Religionism and Historicism Miniconference: 23 & 24 January 2020, with students of the Master Program Study of Religion: Western Esotericism University of Amsterdam, Universiteitstheater For the program, click here
16Dec
ESOGEN Workshop: Esotericism, Gender, and Sexuality 16 April 2020
Call for papers is out! Deadline for submission of paper and session proposals: February 15, 2020 Click here to view the Call for Papers. HHP is proud to announce the “ESOGEN Workshop: Esotericism, Gender, and Sexuality” . This will take place on 16 April 2020. The event will feature a keynote lecture by Professor Christine…
20Sep
10th Annual SHAC Post-Graduate Workshop
10th Annual SHAC Post-Graduate Workshop: “Society and the Creation of (al)Chemical Knowledge” Hosted by the Embassy of the Free Mind, Amsterdam, Netherlands Program
07May
7th Biannual Conference ESSWE
7th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) Western Esotericism and Consciousness: Visions, Voices, Altered States 2-4 July 2019 The programme is now available! Surf to the programme page. For registration surf to our registration page. This Conference also coincides with the 20th anniversary of the History of Hermetic…
11Mar
Lecture: Victorian Occult Enlightenment
Mabel Collins, H.P. Blavatsky, and the Luciferian Public Sphere Dr. Christine Ferguson University of Glasgow Thursday, March 19th at 17:00 Bungehuis 0.04 Spuistraat 210 The abstract can be downloaded here
11Jul
Call for Papers – The Marginalization of Astrology (Utrecht, 19-20 March 2015; Deadline 30 September 2014)
The Descartes Centrum for history of science of the University of Utrecht, in collaboaration with the department of philosophy of the Radboud University at Nijmegen, will host an international conference on the problem of the marginalization of astrology in the early modern period. Astrology has been a well-established and respected part of scholarship for centuries,…
20Jun
The Esoteric Space of Ideas: Spiritual Materialism in Deleuze and the Early Avant-Garde
Lecture by Joshua Ramey, the author of “The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal” (Duke University Press, 2012) 27 June 2014, 14:00 Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Nina van Leerzaal, Oude Turfmarkt 127 —————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Abstract: In his 1968 work of experimental metaphysics, Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze articulated a theory of ideas, and a related theory of thought,…
02Jun
SHAC Postgraduate Workshop: Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry
Datum: October 24, 2014 For the first time, the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place outside the United Kingdom, at the University of Amsterdam. The workshop offers postgraduate students and early-career researchers the opportunity to share ideas, explore methodological issues and network in a…
06May
Egil Asprem: Legatum Stolpianum winner!
The Dissertation of Egil Asprem, The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939, has been awarded the Legatum Stolpianum. It is a prize awarded only every five years. The dissertation was written in the context of the Faculty of Humanities, the Institute for Culture and History, the Department of Art, Religion, and Cultural…