What’s new in the world of esotericism research
The HHP center is delighted to announce that two new UD’s will be joining the HHP center early this spring! Liana Saif will be joining as the new assistent professor in the History of Western Esotericism in The Middle Ages, and Dylan Burns will be joining as the new assistent professor in the History of…
The state owned part of Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica has been transferred back to Amsterdam and will be on a long term loan at Allard Pierson. View the press release by Allard Pierson on the imminent transfer (in Dutch). Click for a translation of the press release here. An article in the Dutch newspaper NRC has…
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…
Looking for the next step after your Bachelor’s? Come to the next UvA Master’s Week and discover our interesting Master’s Program! In November the Faculty of Humanities will present all the Master’s programs and Research Master’s programs during the Master’s week. The presentation of the programs of Religious studies, of which History of Hermetic Philosophy…
Mriganka Mukhopadhyay, PhD candidate at HHP, will speak at the University of Lausanne on Tuesday 20 October, 16:15-18:00, on “Theosophy in Bengal: Organisation, Individuals, and Ideas”. Mriganka studied History at Kolkata and New Delhi before beginning his doctoral research in the field of Western Esotericism in Amsterdam. He is interested in the intellectual and cultural…
Exhibition: Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium On Thursday 10th September the exhibition “Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium” will open at the Drawing Room. The opening (originally scheduled in March) had been postponed due to the Corona virus pandemic. Marco Pasi, associate professor at HHP, is co-curating this exhibition, together…
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…
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…
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…
The student conference is scheduled for 26-27 July 2021. This 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 transmutation, or global consciousness change in New…
