The Warburg Institute and The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) have organised a free Workshop for MA and PhD students on Medieval Magic. The workshop will take place on July 7 at the Warburg Institute in London, and will focus on the topic of “Magical Traditions and Medieval Religions of the Book”. Please see the programme below for details.
The keynote paper will be given by Prof. Jean-Patrice Boudet (Orléans) and the workshop will include sessions on PhD and Early Career Advice and a Laboratory with period and regional focus groups led by speakers, chairs and ESSWE board members.
Please note that this is a free event with a limited number of places. To book a place, please contact the organizer, Dr. Sophie Page: sophie.page@ucl.ac.uk
10:00-10:30 Workshop registration and coffee
10:30-10:40 Welcome by ESSWE president Andreas Kilcher
1) Oratory: Presentations by guest speakers (10:40—14.40) Chair: Yuri Stoyanov (SOAS)
10:40-11:20 Siam Bhayro (Exeter): ‘Jewish Aramaic magic bowls from late antique Mesopotamia: No longer on the margins’
11:20-12.00 Liana Saif (Oxford): ‘At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Magic in Medieval Islam’
12.00-12:40 Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov (Manchester) ‘Slavic amulet books and Greek Orthodoxy’ with a response from Will Ryan (retired professor of Russian magic, Warburg Institute).
12:40-13:40 Lunch Break (as this is a free event, lunch is not provided)
13:40-14:40 Jean-Patrice Boudet (Orléans), ‘Magical Traditions and Medieval Religions of the Book:
Common Topics and Mutual Influences’. Chair: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
2) Round table discussion (14:40-15:30) Chair: Sophie Page (UCL)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
3) PhD and Early Career Advice (16:00-16.30)
Two simultaneous sessions:
1. Early Career Advice for PhD students. Led by Egil Asprem (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Liana Saif (Oxford)
2. PhD advice for MA students (ESSWE board members and guest speakers)
4) Laboratory: Discussion in period and regional focus groups (16:30-17:30)
With the following scholars, in addition to the speakers and chairs: Andreas Kilcher, Mark Sedgwick,
Peter J. Forshaw, Jean-Pierre Brach, Birgit Menzel, Bernd-Christian Otto and Gyorgy E. Szonyi.
17:30 Wine reception
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