2016 Schedule of Presentations - All and Everything International Humanities Conference

Wednesday, 20 April – Sunday, 24 April 2016

The 21th International Humanities Conference: Wednesday 20th April to Sunday 24th May, 2016 at the Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, Massachusetts

A provisional outline of the program of the conference is listed below.

In addition, we have several Poster Presentations this year! Look for these papers in the Ballroom on the Poster Boards.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 – MC: Jeremy Weir

2:30 pm – Informal Session: getting to know one another
3:45 pm – Coffee break
4:15 pm – Seminar: Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson, “The Holy Planet ‘Purgatory’,” from p 775
Facilitator: Kristina Turner

7:00 pm – Dinner on your own

8:30 pm – John MacPherson: Gurdjieff, Ashiata and the Zoroastrian Connection
Why did Gurdjieff choose the historical Zoroaster and present him as Ashiata Shiemash, the hero of Beelzebub’s Tales? That being so, what significance has it for us as individuals and for our Work? Exploring Zoroaster as the historical Ashiata Shiemash, a short film & a group discussion with John MacPherson.

— Voluntary Sitting/Meditation each morning in the Pickman Room – available only 7 to 8am —

Breakfast 7:30-8:45 am — Lunch 1-2:00 pm served each day in Sophia’s

Thursday, April 21, 2016 – MC: Debbie Elliott

8:45 am – Opening Remarks
9:00 am– Lee van Laer: Objective Conscience in Beelzebub and the Impulses of Faith, Hope, Love

10:00 am– Coffee Break

10:30am– Robin Bloor:The Philology of The Tales – Gurdjieff’s Choice of Words in ALL and Everything

11:30 am – Coffee Break

12:00 pm – Toddy Smyth: An Inquiry into the Peculiarities of ‘Omnipresent-Active-Element-Okidanokh,’
Part One: The First Peculiarity

1:00 pm – Lunch in Sophia’s

2:30 pm – Seminar: “The Holy Planet ‘Purgatory’,” continued, Facilitator: Irv Givot

3:30 pm – Coffee break

4:00 pm – Seminar: Meetings with Remarkable Men, “Bogachevsky,” chapter IV, Facilitator: Rose Crompton

7:00 pm – Dinner on your own

8:30 pm – Michael Pittman: Travels in Turkey and Armenia

Friday, April 22, 2016 – MC: Rose Crompton

8:45 am – Joseph Azize: Aiëssirittoorassnian-contemplation

9:45 am – Coffee Break

10:15 am – Irv Givot: Role of Contradiction in the Work

11:15 am – Coffee Break

11:45 pm – John Amaral: Gurdjieff on Hypnotism: Superstition, Magic, Religion, Hysteria, Prayer and Hypnosis in Work on Oneself

1:00 pm – Lunch in Sophia’s

2:00 pm – Open to all Planning Committee meeting

2:30 pm – Seminar: “Prologue” to Life is Real Only Then, When “I Am,” from p 17, Facilitator: Tony Blake

3:30 pm – Coffee Break

4:00 pm – Seminar: “Prologue” continued, Facilitator: Dimitri Peretzi

7:00 pm – Dinner on your own

8:30 pm – Film “Remembering Gurdjieff,” an interview with Jeanne de Salzmann, Gurdjieff Music follows

Saturday, April 23, 2016 – MC: David Bull

8:45 am – Ocke de Boer: Exploring the Third State of Consciousness, or Conscious Labor and Voluntary Suffering

9:45 am – Coffee Break

10:15 am – Will Mesa: Beelzebub’s Tales and the Grace from Above

11:15 am – Coffee Break

11:45 pm – Russell Schreiber: How We Block the First and Second Conscious Shocks

1:00 pm– Lunch in Sophia’s

2:30 pm– Seminar: “The Holy Planet ‘Purgatory’” continued, Facilitator: Michael Pittman

3:30 pm – Coffee Break

4:00 pm – Seminar: Meetings with Remarkable Men, “Professor Skridlov” Facilitator: Dave Kangas

7:00 pm – Banquet Evening with Ben Bennett, “Mullah Nassr Eddin” and a Solaris Concert
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Sunday, April 24, 2016 – MC: Bonnie Phillips

9:30 am – 11:30 — Where do we go from here? Conference Closes

3:00 pm – Solaris Concert at the Historic Larcom Theater near Salem in Beverly: 13 Wallis St, Beverly, MA 01915

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