Conference Papers
2025
‘“Manifesting the Magick of the Magus”: A comparison of the artist/magician dynamic in A.E. Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot and Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth‘
Tarot – Origins & Afterlives Symposium, Warburg Institute (April)
2023
‘“The Abominable Mercury”: an Analysis of Frieda Harris’s Anthropomorphised Concept of the Trickster God’
Glastonbury Occult Conference (February )
2022
‘“The Abominable Mercury”: an Analysis of Frieda Harris’s Anthropomorphised Concept of the Trickster God’
Trans-States 3, University of Northampton (September)
2019
‘Frieda Harris and the Divine Giraffe: Frieda Harris’s Esoteric Journey and its Influence on her Artwork’
Trans-States 2, University of Northampton (September)
‘A Cartomantic Marriage – an exploration of the relationship between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley during the development of The Book of Thoth’
Magickal Women Conference, London (June)
‘Frieda Harris and the Divine Giraffe: Frieda Harris’s Esoteric Journey and its Influence on her Artwork’
Glastonbury Occult Conference (February)
Public Lectures
2021
‘Frieda Harris’s Perception of Thelema’
Ordo Templi Orientis, Österreich online lecture programme (March)
2020
‘“In Search of a Satisfactory God” – Frieda Harris’s Quest for Esoteric Fulfilment’
Magickal Women Conference Summer Salons (live Zoom presentation, September)
‘Frieda Harris, Aleister Crowley and The Book of Thoth’
Treadwells Online (Zoom recording, August)
‘Frieda Harris, Aleister Crowley and The Book of Thoth’
Treadwell’s Bookshop (January)
2017
‘Aleister Crowley: the Man Behind the Magic’
‘A Cartomantic Marriage: Frieda Harris, Aleister Crowley and the Thoth Tarot’
Theosophical Society of Scotland, Edinburgh (March)
Podcasts
2025
Thelema Now! – Interview with Deja Whitehouse
Deja Whitehouse talks to Thelema Now host Harper Feist about her latest book, “The Lady and the Beast: The Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley.” Deja and Harper discuss Frieda Harris’s life, her Thoth Tarot collaboration with Crowley, and her struggles as a woman at time when women had few choices and even less rights.
https://thelemanow.org/thelema-now-guest-deja-whitehouse-2025
2020
Thelema Now! – Interview with Deja Whitehouse
Deja Whitehouse speaks with Harper Feist about Frieda, Lady Harris and her complex relationship with the God Mercury.
2018
Classic FM Case Notes
Episode 4: The Death of Peter Warlock (guest historian)
Deja Whitehouse 