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