Periodical Occulture and the Occult Public Sphere
9.30am - 4.00pm
Venue: Keynes Library, Birkbeck, University of London
Schedule:
| 09.30 - 9.45 |
Introduction and Welcome |
| 09.45 - 11.45 |
Panel I: Defining and Mapping the British Occult Press
Chair: Christine Ferguson
- A. Gilbert (Independent Scholar), 'Thinking Sideways: Pitfalls in the Periodical Labyrinth and How to Avoid Them'
- Michael Shaw (University of Glasgow), 'The Theosophical Press in Scotland'
- Egil Asprem (Stockholm University), 'Science in the Early Twentieth-Century Occult Public Sphere: The Case of H. Stanley Redgrove'
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| 11.45 - 12.45 |
Lunch Break |
| 12.45 - 14.15 |
Panel 2: Tabloid Sensation and Mail-Order Magic
Chair: Roger Luckhurst
- Nick Freeman (Loughbrough University), 'The Daily Beast: Black Magic and the Popular Press'
- Marc Demarest (IAPSOP), 'Latent Powers, Latent Demand: A Look at the Mail-Order Occult in Anglo-American Culture, 1895-1920'
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| 14.15 - 14.30 |
Coffee Break |
| 14.30 - 16.00 |
Panel 3: Public Privacies
Chair: Andrew Radford
- Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Negotiating the Public and Private in The Ghost Club'
- Catherine Anyango (Konstfack), 'Beyond the Border: Visualizing Ghosts from Spirit Photography to CCTV'
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