RADIO - Jesse Waugh

Professor Adele Gardner of The University of The West of England discusses the Thoth tarot designed by Freida Harris under the guidance of Aleister Crowley.

We welcome Judith Noble of the Arts University College at Bournemouth for a revealing discussion on the films of American avant-garde filmmakers Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger.

We are pleased to have as our guest Liliana Leopardi of Hobert and William Smith Colleges, New York. Liliana is currently working on the first complete translation of Camillo Leonardi's Speculum Lapidum or The Mirror of Stones as it is known in English. In this episode she expands on her publication entitled Renaissance Magic and Semi-Precious Stones: The Fetish as a Path to Psychological Integrity.

Monika Winiarczyk: 'Homo Signorum': Looking to God or Looking to the Stars? The Role of Astrology in Medieval Christianity

Marthe Kretzschmar (Technische Universitaet Hamburg) Waxwork. Aby Warburg’s “Bildzauber” between materiality and resemblance

Charming Intentions 7: Alexandra Marraccini: Open Secrets: Alchemical-Hermetic Iconography in the Ripley Scrolls

Natural Magic and Divine Word in Giambologna's Statue of Mercury

Imma Ramos (University of Cambridge): Impurity, Auspiciousness and Power: The Tantric Transformations of Lajja Gauri at Kamakhya

Adele Gardner (University of Bristol) Art, Invocation and Alchemy: The Tarot Paintings of Lady Frieda Harris

Occultism in the Films of Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger