Popular Occulture in Britain 1875-1947

Panel I: Defining and Mapping the British Occult Press

Chair: Christine Ferguson

• A. Gilbert (Independent Scholar), 'Thinking Sideways: Pitfalls in the Periodical Labyrinth and How to Avoid Them'
• Michael Shaw (University of Glasgow), 'The Theosophical Press in Scotland'
• Egil Asprem (Stockholm University), 'Science in the Early Twentieth-Century Occult Public Sphere: The Case of H. Stanley Redgrove'

Panel 2: Tabloid Sensation and Mail-Order Magic

Chair: Roger Luckhurst

• Nick Freeman (Loughbrough University), 'The Daily Beast: Black Magic and the Popular Press'
• Marc Demarest (IAPSOP), 'Latent Powers, Latent Demand: A Look at the Mail-Order Occult in Anglo-American Culture, 1895-1920'

Panel 3: Public Privacies 

Chair: Andrew Radford

• Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Negotiating the Public and Private in The Ghost Club'
• Catherine Anyango (Konstfack), 'Beyond the Border: Visualizing Ghosts from Spirit Photography to CCTV'

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