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Visions of Utopia –
Masonic, Religious and Esoteric
Two-day conference,
3 and 4 November
Day One
9:15 Registration & Coffee
9:50 Opening: CMRC Trustees –
Introduction: Carole McGilvery,
conference organiser. Chairman: John
Acaster, Manchester Association of
Masonic Research.
10:00 Prince M.M. Shcherbatov’s Journey
to the Land of Ophir – an 18th century Russian
Utopia: Professor A. Lentin, Visiting Fellow,
Open University and Wolfson College,
Cambridge.
10:40 The Quest for Shangri-La – A
Compelling example of the Utopia Dream:
Christopher McIntosh, Fellow of
Exeter University.
11:20 Morning Coffee
11:45 Utopias of the Mind – Reality &
Imagination: Prof. dr.W. J. Hanegraaff,
Chair, History of Hermetic Philosophy
and Related Currents, University
of Amsterdam.
12:25 Speaker’s Panel – Questions
and discussion
1:00 Lunch Break
2:30 Broken Masonry – Healing Europe
with a dirty joke (Johann Valentin Andreae):
Tobias Churton, Hon. Fellow of
Exeter University.
3:10 Heaven in the New World: Rosicrucian
Art & the Shaker ‘Gift’ Drawings: Robert
Gilbert, author and editor, Past Master
of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076.
3:50 Afternoon Tea.
4:20 French Utopians & Freemasonry: 19th
century: Pierre Mollier, Director, Library
& Museum, Grand Orient of France.
5:00 Speakers’ Panel – Questions
and discussion
5:30 Close
Day Two
9:30 Coffee
9:50 Welcome & Introduction: Carole
McGilvery. Chairman: Dr Andrew Prescott,
Manager of Library Services, Director of the
University Research Centre, Lampeter,
University of Wales.
10:00 Campanella’s City of the Sun: Dr Peter
Forshaw, British Academy Postdoctoral
Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London,
and Exeter University.
10:40 From the Spiritual to the Natural:
The Idea of the New Jerusalem in
Swedenborg & Blake: Richard Lines,
Secretary, Swedenborg Society.
11:20 Morning Coffee
11:45 Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: The
Matter of Desire & Political Utopia: Dr Guido
Giglioni, Warburg Institute, Cassamarca
Lecturer in Neo-Latin Cultural &
Intellectual History.
12:25 Speaker’s Panel – Questions and
Discussion.
1:00 Lunch Break.
2:30 Reflections on Utopias & Everyday Life:
Utopianism & Communitarianism: Lyman
T Sargent, Prof. Emeritus, Political Science,
University of Missouri. Visiting Fellow,
Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
3:10 George Washington’s Masonic Vision for
an American Utopia: Mark Tabbert, Director
of Collections, George Washington
Masonic Memorial.
3:50 Noland or Neverland? Thomas More’s
Utopia: Travel & the Ideal Society:
Dr Chloe Houston, Lecturer Early Modern
Drama, School of English & American
Literature, University of Reading.
4:30 Speaker’s Panel – Questions
and Discussion
5:00 Afternoon Tea
5:30 Close
All meetings are held at:
The Canonbury Academy, 6 Canonbury
Place, London n1 2nq.
Registration forms for the above conference
can be downloaded from
www.canonbury.ac.uk
Weekend Conference fee £77 (£8.50
per day lunch optional). For further
information, tickets, accommodation,
meals and travel, contact Carole McGilvery
on 020 7226 6256 or e-mail:
mcgilvery@canonbury.ac.uk
The Cornerstone Society
The 2007 Northern Conference will be held
on Saturday, 10 November, at Hemsley
House, Salford, Greater Manchester. The
speakers will be Roger Dachez, President
of the Institut Maçonnique de France, John
Acaster a Past Master of Manchester Lodge
for Masonic Research and Martin Roche,
Provincial Deputy Grand Director of
Ceremonies, Province of East Lancashire.
They will be holding a ritual workshop
for the first time at this conference.
The cost is £15.50, including a light
buffet lunch and refreshments. Tickets
can be purchased securely on line via
www.cornerstonesociety.com or by
writing to the secretary, enclosing a stamped
addressed envelope at the address below.
Full details are on the website.
A programme of Cornerstone Society
lectures for Lodges throughout the year is
being put together. Interested Lodges are
invited to contact the Society, and details
of those talks can be obtained through
the website.
Trials are in process at the moment
of the Lodge Orator scheme in several
Provinces in conjunction with Grand
Lodge. As the trials progress, details will
be published. Please check the website
www.cornerstonesociety.com for details
of developments.
For further specific information, email
secretary@cornerstonesociety.com or write
to The Secretary, The Cornerstone Society,
‘Bellfield’, 13 Victoria Road, Lytham St
Annes, Lancashire, FY8 1lE.
Christmas Carol Concert
The Grand Temple of Freemasons’ Hall
will ring to the sound of the Fanfare
Trumpeters of the Central Band of the
RAF at the opening of the Hospitals’
Christmas Carol Concert on Saturday,
8 December at 7.30pm. With Joseph Nolan
from the Chapel Royal at the organ and
the Malcolm Sargent Festival Choir joining
representatives from the London Hospitals’
Choirs, this concert will bring the spirit of
Christmas to life. The brilliant young cellist
Rowena Calvert will perform solo items
and there will be a series of carols sung in
the magic of candlelight as well as plenty
of opportunity for you to join in familiar
carols. The evening will be conducted by
Clark Rundell.
Do come and celebrate the beginning
of the Christmas season in an atmosphere
of fun and festivity, all in the cause of charity
(to be agreed by the London Hospitals).
Saturday, 8 December 2007 at 7.30pm
Tickets all unreserved £18 and £11
Box Office (020) 7602 6818
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