Program 2025
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Side program
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Special program
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Blocks and languages
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- Friday 24.10. -
12:00 - City tour for those interested (registration via email)
16:30 - Book signing by attending authors
17:00 - The Occult Book in the 21st Century – panel discussion with authors and publishers
Guests: Ivan Šebesta, Josef Szymeczek, Róbert Adamec, Veronika Šulcová, and Jiří Schwarz
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OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
18:00 - Official Opening & Introduction of Conference Team
(in Czech, Slovak, and English)
Greetings: Dean of the Faculty of Arts, MUNI, doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D., and others...
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19:00 - Mgr. Jan Ševčík: News From The Research of History of Czechoslovak Occultism (in Czech)
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20:00 - Opening of the exhibitions - Pavel Langer and the Lesser-Known Tarots
(in Czech)
Exhibitions:
- Practical: Contemporary Practical Alchemy and the Alchemical Tarot
- Artistic: Drapa by Veronika Šulcová and artworks by Lenka J. Táborská and Ksenia Alexeeva
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20:30 - Social gathering with buffet and “guitar night”
- Saturday 25.10. -
MORNING BLOCK (in Czech/Slovak)
8:30 - Tea ceremony
9:00 - Jan Krása, Ph.D.: The History of the Spark
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9:45 - Lukáš Karas: Guides in Dreams
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10:30 - Mgr. Veronika Šulcová: The Language of Sacred Symbols – Vévé
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11:15 - Dr. Ivo Chmelař: The Occult Empire – Arturo Reghini and Roman Traditionalism
Ivo Chmelař – practical demonstration
12:00 - Lunch
AFTERNOON INTERNATIONAL BLOCK (in English)
13:45 - Friday Dancers: Mystical dances
14:00 - B.A. John Meek: The Construction, Maintenance and Projection of Sacred Space
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14:45 - Mgr. Marion Vrbicky, Ph.D.: The Mystery of the Labyrinth
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15:30 - David Sater: The Alembic of the Living Book
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16:15 - Dr. Vanessa A. Portugal: The Universe at Hand – The Uses of the Hand as an Astrological Device in 18th-Century New Spain
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17:00 - Mgr. Zuzana Hrášková: Magic, Ritual and Symbol from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
17:45 - Break, book fair and special program
Jakub Kroulík: Special performance inspired by Erik J. Hanussen and Wolf Messing.
Hypnotist Kroulík will move among the participants during the evening, performing demonstrations of hypnosis, suggestion, and mental experiments.
EVENING BLOCK (in Czech/Slovak)
18:40 - Performance by Lenka J. Táborská: “Svlečka”
19:00 - Mgr. Jelena Lenka Příplatová, Ph.D.: The Magic of the Modern Materialist – Cognitive Science and Magical Thinking
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19:45 - Martin Sarkyr Král: Supernatural Horror in Literature
20:30 - Dinner and informal gathering
- Sunday 26.10. -
MORNING BLOCK (in Czech/Slovak)
8:30 - Tea ceremony
9:00 - M. Putnik: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in Modern History – What Happened After 1930
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9:45 - Ivan Šebesta: The New Aeon in Thelemic Teachings
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10:30 - Igor Kňazovický: Freemasons and the Slovak State
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11:15 - PhDr. Tomáš Kubisa, Ph.D.: Mysticism and Magic During the Slovak State (1939–1945) and in the 1950s
12:00 - Lunch and Occult Swap
AFTERNOON BLOCK (in Czech/Slovak)
14:15 - Fan Dance by Jitka Senčuch
14:30 - Martin Jiroušek: Occult Aspects in Cinema
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15:15 - Mgr. Martin Kováč: Magical and Alchemical Interpretations of the Greek Pantheon in the Works of Jevgenij Golovin and His Sources of Inspiration
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16:00 - Zuzana Antares: Introduction to the Sefirotic Kabbalah
16:30 - Closing Ceremony of the Conference
with songs by Kristýna Pernicová
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