Dr. Andreas Önnerfors
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