2025 The 2025 CESNUR Conference: Spirituality, Religion, and New Religious Movements, 14-19.11.2015, Cape Town, South Africa. Papers: (1) 150 Years of the Theosophical Society: Global Influence and Encounters with African Spirituality; (2) Between Physics and Psychics: Marie Curie-Skłodowska and Julian Ochorowicz’s Interest in Human Radiation; (3) “The Revelation Spiritual Home”: A Book Review; (4) Respondent in the session The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL): A New Shia-Derivative Religion and Its Religious Liberty Problems.
2025 The 4th World SangSaeng Forum International Conference: Reconciliation, Mutual Beneficence, and Religion, 24-26.10.2025, Daejin University, Korea. Paper: In Search of a Universal Religion in Hard Times: The Liberal Catholic Church in Interwar Poland [online].
2025 The International Theosophical History Conference 2025: Altered States of Consciousness in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents, 11-12.10.2025, Athens, Greece. Paper: Etheric Doubles, 'Vampires,' and the Physics of the Soul: Altered States and the Theosophical Imaginarium in Poland at the Brink of the 20th Century.
2025 XXII International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) World Congress: Out of Europe: Studying Religion(s) in Interconnected Worlds, 24-30.08.2025, agiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Paper: Crossing Borders of Countries and Minds: Exteriorization in the Context of Polish Parapsychology and Psychotronics (Panel Global entanglements of Eastern Bloc Parapsychology during the Cold War)
2025 Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light Conference, 21-22.08.2025, University of Buckingham in Crewe, The United Kingdom. Paper: What Can a Soul Do? Reincarnation, Transmigration, and Divine Dreams in the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light [online].
2025 10th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE10): Esotericism and Rationality, 26-28.06.2025, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LIthuania. Paper: Parapsychology in Poland - Origins, Development, and Key Ideas (Chair of the closed session Behind the Veil and the Iron Curtain: Parapsychology in Central and Eastern Europe)
2024 The 5th Colloquium of the Central and Eastern European Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (CEENASWE5) – Continuities and Ruptures: Esotericism and Science in the Central and Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, 11-12.10.2025, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Paper: Parapsychlogy and Its Developments: Psychotronic Schools in Poland (with M.A. Biały).
2024 The 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR): Nature, Ecology, and Religious Responses to Climate Change, 19-23.08.2024, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Papers: (1) Double trouble: Religion and Sex in NRMs and Esoteric Movements, as Exemplified by MISA; (2) A field trip to the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light.
2024 2024 CESNUR Conference – The Contribution of Minority Religions to Society, 12-15.06.2014, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France. Papers: (1) Theosophical Pedagogy: Overlooked Contribution of the Theosophical Movement to the History of Education; (2) Panelist in Peace, Justice, and Tax Reform in Taiwan and Internationally: New Religious Movements, the Common Good, and the Case of Tai Ji Men panel.
2023 ESSWE9: The 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)Western Esotericism and Practice, 26-28.06.2023, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden. Paper: Magick of the Never Ending Stories: Esoteric Practices in Ende Family’s Creations.
2023 The 2023 CESNUR Conference – New and Minority Religions, Crises, and Resilience: Overcoming Inner and External Obstacles, 20–23.06.2023 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Papers: (1) Margins of Religion and Culture: Goddesses and Sexuality as Double Taboo in the Paintings of Erwin Sówka (1936–2021), (2) The Revelation Spiritual Home: An Introduction and Field Notes [with prof. Massimo Introvigne], (3) Response to the panel New Religious Movements in Taiwan and the Tai Ji Men Case.
2022 International Theosophical Society Conference – The Theosophical Movement Innovations in Esotericism and Spirituality, 05–07.10.2011 Naarden, The Netherlands. Paper: For Body and Spirit: Theosophical Summer Camps in Poland.
2022 ESSWE8. The 8th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) – Western Esotericism and Creativity: Art, Performance and Innovation, Cork, Ireland, 5-7 July 2022, University College Cork. Papers (1) Repetitive or Creative? Ideas of the Polish Theosophical Society in the Interwar Period. (2) Esoteric Warsaw: Heart of a Nation and City of Spirits – for the Capital Magic – panel of CEENASWE.
2022 The 2022 CESNUR Conference Religious Pluralism in an Era of Globalization 16–18.06.2022, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Paper online: Experimental Research on Medium-Related Phenomena by Julian Ochorowicz.
2022 International Conference: Quasi-Religiosity in Contemporary Society, 13.05.2022, Korean Academy of New Religions (KANR), Daejin University, Pocheon, the Republic of Korea [online]. Paper: Some remarks on what 19th century research on Mediumistic phenomena and ‘total biology’ have in common.
2022 12th International Conference Mystical and Esoteric Teachings in Theory and Practice: Esotericism in Philosophy, Literature, and Art, 3–5.02.2022 Moscow [online]. Paper [with M.A. Biały]: Sówka: Sacrum, Sexuality, and Silesia.
2021 4th CEENASWE Conference: Occultism and Politics in East-Central Europe (Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Association for Social Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Supernatural Network, ESSWE) – Prague, 27–29 September 2021, Papers: The Apparatus of Oppression against Esotericists in Poland 1944–1989. An Outline of the Research Project (with Z. Łagosz), Remarks on the Notion of Nation in Theosophy and Anthrosophy. Polish Examples.
2021 ISORECEA 2020 Conference – Religion on the Periphery. Olomouc, The Czech Republic. Paper: On the periphery of religion: the case of Kazimierz Stabrowski and the Warsaw esoteric milieu. Online 16.04.2021.
2019 The CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions) 2019 International Conference: Re-Enchanting the World: Spiritualities and Religions of the Third Millenium. Italy, Università di Torino, Campus Luigi Einaudi, 5–7.09.2019. 3 papers with M.A. Dulska: (1) La Luz del Mundo in Poland. A Report. (2) Satanic Hello Kitty: How Fake News Went Viral in Poland. (3) Slavic UFO and Expectations Towards the Turn of the Century: The Peculiar Case of Antrovis.
2019 The 7th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE): Western Esotericism and Consciousness - Visions, Voices, Altered States, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 02-04 July 2019, University of Amsterdam. Paper with M.A. Dulska: Nightmares, lethargy, and wandering in the afterlife: visions of the mysteries of life and death in Agnieszka Pilchowa's novel Zmora.
2018 The 2018 CESNUR Conference – Tradition and Innovation in Religious Movements: East Asia, the West, and Beyond, Weixin College, Nantou County, Taiwan, 17–23 June 2018, paper: Poland as India of the West: Interpretations of Theosophical Notions Applied to the Polish Nation.
2017 The 2017 CESNUR Conference – Holy Lands and Sacred Histories in New Religious Movements, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel 2–6.07.2017 r., paper co-authored with M. Dulska: Krakow as a Power Center: Old and New Mythologies of the City in Contemporary Spiritual Movements.
2017 The 6th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) – Western Esotericism and Deviance, Erfurt 1–3.06.2017, University of Erfurt, Germany: Succubi and Incubi in Józef Świtkowski’s Sex Magic.
2016 International Conference Imaginatio et Actio: Imagination in Esoteric Traditions, Kraków 20–21.10.2016, Jagiellonian University, Poland, paper with P. Sieradzan: Explorations of the Esoteric Dreams of the Himalayas.
2016 The 2016 CESNUR Conference - Religious Movements in a Globalized World: Korea, Asia, and Beyond co-organized by Center for Studies on New Religions, International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR), Korean Academy of New Religions (KANR), Department of Daesoon Theology, Daejin University – Daejin University, Republic of Korea 5-10.07.2016, paper with M.A. Dulska: Treatises of Romantic Geometry in the Magical Art of Zbigniew Makowski.
2016 EASR [The European Association for the Study of Religions] 2016 Conference: Relocating Religion, University of Helsinki, Finland 28.06-01.07.2016, paper: Romanticism and National Messianism in Esoteric Milieus in Poland before World War II.
2016 The 2nd International Conference of CEENASWE (Central and East European Network for Academic Study of Western Esotericism): Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 27-28.05.2016: Fascination with the Occult and the East, paper: Literature of Władysław Reymont and the First Generation of Polish Theosophists.
2015 The 5th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) – Western Esotericism and East, University of Latvia, Riga 18-20.04.2015, paper: Between Theosophy and Polish-Indian Library: The Great Work of Wanda Dynowska Umadevi.
2014 The 7th International Scientific Conference Mystical and Esoteric Movements in Theory and Practice – Mystical and Esoteric Aspects of Contemporary Religion. Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, 5-8.11.2014, paper: Between Spiritism and Theosophy: Select Aspects of the Functioning of Esoteric Groups in Cieszyn Silesia at the Turn of the 20th Century and its Contemporary Reception.
2014 Launch of CEENASWE (Central and East European Network for Academic Study of Western Esotericism) – Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe – over the Centuries. Colloquium at the Religious Studies Center, Central European University, Budapest, 4-5.07.2014, paper: The Impact of Esoteric Ideas on Polish Intellectual Elites in Early 20th Century: the Example of ‘Chimera’ Journal’s Environment.
2014 Association for the Study of Esotericism Fifth International Conference – Esoteric Practices: Theories, Representations, and Methods – Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, 19-22.06.2014, paper: Between Ritual Therapy and Mystical Initiation: Jerzy “Grot” Grotowski’s Conception of Theatre.
2013 Enchanted Modernities. Theosophy and the arts in the modern world, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 25-27.09.2013, paper with M.A. Dulska: The idea of womanhood in the paintings of Kazimierz Stabrowski and its Theosophical inspiration.
2013 The 4th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism – Esotericism and Health, Göteborgs Universitet, Göteborg 26-29.06.2013, paper: Original Sclavinae as Sound Stage of Human Development and Nation: Culturalism of Jan Stachniuk in the Perspective of the Polish Neo-paganism.
2022 The Violent Crackdown on Tai Ji Men, 1996–2022. Time: Aug 22, 2022; 14:00.
Introduction and presiding of the meeting.
Paper: Three Types of Violence Against Tai Ji Men, Bitter Winter 09/02/2022 https://bitterwinter.org/three-types-of-violence-against-tai-ji-men/
2022 15th Anniversary of Tai Ji Men’s Legal Victory Celebrated: Webinar - "13/7 Dawn of Victory for Tai Ji Men" - July 13, 2022, 2 p.m.
Introduction and presiding of the meeting. Report from the webinar: https://bitterwinter.org/5th-anniversary-of-tai-ji-mens-legal-victory/
2022 The United Nations Zero Discrimination Day. Webinar - Zero Discrimination Day: Tai Ji Men: 25 Years of Discrimination - March 1, 2022, 2 p.m. Brussels Time.
- https://freedomofbelief.net/articles/tai-ji-men-discrimination-discussed-on-march-1-the-united-nation-zero-discrimination-day
- https://bitterwinter.org/tai-ji-men-25-years-of-discrimination/
Paper: The Tai Ji Men Case: How Discrimination Escalated.
2021 World Day of Social Justice. Webinar - Tax Justice as Social Justice. The Tai Ji Men Protests in Taiwan. February 20, 2021, 1 p.m. Brussels Time.
- https://lirec.net/events/2021/2/14/tax-justice-as-social-justicethe-tai-ji-men-protest-in-taiwan
- https://bitterwinter.org/social-justice-taxes-and-freedom-of-religion-or-belief/
Paper: Not so equal:
chosen problems of the contemporary NRMs in Poland.
2022 Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa „Praktyki magiczne i czarostwo w kulturach świata”, Kraków 20-21.05.2022, Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wykład otwierający: Magiczny Kraków na przestrzeni wieków. Drugi referat [z Z. Łagoszem]: Jak badać teczki – aparat represji wobec ezoteryków i ugrupowań ezoterycznych w latach 1945-1989 – zagadnienia metodologiczne.
2020 Konferencja naukowa "Rodzina – kultura, tradycja, społeczeństwo", online, 20-21 czerwca 2020. Referat Annie Besant: teozofia, antykoncepcja, rodzina. Recepcja myśli Besant w Polsce. Organizatorzy: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta, Katedra Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji UJ, Katedra Informatologii, Bibliologii i Edukacji Medialnej Instytutu Nauk o Komunikacji Społecznej i Mediach na Wydziale Politologii i Dziennikarstwa UMCS w Lublinie, Instytut Językoznawstwa i Literaturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczo-Humanistycznego w Siedlcach.
2018 Konferencja naukowa – sympozjum metodologiczne w ramach realizacji grantu NPRH, 27-30.09.2018, Pałac w Ciążeniu, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza, referat Z warsztatu socjologa: Badania nad okultyzmem na przełomie XIX i XX wieku w perspektywie socjologicznej.
2018 Konferencja naukowa – sympozjum metodologiczne w ramach realizacji grantu NPRH, 2–4.02.2018, Uniwersytet Gdański, referat: Magia w badaniach etnolingwistycznych.
2017 Konferencja naukowa „Czarownicy”, Chorzów, 18-19.05.2017, IR UJ, Muzeum „Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny w Chorzowie”, Wydawnictwo Sacrum, referat: Czarownicy czy medycy? Polska teozofia a medycyna niekonwencjonalna na przełomie XIX i XX wieku.
2016 Konferencja naukowa w ramach realizacji grantu NPRH, 2–4.12.2016, Uniwersytet Gdański, referat: Polscy teozofowie w Wielkiej Brytanii.
2016 Ogólnopolska konferencja „Nawiedzone Miejsca”, Katowice 17–18.10. 2016, Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta, CINiBA, referat: Domy duchów: architektura spirytualistyczna inspirowana wizjami z zaświatów.
2016 Ogólnopolska konferencja naukowa „Czarownice”, Chorzów, 2016, IR UJ, Muzeum „Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny w Chorzowie”, Wydawnictwo Sacrum: Czarownice oswajane: kobiety w badaniach fenomenów mediumicznych.
2014 Tradycja zachodniego ezoteryzmu w badaniach polskich, Kraków, 2014, UJ: Między ezoteryką i ezoteryzmem: zarys problemów metodologicznych esoteric studies na gruncie polskim.
2014 Per fidem ad astra II – Luna regina stellarum est, Kraków 2014 r., Kraków, Uniwersytet Jagielloński (IR), UJ: Symbolika lunarna w teo- i antropozofii.
2014 Mózg – umysł – religia, Kraków 2014, UJ: Religijne i magiczne interpretacje paraliżu przysennego.
2013 Nowe ruchy religijne w ujęciu interdyscyplinarnym, Poznań 2013, UAM: Wpływ myśli Jana Stachniuka na kształt polskiego neopogaństwa.
2013 Idea samozbawienia i jej kulturowe konsekwencje. Od gnozy do New Age, Lublin 2013, KUL: Gnostyckie elementy idei bogoczłowieczeństwa Włodzimierza Sołowjowa. Ezoteryczne aplikacje systemu.
2013 W sieci irracjonalności, Kraków 2013, UJ: Chaos w sieci. Racjonalność magii czy magia irracjonalności? (z M.A. Dulską).
2013 Przerażające czy osobliwe? Hybrydy, chimery i monstra w kulturach świata, Kraków 2013, UJ: Od bóstwa do zaklęcia; zmienne losy Abraxas.
2012 Religia a tajemnica, Poznań 2012, UAM, PKR: Między religią, magią i nauką: Wiedza tajemna w Egipcie Juliana Ochorowicza w kontekście analiz funkcji tajemnicy i procesów (de)sakralizacji.
2012 Ezoteryzm w kulturze Europy, Lublin 2012, KUL: Przemiany językowego obrazu świata w ezoterycznej prasie polskiej na przestrzeni dwóch dekad.
2012 Dyskursy o kulturze II, Łódź 2012, SWSPiZ: Marginalizowani wśród wykluczonych czy mniejszość kulturowa? Problemy osób z uszkodzonym słuchem w ujęciu antropologicznym.
2012 Filozoficzna refleksja nad kulturą jako próba odpowiedź na problemy współczesności, Cieszyn 2012 UŚ: Kultura i kłamstwa. O autentyczności pomiędzy słowami.
2011 Religia a tajemnica, Poznań 2011, UAM, PKR: Homo religiosus – homo magus? Magia jako religia na przełomie wieków.
2010 Dyskursy o kulturze, Łódź 2010 SWSPiZ: Tożsamość neognostycka w perspektywie nowej religijności synkretycznej.
2023 5th CEENASWE Conference in Kraków, Poland - forthcoming
2021 4th CEENASWE Conference: Occultism and Politics in East-Central Europe (Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Association for Social Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Supernatural Network, ESSWE) – Prague, 27–29 September 2021
2017 Czarownicy (UJ, UŚ, Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny (IR UJ, Chorzów);
2016 Imaginatio et Actio: Imagination in Esoteric Traditions (UJ, Kraków);
2015 MUR: Mózg, Umysł, Religia [Mind, Brain, Religion] (UJ, Kraków);
2014 Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe over the Centuries (CEENASWE, CEU Budapest)
2014 Tradycje zachodniego ezoteryzmu w badaniach polskich (UJ, Kraków);
2014 MUR: Mózg – umysł – religia (UJ, Kraków);
2013 Religions: fields of research, methods and perspectives. International Krakow Study of Religions Symposium (UJ, Kraków);
2013 W sieci irracjonalności (UJ, Kraków).