Upcoming Talks, Conferences & Classes
(Calendar updated as talks are added or have already occurred!)
December 2024
Speakeasy of the Dead VII: End Times
Speaker: Dr Alexander Cummins & Jesse Hathaway Diaz & more!
Date: Sunday 29th December | Time: 4.30pm (ET)
Location: Online (link forthcoming)
Our online cabaret for fancy necromancers returns! Hosted by Radio Free Golgotha – will feature short talks by Professor Charles Porterfield, Dr Alexander Cummins, Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and Dr Jenn Zahrt. We are also delighted to have our usual curated segments: Art with Sarah Jezebel Wood, Sky-Omens with J.M. Hamade, Plants with John Magnusson, Poems from Vincent V. Saint-Roch, and Magic from Phoebe Hildegard Finch.
The Speakeasy proper will be recorded and available to all ticket holders for one week via online streaming media. The Live Event will be followed by a live hangout & happy hour.
All proceeds of these ticket sales are being donated to Advocates for Trans Equality: “A4TE was founded in 2024 as the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), two long-time champions for the trans community, merged together as one organization. A4TE builds on their successes to boldly imagine a world where trans people live our lives joyfully and without barriers.”
Price of Entry: $7 • PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
January 2025
Book of the Science of Nigromancy Live Online Course
Speaker: Dr Alexander Cummins
Date: Tuesdays 14th, 21st, & 28th January | Time: 7pm (ET)
Location: Live Online Course Series
A live three-part course series investigating the pact-based spiritwork and spellcraft of the Science of Nigromancy, a sixteenth-century English manual of goetic conjuration.
The Boke of the Sience of Nygromansie is a relatively short but eminently practical sixteenth-century grimoire found in the second part of Sloane MS 3853. This concise handbook of unclean spiritwork offers instructions on pacting with ‘chapters’ or working-groups of spirits considered ‘enclosed’ by the ancient and senior shedim and later devil, Asmoday (aka Ashmedai or Asmodeus), demonstrating further ancient roots of early modern goetia.
This goetic manual teaches how to utilize various materia, gestures, and the nigromancer’s very book of calls and characters to deploy a range of ‘Applied Conjurations’ for tangible practical magical influences and effects with its working spirits. These spirits named in both familiar and unfamiliar manners, and variously found in other grimoiric works listed as both demons and fairies: spirits of woods, the airs, and rivers, as well as fortifications, forges, and dungeons. They offer a range of practicable sorceries, from going invisibly to destroying enemies, from healing physick to hunting game, and from constructing magical items and garments to effecting prison-breaks.
Significantly this text also includes notae and advice attributed to Saint Cyprian of Antioch, that infamous patron of sorcerers, concerning the conduct of goetic magic; and can thus certainly be considered a further example of the practices of early modern English Cyprianic nigromancy.
In the course of this series, we will investigate and contextualise the protocols, pacts, and procedures of this nigromantic Science, offering not only a foundation in the fundamentals of operating with this lesser-studied yet still potent grimoire, but also investigating application and experiment with its techniques and craft-logics in other grimoiric work, especially that of the Grimoirium Verum and the Faustian corpus of German nigromancy.
Cost: $125 (tickets available here)