10Sep
Conference: Theosophy and the Arts. Texts and Contexts of Modern Enchantment
Friday, October 9, 2015 – Saturday, October 10, 2015 This is the second conference of the international research network Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, Modernism and the Arts, c.1875-1960 funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The Network’s first conference, ‘Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy and the Arts in the Modern World’ held at the University of Amsterdam in 2013, mapped…
11Mar
Lecture: Victorian Occult Enlightenment
Mabel Collins, H.P. Blavatsky, and the Luciferian Public Sphere Dr. Christine Ferguson University of Glasgow Thursday, March 19th at 17:00 Bungehuis 0.04 Spuistraat 210 The abstract can be downloaded here
09Mar
Mini Conference: Western Esotericism and Its Scholars
A Research Seminar by Students in the Master Program “Western Esotericism”of the University of Amsterdam Time: Tuesday 27 January 2015 Location: Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam, room C 3.17 Free entrance!!!! Download the program here
09Mar
Call for papers
Call for papers of the Western Esotericism Group at American Academy of Religion for the 2015 meeting (Atlanta, 21-24 Nov.) The call for papers of the of the Western Esotericism Group in the American Academy of Religion has now been published. The deadline for submissions is March 2 Western Esotericism Group Statement of Purpose:…
09Mar
Research Associate, Magic and the Expanding Early Modern World
The University of Manchester – School of Arts, Languages and Cultures The University of Manchester invites applications for a Research Associate on the exhibition project “Magic and the Expanding Early Modern World”. The exhibition will be staged at the John Rylands Library in Manchester and co-curated by Dr Jenny Spinks and Dr Sasha Handley, both…
11Jul
Call for Papers – The Marginalization of Astrology (Utrecht, 19-20 March 2015; Deadline 30 September 2014)
The Descartes Centrum for history of science of the University of Utrecht, in collaboaration with the department of philosophy of the Radboud University at Nijmegen, will host an international conference on the problem of the marginalization of astrology in the early modern period. Astrology has been a well-established and respected part of scholarship for centuries,…
20Jun
The Esoteric Space of Ideas: Spiritual Materialism in Deleuze and the Early Avant-Garde
Lecture by Joshua Ramey, the author of “The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal” (Duke University Press, 2012) 27 June 2014, 14:00 Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Nina van Leerzaal, Oude Turfmarkt 127 —————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Abstract: In his 1968 work of experimental metaphysics, Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze articulated a theory of ideas, and a related theory of thought,…
02Jun
SHAC Postgraduate Workshop: Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry
Datum: October 24, 2014 For the first time, the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place outside the United Kingdom, at the University of Amsterdam. The workshop offers postgraduate students and early-career researchers the opportunity to share ideas, explore methodological issues and network in a…
06May
Egil Asprem: Legatum Stolpianum winner!
The Dissertation of Egil Asprem, The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939, has been awarded the Legatum Stolpianum. It is a prize awarded only every five years. The dissertation was written in the context of the Faculty of Humanities, the Institute for Culture and History, the Department of Art, Religion, and Cultural…
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