Programme

Monday
 
18:00 – 18:15   Opening
 
18:15-19:30   Film documentary:
The Witch of King’s Cross
 
19:30-20:00   Tetsuro Tanojiri
Esoteric tradition of cosmic dance in modern East Asia: Hedonism in modern Japanese folk psychiatry and Noguchi Seitai, Katsugen-Undo
 
20:00-20:30   Coffee break
 
20:30-21:00   Miroslav Vrzal
Satanism, Sex and Violence in Extreme Metal Discourse: Case Study of the band Belphegor
 
21:00-21:30   Tristán Kapp
The ‘Satanic Panic’: exploring the influence of film in formulating narratives surrounding the lived religion of the Occult and its practitioners
 
21:30-22:00   Coffee break
 
22:00-22:30   Marleen Thaler
The Magical Serpent: Kuṇḍalinī’s Interpretation as Sexual Energy
 
22:30-23:00   Jan Miklas-Frankowski
Sexual transgression in Olga Tokarczuk’s novel ‘The Books of Jacob’
 
Tuesday
 
18:00-18:15   Opening
 
18:15-18:45   Vladimír Kiseljov
Sexuality in paintings of Vladimír Kiseljov
 
18:45-19:15   Alexander Aschenbrenner
“Aqua Permanens” by Alexander Aschenbrenner
 
19:15-19:45   Coffee break
 
19:45-20:15   Hana Magdoňová
To be announced during the event
 
20:15-20:45   Darina Alster Posthumanist prayer
 
20:45-21:15   Coffee break
 
21:15-21:45   Andrej Kapcár
The burning red: pleasure, pain and the occult within modern visual pop culture
 
21:45-22:15   Tancredi Marrone
Chemical Enlightenment: Rapture, Bliss, Death and Extasy
 
22:15 – ..:..   Art performances (will be announded during the event) and free programme

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