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…
Since the nineteenth century, East-Central Europe has experienced rapid social, political, and economic changes, which caused transformation and transformations in local societies. Rising nationalism culminating in the Revolutionary year 1848, echoes of the Romantic movement, ongoing industrialisation, First World War, the emergence of national states and disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, later followed by the…
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)…
On 17- 18 June 2021 an online symposium is created by and for graduate students researching all things Jungian, and who are looking to expand their academic network, gain experience and meet potential PhD supervisors. Image on homepage: Artwork by Carl Jung One of the organisers is Ninian Nijhuis, RMA student at the HHP Centre;…
18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions; Pisa, 30 August – 3 September 2021 RESILIENT RELIGION Resilience can be considered as the ability to counteract or absorb a process of transformation. It is also characterized by a capacity to endure changes without having to adapt permanently, an ability to find…
From 9 – 11 August 2021 the Center for the Study of Western Esotericism of the Union of South American Nations (Centro de Estudios sobre el Esoterismo Occidental -CEEO-UNASUR) organizes an online international congress: Western Esoteriscim in and from Latin America. In august 2011, the Center for the Study of Western Esotericism of the Union…
An Online Conference, organized by the Goldstein Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Commemorating the 400 th Anniversary of his Death ( 1620-2020 ) | September 14 th -16 th, 2020. John MacMurphy, PhD student at HHP, will be presenting a paper “Between Chymia and Alchemy: Chayim Vital’s Intimate Relationship with Western Occult Praxis”. Vital…
