RECENT AND UPCOMING CONGRESSES

Aries aspires to keep its readers informed about recent and upcoming con-

gresses relevant to the study of western esotericism; but for this, the editors are

largely dependent on the information they receive. Readers are therefore in-

vited to send Congress Programs as well as Calls for Papers and announce-

ments of upcoming congresses to the editorial address, if possible in electronic

form. In doing so, please take into account that Aries is published in the

months of January and July, and that copy must have reached the editors four

months in advance (i.e., October I and April I resp.).

Recent Congresses

La Teosofia di Giordano Bruno (org.: Centro Internazionale Studi e Richerche

Theosofice "Adyar"), Cervignano del Friuli (Italy), 19-20.2.2000.

Papers: Adriana Volpato, 'Cenni sulla vita di Giordano Bruno'; Antonio

Girardi, 'Attualita della toleranza'; Silvano Demarchi, 'Giordano Bruno:

storia di un filosofo'; Teresa Farroni, 'La memoria nella psicologia: rapporto tra Giodano Bruno e cognitivismo'; Alberto Rampino, 'Clavis Magna'; Franco Di Lodovico, 'La filosofia della natura in Giordano Bruno'; Renato De

Gandis, 'Derivazioni temporali e aree esoteriche di Giordano Bruno'.

Information: "Adyar", Cervignano del Friuli, Via Gorizia n. 90, Udine, Italy, tel./fax: (+ 39) 43 13 46 16. www.teosofica.org

Un nuovo cielo e una nuova terra. Fine dei tempi e cicli cosmici nei mondi

religiosi, Università Milano (Department of Historical Science and Historical

Documentation), 1-3.3.2000.

Among the papers: Julien Ries, 'La Sconfitta delle Tenebre e il Trionfo della

Luce: Il Terzo Tempo secondo la gnosi di Mani'; Cecilia Gatto Trocchi, 'La

nuova era dell'esoterismo'. Information: Dipartimento di Scienze della Storia, Segreteria Arfotur-Onlus, Milano (Italy), tel: (+ 39) 2 58 31 26 96.

Esotirisme et Protestantisme (org.: Claude Postel, representing the Associa-

tion pour la Recherche et 1'Information sur I'tsotdrisme; sponsored by the

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Centre National de la Recherche

Scientifique), Sorbonne, Paris, 4-5.3.2000.

Papers: Antoine Faivre, 'Esot6risme et Protestantisme: aspects d'une

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problematique'; Jean-Marc Mandosio, 'Encyclop6die et mill6narisme protes- tant' ; Jean-Michel Rietsch, 'Lecture spirituelle de 1'Ecriture: Paracelse entre

Luth6ranisme et Spiritualisme?'; Yona Dureau, 'Esotérisme et Protestantisme

chez les 6crivains 6]isab6thains'; Jean-Pierre Brach, 'Protestantisme et

Kabbale chr6tienne'; Roland Edighoffer, 'Rose-Croix et Protestantisme';

Sylvain Matton, 'Alchimie et th6ologie protestante'; Didier Kahn, 'R6forme

calviniste et alchimie'.

Information: prof. R. Edighoffer, 23 Av. de Brettevile, F - 92200 Neuilly (France), tel: (+ 33) 1 47 22 75 64, e-mail: Roledig@free.fr

Artes et Scientiae: Repräsentation neuer und alter Sichtweisen von 'Natur ' in

derftiihen Neuzeit (org. Barbara Bauer), Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfen-

buttel (Germany), 5-8.4.2000.

Included two panels devoted to Astrology and Alchemy. Information: Philipps Universitat Marburg, Prof. Dr. B. Bauer, W. R6kess- stral3e 6A, 35039-Marburg (Germany), tel. (+ 49) 6421 28 4660, fax: (+ 49) 6421 28 8973.

La "religion" des Maqons: de I 'ésotérique au religieux (org.: Florence de

Lussy), Bibliotheque Nationale de France, conference 10.5.2000.

Papers: Florence de Lussy, 'Le fonds maconnique: aux sources d'une disci-

pline r6cente, la Maçonnologie'; J6r6me Rousse-Lacordaire (plenary ad-

dress) ; Antoine Faivre, 'Dans quels sens peut-on parler d'6sot6risme a propos de la Franc-Maconnerie?'; Francis Delon, 'Foi et doctrines chez les premiers francs-maçons sp6culatifs'; Gino Sandri, 'Th6osophie et Franc-Maçonnerie en milieu protestant a Genève au XIXe siecle'; Pierre Mollier, 'Quel christianisme pour les chevaliers Rose-Croix au Sièc1e des Lumieres?';

Thierry Zarcone, 'La reception de la franc-Maqonnerie chez les musulmans et

les soufis de 1'aire turco-iranienne'; Jean-Pierre Laurant & Jean-Pierre Brach, 'La Maçonnerie entre religion de substitution, esoterisme et s6cularisation'.

Information: Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Quai Franqois Mauriac, F -

75013 Paris, tel: (+ 33) 1 53 79 59 59.

Fernando Pessoa, o Esoterismo e Aleister Crowley (org. Jos6 Anes), Cascais

(Portugal), 3-4.6. 2000.

Papers by Jorge de Matos, Luisa Alves, Josd Anes, Helena Barbas, Andr6

Coyn6, Ana Maria Binet, Antoine Faivre, Marco Pasi, PierLuigi Zoccatelli, Massimo Introvigne, J. Gordon Melton.

Information: Camara Municipal de Cascais, Praça 5 de Outuburo, 2750-

Cascais (Portugal), tel: (+ 351) 21 482 53 30.

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Western Esotericism and Jewish Mysticism (org. Wouter J. Hanegraaff & Jan

A.M. Snoek), symposium in the context of the 18th quinquennial congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Durban

(South Africa), 5-12.8.2000.

Papers: Kocku von Stuckrad, 'The Beginning of a Mutual Enrichment: Jewish

Mystical Discourse and Hermetic Esotericism in Late Antiquity'; Annine van

der Meer, 'The Harran of the Sabians in the First Millennium A.D.: Cradle of

a Hermetic Tradition?'; Wouter J. Hanegraaff, 'Lodovico Lazzarelli's Use of Jewish Mystical Sources'; Jean-Pierre Brach, 'Christian Kabbalah'; Susanna

Akerman, 'Der L6we aus der Mitternacht and Johannes Bureus' Rosicrucian

Papers'; Arthur Versluis, 'Jacob Bohme and Kabbalah'; Albert Roodnat, 'J.B. van Helmont's Concept of Butler's Stone and Middle-Life'; Allison Coudert,

'Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy and Esotericism at the Court of

Sulzbach'; Garry Trompf, 'Esoteric Newton and the Kabbalists' Noah: Natu- ral Law between Mediaevalie and Modernity'; Olle Hjern, 'Esoteric Christi-

anity in Sweden: Emanuel Swedenborg, the Last Judgment and the New Age'; Jane Williams-Hogan, 'Emanuel Swedenborg and the Jewish Kabbalah: Or-

ganic or Syncretic Relationship?'; Tomas Mansikka & Nils Holm, 'Philalethes

and Swedenborg: August Nordenskjbld and the Revival of Utopian Alchemy' ; Marsha Keith Schuchard, 'Judaized Scots, Jacobite Jews, and the Develop- ment of Kabbalistic Freemasonry'; John Collett, 'The Integration of Kabbalah with Other Religious Ideas in Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma, 1871'; Henrik

Bogdan, 'Kabbalah and Western Esoteric Rituals of Initiation'; Marco Pasi, 'British Occultism and Kabbalah: From the Golden Dawn to Israel Regardie'; Yuri Stoyanov, 'Enochic Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Some Currents of Modern Western Esotericism'; Jan Snoek, 'Influence of Kabbalism on Free-

masonry ?' ; Jean-Pierre Laurant, 'The Nineteenth Century reads Kabbalah'; Ana Maria Binet, 'Jewish Mysticism and Western Esotericism in the Works of a Portuguese Poet, Fernando Pessoa'; Colette Rayment, 'Hiroshima and the Emanations of Glory'; Antoine Faivre, 'Concluding Address'. Information: Mrs. A. Kroon, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities,

Dept. Theology & Religious Studies, Oude Turfmarkt 147, NL-1012 GC Am-

sterdam, The Netherlands. Tel. (+ 31) 20 525 3571, fax. (+ 31) 20 525 3572, e- mail : hermetica@hum.uva.nl

The Italian Renaissance and the Esoteric Traditions (Hermetic, Cabalistic and Neo-Platonic Philosophers and their Influence today (org.: The New

York Open Center/Lapis Magazine; co-sponsored by the Comune di Firenze), Florence, 8-13.9.2000.

Papers: Joscelyn Godwin, 'The Mysteries of Florence: Alchemy and

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Hermeticism under the Grand Dukes'; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 'Cornelius

Agrippa in Renaissance Italy'; Angela Voss, 'Invoking the Gods: Marsilio

Ficino's Orphic Magic'; Anthony Rooley, 'Orpheus Revived: The Re-Making of Mythology in the 16th Century'; Christopher Bamford, 'The Love That

Moves the Stars: A Search for What Connects Dante's Florence with Ficino's';

Christopher McIntosh, 'Sacred and Symbolic Gardens of the Renaissance'.

Information: The Nex York Open Center, 83 Spring NY, NY- 1 00 1 2 (USA), tel: (+1) 212 219 2527 (ext. 135), fax: (+1) 212 226 4056, e-mail:

nyocreg@aol.com

The Golden Egg: International Conference on Alchemy in Culture and Litera-

ture (org.: Prof. Dr. E. Schenkel), University of Leipzig, Villa Tillmanns,

Wachterstral3e, 2-4.11.2000.

Papers: Helmut Gebelein, 'Alchemy and Chemistry in Goethe'; M.E. Warlick, 'Women and Alchemy'; Anne Hegerfeld & Dirk Vanderbeke, 'Milton, Joyce and Alchemy'; Elmar Schenkel, 'Alchemy as Information: H.G. Wells'; Robert

Stockhammer, 'Radioactivity and Rosicrucianism'; Jodey Castricano, 'Jung, Alchemy and Poststructuralism'; Betsy van Schlun, 'William Godwin's St.

Leon'; Alexandra Lembert, 'Alchemy in Contemporary British Literature'; Norbert Schaffeld, 'Alchemy in Postcolonial Literature'; Martina Ghosh-

Schellhom, 'El Dorado'; Finn Riedel, 'Chinese Alchemy'; Alicja Pisarska,

'Alchemy and Translation'; M.E. Warlick, 'Alchemy and Surrealism'.

Information: Prof.Dr. E. Schenkel, Universitat Leipzig, Institut fur Anglistik, Brühl 34-50, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany.

Upcoming Congresses

The Spiritual Supermarket: Religious Pluralism in the 2]st Century (org.: INFORM [Information Network Focus on Religious Movements] and

CESNUR [Center for Studies on New Religions], Italy in co-operation with

ISAR [Institute for the Study of American Religion], USA; RENNER [Re- search Network on New Religions], Denmark; REMID [Religious Studies

Media and Information Service], Germany; FINYAR [Forskning och Informa-

tion om NYA Religi6sa r6relser], Sweden; MMMMM [Myth, Magic and

Miracle Meet Modernity], Norway; ISORECEA [International Association

for the Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe]), London School of

Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, U.K., 19-22.4.2001.

It is hoped that speakers will come from a broad range of disciplines, including

sociology, anthropology, social psychology, history of religion, law, religious studies and theology. Themes may include: the emergence of and changes in

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new religions and new ways of "doing" religion; the relationship between new

and old religions; societal responses to religious diversity and pluralism; reli-

gious pluralism and identity formation. Visits to new religious movements and

tours of "spiritual London" will be arranged before and after the main confer-

ence sessions.

Information: CESNUR, Via Juvarra 20, 10122 Torino, Italy, e-mail:

cesnurto@tin.it. www.cesnur.org/conferenze.htm

Seminar on Giordano Bruno (org.: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici &

Centro Intemazionale di Studi Bruniani, Naples), University of London, The

Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WCIH OAB, England. 5-

8.6.2001.

Speakers: Alfonso Ingegno (Universita degli Studi di Firenze), Dilwyn Knox

(University College London). Information: Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani, tel. 00 39 081 245 2183; fax 00 39 081 245 1374.