Please note that the Schedule is subject to change.</em >Times below are Montreal time (EST/EDT), which is UTC-4. It seems your local time setting is ““. If you are an online participant at the conference, be sure to get the time right by using a time conversion tool.
| Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | |||
| EDT (Conference time in Montreal) | |||
| 13:00 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 13:30 | Getting to Know You | ||
| 15:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:30 | Paper 1 | John Amaral and Derek Sinko: The enneagrammatic nature of all of Gurdjieff’s writing and teaching |
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| 17:00 | Closing Remarks, Moment of Silence | ||
| 19:30- 21:00 | Music | Elan Sicroff: Gurdjieff’s Music |
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| Thursday, October 15, 2026 | |||
| EDT (Conference time in Montreal) | |||
| 7:00 | Sitting | ||
| 7:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 8:45 | Paper 2 | Peter Apps: Aisors |
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| 10:15 | Break | ||
| 10:30 | Study Session 1 | ||
| 11:45 | Movements | ||
| 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| 13:45 | Paper 3 | Harry Bennett: Movements as Legominism |
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| 15:15 | Break | ||
| 15:45 | Discussion | Lydie Vachon: Gurdjieff’s Sexual Teachings |
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| 17:00 | Closing Remarks, Moment of Silence | ||
| Friday, October 16, 2026 | |||
| EDT (Conference time in Montreal) | |||
| 7:00 | Sitting | ||
| 7:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 8:45 | Paper 4 | Ronald Jones: Intervals and External Forces |
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| 10:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 | Study Session 2 | ||
| 11:45 | Movements | ||
| 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| 13:45 | Paper 5 | Robert King: The Two Arches/ The Formation of Personality and the First Conscious Shock |
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| 15:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:45 | Study Session 3 | ||
| 17:00 | Closing Remarks, Moment of Silence | ||
| 19:30- 21:00 | Music | Elan Sicroff: Gurdjieff’s Music |
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| Saturday, October 17, 2026 | |||
| EDT (Conference time in Montreal) | |||
| 7:00 | Sitting | ||
| 7:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 8:45 | Paper 6 | Kent Leopold Sabata: Something “All Wrong”/ Gurdjieff’s Five American Meetings and the Reorientation of his teaching |
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| 10:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 | Study Session 4 | ||
| 11:45 | Movements | ||
| 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| 13:45 | Paper 7 | Marc Roemer: Analogs of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson in Ancient History |
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| 15:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:45 | Study Session 5 | ||
| 17:00 | Closing Remarks, Moment of Silence | ||
| 18:30 | Banquet: Catalina Caro | ||
| Sunday, October 18, 2026 | |||
| EDT (Conference time in Montreal) | |||
| 9:00 | Coffee & Chat | ||
| 10:00 | Where do we go from here? | ||
| 12:00 | Conference Closing | ||