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Call for Papers
The Board of Editors of the interdisciplinary journal Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei (http://www2.lingue.unibo.it/studi indo-mediterranei and http://qusim.arts.ubc.ca/) is soliciting contributions to its sixth thematic volume, scheduled to appear in 2013. This issue will contain twelv...
Datum: 2012, 16 May
The Board of Editors of the interdisciplinary journal Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei (http://www2.lingue.unibo.it/studi indo-mediterranei and http://qusim.arts.ubc.ca/) is soliciting contributions to its sixth thematic volume, scheduled to appear in 2013. This issue will contain twelv...
Datum: 2012, 16 May
Radio interview Peter Forshaw
Is Alchemy making a comeback? Peter Forshaw was interviewed on Night Waves, BBC radio 3. There's a new exhibition at the Science Museum, London, where they're exhibiting a newly discovered Ripley Scroll. Peter has been asked to chat with the presenter, Philip Dodd and Dr Jennifer Rampling, specia...
Datum: 2012, 07 May
Is Alchemy making a comeback? Peter Forshaw was interviewed on Night Waves, BBC radio 3. There's a new exhibition at the Science Museum, London, where they're exhibiting a newly discovered Ripley Scroll. Peter has been asked to chat with the presenter, Philip Dodd and Dr Jennifer Rampling, specia...
Datum: 2012, 07 May
Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts: “A ‘Supernatural’ History of Central Europe, 1870-present” Editors: Eric Kurlander (Stetson U.) Monica Black (U. of Tenn., Knoxville) Deadline: August 1, 2012 Despite the ostensible “disenchantment of the world” proclaimed...
Datum: 2012, 27 April
Call for Abstracts: “A ‘Supernatural’ History of Central Europe, 1870-present” Editors: Eric Kurlander (Stetson U.) Monica Black (U. of Tenn., Knoxville) Deadline: August 1, 2012 Despite the ostensible “disenchantment of the world” proclaimed...
Datum: 2012, 27 April
Call for applications: Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Schemes
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites applications for its award scheme for 2012. Two types of award are available: support for research into the history of chemistry or history of alchemy by New Scholars and support for Subject Development of either history of chemis...
Datum: 2012, 29 February
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites applications for its award scheme for 2012. Two types of award are available: support for research into the history of chemistry or history of alchemy by New Scholars and support for Subject Development of either history of chemis...
Datum: 2012, 29 February
New MA program at the University of Groningen
University of Groningen MA program, "Concealed Knowledge: Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism." The Groningen Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies will launch a new Master program "Concealed knowledge: Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism". (60 ECTS, entirely taugh...
Datum: 2012, 27 February
University of Groningen MA program, "Concealed Knowledge: Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism." The Groningen Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies will launch a new Master program "Concealed knowledge: Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism". (60 ECTS, entirely taugh...
Datum: 2012, 27 February
New PhD vacancies
University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is a university with an internationally acclaimed profile, located at the heart of the Dutch capital. As well as a world center for business and research, Amsterdam is a hub of cultural and media activities. The University of ...
Datum: 2011, 08 November
University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is a university with an internationally acclaimed profile, located at the heart of the Dutch capital. As well as a world center for business and research, Amsterdam is a hub of cultural and media activities. The University of ...
Datum: 2011, 08 November
Olav Hammer & Kocku von Stuckrad (eds.), Polemical Encounters: Esotericism and its Others
This new volume in the Aries Book Series is edited by Olav Hammer (assistant professor at the Center gHF from 2001-2004), and Kocku von Stuckrad. It contains twelve contributions specifically commissioned by the editors, but has its origin in the sessions on Polemics and Western esotericism organ...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
This new volume in the Aries Book Series is edited by Olav Hammer (assistant professor at the Center gHF from 2001-2004), and Kocku von Stuckrad. It contains twelve contributions specifically commissioned by the editors, but has its origin in the sessions on Polemics and Western esotericism organ...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
New Book by Wouter Hanegraaff
Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven, West Chester 2007. Emanuel Swedenborg's multivolume Arcana Coelestia (published between 1749 and 1756), nowadays known as Secrets of Heaven, consists of a detailed line-by-line exegesis of Genesis and Exodus, extended d...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven, West Chester 2007. Emanuel Swedenborg's multivolume Arcana Coelestia (published between 1749 and 1756), nowadays known as Secrets of Heaven, consists of a detailed line-by-line exegesis of Genesis and Exodus, extended d...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Progress Ritman Library
End of 2011, the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH) was closed due to a serious conflict between the founder, mr J.R. Ritman, and the Friesland Bank. After months of negotations, the situation now seems to be the following: The part of the collection that had earlier been bought...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
End of 2011, the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH) was closed due to a serious conflict between the founder, mr J.R. Ritman, and the Friesland Bank. After months of negotations, the situation now seems to be the following: The part of the collection that had earlier been bought...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Peter Forshaw
Peter Forshaw has been elected as assistant professor for History of Western Esotericism in the Early Modern period, as successor of Kocku von Stuckrad, who has been appointed full professor for Study of Religion at the University of Groningen. Forshaw's appointment at GHF will begin on september...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Peter Forshaw has been elected as assistant professor for History of Western Esotericism in the Early Modern period, as successor of Kocku von Stuckrad, who has been appointed full professor for Study of Religion at the University of Groningen. Forshaw's appointment at GHF will begin on september...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Two New Ph.D. projects
Egil Asprem, who finishes the Research Master Religious Studies (with specialization in Western esotericism) at the University of Amsterdam this summer, has successfully applied for one of the prestigious "top talent" grants of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, and will be...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Egil Asprem, who finishes the Research Master Religious Studies (with specialization in Western esotericism) at the University of Amsterdam this summer, has successfully applied for one of the prestigious "top talent" grants of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, and will be...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Ph.D. position Tessel Bauduin
Tessel Bauduin (1980) has been appointed for the vacant Ph.D. position for 19th century - present. She will be working on the project "C'est un Objet Surréaliste: Reception of Esoteric Sources in the Surrealist Discourse in Paris, 1925-1938, and Relation to the Surrealist Object".
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Tessel Bauduin (1980) has been appointed for the vacant Ph.D. position for 19th century - present. She will be working on the project "C'est un Objet Surréaliste: Reception of Esoteric Sources in the Surrealist Discourse in Paris, 1925-1938, and Relation to the Surrealist Object".
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Ph.D. Position at the University of Amsterdam
Ph.D. VACANCY IN THE DOMAIN OF WESTERN ESOTERICISM Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2007 The Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) is a university with an excellent international reputation. It is located in Amsterdam, well-known as a center for culture, media, and research. The UvA is a member...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Ph.D. VACANCY IN THE DOMAIN OF WESTERN ESOTERICISM Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2007 The Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) is a university with an excellent international reputation. It is located in Amsterdam, well-known as a center for culture, media, and research. The UvA is a member...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
Inaugural Conference of the ESSWE, Tübingen
The inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), which took place in Tübingen from July 19 through 21, was a great success. The three permanent staff members of gHF gave plenary lectures; more than ten students of the Amsterdam MA Program "Mysti...
Datum: 2011, 26 August
The inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), which took place in Tübingen from July 19 through 21, was a great success. The three permanent staff members of gHF gave plenary lectures; more than ten students of the Amsterdam MA Program "Mysti...
Datum: 2011, 26 August