Speaker Lineup
Keynote Speakers
Wouter Hanegraaff, PhD
Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy
Hanegraaff is Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jeffrey Kripal, PhD
Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought
Professor Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Daisy Campbell
Writer, actor and director
Campbell recently adapted Robert Anton Wilson’s cult autobiographical book Cosmic Trigger for the stage.
Speakers, Practitioners, Performers and Contributors
DEJA WHITEHOUSE
PhD Candidate, University of Bristol
Frieda Harris and the Divine Giraffe: Frieda Harris’s Esoteric Journey and its Influence on Her Artwork (more…)
ALKISTIS DIMECH
Dancer / Choreographer / Publisher
Mantic Visions and the Subtle Eye of Matter (Presentation) & Visitation (Performance) (more…)
PER FAXNELD, PhD
Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
Leonardo the Magus, Mona Lisa’s Mysterious Smile, and the Artist Initiate (more…)
LUCY A. SAMES
PhD Candidate / Associate Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
Wet Rest: Speculative Ontologies of Floatation (more…)
KASPER OPSTRUP, PhD
Writer / Researcher
News from the Sun: On the Search for a Politics of Revelation (more…)
ANNE O. PARKER-PERKOLA
PhD Candidate, Rice University
Reading the Akashic Records, Intermodal Exchange, and Practices of Energetic and Emotional Transformation (more…)
SIMON MAGUS, PhD
Psychiatrist / University of Exeter
The Eye of the Heart: Mysticism, Sacred and Profane, in Literary and Clinical Intersections (more…)
JOHN CONSTABLE (aka JOHN CROW)
Writer / Performer / 'Shaman of Crossbones Graveyard'
Acid Mediumship: Goose and Crow (more…)
Cavan McLaughlin
Senior Lecturer, University of Northampton | Artist
Re-visionary Mythmaking: The antidote to codified structural oppression (more…)
ANNA WALKER, PhD
Artist / Writer / Researcher, Plymouth University
When Things Fall Apart and the Centre Cannot Hold (Presentation & Exhibiting) (more…)
SASHA CHAITOW, PhD
Cultural historian / Artist / Author / PhD, University of Essex
Image and Logos: Symbolic Vocabularies and Inspired Revelations Through the Eyes of Joséphin Péladan (more…)
JADRANKA RYLE
PhD candidate, University of Manchester
Automatic Drawing and Transgendered Abstraction (more…)
GERALDINE HUDSON
Artist / Curator / Experiential Researcher
Ritual as Resistance: On the Performative Hierophanies of Revelation
ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE-BASCULE
Artist / Occultist
The Tower Crashes: Esezuzus (performative presentation) (more…)
Jenny Butler, PhD
Study of Religions Department, University College Cork
Extra-terrestrials, Revelation and Planetary Consciousness: From Zecharia Sitchin to Raëlism (more…)
ANNE CROSSEY
Artist / Independent Scholar
From Tragic to Magic: Trauma as an Encounter With the Real (more…)
CHRISTIAN GIUDICE, PhD
Researcher, University of Gothenburg
Dreaming of a White America: Atomwaffen Division, Satanism and the Alt Right (more…)
TIMOTHY GRIEVE-CARLSON
PhD Student, Rice University
The Great in the Small: Comparative Ecologies of Revelation (more…)
JASMINE SHADRACK, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, University of Northampton
The Howl of the Wolf Tone: Void Harmonics and Occultizing Entropy (more…)
a6rax1s (PETER DUCHEMIN, PHD)
Artist / Philosopher / Performer
The Castle of Birds (performative presentation/storytelling/poetry) (more…)
JULIAN VAYNE
Independent Researcher / Occultist / Author
Manifesting Metaphorical Minds: Towards a Psychological Theory of Psychedelic Therapy (more…)
GEMMA RABIONET BOADELLA
Artist / Speaker / Teacher / Author / Astrology Consultant
Finding Rebis: Using Collaborative Practice to Gestate a 'Third Mind' (more…)
REVEREND DANNY NEMU
Writer / Researcher / Activist
Kata-chaos, Aya-Animism and Straight Up, Straight Edge Demonology (more…)
RANDALL HALL, PhD
Musician / Professor of Music, Augustana College
Contemporary Theurgic Music: Possibilities and Practices (presentation) & Contemporary Theurgic Music (performance) (more…)
CARLOS RUIZ BRUSSAIN, PhD
Artist / Lecturer
Embracing the Dark Twin: Using Shadow-Work in Self-Transformative Creative Practice (more…)
SCOTT JEFFERY, PhD
Lecturer in Sociology, University of Highlands & Islands
A “Memeplex” or “Just an Inch”?: Competing Visions of Anarchism, Magick and the Self in the Comics of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison (more…)
HEDVIG MARTIN
Researcher, Södertörn University
Hilma af Klint and the 4th Dimension/Astral Plane (more…)
NIKKI WYRD
Independent Researcher
Hearing the Voices of God: The Importance of Mystical Experience in Personal Transformation (more…)
Please note: This is not a finalised line up, further minor changes to the programme are likely over the coming months and we reserve the right to make said changes without prior notification.