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…
03Jun
9-10 July 2021: Online conference: New Approaches to Cosmos and Spirit in the Premodern 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)…
19May
17-18 June online: Jung Graduate Symposium
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;…
16May
18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions
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…
01Apr
International Congress: Western Esoteriscim in and from Latin America
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…
18Mar
ENSIE 3: Call for Papers, Deadline 15 May
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…
04Sep
Online conference: “For there, I, Hayiim, was living”: R. Hayiim Vital and his World
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…
26Jun
8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), 5-7 July 2021
The Call for papers is up, the deadline is extended, it is now: 15 December 2020! 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…
13Mar
Student Conference 26-27 July now a hybrid event: Esotericism and the Varieties of Transformation
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…
06Mar
OSAN (Occult South Asia Network) organises a panel in the 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Vienna, Austria; new dates: from 26 to 29 July 2021
The 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) will 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 Esotericism Research and vice versa….