Conferences
o International Conference: Science and the Occult from Antiquity through the Early Modern Period, April 20, 2012, support of History Dept and Puskas-Bilsland Fellowship, Purdue Univ. Tasks: organizer, chair (two sessions), and presenter. http://www.catalinaghionea.net/conference2012.html
o Symposium: Science and the Occult in European History, Oct 1, 2010, support of History Dept and Puskas-Bilsland Fellowship, Purdue University. Tasks: organizer, chair (one session), and presenter. http://catalinaghionea.net/Symposium.html
o Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference of German
Studies Association
October 4-7, 2012 GSA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Session: The German
Occult: Representations of Magic and Witchcraft
Paper: Decoding “The Book with Seven Seals,” an Anonymous Alchemical
Manuscript
https://www.thegsa.org/conference/current.html
o Science and the Occult from
Antiquity through the Early Modern Period
April 20, 2012 Purdue
University
Paper: The Divine Word and the Power of Sound in Alchemical Recipes
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/history/scienceandtheoccult
o
46th International Congress in Medieval
Studies
May
12-15, 2011 Western Michigan University
Session:
Alchemy and the History of Science (sponsored
by Societas Alchimica)
Paper: Shamanic
Methods in Western European Alchemy
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule11.pdf
o
Science and Magic:
Ways of Knowing in the Renaissance
April
29-30,
2011 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Session: Alchemy beyond the Laboratory
Paper: Alchemical Patterns and Symbols in European
Thought (XVI-XVIII centuries)
http://www.princeton.edu/renaissance/events/waysofknowing/
o
Science and the Occult in European History
October 1, 2010 Purdue University, History
Dept.
Session: Magic and the Occult in Europe from
Antiquity to Early Modernity
Organizer and Chair: Angela C. Ghionea (with
support of Bilsland-Puskas Fellowship)
Paper: Origins of Alchemical
Patterns in European Thought
http://catalinaghionea.net/Symposium.html
o
45th International
Congress on Medieval Studies
May
7–10, 2010 Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University
Session: Magic and the
Occult from Antiquity to Early Modernity
Organizer: Paul White
Paper: The Non-Rational in the Rational: the Occult Origins of Science from Carolingians to Enlightenment
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule10.pdf
o MARS Workshops
November 16, 2009 Indiana: Purdue University
Session: European Renaissance
Organizer: Michael Ryan
Paper: Occult Origins of Science
Program: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/mars/events/marsmondays.html
o
44th International
Congress on Medieval Studies
May
7–10, 2009 Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University
Session: Alchemy
Organizer: Nancy L. Turner
Paper:
Voynich has a Meaning: Alchemy and
Exotic Plants in the Most Mysterious
Manuscript in the World
Program: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule09.pdf
o MARS Workshops
April 6, 2009 Indiana: Purdue University
Session: European Renaissance
Organizer: Michael Ryan
Paper: New Herbs from Americas and their Use in the Renaissance Italian Medicine
Program:
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/mars/events/marsmondays.html
o
CSAS 2009 Conference
April
2-5, 2009 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois campus
Session:"Body, Culture and Society"
Organizer: Myrdene Anderson
Paper: The Role of Human Prints and Divine Traces in Persuasive Rituals
Program: http://courses.missouristate.edu/mbuckner/CSAS09PrelimProgram.htm
Abstract: http://courses.missouristate.edu/mbuckner/CSAS%2009%20Paper%20Abstracts.htm
o
Congreso Internacional
Chymia. Ciencia y Naturaleza en la Europea Moderna (1450-1750) September 2008, El Escorial, Madrid (attended)
o HGSA 2008 Conference,
Purdue. Paper: "Voynich
Manuscript and its Genuine Alphabet" (12 April 2008)
o OAH 2008 Annual Meeting,
New York, (Hilton Hotel). Paper: "Understanding the
"Voynich", the Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World. American
Shamanism and Exotic Plants" (29 March 2008)
o MARS Conference
(Medieval
and Renaissance Society, Purdue)
Paper: "New Contributions to Voynich Manuscript's Mystery" (24
March 2008)
o Purdue
students workshop Paper:
"Voynich Manuscript is not a Hoax. Uncovering New Evidence" (29
January 2008)
o Paper: The Alchemical Playground During Early
Modern Scientific Experiments
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture
Association Annual Conference 2011,Philadelphia,
PA
o Paper:
The Power of the Occult and Alchemy during
Carolingians
Third Annual Graduate
Student Conference on Power and Struggle, 2011 U. of Alabama
http://bama.ua.edu/~gha/conference.html
o Paper:
Handprints, Footprints and Representations of Human Body in Magical Rituals
North Central Sociological Association 2009 Conference; 2009
Michigan
Session on "Body, Culture
and Society" http://www.ncsanet.org/meetings/index.html
o Paper: Products
of American Arid and Semi-arid Lands in European Renaissance: Trading Medicine
knowledge, Herbs, and Drugs
SCÉR (Congrès de la Société Canadienne d'Études de la
Renaissance); 2009 Ottawa Session: De Fabrica Artis Medicinae: the parts of
medicine in Early Modern Times. http://www.crrs.ca/csrs-scer/conferences/cong-09.pdf
o Paper: The
Role of Irrational in the Rationality of Early Modern Europe
SCSC 2009 (The Sixteenth Century
Society and Conference); 2009 Switzerland: Geneva
Session: The Supernatural in Early Modern European Society http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/2009GenevaProgramv2.pdf
o Paper: Products
of American Arid and Semi-arid Lands in the Italian Renaissance: Trading
Knowledge, Herbs, Food, and Drugs
Collecting East and West, 2009
Italy, Florence Univ. of Arts & British Institute of Florence
Session: The West: New Worlds of
Knowledge