My Conference Talks, Lectures and Interviews
Meeting people, sharing ideas, talking about my research, literature and the weird is one of my most favourite things. On this page you can see where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to. I welcome invitations for speaking opportunities and calls to submit lecture/paper proposals. I’m always interested in new collaborations and getting involved with exciting projects. Please contact me if you’d like to connect. I look forward to hearing from you!
Recent talks, events and papers
Journal Article published ‘English Studies” December 21 2023
Interviewed by Rick Palmer for Some Other Sphere podcast. ‘Esoteric Fiction and the Work of Alan Garner’ 29th November 2023 Some Other Sphere
Talk for Edgeways social club (online): “ Aleister Crowley’s Moonchild” 14th October 2023.
Co-Host and Speaker at University of Surrey’s Golden Dawn Study Day at the Museum and Archive of Freemasonry, London. 11th October 2023. Talk: “Occult Languages of Spirit Communication”. Very successful event.
Owl House Seminar evening class on Alan Garner’s “The Owl Service” 28th October 2023
Hosted Owl House Seminars evening class “ Landscape, Myth and Folklore in Alan Garner’s fiction” 7th September 2023
Invited speaker at London Fortean Society, The Bell, E1. 29th August 2023. Talk: “Alan Garner’s Cheshire Dreamtime” . Great success, fun evening!
Co-Host and Speaker at day conference “Florence Farr and the Magical Imagination” held at The Theosophical Society rooms London 8th July 2023 in aid of Breast Cancer Charity. Talk: “Florence Farr and Occult Languages of Spirit Communication”. Highly successful event, raised over £1000 for charity.
Host and speaker at private seminar charity event on Florence Farr ( The Golden Dawn) in London 30th June 2023
Hosted Owl House Seminar study day on “Weirding the City” exploring work by Mary Butts, Ian Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein, Arthur Machen, psychogeography, more 17th June 2023
Hosted Owl House evening class seminar on Dennis Wheatley’s novel “ The Devil Rides Out’ 18th May 2023
Hosted a day-long Owl House Seminar “ Moonchild and the High Priestess” on Aleister Crowley’s novel Moonchild and a practical session on the Tarot of the Golden Dawn 22nd April 2023
Interviewed by Stephanie Shea for ‘Rejected Religion’ Podcast March 16th 2023 - Spotlight
Folklore, Customs and Divination: Traditions of the Turning Year ( January 2023)
The Domestic Occult (Centre for Folklore, Myth and Magic, Todmorden, December 2022)
PHOTO CREDIT: Holly Elsdon Director of Centre For Folklore 2022
The Domestic Occult, or, Every Woman’s Luck (Magickal Women Conference, London, October 2022)
Earth Magic and Wandering Objects in Alan Garner’s Cheshire Dreamtime ( Stars, Stones, Stories :Alan Garner Research group talk, online September 2022)
Magic in Alan Garner’s Fantasy Fiction (Edgeways group, August 2022)
From Colonial India to Trans-Plutonic Dimensions in Space: Just How far can a Lady Archaeologist Travel? (Dr Margaret Murray Symposium, November 2021)
Introduction to Mary Butts, Feminist Occult Modernist (University of Amsterdam, July 2021)
Sometimes a Witch and Sometimes a Bitch: Mary Butts’s Modernist Visions of Magic (MWC , June 2021 )
Magical Maps, Daimonic Territories: Occult Female Flaneurs (Mary Butts’ Paris and Katherine Maltwood’s Glastonbury Star Temple) ( September 2020)
Star Children: Cosmic Duality in Alan Garner’s ‘Boneland’ Trilogy (June 2020)
Children of the Dark: Haunted Gloucestershire and the Cheltenham Ghost (October 2019)
Esoteric Divinatory Arts : Tarot and Numerology courses (regularly held - absolute beginners and others - in - person, London and elsewhere since 2015)
