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