Program & events
We are working on the final schedule and more importantly, since this is the 10th edition of the Conference, we are looking to extend it by half a day to Sunday the 24th.
Instead of having an extra event with additional costs on Sunday, August 24th, our plan is to add some lectures and events INCLUDED in the registration.
The preliminary schedule at the moment is as follows:
THU 21 AUGUST
15:00-16:00 Reception, welcome drink and registration in one historical venue (tbc)
16:00-16:20 Welcome speech from Organizers
16:25-16:55 Lecture 1
17:00-17:30 Lecture 2
17:35-17:55 short welcome Performance
17:55 – 18:00 Brief introduction to the program and logistics of the day
18-00-19:45 free time (dinner or short walk in old town of Riga)
19:45 pick-up at the Hotel Kempinski (headquarter) and transport by bus to MYSTERO
20:00 Social event: OPENING PARTY in MYSTERO
23:00 and 23:30 transport bus back to Hotel Kempinski
FRI 22 AUGUST
Mystero - Museum and Theater
9:00 AUTOBUS PICK-UP FOR MYSTERO (Hotel Kempinski)
9:30 – 11:00 Lectures 3-4-5
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 lectures 6-7
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 lectures 8-9-10
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 lectures 11-12-13-14
18:00 Autobus back to Old Town (Hotel Kempinski)
20:15 Social event 2: Dinner (In Old Town of Riga)
SAT 23 AUGUST
9:30 – 13:30 Market – Expo – Exchange (Hotel Kempinski Conference hall)
13:30-14:30 free time for lunch
14:30 AUTOBUS PICK-UP (Hotel- Kempinski) - Cinema SPLENDID
15:00-15:30 visit of the Cinema Splendid and exposition
15:30-15:45 welcome speech from Cinema director
15:50- 16:30 Lecture 15
16:30 -17:00 Lecture 16
17:00-18:15 projection HOUDINI movie
18:30 Autobus transport to Hotel Kempinski
19:00 – 20:00 free time for dinner
20:00 AUTOBUS PICK-UP FOR MYSTERO (Hotel Kempinski)
20:30 Social event 3: Gala Magic Show (reserved to EMHC registrants only)
21:45 – 00:30 After show (Announcement 2027 Conference place, games, drinks…)
23:00 first bus to Old Town
00:30 second bus to Old Town
SUN 24 AUGUST
Hotel Kempinski conference hall
9:00 – 13:00 Market – Expo – Exchange
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch time
14:00 - 15:00 Panel discussion Strategies for Sustaining Magic History Communities
15:00 - 16:30 Extra event (tbc)
16:30~17:00 END OF CONVENTION
The program listed above, although very close to the final one, is subject to possible changes.
So far we have confirmed the following lectures (details on the NEWS):
- Flip Hallema: Six generations of Bamberg magicians: from Eliaser to Fu Manchu.
- Dace Pezzoli: Tales of a Latvian travelling magician: San Martino de Kastrozza
- Anne Goulden: The Davenport Brothers and J N Maskelyne.
- Lucia Raggetti: A Rabbit from the Turban.The Natural Science of Magic in the Arabo-Islamic Middle age.
- Sara Fani & Marianna Marchini: Magic on the Tip of the Pen. Impossible Surfaces and Inks for Special Effects
- Marco Baschetti & Marianna Marchini: Let’s Egg on! History, Tricks & Secrets of Arabic Mediaeval Egg Magic
- Walter Maffei: Magic & Movies - A short story of a long relationship
- Pauliina Räsänen: Celebrated but Forgotten: female magicians in the Northen Europe in 1880-1890's
- Maciej Puławski: Charlatanism on stage: pseudo-magical rituals and cures in Italian Renaissance comedies.
- Jan Isenbart: Magic in Advertising and Advertising’s Magic
- Panel discussion Strategies for Sustaining Magic History Communities (hosted by Marco Pusterla and Véronique Faber)