Enchanting Modernity: Theosophy and the Arts in the Making of Early Twentieth-Century Culture
Schedule:
Registration (Cornerstone Lobby)
9:30-10:00  Coffee (Cornerstone Faculty Lounge)

10‐12:30 Session 1 (Cornerstone Room 106)

Sarah Victoria Turner (York University):  A ‘world-wide exchange of art-powers’: Orpheus, the Theosophical Art Circle and inter-colonial cultural networks, ca.1907‐1914.

Christopher Scheer (Utah State University/Liverpool Hope University): Searching for Unity in Diversity: Agency and Music at London Theosophical Headquarters, 1910‐1917.

Rachel Cowgill (Liverpool Hope University):   Filling the Void: Theosophy and the Rituals of Armistice Day in the Reception of John Foulds’s World Requiem.

James Mansell (University of Nottingham):  Music as a Religion of the Future: Theosophy, Sound and Esoteric Modernity.

Kevin Brehony (Roehampton University):  ‘The Creative Self-Expression of the Child’: Theosophists and Education for a New Era.

12:30-1:30 Lunch (Cornerstone Mezzanine)

1:30‐4:00 Session 2 (Cornerstone Room 106)

Anna Gawboy (Ohio State University):  Alexander Skryabin’s Chromatic Palette.

Ruth Pasquine (independent scholar):  Theosophical Artists in America in the 1920s and
1930s.

Nicolas P. Maffei (Norwich University College of the Arts):  Contradictory Modernism: Theosophy and the Designs of Norman Bel Geddes.

Helena Capkova (University of the Arts, London):  Theosophy as a Transnational Network:  Noemi Raymond’s Designs in Interwar Japan.

Minna Törmä (Christie’s Education):   In Search of Images of Religious Purity: Osvald
Sirén and the Allure of Chinese Art.

4:00 Coffee (Cornerstone Faculty Lounge)

4:30‐5:30 Rachel Cowgill, leader, Roundtable Discussion (Capstone):  Future Projects, Networks, and Outcomes.

5:30‐6:30 Keynote Address (Capstone Theatre)

Gauri Vishwanathan (Columbia University):  Theosophy and Literary Modernism: Religion after Religion

6:30 Drinks/dinner (Everyman Bistro)