Witchcraft and Ecospirituality
One-day seminar.
This seminar creates a public forum that brings together scholars of witchcraft and ecospirituality alongside practitioners with the aim of exploring contemporary nature oriented spiritualities.
The seminar will focus on values, ethics, activism, practices, conceptions of nature and whether we are witnessing a growth in popularity of witchcraft, nature spirituality and femininity on par with the so called ‘spiritual revolution’. Furthermore, if this is the case, does it imply a changing public opinion or paradigm shift as the world faces the climate crisis?
Morning session at: Address Læderstræde 20, Copenhagen K
| 08:20–08:40 | Welcome, coffee/tea |
| 08:40–08:50 | Opening Remarks |
| 08:50–09:15 |
Sabina Magliocco More than Human Kin: Animals and Spiritual Personhood in Contemporary Pagan Practice Cosmologies of Kinship in a Time of Ecological Crisis |
| 09:15–9:40 |
Ethan Doyle White The Green Man and Modern Pagan Witchcraft |
| 09:40–10:05 |
Henrik Ohlsson Contemporary Western Animism – What is it? Where does it come from? And what might it mean for the future? |
| 10:05–10:30 |
Giovanna Parmigiani Magical consciousness and environmentalism: reflections from Southern Italy |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50–11:15 |
Vivianne Crowley Rewilding the Sacred: Wicca, Nature and Ecospirituality |
| 11:15–11:40 |
Mariia Snebjørk Damkjær Witchcraft as Inner Activism – from Individual Practice to the Magick of Community |
| 11:40–12:00 | Joint Discussion |
| 12:00–13.00 | Break. We reconvene for: Midday excursion at Royal Library |
Visit to the Royal Library exhibition: Between Heaven and Earth (CApE does not cover entry cost).
“Enter a world where man has sought answers for centuries. In the movements of the stars, in the whispers of spirits, in the hidden powers of nature – and in the forgotten knowledge of ancient books.”
The programme continues at: room CSS 35-3-20 Faculty Lounge
Address: Gammeltoftsgade 15, Copenhagen K
(see the map - look for the number 35 on the map).
| 14:40–15:05 |
Kocku von Stuckrad Meditation and Ritual as Applied Onto-epistemology |
| 14:05–15:30 |
Martin Poulsen From Temple to Thicket: A Ceremonial Magician Gone Wild |
| 15:30–15:55 |
Caroline Levander ”The earth is our mother, we must take care of her.”: The Gaia Hypothesis, the Green movement and the Great Goddess from a Wiccan point of view |
| 15:55–16:20 |
Freya Falk Dornfeldt & Alma Munk Kronik Climate change, Mother Earth and menstrual cycles: A field study on modern witches in Denmark |
| 16:20–16:45 |
Olivia Cejvan “Nature is my Book of Shadows: Wayfaring the Weather-Worlds in Wiccan Practice” |
| 16:45–17:00 | Coffee / Tea Break |
| 17:00–17:30 | Roundtable Discussion & Closing Reflections |
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Contact
Tim Rudbøg timrudboeg@hum.ku.dk.