About the conference


A three-day conference examining the deeper historical challenges facing Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries.

We thank all participants for participating in this year's conference.

The next Rose and Cross will take place on 16.-18. 5. 2025 in Prague.


Lecturers


Terry Boardman

Terry Boardman

is an English freelance translator (from German and Japanese), writer and lecturer on history and current affairs. He has been committed to Anthroposophy since 1982, and has many published articles and two books: Mapping the Millennium – Behind The Plans of the New World Order (2nd ed. 2013) and Kaspar Hauser – Where Did He Come From? (2006) The latter is also published in Czech by Grada as Zahadny Kaspar Hauser (2009). His wife is Japanese and they have a 34 year-old son who lives in southern England with his Japanese wife and their three young children.

Markus Osterrieder

Markus Osterrieder

was born in Munich in 1961. After his studies in Munich, Toulouse and Warsaw and several years as a researcher at the Eastern Europe Institute in Munich, he works as a freelance historian, writer and lecturer in many countries from the British Isles to Iran and Russia, primarily on questions of cultural exchange and cultural mediation between East and West. Book publications include Sonnenkreuz und Lebensbaum (1995, new edition 2023) and Welt im Umbruch (2014, English translation by Terry Boardman).

Richard Ramsbotham

Richard Ramsbotham

is a writer and theatre practitioner. He taught at Warsaw University between 1089 and 1993; is the author of Who Wrote Bacon?, the play Rewinding the War and a play about the Russian writer Andrej Belyj. The relationship between Western, Central and Eastern Europe is a deep interest and part of his life.

Anežka Janátová

Anežka Janátová

She worked as a psychologist and later, as a director at the  Jedlicka´s Home for people with learning difficulties and physical handicaps. She founded The Tabor Academy of Social Arts. She has also established the Tabor Foundation and The Association for Social Therapy and Curative Education in the Czech Republic. Since 2008, she has been the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in the Czech Republic.


Programmes from the previous years