Conference Schedule
Wednesday, September 10th
Conference Orientation and Welcome Dinner at Monte Verità
Thursday, September 11th
Morning Plenary Sessions:
The Hills are Alive: Paracelsus and the Spirits of Nature
Leonard George, Ph.D.
Coffee Break
The Twilight of Medieval Gnosis in the Italian/Swiss Alps and the Inception of Modern Gnosis at Monte Verità and Eranos
Yuri Stoyanov, Ph.D.
Lunch
Afternoon Tour of the Monte Verità Museum or Grounds
Afternoon Workshops:
Monte Verità: A Nucleus of the Counterculture
Christopher McIntosh, D.Phil.
Daphne du Maurier’s Novella Monte Verità
Paul Bembridge, M.Phil., and Marjorie Roth, Ph.D., DMA
Dinner in Ascona
Friday, September 12th
Morning Plenary Sessions:
The Women of Monte Verità
Marjorie Roth, Ph.D., DMA
Coffee Break
Hermann Hesse and the Inner Quest for the Soul
Ludwig Max Fischer, Ph.D.
Lunch
Afternoon Tour of Bellinzona Castle
Afternoon Workshops:
The Siddhartha Effect: Buddhism and the West from Antiquity to Today
Leonard George, Ph.D.
Max Weber, Rudolf Steiner and Ascona
Aaron French
Dinner and Cultural Offering at Monte Verità
Saturday, September 13th
Morning Plenary Sessions:
Modernism and its Choices
Joscelyn Godwin, Ph.D.
Coffee Break
D.H. Lawrence, Monte Verità, and the Living Cosmos
Paul Bembridge, M.Phil.
Lunch
Afternoon Tour of the Monte Verità Museum or Grounds
Afternoon Workshops:
Monte Verità and the Back to Nature Movement (1900-1925)
Ludwig Max Fischer, Ph.D.
The Bauhaus Hotel at Monte Verità: Transparency and the Esoteric
Maria Prieto
Closing Dinner in Ascona
Sunday, September 14
Closing Circle
Coach returning to Milan or departing for Post-Conference Tour