CONSTRUCTING TRADITION: 

Thursday 19th July

• 18.00 hrs Welcome from the Rector of the University of Tübingen, the President of ESSWE, Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff, and Conference Chairman, Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher.
  
• 18.30 hrs Opening Lecture Jan Assmann: 'Ägypten und der Ursprung der Esoterik. Zur Geschichte und Genese eines Mythos'
  
• Followed by: Reception in the Foyer of the Tübingen Museum
  

Friday 20th July

Master Narratives

• 08.30 hrs Kocku von Stuckrad: 'Secrecy as Social Capital'
  
• 09.20 hrs Bernhard Tschofen: 'Folklore und Esoterik. Wissensordnungen und Wissenschaftspraktiken der deutschsprachigen Volkskunde'
  
• 10.10 hrs Break
  
• 10.25 hrs Wouter Hanegraaff: 'Western Esotericism in Enlightenment Historiography: The Case of Jacob Brucker'
  

Kabbalistic Concepts of Tradition

• 11.15 hrs Giulio Busi: 'Giovanni Pico and the Ideal of concordia discors. Disharmony as a Way to Esoteric Wisdom'
  
• 12.05 hrs Break
  
• 12.20 hrs Moshe Idel: 'Revelation versus Transmission: two Sources of Kabbalah according to Kabbalists between 1475-1575'
  

PANEL A: HERMETICISM, KABBALAH, NEOPLATONISM FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO RENAISSANCE

A1: Ancient Figurations

• 14.00 Hermann E. Stockinger: 'Geschichte – Tradition – Hermetik'
  
• 14.30 Francisco García Bazán: 'Hermes Trismegistus Esotericus and Esoterisant'
  
• 15.00 Joyce Pijnenburg: 'The "Absolute" from Presocratics to Hermetism: Continuation and Break'
  
• 15.30 Matthias Heiduk: 'Formierung einer Tradition? Überlieferung und Rezeption hermetischer Texte im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert'
  
• 16.00 Ezio Albrile: 'Journey to the Hypercosmic Side of the Sun'
  

A2: Techniques of Esoteric Reception in the Age of Renaissance

• 16.30 Steffen Schneider: 'Konstruktion des hermetischen Korpus bei Ficino und die Funktionalisierung des hermetischen Korpus im Neuplatonismus'
  
• 17.00 Else-Marie Lingaas: '“Beginning, Middle and End” – The Significance of Orpheus in Marsilio Ficino’s De Amore'
  
• 17.30 Alfonso Ingegno: 'Neoplatonism, Cabbala, Revelation. Renaissance, Esoterism as a Constitutive Element of Esoterism in Modern Age'
  
• 18.00 Osvald Vasicek: 'The Beginnings of Christian Kabbalah in Renaissance Germany: Johannes Reuchlin’s Synthesis of Cusanian Neoplatonism and Jewish Kabbalah'
  
• 18.30 Kathryn LaFevers Evans: 'De Magia naturali Book II by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples: Mythopoetic Transmission of Tradition Embodies the Role of the Intellectual'
  

PANEL B: THE FUNCTION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION IN ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM

B1: Initiatory Societies

• 14.00 Konstantin Burmistrov: 'Kabbalah as Primordial Tradition in Russian Secret Societies'
  
• 14.30 Henrik Bogdan: 'The Construct of Tradition and Import of Legitimacy in Fringe Masonic Organizations'
  
• 15.00 Hereward Tilton: ‘"Inextricable Reveries": Myths of Origin and Transmission in Rosicrucianism'
  

B2: Philosophy

• 15.30 Hanns-Peter Neumann: 'Pythagoreischer Rationalismus? Analyse einer Konstellation zwischen prisca sapientia, Philologie und philosophia rationalis im 17. und 18. Jahr-hundert'
  
• 16.00 Ralf Liedtke: 'Zeitkonstruktion und esoterisches Wissen in der romantischen Naturphilosophie'
  

B3: Occult discourses in the 18th and early 19th century

• 16.30 Roelie van Kreijl: 'Early Homeopathy and the Academic Medical Establishment in Germany: a Historical and Social-Scientific Analysis'
  
• 17.00 Paul Monod: 'The occult Revival in late 18th-Century Britain'
  
• 17.30 Allison Adler Kroll: 'Magic in Early Nineteenth-Century England: Francis Barrett's The Magus and the "Occult Revival"'
  
• 18.00 Inna Semetsky: 'Tarot Symbolism: Language, Psychology, Ontology'
  
• 18.30 Sara Møldrup Thejls: 'From Dolphins to Sexual Magic. The Multifaceted Role of Kabbalah in Modern Esotericism'
  

PANEL C: ESOTERICISM IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

C1: Occultism

• 14.00 Egil Asprem: 'From Laotze to Aleister Crowley: The Construction of Gnostic saints in the E.G.C.'
  
• 14.30 Gregory Johnson: 'Phony "vons" and Other Aristocratic Pretenders in Western Esotericism'
  
• 15.00 Katharina Brandt: 'Marie Steiner-von Sivers – eine emanzipierte Frauenbiographie um 1900'
  
• 15.30 Tim Rudbøg: '"There is no Religion Higher than Truth". H. P. Blavatsky's Construction of an Esoteric Tradition'
  
• 16.00 Anita Stasulane: 'Bearers of the Ancient Wisdom: Mahatmas of H. Blavatsky'
  

C2: Neopaganism

• 16.30 Hanneke Minkjan: 'The Goddess in the Landscape'
  
• 17.00 René Gründer: 'Die Modernität des Archaischen – Kontinuitäten und Brüche im germanischgläubigen (Neu-)Heidentum'
  
• 17.30 Hans-Thomas Hakl: 'Die römische Tradition'
  
• 18.00 Andriy Nakorchevski: 'Unlawful Brothers: History and Nationalistic Pagan Movements in Ukraine'
  
• 18.30 E.A. Ten Houten: 'Hanific Traditionalism and the Chechen Exceptionalist Discourse'
  

Evening Lecture

• 20.00 hrs Monika Neugebauer-Wölk: 'Tradition in zwei Gestalten. Esoterische Traditionsbildung als Herausforderung an die Esoterikforschung'
  

Saturday 21st July

Myths of Origin

• 08.30 hrs Andreas Kilcher: 'Das verspätete Wissen. Zur epigonalen Disposition der esoterischen Tradition'
  
• 09.20 hrs Christine Maillard: 'Ex oriente lux. Zur Funktion Indiens und zum Indienbild in Texten der abendländischen esoterischen Tradition'
  
• 10.10 hrs Break
  
• 10.25 hrs Mark Sedgwick: 'Sufis as Mythic Bearers of Esoteric Tradition'
  
• 11.15 hrs Allison Coudert: 'Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Seventeenth-Century Thought'
  
• 12.05 hrs Break
  
• 12.20 hrs Joscelyn Godwin: 'Athanasius Kircher’s Construction of the Hieroglyphic Tradition'
  

PANEL A: HERMETICISM, KABBALAH, NEOPLATONISM FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO RENAISSANCE

A3: Esoteric Myths of Origin beyond Hermeticism

• 14.00 Karen-Claire Voss: 'Whence Esotericism? Some Considerations on the Orphica'
  
• 14.30 Raimund Leicht: 'Sefer Raziel and Liber Raziel – The Transmission of Adam’s Magical Handbook in the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages'
  
• 15.00 Philippe Faure: 'Uriel, the 4th Archangel. Origins, Development and Meaning of a Forgotten Tradition'
  
• 15.30 Leigh Travis Penman: 'Wilhelm Eo Neuheuser (†c.1626): Prophet of the United Holy Empire'
  
• 16.00 Bernd Roling: 'Die Kontroverse über das Geschlecht der Giganten an den barocken Universitäten'
  

PANEL B: THE FUNCTION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION IN ENLIGHTENMENT AND RO- MANTICISM

B4: Poetic Transformations of Esoteric Traditions

• 14.00 Bernhard Greiner: 'Faust – Umschlagfigur esoterischen Wissens und deren Mythisierung'
  
• 14.30 Matthias Erdbeer: 'Esoterische Genealogie der Faustrezeption'
  
• 15.00 Kristine Hannak: 'Theologie als Theosophie oder: Die geheime Gottes=Gelehrtheit im Wiedergeburtsdiskurs des radikalen Pietismus um 1700'
  
• 15.30 Daniel Cyranka: 'Lessing und der Reinkarnationsdiskurs'
  
• 16.00 Reinhard Breymayer: 'Friedrich Christoph Oetinger und das Problem seiner Wirkung auf Hölderlin - ein Beitrag zu einer aktuellen Streitfrage'
  

PANEL C: ESOTERICISM IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

C3: Pictorial and Literary Adaptions of Esoteric Traditions

• 14.00 Giovanna Costantini: 'De Fraternitate: Iconographies of Union in Art of the Modern Era'
  
• 14.30 Christopher McIntosh: 'Rosicrucianism in Literature'
  
• 15.00 Mark Morrisson: 'From Spiritual Alchemy to the New Alchemy: Preliminary Thoughts on Science in the Spiritual Alchemy Tradition'
  
• 15.30 Caroline de Westenholz: 'Couperus esotericus'
  
• 16.00 Miriam Wallraven: '"You remember that Dion Fortune quote?" The Role of Fiction by Women Authors for the Construction of an Esoteric Tradition in the Twentieth Century'
  
• 16.30 Julie Hall: 'Madame Blavatsky’s Reincarnationism'
  
• 17.00 Victor Vargas: 'Lawrence and the Literary Initiate: The British Novel as the Guru's Mantra'
  
• 17.30 Dominik Irtenkauf: 'Der Doppelgänger: Gustav Meyrinks Romane als Technik-reservoir esoterischer Traditionsbildung'
  
• 18.00 Andriy Nakorchevski: 'Unlawful Brothers: History and nationalistic Pagan Movements in Ukraine'
  

PANEL D: SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

• 16.30 Mika Kennet Granholm: 'Non-hierarchical Hierarchy. Initiatory Degree Systems in Left-hand Path Magic Orders'
  
• 17.00 Demyan Belyaev: 'Transmission and Diffusion of Esoteric Knowledge in Contemporary Russia'
  
• 17.30 Ina Schmied-Knittel: 'Esoterische Traditionsbildung durch Okkultismus-Kritiker: Das Beispiel des „Anti- Satanismus“'
  
• 18.00 Titus Hjelm: 'From Esotericism to Exotericism and Back: A Sociological Perspective on Tradition in Contemporary Witchcraft'
  
• 18.30 Gerhard Mayer: 'Tradition und Geheimnis – und deren Bedeutung für praktizierende Magier des 21. Jahrhunderts. Ergebnisse einer Interviewstudie'
  

• 20.00 hrs Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: 'Anciennitätswettbewerbe und Traditionskonkurrenz: Mustergeschichten geheimen Wissens'
  

Sunday 22nd July

Myths of Transmission

• 08.30 hrs Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: 'The Coming of the Masters: the Evolutionary Reformulation of Spiritual Intermediaries in Modern Theosophy'
  
• 09.20 hrs Marco Pasi: 'Konx Om Pax: The Mystery of the Mysteries in the 18th Century'
  
• 10.10 hrs Break
  
• 10.25 hrs Jean-Pierre Brach: 'Spiritual Authority and the Transmission of Knowledge in Christian Kabbalah: The Case of Guillaume Postel (1510-81)'
  
• 11.15 hrs Philipp Theisohn: 'Die Überlieferung der Zukunft. Esoterische Traditionsbildung als mantische Funktion'
  
• 12.05 hrs Break
  
• 12.20 hrs Jean Pierre Laurant: 'The Myth of the Esoteric Transmission in the 19th Century: The History of a Transformation'
  
• 13.10 hrs Concluding Address
  
• 13.30 hrs Conference ends