WCF 2015 Conference Videos: Grand Auditorium

DAY 1 (May 29, 2015)

Welcome

Guillermo De los Reyes (Conference Chair)
Jean-Loup Graton (Bibliothèque Nationale)
Pierre Mollier (Editor- Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society)  

Keynote Address

Civil Society in an Uncivil Age: An Agenda for Freemasonry, Past and Present

Margaret C. Jacob (Distinguished Professor of History, University California of Los Angeles)

 

Early Masonic Presentation
 400 Years of Masonic Music
Part 1


Part 2

Charles Bonaparte (Special Session Chair)
Gille Thorne (Music Historian)


French Resources on Fraternalism

Masonic Archives in France 


François Rognon
Francis Delon
Françoise Moreillon
Pierre Mollier  

Plenary Address 

Into the Maelstrom: The Issue of Masonic Regularity, Past and Present

John Cooper (Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of California, Past President of the North American Conference of Grand Masters)

Material Evidence of the Ethereal  
The Masonic Temple Between Universal Model and Cultural Tropisms
François Gruson 

Jewels, Ornaments, Lights and Furnitures, a Historical and Statisical Study Through Time and Countries: Appearance of the Movable and Immovable Jewels (1696 – 1801)


Dominique Sappia and Herve Hoint-Lecoq 

Commanding Elegance: The Decoration and Furnishing of Masonic Lodges in New England, 1790 – 1830

Hilary Anderson Stelling

In the Footsteps of Freemasonry in the Holy Land King Solomon, the First Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and Masonic Sites in the Holy Land

Jeffrey Kandor

DAY 2 (May 30, 2015)

 
Special Presentation 
Savoirs et emblèmes du savoir chez les compagnons tailleurs de pierre à la fin de l’Ancien Régime (Translation: Knowledge and Symbols of Knowledge Among Stone Cutters at the End of the Ancient Regime)

Part 1

Part 2
Jean-Michel Mathonière (Presenter)
Margaret Jacob (Chair)        

Future Web Use by Conferences: The Online University Perspective

Future Web Use by Conferences: Frustrations, Challenges, Cautions
Paul J. Rich (Chair and Commentator)

Taking the Conference to the World: Our Work and Teaching, Publishing, and Surviving the Internet Revolution: New Realities for Fraternal Studies

Philip Ice, Wallace Boston, Karan Powell, Daniel Gutierrez-Sandoval, Margaret Jacob and Count Alessandro Cagliostro  

The Bordeaux Village 
The French Sources of the “Scottish” Degrees 
Pierre Mollier (Session Chair)
Roger Dachez
Louis Trébuchet
Jacques Simon
Pierre Mollier    

Closing Plenary Session
Emperors, Princes, and the Francken Mysteries: What Paris Has Revealed- Report on the Conference Special Committee on the Francken Documents

Brent Morris