This conference looks fascinating, and jumps all over the timeline, so there is a lot to interest students of ancient magic here. Plus, any excuse to go to Granada is a good excuse. Here is the programme:

                                       I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGIC AND THOUGHT

                                    First session: APRIL 24th-26th

(WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY) 2024

                                                 UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
(SPAIN)

We are pleased to announce the program for the first session of the I
International conference on Magic and Thought. It will be broadcasted
for anyone interested. Please, feel free to join us and share your time
and thoughts with us. Note that most of the talks will be in Spanish,
for this session.

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the online session.

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                                                         PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 24TH APRIL

INAUGURATION ACT.
11:00-11:15. Welcome speech: Dr. Mónica Durán Mañas, Professor of the
Department of  Ancient Greek and Slavic Philology. Dr. Matilde Casas
Olea. Professor of the Department of Ancient Greek and Slavic Philology.
Presentation: Dr. Natalia Arsentieva, director the reasearch group
Hermekate.
Inaugural presentation:
11:20-12:00. Elemento mágico y ritual en la Edad del Bronce Egea
(Magical and ritual element in the Aegean Bronze Age) Dr. Marcello
Tozza, Professor at the University of Malaga.

PLENARY SESSION. RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS OF MAGIC

12:30-12:55. Practicalidades emocionales y cognitivas del uso de la
magia en la Antigüedad (Emotional and cognitive practicalities of the
use of magic in Antiquity) Dr. Flor Herrero  Valdés (Univ. of Granada).
12:55-13:20. La Magia como arte supremo de los sufíes en Ibn Arabi
(Magic as the supreme art of the Sufis in Ibn Arabi) Dr. Pablo Beneito.
(Prof. Univ. of Murcia).
13:20-13:55. Simbolismo de las letras y metafísica en Abū l-Ḥasan
al-Ḥarrālī (Symbolism of letters and metaphysics in Abū l-Ḥasan
al-Ḥarrālī) Dr. José Bellver (School of Advanced Arab studies, CSIC,
Granada).


PANEL I. MYTHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF MAGIC

16:00-16:20. Santos gemelos en el inframundo, ángeles parásitos en los
árboles: relatos lencas para una microhistoria de la cultura
mesoamericana (Twin saints in the underworld, parasitic angels in the
trees: Lenca stories for a microhistory of Mesoamerican culture). Dr.
Sergio Callau Gonzalvo (Prof. Univ. EARTH)
16:20-16:40. Huesos de dragón, serpientes de piedra y lenguas
petrificadas: Facultades sanadoras y apotropaicas asociadas a restos
fósiles (Dragon bones, stone snakes and petrified tongues: Healing and
apotropaic powers associated with fossil remains) José Enrique Narbona
Pérez. (Univ. of Salamanca).
16:40-17:00. Semantic Precision in the Greek Magical Papyri: Exploring
Support-Verb Constructions from the 2nd to 4th Centuries. Dr. Victoria
Fendel (Prof. Univ. of Oxford)
17:00-17:20. Amansaguapos, mujeres atadas, y otras escenas de bondage
mágico: estéticas de dominación y fantasías visuales en la magia erótica
antigua y contemporánea (Amansaguapos, tied women, and other scenes of
magical bondage: aesthetics of domination and visual fantasies in
ancient and contemporary erotic magic) Dr. Silvia Alfayé  (Prof. Univ.
de Zaragoza).


THURSDAY 25th APRIL

PANEL II.  AESTHETIC DIMENSION OF MAGIC

11:00-11:20. El microcosmos alquímico de Joan Miró (The alchemical
microcosm of Joan Miró) Roger Ferrer Ventosa (Univ. of Girona)
11:20-11:40. Dimensiones del Pensamiento Mágico-Agrario en el Folclore
Eslavo: Perspectivas de M. Bajtín (Dimensions of Magical-Agrarian
Thought in Slavic Folklore: Perspectives of M. Bakhtin) Dr. Natalia
Arsentieva (Univ. of Granada).
11:40-12:00. La magia apotropaica y de exorcismo: Análisis comparativo
intertextual en las tradiciones rusa ortodoxa y nipona shinto
(Apotropaic and exorcism magic: Comparative intertextual analysis in the
Russian Orthodox and Japanese Shinto traditions) Catalina Cheng-Lin
(Univ. of Salamanca).

12:30-12:50. Cocina, fuego y lamentación. Huellas y pistas de brujeria
en el Shāhnāmeh de Ferdowsī (Cooking, fire and lamentation. Traces and
clues of witchcraft in the Shāhnāmeh of Ferdowsī) Sabri Zekri Arabzadeh
(Univ. of Granada).
12:50-13:10. Ecfrasis  votiva en los Papiros Griegos  Mágicos (Votive
ekphrasis in the Greek Magical Papyri) Yulia Kovárskaya (Univ. of
Granada).

16:00-16:05. Monólogo teatral (theatrical monologue) Iván Martínez
Gutiérrez (Univ. of Granada).
16:05-16:30. Magia, erotismo y “vanitas” en El mágico prodigioso de
Calderón de la Barca (Magic, eroticism and “vanitas” in The Magical
Prodigious by Calderón de la Barca) Dr. Manuel Delgado Morales (Univ. of
Bucknell).
16:30-16:55. El poder de la magia en la poesía de Nicolás Guillén (The
power of magic in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén) Dr. Alice Poust (Univ.
of Bucknell)
16:55-17:20. “Las damas de Grace Adieu”: práctica y teoría metaliteraria
de la magia en un relato de Susanna Clarke (“The Ladies of Grace Adieu”:
metaliterary practice and theory of magic in a story by Susanna Clarke)
Juan Ignacio Torres Montesinos, Granada.


FRIDAY 26th APRIL

PANEL III. RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS OF MAGIC

9:30-9:55. Magia y salud: un camino de regreso al origen (Magic and
health: a path back to the origin) Silvia Mesa García (Univ. OF Castilla
la Mancha).
9:55-10:20. La vivencia de la unidad (tawhid) en la mística, música y
danza en la tradición del sufismo persa (The experience of unity
(tawhid) in mysticism, music and dance in the tradition of Persian
Sufism) Ana Carolina Kerr (PUC Minas (BR)/UMU (ES)).
10:20-10:45. La influencia astral y espiritual de los días de la semana
en el gnóstico según el sufismo de Ibn Arabí (The astral and spiritual
influence of the days of the week in the Gnostic according to the Sufism
of Ibn Arabí) Dr.  Jaime Flaquer García (Univ. of Loyola)
10:45-11:10. El estudio filosófico de la magia y la astrología: trivium
y quadrivium (The philosophical study of magic and astrology: trivium
and quadrivium.) Dr. Luis Gonzaga Roger Castillo  (Univ. of Jaén).
11:10-11: 35 ¿Jesús de Nazaret, “mago negro”? Una revisitación crítica a
la exégesis de Juan 13:27 en “Jesus the magician” de Morton Smith (Jesus
of Nazareth, “black magician”? A critical revisitation of the exegesis
of John 13:27 in “Jesus the magician” by Morton Smith) Ernesto Caveda de
la Guardia. Habana.


CLOSING SESSION
12:05-12:30 Nuevas perspectivas sobre la materialidad de la escritura en
el ritual mágico. El caso de las tintas (New perspectives on the
materiality of writing in magical ritual. The case of inks) Dr. Míriam
Blanco Cesteros (Prof. UCM)
12:30-12:45. As an epilogue: “Magic and Thought: Contributions to the
Studies on Magic of the First Edition and New Horizons.” Congress
moderators.