What’s new in the world of esotericism research
On 25 May 2021 Marco Pasi (at 18:00 CEST) will give a lecture, titled: “Witchcraft with Capital W”: The Magical Art of Chiara Fumai. The lecture is part of the Spring 2021 edition of the ongoing lecture series at Professur für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft ETH Zürich “Aesthetic and Scientific Epistemologies of the Occult in the…
*A new date is set for this workshop: 16th of April 2021. In light of Covid-19 the event will be held online* The “ESOGEN Workshop: Esotericism, Gender, and Sexuality” will feature a keynote lecture by Professor Christine Ferguson (University of Stirling) The call for papers is closed. More information about the ESOGEN Network and the…
Looking for the next step after your Bachelor’s? Come to the next UvA Master’s Day and discover our interesting Master’s Programmes! On 18 February the Faculty of Humanities will present all the Master’s programmes and Research Master’s programmes during the Master’s Open Day. The programmes of History of Hermetic Philosophy are part of Religious Studies….
One more good reason to study Western Esotericism at the HHP Centre in Amsterdam! We are happy to announce a new collaboration with the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP). From now on HHP staff and students will have a free subscription to SHWEP. SHWEP is a weekly podcast series exploring cutting-edge academic 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…
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…
