We are happy to announce that ESSWE 8 will take place 5-7 July 2022, hosted by the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork. The confirmed keynotes are: -Dr Marco Pasi, associate professor, University of Amsterdam, Department of Humanities, “The Occulture of Contemporary Art” -Dr Christopher Webster, Senior Lecturer, Aberystwyth University, “Stone, Symbol and…

Between 29 September-1 October ENSIE 3, the  2021 Meeting of The European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE) “Islam and Esotericism: Societies, Politics, and Practice” will be held on Zoom. ENSIE invites proposals for the meeting; especially proposals from sociologists and anthropologists, as well as other scholars. The chronological scope stretches from medieval…

The student conference is scheduled for 26-27 July 2021, and is now a hybrid event! This two-day student conference is being held to explore the idea of ‘transformation’ in the history of esotericism. The theme of ‘transformation’ manifests in many domains and on many levels – whether we think about ideas/practices of individual deification, alchemical…

Two day interdisciplinary seminar: Swedenborg’s Prism: Applications of Swedenborgian Spirituality This seminar invites scholars to explore the many prismatic intersections between Emanuel Swedenborg’s paradigm of spirituality and spiritual movements, thought, and applications. Swedenborg’s contribution to spirituality has captured the attention of many important thinkers since his writings first revealed his contact with the spirit world…

The Warburg Institute 09 Jul 2021, 14:00 to 10 Jul 2021, 19:00 This conference will celebrate the recent publication of three books on or related to the cosmos and spirit in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern world from late Antiquity until the early modern period: Juan Acevedo, Alphanumeric Cosmology from Greek into Arabic (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2020)…