2024 Program
The conference program will be published after August 11, once the conference presentations have been selected from the proposals.
2023 Program
OFFICIAL
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
18:00
-
Welcoming
& Introduction of Organizers
(in Czech and in English)
18:30 - Opening Words:
Ing. Libuše Nivnická, prof. Jiří Hanuš, prof. György E. Szönyi, Mgr. Dell Rose, Mgr. Jiří Varaďa etc.
(in
Czech and in English)
19:30
-
Petr
Kohout Lasenic - a Brno Countryman. New Information and Discoveries
by the Documentation Centre for Czech Hermetism
(in
Czech)
20:30
-
Display of the accompanying exhibition „Contemporary Czech
Hermetism in Photography and Artifacts“
(in
Czech and in English)
21:00
-
Welcome
Party at the Jiří Mahen Memorial with Refreshments and Music
Saturday,
October 28th
MORNING
PROGRAM BLOCK
(in Czech)
8:00 -
Chinese
tea ceremony
8:30
- Mgr. Ivo Chmelař, Ph.D.: The Great Mark - Magical Operations,
Gruppo di Ur and Implications of Italian Esotericism.
9:10
-
Petr
Tomek: Libertines Against Delusion: A Critique of Superstition and
Religion in a Historical Perspective Since Austria-Hungary Up To
Today
9:50
- Mgr. Lenka Příplatová, Ph.D.: Experimental Research of Religion
and Ateism in a Secularizing Society
10:30
-
Mgr.
Veronika Šulcová: Business and Folk Magic in the USA
11:10
- Mgr. Matouš Mokrý: "They Clad Themselves in Poisoned Robes
of the Form" - Development of the 'Left-Hand Path' as a Negative
Esoteric Category in Anglophone Culture 1875 - 1972
11:50 -
Communal
lunch
INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAM BLOCK
(in English)
14:00 -
Friday
Dancers: Weavers of the Flow (dance performance)
14:15 - Prof. emer. György E. Szönyi: The Esoteric Concept of
Exaltatio
15:15 - Bc. et Mgr. Dell Rose: An Eruption of Myth - D’Annunzio’s
Fiume, Martinism, and the Politics of Esoteric Vision
15:55
- Mgr. Marion Vrbicky, Ph.D.: Hecate
16:35 - Mgr. et Mgr. Miroslav Vrzal, Ph.D: Czech Satanism - history,
directions, trends
17:15 -
Refreshment
break & book bazaar
EVENING
PROGRAM BLOCK
(in Czech)
18:00
-
Friday Dancers: Eclipse of the Triple Goddess
(dance
performance)
&
Reading from Mefistofeles – a drama by Jiří Mahen
18:15
- Mgr. Jan Ševčík: Occultism and Politics
19:15
-
Mgr.
Olga Čejková: Hunting Magic in Modern Huntsman Culture
19:55
- Leoš Kyša (alias František Kotleta): Conspiracy Theories Before
Their Time: Memories of an Old Sceptic
20:35 -
Readings
from the books of František Kotleta and discussion with the author
21:15 -
Jiří
Mahen Memorial closes
21:30 -
Communal
dinner and pub crawl
Sunday,
October 29th
MORNING
PROGRAM BLOCK
(in Czech)
8:00 -
Contemporary
Czech tea ceremony
9:00
- Róbert Adamec: A Man With a Secret - Life and Influence of
Professor Ján Okruhlica, a Slovak Hermeticists From Plavecké
Podhradie
9:40
- JUDr. Olga Rosenkranzová, Ph.D.: Dignity of Man According to
Giovanni Pica della Mirandola
10:40
- Honza Krása: Alchemy Before Alchemy: The Development of
Technologies Leading to First Alchemic Texts at The End of The Last
Era
11:20
- Jakub Staněk: Contemporary Slavic Natural Faith in Czech Republic
and Other Slavic Countries
12:00 -
Communal
lunch
THEMATIC
CITY TOUR
(in Czech and in English)
13:30 Visit to St. James's Church and its surroundings
14:00 Tour of the Ossuary at St. James's (with a guide)
14:30 Stroll through the city and St. Peter and Paul Cathedral
16:00 Exploration of the mummies in the Brno Capuchin Crypt (with a guide)
17:00 Tour of the underground labyrinth beneath Zelný Market (with a guide)
18:00 Visit to Špilberk Castle walls