Thursday, September 24
15:00 Registration and Coffee
16:15-16:45 Welcome Address
17:00-19:00 Session 1
Wouter J. HANEGRAAFF (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Emma Hardinge Britten and the Orientalist Imagination
Laurence COX (Maynooth, Ireland)
International Religious Organisations in a Colonial World: Comparing the Theosophical Society and the Maha Bodhi Society
Michael BERGUNDER (Heidelberg, Germany)
Theosophy and Bhagavadgita
19:00 Reception
Friday, September 25
9:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00-12:00 Session 2
Hans Martin KRÄMER (Heidelberg, Germany)
Spiritual Anti-Colonialism: Paul Richard Between Europe, India, and Japan
Jérémy JAMMES (Brunei Darussalam)
Theosophying Vietnamese Religious Landscape: Colonization, Occultism, and Translation in an Anthropological Perspective
Dinah ZANK (Berlin, Germany)
Painting Buddhism for a United Asia? Japanese-Indian Joint Heritage Preservation During the 1930s
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Session 3
HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu (Osaka, Japan)
An Irish Theosophist’s Pan-Asianism? James Cousins, Gurcharan Singh and British Secret Agents
Boaz HUSS (Beer-Sheva, Israel)
The Association of Hebrew Theosophists: Between Jewish Particularism and Theosophical Universalism
Maria MORITZ (Berlin, Germany)
Globalizing “Sacred Knowledge”: South Asians and the Theosophical Society, 1879–1930
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session 4
Ulrich HARLASS (Heidelberg, Germany)
A. P. Sinnett: The Pioneer of Early Theosophy
Yan SUARSANA (Heidelberg, Germany)
The Healer as Guru: The Esoterization of Balinese Medicine
Dimitry OKROPIRIDZE (Heidelberg, Germany)
From Isis to Anima: The Theosophical Influence on the Analytical Psychology of C. G. Jung
18:30 Dinner
Saturday, September 26
9:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00-12:00 Session 5
Helena ČAPKOVÁ (Tokyo, Japan)
The Golconde Dormitory in Puducherry (1935-1945): Theosophy as a Transnational Network
INAGA Shigemi (Kyoto, Japan)
Kuki Shūzō and the Idea of Metempsychosis: On the Fringe of Theosophical Thinking?
Björn SEIDEL-DREFFKE (Berlin, Germany)
Theosophy and Its Influence on Russian Cultural History
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Session 6
CHUANG Chienhui (Osaka, Japan)
Education Carried out by Theosophists at the Shanghai International Settlement: Besant School for Girls without Annie Besant
YOSHINAGA Shin’ichi (Maizuru, Japan)
Mahayana Lodge Reconsidered: Theosophical Connections around Beatrice and D.T. Suzuki
SUN Jiang (Nanjing, China)
Spirit Writing (fuji) and Spirit Possession (kamigakari): A Comparative Study of Red Swastika Society and Ōmotokyō
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 Concluding Discussion