Joyce Pijnenburg

Joyce Pijnenburg (1980) received a BA in Cultural Studies (focus on ancient philosophy and Hermetism/Hermeticism) and an MA in Religious Studies (Mysticism and Western Esotericism, cum laude). She also completed a propaedeutical year in Italian Language and Culture. In her approach to western esotericism she emphasizes points of convergence with key issues in the history of western philosophy, especially of antiquity and the early modern period. Her main research interests include the Presocratics, early scepticism, Plato, Platonism and Hellenistic philosophy; Greco-Egyptian Hermetism, religion and magic; early modern philosophy of science and the so-called ‘scientific revolution’; and the history and theory of the image.

From 2008 to June 2011, her PhD research for GHF was sponsored by the foundation Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH); as of July 2011, she continues her project with the Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam. The foundation BPH funded her teaching for GHF. Joyce also taught a summer course on western esotericism  for Religious Studies at the Ludwig Maximiliansuniversität in Munich (2009).

Her research project is titled “Giordano Bruno's Lampas Triginta Statuarum, its place in his oeuvre and time”.

For more information see Joyce Pijnenburg's personal profile on academia.edu: http://uva.academia.edu/JoycePijnenburg