RECENT AND UPCOMING CONGRESSES

Aries aspires to keep its readers informed about recent and upcoming congresses relevant to the study of western esotericism; but for this, the editors are
largely dependent on the information they receive. Readers are therefore invited to send Congress Programs as well as Calls for Papers and announcements 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, Universit 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 Association 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 protestant' ; Jean-Michel Rietsch, 'Lecture spirituelle de 1'Ecriture: Paracelse entre
Luth6ranisme et Spiritualisme?'; Yona Dureau, 'Esotrisme 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: Reprsentation neuer und alter Sichtweisen von 'Natur ' in
derftiihen Neuzeit (org. Barbara Bauer), Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel (Germany), 5-8.4.2000.
Included two panels devoted to Astrology and Alchemy.
Information: Philipps Universitat Marburg, Prof. Dr. B. Bauer, W. R6kessstral3e 6A, 35039-Marburg (Germany), tel. (+ 49) 6421 28 4660, fax: (+ 49)
6421 28 8973.
La "religion" des Maqons: de I 'sotrique 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 discipline r6cente, la Maonnologie'; J6r6me Rousse-Lacordaire (plenary address) ; 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-maons sp6culatifs'; Gino Sandri, 'Th6osophie et Franc-Maonnerie
en milieu protestant a Genve au XIXe siecle'; Pierre Mollier, 'Quel
christianisme pour les chevaliers Rose-Croix au Sic1e 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 Maonnerie 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, Praa 5 de Outuburo, 2750Cascais (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: Natural Law between Mediaevalie and Modernity'; Olle Hjern, 'Esoteric Christianity in Sweden: Emanuel Swedenborg, the Last Judgment and the New Age';
Jane Williams-Hogan, 'Emanuel Swedenborg and the Jewish Kabbalah: Organic 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 Development 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 Freemasonry ?' ; 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 Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel. (+ 31) 20 525 3571, fax. (+ 31) 20 525 3572, email : 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 Literature (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 GhoshSchellhom, '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,
Brhl 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 [Research Network on New Religions], Denmark; REMID [Religious Studies
Media and Information Service], Germany; FINYAR [Forskning och Information 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; religious pluralism and identity formation. Visits to new religious movements and
tours of "spiritual London" will be arranged before and after the main conference 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. 58.6.2001.
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.