Steiner Conference Schedule
Conference Schedule
Welcome
Below you will find the full conference schedule from December 14 – December 16, 2025. Under each day, you will find a drop-down menu organized by time, room, and panel. Find the schedule for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday below.
To learn more detailed information, please visit the pages for our Keynote Speakers and Papers and Panels.
Sunday, December 14
Please note: We have currently reached our maximum capacity for in-person participation. When you register, you will have the opportunity to be put on a waitlist—if additional spaces become available, we will let you know.
Location: The Christian Community Church of Boston 366 Washington Street, Brookline, MA 02445
The Christian Community is pleased to offer the following activities before the 100 Years Rudolf Steiner Conference:
Schedule:
- 11:00: and weekly on Sundays: The Consecration of The Human Being. This is our communion service, all who wish to partake in communion are freely invited to do so.
- 12:00: approx. and weekly on Sundays: The Congregation hosts a simple potluck lunch
- 13:00: on Dec. 14, 2025: a talk entitled Rudolf Steiner and The Christian Community: the purpose and meaning of the movement for religious renewal by Reverend Jonah Evans, the Lenker (coordinator) for North America, a Seminary Director, and a priest in the Toronto Congregation. There will be a short piece played on the Lyre before Jonah’s hour long talk. Afterwards, will be a short, 30 minute Lyre concert.
Biography in the Mirrors of the Biographers, or Writing the Life of Rudolf Steiner – Empirical Facts, Polemical Insinuations, and Imaginative Insights
Presenter(s): Aaron French, Henry Holland
Location: The Sheraton Commander Hotel, 16 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
In this lecture we narrate how Steiner’s two major autobiographical texts – My Life’s Course, serialized in the pages of the Goetheanum from December 1923, and the lecture given in February 1913 to the newly-founded Anthroposophical Society – were responses to malicious public polemics. We further explore how both writings color his reception until today, among readers and scholars of all hues. Seeing Steiner and his community as co-shapers of historical processes, rather than as mere victims – their opponents’ commitment to violence notwithstanding – we then zoom out to show how third-party descriptions of Steiner’s person and companions, from the 1890s and steadily through until after Steiner’s death, stamped him as an arriviste, whose popular challenge to dominant knowledge systems was well worth opposing. Aware that knowledge about anthroposophy and Steiner is created out of the societal positions of adherents, opponents, and researchers – and mindful that all research positions consist of privilege and oppression in unequal measures – we conclude by returning to our opening question: How are understandings of Steiner and his work formed in the mirror of biographical imaginations?
Monday, December 15
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Time for a walk, stretching, or enjoying some refreshments.
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Time for a walk, stretching, or enjoying some refreshments.
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Time for a walk, stretching, or enjoying some refreshments.
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Time for a walk, stretching, or enjoying some refreshments.
Becoming a Spiritual Teacher — Rudolf Steiner's Early Years
Presenter(s): Martina Maria Sam
Location: Cader Room
Rudolf Steiner, who was previously known as a Goethe editor and author of philosophical and literary works, surprised his contemporaries when, from the age of 40, he appeared as a spiritual teacher seeking to build on Western spiritual traditions, German Idealism in particular. What makes someone a spiritual teacher? What inner impulses moved him from an early age? What challenges – trials, life crises, experiences of failure – did he encounter on his path? Based on the comprehensive study of original sources and of Rudolf Steiner’s own words, this talk will provide an outline of the first forty years of his life.
Tuesday, December 16
Steiner’s Impulse in the Holy Land: The Jewish-Israeli Reception of Anthroposophy
Presenter(s): Boaz Huss
Location: Cader Room
Anthroposophy has become a significant presence in contemporary Israeli society. Two branches of the Anthroposophical Society operate in Israel, along with an Anthroposophical kibbutz in the Upper Galilee. Waldorf education, based on Steiner’s pedagogical principles, is highly popular, with hundreds of Waldorf kindergartens, schools, and training centers across the country. In addition, several Anthroposophical remedial homes and villages support people with special needs. The widespread success of Anthroposophy in Israel raises intriguing questions. How did the spiritual teachings of Rudolf Steiner, rooted in Western esoteric traditions and incorporating numerous Christological themes, resonate within Israeli Jewish society? How do Israeli Anthroposophists engage with Steiner’s negative views on Judaism and Zionism?
This lecture will explore the reception history of Anthroposophy in Israel, from its beginnings in Mandate Palestine to the present, focusing on the efforts of Israeli Anthroposophists to reconcile their Jewish and Israeli identities with their Anthroposophical commitments.
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Time for a walk, stretching, or enjoying some refreshments.
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Time for a walk, stretching, or enjoying some refreshments.
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Time for a walk, stretching, or enjoying some refreshments.
Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: Cader Room and James Room East.
Click on the panel name in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the names of the presenters to find their biographical information.
Wednesday, December 17th
Please note: We have currently reached our maximum capacity for in-person participation. When you register, you will have the opportunity to be put on a waitlist—if additional spaces become available, we will let you know.
Location
The Divinity Chapel in Divinity Hall, at The Harvard Divinity School
14 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
The Christian Community is pleased to offer the following activities after the 100 Years Rudolf Steiner Conference:
Schedule
- 9:30 am: The Consecration of The Human Being Celebrated by Reverend Oliver Steinrueck, an Oberlenker and the priest in the New York City Congregation. This is our communion service. Rev. Jonah Evans will give a short overview of our service beforehand; all who wish to partake in communion are freely invited to do so.
- 10:45 am, approx.: The Christian Community will host coffee and simple breakfast foods and snacks in The Divinity Chapel, also known as The Emerson Chapel, followed by an open discussion about The Christian Community & its sacraments and a talk by The Christian Community priest Reverend Daniel Kalinov, PhD, M.I.T., entitled: Rudolf Steiner as Liturgist: How Did the Eucharistic Service of The Christian Community Develop out of the Tridentine Mass.