The preliminary schedule for the 6^th International ESSWE Conference in Erfurt is out. We are happy to report that the Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity has two panels scheduled, both on the first day of the conference (Thursday, June 1^st).

For your convenience, the NSEA panel schedule is below.

The NSEA hopes to see you in Erfurt!

Esotericism and Deviance in Antiquity 1: Magic and Alchemy
Chair: Dylan Burns
Thursday, June 1st, 11:30 – 13:30

• Spiritual Forgery: Late Antique Gold-makers, Theologians, Imposters and the Beginnings of the Alchemical
  Olivier DuFault
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Defixiones and the Temple Locus: Illicit Practices, Religious Agencies
  Sarah L. Veale
  University of Toronto
• Constructing the Canon of Deviance in Pliny the Elder
  Trevor Luke
  Florida State University
• From illegibility and secrecy to a ritual writing system? The use of Charakteres in Coptic sources
  Kirsten Dzwiza
  University of Erfurt

Esotericism and Deviance in Antiquity 2: Gnosticism
Chair: Sarah L. Veale
Thursday, June 1st, 14:30 – 16:30

• Ancient Gnostic Sex Magick: Status Quaestonis and New Developments
  Dylan M. Burns
  Freie Universität Berlin
• A Secret Way to the Divine: The Two Books of Ieou and the Nomina Barbara
  Anna Van den Kerchove
  Institut protestant de théologie – Faculté de Paris
• Deviant Christians: Resistance to Accommodation Among Esoteric Groups in Antiquity
  April DeConick
  Rice University
• Remembering “the Gnostics: From mnemohistorical stereotype appropriation to the attempt of reconstruction in Neo-Gnostic Catholicism
  Alberto Alfredo Winterberg
  Freie Universitat Berlin

The conference takes place June 1st through 3rd, 2017. For more information, please see the ESSWE website.