May 2, 2018 e.v.

Academia Ordo Templi Orientis is pleased to announce a one-day conference on the occasion of the exhibition Black Light: Secret Traditions in Art since the 1950s at the Centre de Cultura Contemporānia de Barcelona. The exhibition examines the influence of Hermeticism on contemporary art and other cultural spheres including music, comics, literature and film. The conference will take place at the Oriente Atiram Hotel in Barcelona, Spain on June 24, 2018. A flyer for the conference may be viewed here.

Keynote lecturer:
Patricia M. Artundo (University of Buenos Aires)

Speakers:
Robert Ansell
Henrik Bogdan
William Breeze
Robert Buratti
Gordan Djurdjevic
Patrizia Ebner
Christian Giudice
Richard Kaczynski
Stephen J. King
William Peters
Jesper Aagaard Petersen
Georgia van Raalte
M. Dionysius Rogers

Tickets are available for reservation through the conference secretary (fraterlucius@mail.com). The cost for a ticket is 31€, and the conference secretary will provide you with payment information (via PayPal) once you have reserved the ticket. Please note that there is a limited number of tickets, and that you can only reserve one ticket per person.

Founded in 2011, Academia Ordo Templi Orientis (AOTO) is a learned society consisting of initiate members of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and academic affiliates. The goal of AOTO is to foster interdisciplinary research on OTO and the religious doctrine of Thelema that the Order promotes, as well as on broader subjects related to esoteric traditions, both historical and contemporary. Membership in AOTO is by invitation only. AOTO convenes conferences and issues periodic transactions. For more information contact academia@oto.org.