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Popular Occulture in Britain 1875-1947

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The Occult in Popular Fiction and Entertainments

 2016

9.00am - 5.00pm

Venue: University College Dublin

Programme

Programme details
Column one lists times, column two lists details.
TimeDetails
9.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.15¨C10.30

Spirits of the Air

¡®Elementals, Dr Watson! From Gabalis to Zanoni and Ghost Land¡¯
Professor Wouter Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam)

¡®Occult Radio: The Uncanny on the Air¡¯
Professor Richard Hand (University of East Anglia)

10.30¨C11.00 Coffee Break
11.00¨C12.30

Popular Occulture in Ireland

¡®Utopian Occultism in Fin de Si¨¨cle&²Ô²ú²õ±è;¶Ù³Ü²ú±ô¾±²Ô¡¯
P¨¢draic E. Moore (Independent Curator, Art Historian, and Writer, Netherlands)

¡®The Everyday Occult on Stage: The Plays of Lord Dunsany¡¯
Professor Nicholas Daly (University College Dublin)

12.30¨C1.30 Lunch
1.30¨C3.30

Demons, Witches, and Satanists in British Popular Fiction

¡®Class, Degeneracy and the Occult in Richard Marsh¡¯s The Goddess: A Demon¡¯
Dr Patricia Pulham (University of Portsmouth)

¡®Dreams, Spirits and Witches in the Strange Interwar Fiction of David Lindsay¡¯
Dr Steven Sutcliffe (University of Edinburgh)

¡®Dennis Wheatley, Pulp Satanist¡¯
Professor Darryl Jones (Trinity College Dublin)

3.30¨C4.00 Coffee Break
4.00¨C5.00 Roundtable
5.30¨C7.00 Reception at the Freemason¡¯s Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin

Space is limited and advance registration is required for all events.