Popular Occulture in Britain 1875-1947

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The Occult in Popular Fiction and Entertainments

 2016

9.00am - 5.00pm

Venue: University College Dublin

Programme

Programme details
Column one lists times, column two lists details.
TimeDetails
9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.15–10.30

Spirits of the Air

‘Elementals, Dr Watson! From Gabalis to Zanoni and Ghost Land’
Professor Wouter Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam)

‘Occult Radio: The Uncanny on the Air’
Professor Richard Hand (University of East Anglia)
10.30–11.00 Coffee Break
11.00–12.30

Popular Occulture in Ireland

‘Utopian Occultism in Fin de Siècle Dublin’
Pádraic E. Moore (Independent Curator, Art Historian, and Writer, Netherlands)

‘The Everyday Occult on Stage: The Plays of Lord Dunsany’
Professor Nicholas Daly (University College Dublin)
12.30–1.30 Lunch
1.30–3.30

Demons, Witches, and Satanists in British Popular Fiction

‘Class, Degeneracy and the Occult in Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon’
Dr Patricia Pulham (University of Portsmouth)

‘Dreams, Spirits and Witches in the Strange Interwar Fiction of David Lindsay’
Dr Steven Sutcliffe (University of Edinburgh)

‘Dennis Wheatley, Pulp Satanist’
Professor Darryl Jones (Trinity College Dublin)
3.30–4.00 Coffee Break
4.00–5.00 Roundtable
5.30–7.00 Reception at the Freemason’s Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin

Space is limited and advance registration is required for all events.