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2nd Cambridge Centre for the study of Western Esotericism Conference to be held on Saturday 11th October 2008 in the Unitarian Memorial Church in Cambridge CB1 1JW UK
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: sophia@gurdjieff-books.net
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.)