Wednesday, 29 April – Sunday, 3 May 2015
The 20th International Humanities Conference: Wednesday 29th April to Sunday 3rd May, 2015 at the Van der Valk Hotel, Hoorn, NH, Netherlands.
The program of the conference is listed below. The program can also be downloaded as a booklet pdf file.
| Wednesday, 29 April 2015 | ||
| 2:30 PM | Informal Session: Getting to know one another | |
| 3:45 PM | Coffee break | |
| 4:15 PM | Seminar | “How to read” |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner | |
| 8:30 PM | Open evening for renewing and building relationships | |
| Thursday, 30 April 2015 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation | |
| 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks | |
| 9:30 AM | Paper | Lee van Laer: Intentional Suffering In Beelzebub’s Tales and Meister Eckhart’s Book of Divine Consolation: a perspective on meanings |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 AM | Paper | Paul Beekman Taylor: Centrigravital Love in Gurdjieff’s Rhetoric of Time |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:30 PM | Seminar | Ch. 39 of Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson – “The Holy Planet ‘Purgatory’” |
| 3:45 PM | Coffee break | |
| 4:15 PM | Seminar | Ch. 39 of Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson – “The Holy Planet ‘Purgatory’” |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner | |
| 8:30 PM | Movie: Chartres Cathedral – A Sacred Geometry | |
| Friday, 1 May 2015 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation | |
| 9:30 AM | Seminar | Ch. 39 of Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson – “The Holy Planet ‘Purgatory’” |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 AM | Seminar | Ch. 10 of Meetings with Remarkable Men – “Professor Skridlov” (from p. 230) |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:30 PM | Paper | Ocke de Boer: Two Souls |
| 3:45 PM | Coffee break | |
| 4:15 PM | Seminar | Group Reading of the Prologue to Life is Real |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner | |
| 8:30 PM | Piano recital by Avrom Surath | |
| Saturday, 2 May 2015 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation | |
| 9:30 AM | Paper | Anthony Blake: Understanding Cosmic Laws |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 AM | Paper | Robin Bloor: The Diagram of Everything Living |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:30 PM | Seminar | Darlene Franz: Singing a Whole World: Chant Circle as Microcosmos |
| 4:00 PM | Coffee break | |
| 4:30 PM | Seminar | Theme discussion to be decided from emerging themes during the conference |
| 7:30 PM | Banquet evening | |
| Sunday, 3 May 2015 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation | |
| 9:30 AM | Seminar | Where Do We Go From Here? |
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