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2nd
to be held on
Saturday 11th October 2008
in the
WESTERN ESOTERICISM
& THE ARTS
Artists
in the literary, musical and visual fields have long been influenced by and
involved with esoteric teachings and practices, some of these connections are
well known, Botticelli and astrology, Mozart and Freemasonry, Yeats and the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but many remain less known or hidden, so that
the extent and importance of these influences tends to have been underestimated
or unrecognised.
Papers
are invited which look at Western Esotericism and the Arts, from a variety of
academic and practitioner disciplines. Please send an email of your abstract in
a hundred words to Dr Sophia Wellbeloved [log in to unmask]
See
further details at www.ccwe.wordpress.com
Deadline for papers 31st JULY
2008.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Reverend Dr Malcolm
Guite
Chaplain of Girton College Cambridge is both poet and
priest.
His paper will trace the hidden
course and some of the sources of the stream of “esoteric” thought and imagery
which flows, so often unnoticed through western arts, and in particular will
look at literature.
The Cambridge Centre for the study of
Western Esotericism is independent of any
academic or esoteric communities, the co-ordinators share an interest in the
need for a wider dialogue between scholars and practitioners in the field of
Western Esotericism and in the establishment of a secular space in which an
interdisciplinary network can thrive.