Workshop Schedule
The current round of workshops will run through December 2021. The complete schedule is below. Stay tuned for news on future rounds of meetings.
Friday, March 26, 2021
Panel 1: Astrology & Astral Magic
Margaret Gaida, Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
Panel 2: Theology & Occultism
Michael Noble, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Munich
M. Fariduddin Attar, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University
Friday, April 23, 2021
Panel 1: Alchemy
Samantha Pellegrino, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
Nicholas Harris, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 2: Politics & Apocalypse
Zach Winters, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
Friday, May 28, 2021
Panel 1: Lettrism
Lisa Alexandrin, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
Cyril Uy, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University/Assistant Professor, JMU
Panel 2: Medicine & Healing
Shireen Hamza, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Adam Bursi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Utrecht University
Friday, June 25, 2021
Panel 1: Physiognomy
Emin Lelić, Assistant Professor, Salisbury University
Mukhtar Ali, Research Fellow, The Warburg Institute
Panel 2: Akbarian Cosmogony
Dunja Rašić, Lecturer, University of Belgrade
Side Emre, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Friday, August 27, 2021
Panel 1: Knowing the Cosmos
Mariam Sabri, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Aaron Viengkhou, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Panel 2: Alchemy
Salam Rassi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
Tuna Artun, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Friday, September 17, 2021
Panel 1: Geomancy
Blanca Villuendas, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
Deji Ogunnaike, Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
Panel 2: Poetry & the Unseen
Jane Mikkelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia
Domenico Ingenito, Assistant Professor, UCLA
Friday, October 22, 2021
Panel 1: Occult Shiʿism & Illuminationism
Łukasz Piątak, Assistant Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University
Amin Mansouri, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Panel 2: Jinnology & Astrology
Ana Vinea, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
Fien De Block, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University
Friday, 12 November
Panel 1: Maghribi Magic
Veronica Menaldi, Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
José Bellver, Research Fellow, University of Louvain
Panel 2: Occult Reformism
Daniel Morgan, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University
Anuj Kaushal, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, 10 December
Panel 1: Lettrism & Kabbalah
Elizabeth Sartell, Assistant Professor, Lewis University
Beatrice Bottomley, PhD Candidate, The Warburg Institute
Panel 2: Talismanry & Geomancy
Arianna Dalla Costa, PhD Candidate, The Warburg Institute
Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago