Chair:
Friday: Prof. Antoine Faivre, E.P.H.E., Sorbonne/France
Saturday: Prof. J.A.M. Snoek, University of Heidelberg/Germany

DAY 1

Friday 17th December

09:00 Registration & Coffee

10:00 Opening
Prof. Jan Hjärpe, Islamic Studies/History of Religions, Lund university

10:15 Practical announcements
Dr. Henrik Bogdan, Dr Andreas Önnerfors, Conference organisers

10:30 Dr. phil. Martin Ernst Urmann, University of Innsbruck/Austria
Casus Foederis: Protestants and Prophets. Aspects on the Hermetic Concordance in Freemasonry and the Construction of Anciennity in Sweden

11:00 Thomas Karlsson, PhD-candidate, University of Stockholm/Sweden
Initiation and revelation in the Gothic kaballah: Johannes Bureus as the father of Gothic esotericism

11:30 Discussion of the two presentations

11:45 Coffee Break

12:00 Dr. Andreas Önnerfors & Patrik Sonestad, Lund university/Sweden
Presentation of the on-line database “Swedish 18th-century Freemasons”

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch is served at the Department of Cultural Studies

14:00 Prof. José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli, University of Zaragoza/Spain
Las motivaciones politicas de las primeras condenas de la masoneria en la Europa del siglo XVII (The political motives of the first condemnations of Freemasonry during the 18th century)

14:30 Prof. Andrew Prescott, University of Sheffield/England
Contacts between the Swedish and English Grand Lodges up to (and including) the union in 1813

15:00 Prof. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, University of Nice/France
The Masonic connections between France and Sweden in the 18th Century: a strong and aristocratic relationship

15:30 Discussion of the three presentations

16:00 Coffee Break

16:15 Dr. Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle, University of Mannheim/Germany
Nazi Perception of Swedish Freemasonry during the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Era

16:45 Discussion

17:00 Guided tour of Lund Cathedral and the Masonic society EOS

19:00 Conference dinner at Liberiet – a part of Lund Cathedral

DAY 2

Saturday 18th December

09:00 Morning Coffee & practical announcements

09:30 Ulf Lindgren, MA, Stockholm/Sweden
The French rituals of Fredrik Horn (1740-ies)

10:00 Alain Bernheim, Montreux/Switzerland
Friedrich, Baron von Vegesack and Johann August Starck
- The rise of knightly degrees in France, Sweden and Germany

10:30 Pierre Noel, Brussels/Belgium
The influence of the Swedish system on the Scottish Rectified Rite

11:00 Discussion

11:30 Coffee Break

11:45 MA Matthew Scanlan, London/Great Britain
Some thoughts on the emergence and influence of modern British Freemasonry

12:15 Discussion

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch is served at the Department of Cultural Studies

14:00 Tom C. Bergroth, researcher, Academy of Åbo/Finland
Masonic activities in Finland in the 18th century

14:30 Prof. Henrik Stenius, Renvall-Institute, Helsinki/Finland
Freemasonry in Finland 1756 – 1826

15:00 Dr. Yuri Stoyanov, University of London/Great Britain
Swedish Freemasonry in 18th Century Russia: Observations on its impact on the Russian Enlightenment and Esotericism

15:30 Short discussion of the three presentations

15.45 Final Discussion:
Network-based Communities and Identities – Cornerstones of the European Civic Society?

16:30 Discussion on the proposed European Network for Research into Freemasonry (ENRF)

17:00 Close