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We are happy to announce that ESSWE 8 will take place 5-7 July 2021, hosted by the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork. The confirmed keynotes are: -Dr Christopher Webster, Senior Lecturer, Aberystwyth University, “Stone, Symbol and Face: Photography and Ethnos in the Third Reich” -Dr Marco Pasi, associate professor, University of Amsterdam,…
Scarlet Women: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Western Esotericism On May 11, 16:00-17:30, Dr. Manon Hedenborg White (University of Amsterdam/Södertörn University) will be giving an open lecture in the context of the RMA seminar Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism, entitled “Scarlet Women: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Western Esotericism”. This talk will…
We are sad to have to announce that, in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this conference has been cancelled. Marco Pasi, Mriganka Mukhopadhyay and Henrik Bodan will be presenting a panel: “Esotericism in a global context: centres, margins, and everything in between” at the 22nd Quinquennial World Congress of the IAHR at the University…
In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic this Conference has been postponed. It will now take place from 26 to 29 July 2021. Mriganka Mukhopadhyay and Karl Baier are presenting a panel in the 26th ECSAS conference: Occult South Asia: Rethinking the History of Modern South Asian Religions and Spiritualities through the Lens of…
Workshop Religious Drugs at the Masaryk University Brno The Department for the Study of Religions of Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions is organizing the workshop “Religious Drugs” on 28-29 February 2020, where new ideas for research will be discussed, investigated and proposed. More information about the…
Cancelled: Women and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe Due to the measures taken for the corona virus, this conference has been canceled. This one-day conference, organized by Sajed Chowdhury, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society, offers a unique opportunity to explore the different ways in which early modern European women…
“Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts” 2020 Meeting of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE) 24-26 September, 2020 Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain la-Neuve, Belgium Deadline for submissions: 1 May, 2020 The European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE) invites you to submit proposals for its 2020 meeting….
Nationalism and religion have intertwined closely over the past two centuries. Indeed, nationalism can easily be associated with the ideas of “political religion”, charismatic leadership, forms of prophetism, messianism, millennialism and more generally with mysticism, esotericism and alternative spirituality. The old religious concept of a divine covenant with an “chosen people” takes on new forms in…
Postponed: the international conference to commemorate Ioannes Amos Comenius (1592-1670) and the 350th anniversary of his death Naarden/Amsterdam, The Netherlands, postponed (from November 2020) to March 2021; more detailed information will follow. Pansophia was one of the leading principles – if not the most important one – in the work of Ioannes Amos Comenius (1592-1670). But the…
All programmes organised by the Graduate School of Social Science, including the program of HHP, are cancelled for summer 2020 in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Visions of the occult: Introduction to Western Esotericism See this page for more information.
