Speaker Lineup

Underground icon, independent scholar, author, award-winning journalist, sometimes podcaster, and popular speaker. (more…)

 Professor in English Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling. (more…)

Contemporary English magician, publisher and author on magic and philosophy, who publishes under many aliases, including, most famously, Ramsey Dukes.

Gillian McIver started her artistic journey by picking up a camera and shooting bands, and then progressed to underground cinema-making. After a spell at film school,

Tom Banger has lectured internationally and has been published in The Fenris Wolf, Rituals & Declarations, The Trapartisan Review and many other publications. He founded the Temple ov Psychick Youth North America in 1986. Over the

Following a 25-year career in business analysis and training consultancy, Deja Whitehouse returned to academia in 2016, completing her PhD at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Professor Ronald Hutton in January 2020. Her

Yoshe is a musician, dancer, and academic. She completed an MPhil in music at the University of Cambridge specialising in online subcultures, which has informed her ongoing research into cyberfeminist activism. Having performed from a young

Karin Valis is a Berlin-based writer, musician and machine learning engineer, with a deep passion for everything occult and weird. Her work focuses mainly on combining technology with the esoteric: projects such as ‘Tarot of the

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is an esoteric artist in many media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art. He is the writer-director of Australian-originating Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company who have presented many major original productions

Free Frame is a researcher of alchemy and magic in the Renaissance period in the former Kingdom of Bohemia. He co-founded the Bohemia Alchemy Institute and has created a library of alchemical and esoteric books in

Sara Hannant is an artist and photographer, my publications include Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids: A journey through the English Ritual Year (2011) and Of Shadows: One Hundred Objects from the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (2016).

John-David (JD) Kelley is a professional astrologer and enthusiastic astral magician with a background in anthropology and education. He is the chairperson of the Scottish Astrological Association, the president of the International Association of Astral Magicians,

Ben Jeans Houghton's multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, film, drawing, painting, writing & performance. Through these media he investigates magic; the art of transformation and its methodologies, technologies, agencies, and implications, through art-praxis, as-gnosis, informed by

Lara Luna Bartley is an artist and PHD candidate at the University of the West of England's Digital Culture Research Centre (DCRC), focused on engaging audiences in debate about the monetary, banking, and financial system through

Harper Feist is an esotericist, a scientist and a historian. She’s interested chiefly in magical innovations of late antiquity, and the use of these tools and methods today. She is involved in both the OTO (Ordo

Kirsty Wagstaffe is a fine art practice-based PhD student at De Montford University,

Heather D. Freeman is a Professor of Art - Digital Media in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She holds a BA in Fine Art and German

Dr Simon Magus BSc (Hons) MB BS MA PhD is a psychiatrist with a special interest in Early Intervention Psychosis. He studied medicine in London at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, now part

Having previously worked as an Immersive Event Producer and Audio-Visual artist, Adam Malone's interest in immersive storytelling was inspired by his academic study of the Tarot. His dissertation for the MA in Myth, Cosmology, and the

Aaron J. French is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt. I specialize in the history of science, modernity, Western esotericism, German Romanticism, and science and technology studies. My dissertation focused on “Disenchanting

Bernd-Christian Otto is a scholar of religion, currently situated at the university of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on the history of magic, where he combines different methodologies such as conceptual history, discourse analysis, social theory, and

Alexander Small's practice explores ideas of the Trickster as an archetype and how these are represented in visual culture. The trickster mythos includes characters such as Puck and Bugs Bunny with themes around these often including

Shannon Taggart is an artist and author based in St. Paul, MN. Her photographs have been exhibited and featured internationally, including within the publications TIME, New York Times Magazine, Discover, and Newsweek. Her work has been

a6rax1s (Peter Duchemin, PhD) This entity is describable as an eclectic scholar and artist who has explored issues related to magic, to the liminal threshold of practice and study (the emic/etic divide), and to how time

John Moletress is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator and Founding Director of force/collision, an interdisciplinary performance ensemble. Their work has been seen within the US at The John F. Kennedy Center, Abrons Art Center, Basilica Hudson,

Sonja Rendtorff is a Copenhagen-based artist and filmmaker. She graduated with an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. She has since been involved in filmmaking and has been an artist in residency

Dr. Kasper Opstrup is a Copenhagen-based writer and researcher. Currently, he is connected to the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid as a researcher while writing on a book about the 20th century’s myths of the future.

Judith Noble (attending in person) is Head of Academic Research and Associate Professor at Arts University Plymouth. Dominic Shepherd (attending in person) is a UK-based artist and associate professor of Fine Art at the Arts University Bournemouth. Evie

Libby Bove is a multidisciplinary artist based in North Somerset. An unconventional home-school upbringing and an early adult life submerged in D.I.Y. culture, have helped to shape her eclectic creative practice. Bove’s artist’s practice began to

Nikki Wyrd is a well-known figure in occulture, and has helped spread chaos magic techniques by crafting writings, publications, talks and workshops since 1990. She has attended and organized numerous rituals, residential meetings and public events,

Dr Michael N. Goddard, is Reader in Film and Screen Media at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published widely on international cinema and audiovisual culture as well as cultural and media theory. He is also

Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over three decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft. Growing up in the Britain

Daniella Valz Gen is a poet, artist, and card reader. Their work explores the interstices between languages, cultures, and value systems with an emphasis on embodiment and ritual, through the mediums of performance, installation, conversation, and

Cole J. Graham is a dog enthusiast, an autistic trans man, and a PhD student in History of Art at the Ohio State University. Previous study has taken him to Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and

Emma Watkinson is a Fantastic Realist contemporary fine art oil painter, originally from Dartmoor, now living in Sussex, U.K. Her inspiration comes from her explorations in consciousness and esoteric study.   She is

Dr Scott Jeffery is a lecturer, artist, and author of The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics (2016). His latest publication, Difference, Repetition, and the Superhero Comic appeared in the collection Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure

Ludomancer, Technomage, Occult Game Designer. Dr. Jeff Howard is Senior Lecturer in Games at Falmouth University in Cornwall, where he specializes in occult, metal, and Gothic themes and mechanics. His theory and practice converge in his

Levin Handschuh is a theatre director from Hamburg, Germany, and specializes in performance art and opera. His works have been shown at Theater Bremen, the Gelsenkirchen Opera, Theater Hof and the Bavarian State Opera, as well

Danny Nemu is interested in the regenerative powers of nature, both in terms of curing people and bringing degraded land back to life. After getting ill and getting better in the Amazon, he founded RAIN (Regenerative

Sarah Coflan is an independent scholar whose love and focus mostly lie in the way literature, film, and other art engage with the Underworld and shadow work. She earned her Masters of Arts degree at Goddard

Ferdinando Buscema is a Magic Experience Designer — a professional trickster and an international specialist who designs “magical experiences”. With a background in mechanical engineering, humanistic psychology and hermetic traditions, Ferdinando has been chosen as a

Melissa Artemis Shemanna is a visionary artist & art gallery curator, residing in an off-grid forest tree house studio in the Yarra Valley, Australia. Her paintings hold an evolutionary enquiry into deeper human and cosmological intelligence,

Stephen Godfrey has been a professional photographer since 1989 and a practicing photographic artist since 2000, he has developed a dedicated skill set through his extensive work at the University of Northampton, where he

Mogg Morgan is CEO of leading occultural publisher Mandrake and a respected literary catalyst. He is the holder of an advanced degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford where he benefited from a Wellcome