Anglia Ruskin University

The Victorians Reinventing the Renaissance Symposium

Date: Saturday 26 November 2011
Venue: tbc

Currently booked speakers include Professor Sarah Brown, Professor Nora Crook. Dr Andrew Kesson (University of Kent), Professor Julia Swindells and Dr Valerie Purton.

More details will be posted soon. In the meantime, please contact Dr Valerie Purton for more information.

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Reinventing the Renaissance Occult in Modern and Postmodern Culture

Date: Saturday 14 November 2009

For more information please see the conference page.

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Western Esoteric Traditions in the Renaissance

Date: Sunday 20 September 2009
Time: 13.30 - 18.30
Venue: Helmore 201, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

For more information please see the colloquium report page.

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Leverhulme Lecture Series

Reinventing the Renaissance Research Centre is pleased to welcome Professor György E. Szönyi as Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University. Professor Szonyi will be presenting two lectures on the theme of Renaissance magic, the first in a series of events in connection with his Leverhulme Professorship at Anglia Ruskin.

In the autumn, there will also be two colloquia (September 20 and November 14 2009 respectively) on Renaissance Occult Philosophy and some of its later cultural manifestations.

Lecture 1 - May 6 2009

This lecture will look at some of the main features of early modern magical ideas and practices and their scholarly interpretations since the beginning of the twentieth century.

Lecture 2 - June 10 2009

This lecture will look at some English, German, Hungarian and Italian novels which recycle occult and esoteric themes and tries to answer the question: "How can we, if at all, explain the lure of the occult and the esoteric in our postmodern, industrialized world?"

Please see the below flyer for further details: