2025: 100 Years Rudolf Steiner Conference

Harvard’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a special conference marking the centennial of the death of spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner. This conference will take place December 14-16, and our Call for Papers is now open, with a deadline of May 1. 

This conference marks the centenary anniversary of Rudolf’s Steiner’s death. The driving force behind the esoteric and social reform movement of anthroposophy, Steiner left behind a complicated and transregional legacy. Considering the small number of participants in the movement's first decades, there are few spiritual currents of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that have attracted as much public attention as anthroposophy—and few spiritual leaders who have been subject to as much scrutiny, both critical and sympathetic, especially in the German-language context. Following a twenty-year period that has seen a huge increase in the quality and the quantity of the scholarship on Steiner and anthroposophy, the centennial of Steiner's death in 1925 offers a perfect opportunity for scholars, practitioners in areas of “applied anthroposophy,” such as Steiner education and biodynamic agriculture, and interested members of the public to come together to debate major issues.