World Conference on Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History: Paris 2015

World Conference on Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History: 
Research in Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society 

The Bibliotheque Nationale- Paris, France 

May 29-30, 2015 


Convened by the journal Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society in cooperation with the Bibliotheque Nationale, the first World Conference on Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History: Research in Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society, focuses on the study of ritual, secrecy, and civil society vis-à-vis the dynamics of Masonic scholarship around the world. The conference aims to explore how civil society, secrecy, and ritual have been important elements during different episodes of local and world histories, and indeed still are.

The conference will be held bi-annually in Paris, and hopes to open new doors while promoting multilingual and multicultural scholarship in areas such as, the relations between such Masonic-related subjects as the Companionnage, guilds, friendly societies, and Greek fraternities.

The call for papers is now open, and perspectives on and interpretations of all time periods and geographic zones are welcome. Paper and panel proposals should be submitted to Whitney Shepard, Registrar of the Conference, at wshepard@ipsonet.org. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by Westphalia Press in three collections: Vital Masonic Scholarship in the 21st Century, New Research in Secret Societies, and European Scholarship in Secrecy and Ritualism. Additionally, some presentations will be made available for online streaming and video recorded through the American Public University System.

Conference Committee: Guillermo De Los Reyes (Conference Chair- University of Houston), Paul Rich (George Mason University), Daniel Guiterrez-Sandoval (Policy Studies Organization), Pierre Mollier (Editor, Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society), Maria Eugenia Vazquez-Semadeni (University of California, Los Angeles), Brent Morris (Scottish Rite Supreme Council), John Belton (Manchester Association of Masonic Research)

Keynote Address by John Cooper, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of California, President of the North American Conference of Grand Masters- Into the Maelstrom: The Issue of Masonic Regularity, Past and Present Commentator: Alain Bauer
Chair: Guiillermo De Los Reyes

Conference Website

Call for Papers

Thanks to John Slifko, and the Policy Studies Organization.

Publication: New Sources on Women and Freemasonry

New Sources on Women and Freemasonry

Vol. 1 No. 1 of Ritual Secrecy, and Civil Society

Edited and Introduced by Pierre Mollier

There has been a great lack in international scholarship concerned with ritual and secrecy because so much of the good work is being done in languages that the mono-lingual English-speaking world has no idea exist. The strength of the articles in this collection will come as a considerable surprise even to experts in the field, because the research in Europe is very advanced and frankly is of such high quality that those who are not linguists should look to their laurels. Much is being done in discovering un-mined material in archives and the selections for this volume are a feast of new bibliographical references.


http://westphaliapress.org/2013/07/15/new-sources-on-women-and-freemasonry/

Masonic Marseille: A Conference.

Masonic Marseille

The symposium Claude-François Achard, un grand Marseillais méconnu will be held October 18, 2013 by the IMF - Provence, Marseille will host the sixth Conference of Traditional Renaissance Renaissance Traditionnelle on Saturday, October 19, 2013. The theme is Masonic Marseille: Mediterranean crossroads of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century . As before, the event will be hosted by the Alcazar Library (Course Belsunce 13001 Marseille).


Program
•10am. Doors open
•10:15. Inauguration of the conference by Roger Dachez and Pierre Mollier (Traditional Renaissance) and Daniel Hermann , Deputy Mayor of Marseille delegate for cultural events, museums, and libraries
•10:30. Freemasonry: between sociability and spirituality in the Enlightenment by Roger Dachez
•11:15. Idea initiation and Freemasonry in the eighteenth century by Pierre Mollier le Cavailler
•12h. Lunch Break
•14h. The Mother Scottish Lodge and The Triple Union in Marseille: two essentials in the history of French Freemasonry. Presentation of an original document: the Treaty of Understanding of November 5, 1801 by Louis Trebuchet and Dominique Sappia
•14:45. Marseille and the Mediterranean as a Masonic crossroads by Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
•15.30. Marseille, capital of the occult? Egyptian rites, Rosicrucianism and Martinism in the Mediterranean by Serge Caillet
•16h. Break
•16.30. Tribulations of a Marseille Lodge: L'Aimable Sagesse Jean-Claude Marchand
•17.15. Conclusions and closing the conference with representatives of the Grand Lodges of the MFI Provence

Price: 17 euros. Booking Online .

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