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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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