife, Show not tell: \u2018<em>La Medicina Incerta<\/em><strong>\u2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 24th, 2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Samuel Gillis Hogan: \u201cFairies in Summoning Spells and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700: The Articulation of a Learned Christian Animism at the Cusp of Modernity\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 23, 2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Professors Catherine Rider and Dionisius Agius: &nbsp;\u2018Popular Healing: Christian and Islamic Medical Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Malta\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 2nd, 2022<\/strong>&nbsp;Howard Gayton, \u201cListening to the Land: Pilgrimage to COP26.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 29th-30th, 2021<\/strong>&nbsp;Medicine, Magic and Healing: a workshop organised by Professor Nahyan Fancy:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/news\/events\/details\/index.php?event=11747\">https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/news\/events\/details\/index.php?event=11747<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 27th, 2021<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr. Kara Reilly: A Medium to History: The Lyric Theatre as a Hauntological Site<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 3, 3021<\/strong>&nbsp;Terri Windling: \u201cThe Modern Fairies Project\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 3, 2021<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr. Luca Patrizi, \u201cHydromancy in the Ancient, Late Antique, and Medieval Islamic world\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 18, 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;Michelle Szydlowski leads a conversation about the use and symbolic significance of animals in magic and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 17th, 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;Anna Milon and Crystal Hollis, \u201cPopular Magic: Then and Now\u201d : register here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/popular-magic-then-and-now-tickets-122826516417\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/popular-magic-then-and-now-tickets-122826516417<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 14, 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;Professor Brian Rappert,&nbsp;\u201c(In)Authentic Selves: How Magicians Craft Truth and Deception in Autobiographies\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 27th, 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;Sarah Scaife, \u201cVisions as practise in practice-based research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 3rd, 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr. Emily Selove, \u201cSiraj al-Din al-Sakkaki\u2019s Dangerous Books\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 18, 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;Anna Milon,&nbsp;\u201cThe Wildest God: Margaret Murray\u2019s influence on interpretations of the \u2018Sorcerer\u2019 cave image.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>January 22, 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;Samuel Gillis Hogan, \u201cStars in the Hand: British Latin Medieval Chiromancy and its Scholastic and Astrological Influences\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 5th, 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;Professor Brian Rappert, \u201cA Performance of Dissimulation: The Magic of Deception in Social and Political Life\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 7th, 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;Dorka Tam\u00e1s, \u2018Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural: Witches and Magic in Plath\u2019s Poetry and Fiction\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 10, 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr. Earl Fontainelle,&nbsp;\u2018Latin as Diabolical Vox Magica in Horror Cinema\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 6, 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr. Bryan Brown and&nbsp;Olya&nbsp;Petrakova-Brown: MakeTank and methodologies of the drama department applied to the study of magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 15, 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;Howard Gayton:&nbsp;How does one place personal experience and epistemologies within the academic&nbsp;study of magic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>January 16, 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;Anna Milon: \u201cThe Temptation of Margaret Murray\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 14, 2018<\/strong>&nbsp;Professor Nick Groom: \u201cThe Vampire: A New History\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 10, 2018<\/strong>&nbsp;Barbara Dunn: \u201cThe Astrologer and the Physician\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 30, 2018<\/strong>&nbsp;Professor Marion Gibson: \u201cRediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 28, 2018<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr. Emily Selove, \u201cA Medieval Arabic Handbook of Magic\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 21, 2018<\/strong>&nbsp;Inaugural Meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the past events hosted by the Centre for Magic and Esotericism and its members 2nd November 2024, Warburg Institute Symposium: That Enigmatic Aspect: Magic Art, then and now 1st November 2024, online seminar with Dr Dorka Tam\u00e1s: Burning witches and exorcism: Witchcraft Imagery in Taylor Swift\u2019s Music 7th October 2024, Monday Majilis: On 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