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Here it is a list about conferences related to the field, that I try to keep updated: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

MY CONFERENCES:

Events organized by me:
  • Purdue Symposium: Science and the Occult in European History, Oct 1, 2010, with support from History Dept and Puskas-Bilsland Initiative at Purdue University. My tasks:  main organizer, 1st session chair, and 2nd session presenter

Papers presented at Conferences:
  • Science and Magic: Ways of Knowing in the Renaissance, April 29-30, 2011 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Session: Alchemy beyond the Laboratory

Paper: Alchemical Patterns and Symbols in European Thought (XVI-XVIII centuries)

http://www.princeton.edu/renaissance/events/waysofknowing/

  • 46th International Congress in Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2011 Western Michigan University

Session: Alchemy and the History of Science (sponsored by Societas Alchimica)

Paper: Shamanic Methods in Western European Alchemy

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule11.pdf

  • Science and the Occult in European History

October 1, 2010 Purdue University, History Dept.

Session II: Magic and the Occult in Europe from Antiquity to Early Modernity

Paper: Origins of Alchemical Patterns in European Thought

  • 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies

May 7-10, 2010 Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University
Session: Magic and the Occult from Antiquity to Early Modernity

Organizer: Paul White

Paper: The Non-Rational in the Rational: the Occult Origins of Science from Carolingians to Enlightenment

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule10.pdf

  • MARS Workshops

November 16, 2009 Indiana: Purdue University

Session: European Renaissance

Organizer: Michael Ryan

Paper: Occult Origins of Science

Program: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/mars/events/marsmondays.html

2010 Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University

  • 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies

May 7-10, 2009 Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University
Session: Alchemy

Organizer: Nancy L. Turner

Paper: Voynich has a Meaning: Alchemy and Exotic Plants in the Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World

Program: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule09.pdf

  • MARS Workshops

April 6, 2009 Indiana: Purdue University

Session: European Renaissance

Organizer: Michael Ryan

Paper: New Herbs from Americas and their Use in the Renaissance Italian Medicine

Program: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/mars/events/marsmondays.html

  • CSAS 2009 Conference

April 2-5, 2009 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois campus

Session:"Body, Culture and Society"

Organizer: Myrdene Anderson

Paper: The Role of Human Prints and Divine Traces in Persuasive Rituals

Program: http://courses.missouristate.edu/mbuckner/CSAS09PrelimProgram.htm

Abstract: http://courses.missouristate.edu/mbuckner/CSAS%2009%20Paper%20Abstracts.htm

  • Congreso Internacional Chymia. Ciencia y Naturaleza en la Europea Moderna (1450-1750) September 2008, El Escorial, Madrid (attended)
  • HGSA 2008 Conference, Purdue. Paper: "Voynich Manuscript and its Genuine Alphabet" (12 April 2008)
  • OAH 2008 Annual Meeting, New York, (Hilton Hotel). Paper: "Understanding the "Voynich", the Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World. American Shamanism and Exotic Plants" (29 March 2008)
  • MARS Conference (Medieval and Renaissance Society, Purdue) Paper: "New Contributions to Voynich Manuscript's Mystery" (24 March 2008)
  • Purdue students workshop Paper: "Voynich Manuscript is not a Hoax. Uncovering New Evidence" (29 January 2008)

Additional papers have been accepted to the following conferences:

o Paper: The Power of the Occult and Alchemy during Carolingians

Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Power and Struggle, 2011 U. of Alabama

http://bama.ua.edu/~gha/conference.html

 

o Paper: Handprints, Footprints and Representations of Human Body in Magical Rituals

North Central Sociological Association 2009 Conference; 2009 Michigan

       Session on "Body, Culture and Society" http://www.ncsanet.org/meetings/index.html

 

o Paper: Products of American Arid and Semi-arid Lands in European Renaissance: Trading Medicine knowledge, Herbs, and Drugs

                    Collecting East and West, 2009 Italy, Florence Univ. of Arts & British Institute of Florence
                    Session: The West: New Worlds of Knowledge

Times. http://www.crrs.ca/csrs-scer/conferences/cong-09.pdf

 

o Paper: The Role of Irrational in the Rationality of Early Modern Europe

SCSC 2009 (The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference); 2009 Switzerland: Geneva

       Session: The Supernatural in Early Modern European Society http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/2009GenevaProgramv2.pdf

 

o Paper: Products of American Arid and Semi-arid Lands in the Italian Renaissance: Trading Knowledge, Herbs, Food, and Drugs

Collecting East and West, 2009 Italy, Florence Univ. of Arts & British Institute of Florence

       Session: The West: New Worlds of Knowledge, http://collectinganddisplay.com/conferences.html