INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY
2n d INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY FREEMASONS’ HALL, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH, 29 MAY- 31 MAY 2009 Preliminary Programme and Registration Booking Form
Held under the Patronage of: Most Worshipful Grand Master Mason The Grand Lodge of Scotland
Most Worshipful Pro Grand Master The United Grand Lodge of England
Most Worshipful Grand Master The Grand Lodge of Ireland
Held under the Special Patronage of: 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine, KT
and with the support of: The Centre for Research into Freemasonry, University of Sheffield Centre interdisciplinaire bordelais d’étude des lumières-Lumières Nature Société, Université de Bordeaux III Centre d’étude de la Littérature Françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles (CELLF), Sorbonne IV. Paris Chair of Freemassonary, Faculty of Religious Studies, University of Leiden Centre de la Méditerrannée Moderne et Contemporaine, Université de nice Sophia-Antipolis The Interdisciplinary Research Group Freemasonary, Free University of Brussels. The Conference is supported by numerous academic institutions. For full details, please access www.ichfonline.org
Conference Promoters: Supersonic Events Ltd Conference Organiser Website: www.northernnetworking.co.uk Conference Website: www.ichfonline.org
1 ‘For a’ that, an’ a’ that, It’s coming yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man, the world o’er,
Shall brothers be for a’ that.’
Contents Page no. Page no. Conference Planning 3 Important Dates 10
The Purpose of the Conference 4 Accommodation 11
Registration 4 Social Programme 12
Plenary Speakers 5 Travel Information 13
Preliminary Conference Programme 8 Edinburgh City Centre Map 14
2 Conference Planning Conference Promoters Supersonic Events Ltd 34 Loanbank Quadrant, Govan, Glasgow G51 3HZ, Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0) 141 445 4562 Fax: +44 (0) 141 445 1480 Conference Organiser Northern Networking Events Ltd 1 Tennant Avenue, College Milton South, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 5NA, Scotland, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1355 244966 Fax: +44 (0) 1355 249959 Email: [email protected] Conference organiser’s web: www.northernnetworking.co.uk Conference web: www.ichfonline.org
Local Organising Committee Mr Robert L D Cooper, Curator, Professor Paul Rich, Grand Lodge of Scotland Stanford Universtiy, USA Dr Andreas Önnerfors, Centre for research into Dr. Yuri Stoyanow, Freemasonry, University of Sheffield Kenyon Institute London, UK Mrs Dorothe Sommer, Centre for Research into Dr. Henrik Bogdan, Freemasonry, University of Sheffield Gothenburg University, Sweden Mr Jim Daniel, History Department, Professor Martin Papenheim, University of Sheffield University of Bielefeld, Germany Academic Committee Dr. Kristiane Hasselmann, Professor Dr Andrew Prescott Free University of Berlin, Germany Lampeter University, Wales, UK Dr Andreas Önnerfors, Professor Margaret C Jacob, Centre for Research into Freemasonry, University of California L.A., USA University of Sheffield, UK Professor Charles Porset, Professor Miguel Guzmán-Stein, Sorbonne, Paris, France Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Profeassor Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Dr. Eric Saunier, Université de Nice, Institut Universitaire de France Université du Harve, Le Harve, France Professor Malcolm G. Davies, Aubrey Newman, Professor Emeritus, Chair of Freemasonry, Leiden University, University of Leicester, UK The Netherlands Professor Baudouin Decharneux, Professor Jeffrey Tyssens, Director CIERL, Université libre de Bruxelles Free University of Brussels, Belgium John M. Hamill, BA, ALA Dr. Dominique Soucy, Director of Communications, UGLE, London, UK Université de Franche-Comté/Besançon, France Professor Cécile Révauger, Young Researchers Panel University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France Harriet Sandvall, PhD-Student, Professor Tatiana Artyemeva, Courtauld Institute, UK St Petersburg Branch, Anais Maes, PhD-Student, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Free University of Brussels, Belgium 3 The Purpose of the Conference Access and Barclaycard. Full details of the prices for registration are printed on the enclosed registration The overarching purpose of the conference is to from which can be posted, or faxed to: illustrate and exemplify the wide range of study being undertaken on the history of freemasonry and will 2nd International Conference on the seek to advance further scholarly work in this area by History of Freemasonry providing an overview of recent work by those studying Northern Networking Events Ltd the subject. It is hoped that the conference will reinforce 1 Tennant Avenue, College Milton South the advances already made in establishing the history of East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 5NA, Scotland, UK freemasonry as a distinctive field of historical research Tel: +44 (0) 1355 244966 in its own right. Fax: +44 (0) 1355 249959
For information about the social programme that has Email: [email protected] been arranged to coincide with the conference, please Conference organiser’s web: see page 12. www.northernnetworking.co.uk Conference web: Edinburgh, Scotland www.ichfonline.org Edinburgh is the second-largest city in Scotland and the country’s capital city. The historic centre of Edinburgh Entitlements is divided into two by Princes Street Gardens. To the The delegate registration fee of £250.00 or south the view is dominated by Edinburgh Castle, £300.00 (late fee) includes: perched on the extinct volcanic crag, and the long sweep • Attendance at all Scientific Sessions and of the Old Town trailing after it along the ridge. To the Commercial Exhibition north lies Princes Street and the New Town. • Attendance at the Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception on Friday 29th May 2009 Situated in the heart of the city, you are only a short walk • Tea/Coffee during official breaks away from some of the best shopping in the UK as well as a • Lunch on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 May 2007 huge variety of cafes, restaurants and flourishing nightlife. • Delegate Bag, Programme Book and Conference Material Edinburgh is well known for the annual Festival, the • Certificate of Attendance associated Festival Fringe the largest performing arts • VAT at Prevailing Rate festival in the world, and for the Hogmanay street party. The venue for the Gala Dinner 2009 is the; The Venue New Club 86 Princess Street Freemasons’ Hall Edinburgh Freemasons’ Hall is situated in George Street in the EH2 2BB centre of Edinburgh’s New Town and runs parallel Gala Dinner Tickets £75 to Princes Street – a street which has been described as being one of the most beautiful in the world. It is Accompanying Persons unusual in that there are buildings only on one side of The Accompanying Persons registration fee of the street (the north side) the south side leads to Princes £50.00 includes: Street gardens and is dominated by Edinburgh Castle. • Attendance at the Morning Reception on Friday 29 May 2009 Registration • Attendance at the Welcome Reception on Friday The registration area will be situated on the ground 29 May 2009 floor of the Freemasons’ Hall. The opening hours are as • Entry on Edinburgh Bus Tour follows: • Delegate Bag including Edinburgh Tourist Friday 29 May 2009 0800 to 1700 Information Saturday 30 May 2009 0800 to 1700 • VAT @ 17.5% Sunday 31 May 2009 0800 to 1330 Payment of Fees Please note that all payments must be in pounds All prices quoted are in pounds sterling and payments sterling and cheques and Bank drafts should be made in any other currency will not be accepted. Please payable to Supersonic Events Ltd. We can also accept remit payment by either bank draft or cheque payable any of the following credit cards: Visa, Mastercard, to Supersonic Events Ltd. Fees can also be paid by 4 credit card. The local organisers will accept payment smoking areas have been set up outside many by Visa, MasterCard, Access and Barclaycard. We restaurants and bar and should be used accordingly. are also offering the opportunity on-line via our secure credit card payment system. Visit our website, Tipping www.northernnetworking.co.uk and follow the Although not compulsory, it is generally accepted that instructions. you should tip approximately 12-15% in restaurants and 10% to taxi drivers on longer journeys. Cancellation Policy Cancellations and requests for refunds should be Banks and Cash Dispensers made in writing to Northern Networking Events Ltd. In general, banking hours in Edinburgh are 0900 For cancellations received before 6th February 2009, – 17.00 hrs Monday to Friday. Some city centre 50% of the total remittance will be refunded. After banks are open on Saturdays from 0900 – 13.00 hrs. 6th February 2009 and before 10th April 2009, Nearly all banks, building societies and post offices 20% of the total remittance will be refunded. Fees offer a foreign exchange service. As the banks do not will not be refunded after 1st May 2009. have reliable hours at the weekend there is a foreign exchange service located at the Tourist Information Passports and Visas Centre office at 3 Princes Street, Edinburgh and also A valid passport is required for entry into the UK. at Waverley train station in the accommodation kiosk. Please consult the British Embassy or Consulate nearest to you for visa requirements. Plenary Speakers
Acknowledgement It is with great pleasure to announce the following Confirmation of registration and accommodation 5 plenary speakers will be delivering a key lecture at details will be returned as soon as possible after the conference: receipt of your completed form and remittance. Friday 29th May 2009 Official Language Plenary Lecture 10.00 – 11.00 The official language for the Conference is English and French. Simultaneous interpretation services Researching Freemasonry in the 21st Century: will not be provided. Chances and Challenges
Catering Biography Morning and afternoon tea/coffee and lunch will be Pr. Dr. Pierre-Yves provided for delegates on each day of the Conference Beaurepaire (born 1968) programme. Fellow of the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’ since 2007 Climate Professor of Early modern Scottish Weather can be unpredictable; although May history at Nice Sophia-Antipolis is often warm it is advisable to pack a warm sweater since 20003 and raincoat in addition to fine weather clothes. Chair of the Early Modern and Modern Research Center for Mediterranean Studies Tourist Information since 2006 The central Edinburgh and Scotland Information Director of the Cahiers de la Méditerranée Centre is located at: Visiting Professor at the Free University of Bruxelles 3 Princes Street (ULB), Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences of Religions, Edinburgh EH2 2QP international chair since 2007 “President d’honneur” Web: www.edinburgh.org of the Société française de recherches sur l’Ecossisme. Opening times during May are: Selection of Books Monday - Saturday 0900 - 1900 L’Autre et le Frère. L’Etranger et la Franc-maçonnerie en France au Sunday 1000 - 1900 XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Honoré Champion, Les dix-huitièmes Smoking siècles 23, 1998, 872 p. Since March 26th 2006, smoking is banned in all L’Europe des francs-maçons (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle), Paris, Belin, enclosed public spaces in Scotland. This includes Europe & Histoire, 2002, 325 p. restaurant, bars, nightclubs, shops, cinemas, offices, Nobles jeux de l’arc et loges maçonniques dans la France des Lumières. hospitals, sport centres and airports. Designated Enquête sur une sociabilité en mutation, Montmorency, 5 Ivoire-clair, « les architectes de la connaissance », the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the 2002, 245 p. L’espace des francs-maçons. Une sociabilité Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—the most européenne au XVIIIe siècle, Rennes, Presses universitaires influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory de Rennes, Histoire, 2003, 231 p. societies—and Gerald Gardner’s Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western Le mythe de l’Europe française. Diplomatie, culture et sociabilités esoteric New Religions Movements. A revised version au temps des Lumières, Paris, Autrement, collection « was published by State University of New York Press in Mémoires », 2007, 304 p. 2007. La République Universelle des francs-maçons. De Newton à Metternich, Rennes, Ouest-France, De mémoire d’homme: l’histoire, 1999, 210 Bogdan has published numerous articles and book p. (translation in Spanish, forthcoming 2008) chapters on various aspects of his three main areas L’Europe des Lumières, Paris, Presses universitaires de of research: Masonic Initiatory Societies, Western France, Que sais-je ? n°3715, 2004, 128 p. (translation esotericism, and New Religious Movements. in Arabic 2007, and Spanish, forthcoming 2008) Co-author with Silvia Marzagalli, Atlas de la Révolution Five key publications: française (forthcoming 2009). • Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation. SUNY Series, Western Esoteric Traditions (David Appelbaum, series Honors and Awards editor). State University of New York Press, Albany Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of NY. (ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7069-5). 240 pages. Science, 2004 Le Monde Prize for Academic Research, 1997 • “An Introduction to the High Degrees of Freemasonry” in Heredom: The Transactions of the Scottish Rite Research Society, Volume 14, Edition of scientfic symposiums 2006. Ed. S. Brent Morris, Washington D.C. pp. La Plume et la Toile. Pouvoirs et réseaux de correspondance dans 9-45. l’Europe des Lumières, Arras, Artois Presses Université, Histoire, 2002, 346 p. • “Death as Initiation: Order of the Solar Temple and Rituals of with Dominique Taurisson, Les ego-documents à l’heure Initiation” in The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death, de l’électronique. Nouvelles approches des espaces et des réseaux Ed. James R. Lewis. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, London 2006. relationnels, Montpellier, Presses universitaires de (ISBN: 0 7546 5285 8). pp. 133-153. Montpellier, 2003, 555 p. Crises, conflits et guerres en Méditerranée (XVIe-XXe siècles). • “Challenging the Morals of Western Society: The Histoire et géostratégie, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 2005, Use of Ritualised Sex in Contemporary Occultism” n°70-71, 193 p., 243 p. in The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. La Franc-maçonnerie en Méditerranée (XVIIIe-XXIe siècle). 8:2. (2006) pp. 211-246. Circulations, modèles, transferts, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 2006, n°72, 420 p. • “Kabbalistic Influence on the Early Development with Jens Häseler and Antony McKenna, Réseaux de of the Master Mason Degree of Freemasonry” in correspondance à l’âge classique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), Saint- Freemasonry and Religion: Many Faiths - One Brotherhood. The Etienne, Publications de l’université de Saint- Canonbury Papers Volume 3, Ed. Trevor Stewart, London, 2006. Etienne, 2006, 382 p. pp. 122-131.
Friday 29th May 2009 Saturday 30th May 2009 Plenary Lecture 17.30 – 18.30 Plenary Lecture 09.00 – 09.45
Biography Riding the Goat: Secrecy, Masculinity, and Fraternal Henrik Bogdan (born 1972), High Jinks in the United States, 1845-1930 Ph. D., University of Gothenburg, Department of Religious Studies, Biography Theology and Classical Languages. William D. Moore, USA In his thesis From Darkness to Light: William D. Moore has written Western Esoteric Rituals of Initiation and lectured extensively on (2003) Bogdan analyzed the Freemasonry and fraternalism in historical development masonic the United States. He is the author rituals of initiation and their of Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with Ritual Architecture, and Masculine the Craft degrees of Freemasonry, Bogdan examined Archetypes published by the 6 University of Tennessee Press in 2006. Dr. Moore the CD-rom ‘Northern Folk: Living Traditions of North holds an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. East Scotland’ with Thomas McKean, featuring audio and in American and New England Studies from Boston video interviews with tradition bearers from that area. University. He is currently an associate professor in the history department at the University of North Carolina Currently, Valentina Bold is working on a facsimile Wilmington, where he is also the director of the graduate edition of a collection of Scottish songs made in Yorkshire program in public history. From 1992 to 1999, Moore in the mid 18th century, a new edition of James Hogg’s served as the director of the Livingston Masonic Library ‘The Brownie of Bodsbeck’, and on a book looking at and Museum at the Grand Lodge, F. & A.M., of the State Scottish identity in Scotland and North America, based of New York. Dr. Moore is currently working on a study on her field research in Canada and the USA. of the American popular fascination with the Shakers in the middle decades of the twentieth century and on a scholarly history of surfing. He is not a Freemason, a Sunday 31st May 2009 Shaker, or a surfer. Plenary Lecture 12.30 – 13.30
Biography Saturday 30th May 2009 Andrew Prescott, Lampeter Plenary Lecture 17.45 – 18.30 Professor Andrew Prescott is Librarian at the University of Witty...lusty and tender’: On editing Robert Burns’s Wales, Lampeter. He was formerly ‘Merry Muses of Caledonia’. Director of the Centre for Research into Freemasonry at the University Biography of Sheffield, the first centre ina Valentina Bold, UK British university to be devoted Dr Valentina Bold is head of to the study of the historical, cultural and social impact Scottish Studies at the University of Freemasonry. He is the author of numerous books of Glasgow’s Dumfries Campus. and articles on British history, including studies of the She convenes the M.Litt in Robert 1799 Unlawful Societies Act and of Charles Bradlaugh’s Burns Studies, and is a member career as a Freemason. He was also editor of the Academy of the the BARD centre (Burns Electronic Publications edition of William Preston’s Appreciation and Research in Illustrations of Masonry. Dumfries), teaching students in Scottish Studies at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is heavily involved in ‘Homecoming’ in Dumfriesshire, which includes a resident ‘Poet Laureate’ in the Globe Inn through 2009.
The daughter of the poet and critic Alan Bold, Valentina Bold was born in Edinburgh, and raised in rural Fife. She was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh, Memorial University, Newfoundland, and the University of Glasgow where her PhD looked at self-taught Scottish poets in Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from Burns to Hogg, Allan Cunningham, John Leyden, Janet Little, Robert Tannahill, Janet Hamilton and others. Arriving in Dumfries in 1999, where she lives with her husband, novelist David Nicol, Dr Bold previously worked at the Universities of Glasgow and then Aberdeen.
Bold is best known for her work on Scottish literature and song. She edited the new Luath edition of Robert Burns’s ‘Merry Muses of Caledonia’ and this experience forms the foundation of her lecture. Her books include ‘Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology’ and ‘James Hogg: A Bard of Nature’s Making’, She is also interested in multimedia productions, and co-authored 7 Preliminary Conference Programme at a Glance
Friday 29 MAY 2009
Time Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3
08.00-17.00 Registartion takes place all day in the entrance foyer 09.45-10.00 Opening Ceremony
10.00-11.00 Plenary lecture 1: Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, France Researching Freemasonry in the 21st Century: Chances and Challenges 11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 1: The Material Culture of Session 2: Mexican Masonic Scholarship Session 3: Freemasonry in the Freemasonry (I) in the 21st Century United States (I) Paper 1a. Diane Clements, UK Paper 2a. Dr. Guillermo de los Reyes, USA Paper 3a. Damien Amblard, USA Mind the gaps! (in archive records) Masonic Nation: The Impact of Freemasonry in the When the Profane Besieged the Temple: The Ideological Discourses of Mexican Nationalism Origins of American Antimasonry, 1798-1829
Paper 1b. Mark J R Dennis, UK Paper 2b. Carlos F. Martínez Moreno, Mexico Paper 3b. Kathleen Smith Kutolowski, USA Living with Symbols? Masonic Material Culture Two Perspectives on the Efforts of Secularization in The Strange Case of the Missing Masons: A Generation Symbolic Freemasonry in Mexico during the 19th and of Lost Freemasonic History on the Western New York 20th Centuries Frontier
Paper 1c. Susan A Snell, UK Paper 2c. Daniel Guitérrez-Sandoval, USA Paper 3c. Mark Lause, USA Poetry in motion: the role of verse contributions to Albert Pike’s Mexican Connections Other Brothers: the African-American Experience of the masonic periodicals during the long eighteenth century Mid-19th Century Revolutionary Secret Societies
Paper 2d. David Merchant, USA Mid 19th Century Mexican Freemasonry in a Socio- Literary Context
13.00-14.00 Buffet lunch
14.00-15.30 Session 4: The material culture of Session 5: Freemasonry and the Session 6: Freemasonry in the United Freemasonry (II) Enlightenment States (II) Paper 4a. Jennifer S Alexander, UK Paper 5a. Tatiana Artemyeva, Russia Paper 6a. James W. Daniel, UK Masons’ marks and signatures on monuments Masonic Networks and Intellectual Communications in The US and us, 1840-1890: the influence of American 18-century Russia freemasonry on British freemasonry
Paper 4b. Hilary Anderson Stelling, USA Paper 5b. Róbert Péter, Hungary Paper 6b. Todd Wm Kissam, USA Tokens of Friendship, Brotherhood and Self: American Religion and Enlightenment in Thomas Dunckerley´s Ritual and Contextual Significance in Albert Pike’s Mark Medals from the 1780s-1820s Neglected Writings Masonic Baptism of 1871
Paper 4c. François Rognon, France Paper 5c. Roger Dachez, France Paper 6c. Adam Kendall, USA L’étonnante aventure des « archives russes » et leur Early French Masonic Exposures (1737-1751): a Klad in White Hoods and Aprons: The K.K.K. and the apport dans l’étude de la franc-maçonnerie française de reappraisal and some methodological refelections Infiltration of California Freemasonry la première moitié du 20e siècle (in French)
15.30-16.00 Tea and coffee
16.00-17.30 Session 7: Global freemasonry Session 8: Franc-Maçonnerie et societé civile Session 9: Freemasonry in the in the 20th century dans l’Europe méridionale (in French) United States (III)
Paper 7a. Helge Bjørn Horrisland, Norway Paper 8a. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, France Paper 9a. Peter Paul Fuchs, USA Norwegian masonic activity in London during WWII La loge maçonnique dans l’Europe des Lumières Incense to the intellect: Philosophical and Religious au regard de l’espace public : une relecture de Dimensions of the Albert Pike Library as seen in his Major Jürgen Habermas au miroir de la sociabilité et du Works. divertissement .
Paper 7b. Pauline Chakmakjian, UK Paper 8b. Luis P. Martin, France Paper 9b. Aimee E. Newell, USA Japanese Indigenisation of Masonic Ritual Pratiques sociales et engagements politiques dans la The Masonic “Careers” of Boston Artist John Ritto Franc-Maçonnerie espagnole (XIXe-XXe siècles) Penniman and His Apprentices
Paper 7c. Joachim Berger, Germany Paper 8c. Fulvio Conti, Italy Paper 9c. Kevin S. Fries, USA Between universal values and national ties: Les frères dans l’espace public: sociabilité et participation The Passions of William Robertson Smith: Collecting Freemasons face the challenge of ‘Europe’, c. 1850–1930 politique dans la franc-maçonnerie italienne (XIXe- Robert Burns and Growing a Spirit of XXe siècles) Liberty
17.30-18.30 Plenary lecture 2: Henrik Bogdan, Sweden
18.30-19.15 UGLE Prestonian lecturer 2009 John Young Researchers get together, Wade, UK Go you and do likewise: presentation of ongoing research projects English Masonic processions from the 18th to the 20th centuries
19.15-20.15 Reception
8 Saturday 30 May 2009
09.00 - 09.45 Plenary lecture 3: William D. Moore, USA
09.45 - 11.15 Session 10: The rise of Afro-American Session 11: Italian Freemasonry Session 12: Aspects of British freemasonry freemasonry and Fascism; Prussian Freemasonry and National-Socialism: a critical comparison
Paper 10a. Mark Tabbert, USA Paper 11a. Dirk Niemeyer, Germany Paper 12a. David Harrison, UK Prince Hall, African Lodge # 459 and the American The “Große Loge von Preußen” in the Weimar Republic Freemasonry, Education and Charity Masonic Landscape of the 1770-80s. and in the early “Drittes Reich”: A “non-political” society in a changing political space of policy
Paper 10b. Stephen A. Kantrowitz, USA Paper 11b. Giuseppe Vatri, Italy Paper 12b. Judith Rasoletti, USA Brotherhood Denied: Black Freemasonry and The Limits Italian Freemasonry and Fascism: from friendship to Three Women Masons Creating: A Story of Participation of Reconstruction. defense (1921-1923). and Exclusion
Paper 10c. Julie Winch, USA Paper 11c. Hans-Hermann Höhmann, Paper 12c. Michael J. Hearn & Brain Coak, UK ‘A Late Thing I Guess’ – The Early Years of Germany Freemasonry at Sea. The Story of Shipboard Lodges. Philadelphia’s African Masonic Lodge. German Freemasonry after World War II: Masonic “Policy of Remembrance”
Paper 10d. Chernoh Sesay, USA Paper 11d. Fabio Venzi, Italy Between Empire and the Lodge: Mobility and the Origins Freemasonry and Fascism of Black Freemasonry.
11.15 - 11.45 Tea and coffee
11.45-13.15 Session 13: Performing Freemasonry Session 14: Scottish & Irish Freemasonry
Paper 13a. Andreas Önnerfors, UK Paper 14a. R. Hughes Montgomery, New Semiotics of the Un-outspoken: Masonic Ritual and the Zealand Borders of Historical Hermeneutics Working Class Scottish Freemasonry outside Scotland
Paper 13b. Kristiane Hasselmann, Germany Paper 14b. Ronnie Scott, UK Performing Freemasonry: The practical-symbolic The Mason who built Glasgow: The rise and progress of Constitution of a Civic Habitus in 18th-Century England James Cleland
Paper 13c. Prof. Michael Franz & Eleonore Paper 14c. Patrick J Flynn, Ireland Kalisch, Germany The influence of an Irish Military Lodge, the st1 Volunteer The value-situation as specific sign-situation. Masonic Lodge No. 620, on Irish Society and Freemasonry ethic in its historical context
13.15 - 14.15 Buffet lunch
14.15 - 15.45 Session 15: Freemasonry Imagined: Session 16: Robert Burns and National, International, Antinational Freemasonry (I)
Paper 15a. Jeffrey Tyssens, Belgium Paper 16a. Carolyn Bain, USA “Bacillus Gallicus”: Nationality and Anti-Masonic Commodification of Identity: Robert Burns Celebrity Discourse in the Early American Republic Spokesperson for Freemasonry and the Egalitarian Stage
Paper 15b. Anaïs Maes, Belgium Paper 16b. Robert G. Watkins Jr., USA The Birth of the Belgian Nation State: Masonic Robert Burns and American Freemasonry “National” Discourses
Paper 15c. Jimmy Koeppen, Belgium Paper 16c. Paul Rich, USA The Conspiracy of Freemasons, Jews and Communists. Robert Burns, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and the An Analysis of German and French Nationalist Discourse Mystery of the Master’s Apron (1918-1940).
Paper 15d. Petri Mirala, Belgium Irish Freemasonry: From Radicalism to Loyalism
15.45 - 16.15 Tea and coffee
16.15-17.45 Session 17: Freemasonry and the West Session 18: Robert Burns and Indies Freemasonry (II)
Paper 17a. Cécile Révauger, France Paper 18a. Heather Calloway, USA From Robert Burnsʼ dream of Jamaica to Masonic facts in Chapbooks of the Burnsiana Collection at the House of the British West Indies : Barbados, Trinidad and Grenada the Temple Library
Paper 17b. Aviston D. Downes, Barbados Paper 18b. Iain D.MacIntosh, UK Britishness and Brotherhood: Freemasonry and White The Burness (Burnes) Family of Montrose, Cousins to Colonial Identity in Barbados, 1740-1890 Robert Burns.
Paper 17c. Emilie Charles, Trinidad Paper 18c. Trevor Stewart, UK Societal impacts on the development of the craft in Polymnia and the Craft: an exploration of newly- Trinidad & Tobago discovered examples of a popular literary genre and the seventeenth-century Scottish Craft
17.45-18.30 Plenary lecture 3: Valentine Bold, UK
20.00 - 23.30 Gala Dinner – New Club, 86 Princess St, Edinburgh EH2 2BB
9 Sunday 31 May 2009
09.00 - 10.30 Session 19: Masonic association within Session 20: Freemasonry in the Middle East early Industrial England (Analysing Masonic Membership I)
Paper 19a. John Astbury, UK Paper 20a. Santiago Richter, Israel Membership of the ‘King’s Head’ Lodge, Salford, 1727 German Freemasonry in Israel – A Grand Lodge in Exile Paper 19b David Hawkins, UK Paper 20b. Dorothe Sommer, UK Membership of the ‘Anchor and Hope’ Lodge, Bolton, Masonry in late Ottoman Syria 1732-1813. Paper 20c. Thierry Millet, France Paper 19c. John Acaster, UK La franc-maçonnerie en Syrie et au Liban indépendants The composition of Masonic membership in Manchester (1940-1958) (in French) and Salford during the period of early industrialisation before 1813.
10.30-11.00 Tea and coffee
11.00-12.30 Session 21: Analysing Masonic Session 22: New approaches, new findings Membership (II)
Paper 21a. Eric Saunier, France Paper 22a. Matthew D. Scanlan, UK “The Sailors and the Freemasonry”: the interest of a new The “accepted Freemasons” of seventeenth-century object of research for masonic historiography. England: new evidence, new perspectives’ Paper 21b. John Belton & Bob Cooper, UK Paper 22b. J Scott Kenney, Canada Scotlands Masons - membership and occupations of Pragmatic Constructions of History among Freemasons freemasons 1800-2000 Paper 22c. Chris Powell, UK Paper 21c. Alan Capps, USA Demythologizing Masonic music – the case of Beethoven The First Band of Brothers – George Washington and the Freemasons of Alexandria Lodge No. 22
12.30-13.30 Plenary lecture 4: Andrew Prescott, Lampeter
13.30-14.30 Lunch
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2nd International Conference on the Early Bird Deadline History of Freemasonry 27th March 2009 Northern Networking Events Ltd 1 Tennant Avenue, College Milton South East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 5NA, Scotland, UK Accommodation Guarantee Deadline 10th April 2009 Tel: +44 (0) 1355 244966 Fax: +44 (0) 1355 249959 Cancellation Payment Refund 20% Email: 10th April 2009 [email protected] Conference organiser’s web: www.northernnetworking.co.uk Payment Refund Deadline Conference web: 1st May 2009 www.ichfonline.org
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As rooms are limited within many of the hotels listed we cannot guarantee accommodation after Friday 10th April 2009.
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Hotels Holiday Inn Express Edinburgh Apex Hotel Edinburgh City Centre Waterloo Place The hotel is within walking With a rich history, this distance of Waverley Railway landmark building was Station and St Andrews the first large scale hotel Square Bus Station. The in Edinburgh. We plan to Airlink 100 Bus goes return the property back to from Waverely Bridge to hotel trading by creating 186 Edinburgh Airport in contemporary bedrooms 25-minutes. each offering the latest in Express by Holiday Inn Edinburgh City Centre is business facilities and state- located near Broughton Street, George Street & Queen of-the-art entertainment Street. The hotel is across from the Omni Centre with systems. a choice of restaurants & a Vue Cinema. Double Room (For Single Occupancy B&B), This Edinburgh City Centre hotel is a perfect choice £125.00 per room per night. if you are looking for a base near Edinburgh Castle, Double/Twin Room (For Double Occupancy The Real Mary Kings Close , Edinburgh Dungeons B&B), £135.00 per room, per night. and Holyrood or for events at Murryfield Stadium, Corn Exchange, Hearts Football Club, Hibernian Football Club or Meadowbank Stadium. Double Room (B&B), £89 per room per night.
Explore the Scottish origins of Freemasonry Places • Events • People
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Scottish Masonic Tours Ltd Murrayburgh House, 17 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh, EH12 6DD Tel: (+44) (0) 131 467 7000 Fax: (+44) (0) 131 467 8060 Web: www.masonic-tours.com
11 Social Programme Friday 29 May 2009 18.00 Welcome Reception Dress Code: Casual Cost included in Registration Fee & Accompanying Person’s Fee
Concluding the first day Thursday 28 May 2009 of proceedings will be 19.30 a Welcome Reception Pre Conference Concert allowing all registered delegates and registered National Youth Orchestra of Scotland accompanying persons the opportunity to meet one and Dinner another and relax within the magnificent surrounds Freemasons’ Hall, 96 George Street, Edinburgh of the lower gallery within the Freemasons’ Hall. Dress Code: Casual Cost: Concert Ticket only £20 per person Concert Ticket only – Concession £15 per person Saturday 30 May Concert Ticket only – Student £8 per person 2009 Concert & Dinner £45 per person 19.30 (for all the above includes interval refreshment) Gala Dinner Dress Code: Black Tie The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland presents Preferred Cost - £75.00 per person NYOS Staffa Award 2009 The prestigious NYOS Gala Dinner, New Club, Staffa Award recognises Edinburgh the talents of the The central location of country’s most promising The New Club, with an unbroken view over Princes classical musicians. The Street Gardens and Edinburgh Castle, provides an competition is open to ideal setting for staying, dining and entertaining, students from eight music combining the comfort and style of a long- Conservatories in the established Club. United Kingdom. Following auditions in London, three candidates are selected to attend the final award The Club’s earliest records date from 1787 when it performance where a £3,000 prize is awarded to met in Bayle’s Tavern in Shakespeare Square at the the most outstanding student to assist in furthering east end of Princes Street. The Club then acquired their career in music performance. The second and its own premises in St. Andrew Square before third laureates will receive £1,500 and £1,000. A moving to its present site in 1837. previous winner will also give a recital during the evening, demonstrating the immense value to young Today’s building dates from 1969. musicians of the NYOS Staffa Award.
Supported by the Grand Lodge of Scotland
The prizes will be presented by The Grand Master Mason, The Grand Lodge of Scotland, The Pro Grand Master, The United Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Master, The Grand Lodge of Ireland.
Come and see the three finalists perform at the final award performance and celebrate the jury’s decision at Freemasons’ Hall, Edinburgh
12 Travel Information Travel by Bus Travelling by bus to Edinburgh is a great option especially Travel by Car for those on a budget. There are regular coach services As Edinburgh is located at the heart of the Scottish to Edinburgh from all major UK cities. The following Motorway network, it is relatively easy to travel by car. companies can provide more information: To help plan your journey, the following websites National Express 08705 80 80 80 may be useful: Scottish Citylink 08705 50 50 50 Travel Line Scotland 08706 08 26 08 The AA Route Planner www.theaa.com MultiMap www.multimap.com Travel from Airport By bus Travel by Train Public bus services stop outside the UK Arrivals doors Edinburgh is extremely accessible by train. The on the terminal forecourt. Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) is the fastest intercity railway in the UK, with a journey time of Airlink 100 to city centre approximately 4 hours between Edinburgh (Waverley) There is an express bus service to Edinburgh city and London (King’s Cross). centre. The frequency of the service is from every 10 minutes at peak times through the day, to every 30 Edinburgh train station has great rail links to other minutes at night. The journey takes approximately major cities; York, Newcastle, Inverness and Aberdeen 25 minutes and terminates at Waverly Bridge, near are all about 2 hours travel by train, and Glasgow is just to the main railway station (Waverly) and bus station 50 minutes on the First Scotrail shuttle service which and is just off the city’s main street, Princes Street. leaves Waverley train station every 15 minutes. The following companies can provide more information: By taxi Taxis (cabs) are available from a designated rank National Rail Enquiries 08457 48 59 50 beside the coach park outside the UK arrivals hall. Virgin Trains 08457 22 23 33 A typical journey time to the city centre takes around 25 minutes and fares vary according to the distance travelled. Many of the taxis are wheelchair accessible.
More information can be found on the Edinburgh International Airport website - www.edinburgh airport.com
13 Key Main Attractions Key Conference Locations 1 Edinburgh Castle and Military Museums E5 Freemasons Hall, George Street (Conference) D5 2 The Palace of Holyroodhouse H5 Royal Museum of Scotland (Gala Dinner) F6 3 St Giles Cathedral F5 Caledonian Hilton, Princes Street D5 4 Royal Museum of Scotland F6 Macdonald Roxburghe Hotel,Charlotte Square D5 5 Museum of Scotland F6 Macdonald Holyrood Hotel, Holyrood Road G5 6 Royal Botanic Garden D2 Channings Hotels, South Learmonth Gardens B4 7 National Gallery of Scotland E5 Radisson SAS Edinburgh, High Street F5 8 Royal Scottish Academy E5 Grosvenor Hilton Edinburgh, Grosvenor Street C6 9 Scottish National Portrait Gallery F4 Holiday Inn Edinburgh, Corstorphine Road A6 10 City Art Centre F5 Fountain Court Apartments, Morrison Street C6 11 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art B5 Fountain Court Apartments, Grove Street C6 12 Dean Gallery B5 13 Dynamic Earth H5 14 Museum of Childhood G5 15 Scottish Whisky Heritage Centre E5 16 The Edinburgh Dungeon F5 35 Camera Obscura and World of Illusions E5 36 The Real Mary King’s Close F5 40 Scottish Parliament H5 14 15 16