Preliminary Program 2024

(Main Program / Other Program /  Blocks and Languages / * short break )

Friday, October 25

OPENING CEREMONY
- Welcome & Introduction of Organizers (in Czech, Slovak, and English)
- Delivery of Greetings (in Czech, Slovak, and English)
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- Opening of the Accompanying Exhibition of Archival documents and Artifacts
“Occult Magic, Modern Magic” (in Czech, Slovak, and English)
- Opening of the Accompanying Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by Lenka Jirková Táborská (in Czech, Slovak, and English)
*
Welcome Reception with Buffet
Concert by the band “Klastracinski/project”

Saturday, October 26

MORNING SESSION (in Czech/Slovak)
Tea Ceremony
- Mgr. Matouš Mokrý: “Prince of Darkness and Son of the Goddess Typhon: Antinomian Interpretations of Set in the Works of the Temple of Set and Kenneth Grant”
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- Mgr. David Plass: “Postmodern Hermeticism and its Others: A Case Study in Individual identity formation"
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- Martin Sarkyr Král: “O.T.O. and Thelema”
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- Mgr. Ivo Chmelař, Ph.D.: “SES, SAD Bhaí, Paragava, Continuity of Initiation”
Group Lunch
Book bazaar

 AFTERNOON INTERNATIONAL SESSION (in English)
Friday Dancers: dance performance
- Prof. emer. György E. Szönyi: “Mephistophilis and Faustus”
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- Mgr. Marion Vrbicky, Ph.D.: “Eleusinian Mysteries, an Initiation Cult in Ancient Greece”
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- B.A. John Meek: “A Holistic Approach to Masonry”
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- Prof. Gordan Djurdjevic: „>I am One of a Concourse!< - Reading Aleister Crowley’s The Heart of the Master as a Thelemic Apocalypse“
Group Dinner

Sunday, October 27

MORNING SESSION (in Czech/Slovak)
Tea Ceremony
- Mgr. Alexandra Haratíková: “The History of Women in Astrology”
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- Mgr. Jan Krása, Ph.D.: “Children’s Play – On Hermetic Evolution”
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- Mgr. Lenka Příplatová, Ph.D.: “Sleep Paralysis as a Source of Religious Experience”
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- Pavel Langer: “Modern Magic and Occult Magic”
Group Lunch
Book bazaar

AFTERNOON SESSION (in Czech/Slovak)
Klára Šiška: occut performance
- PhDr. Mgr. Tomáš Kubisa, PhD.: “Activities of IVSE and the Occult Scene in Slovakia”
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- Mgr. Jan Ševčík: “Updates from Research on the Relationships between Nationalist, Nazi, and Occult Movements (1892-1945)”
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- Mgr. Veronika Šulcová: “Voodoo and Inner Practice”
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- Mgr. Olga Čejková: “Ritual Space in Hunting and its Transformational Function”
Group Dinner

Monday, October 28

THEMATIC CITY TOUR (in Czech, Slovak, and English)