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Inaugural conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC)

An international conference hosted by the Department of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester.

Keynote speakers include: Gregory Shaw (Stonehill College), Mass.Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania), Barbara Tedlock (State University of New York, Buffalo). Other speakers to include: Geoffrey Cornelius (Kent), Dennis Tedlock (Buffalo), Angela Voss (Kent)

Historians of science devote great attention to the imposition and reception of modern scientific theories in colonial societies. Typical themes include the ways science was used rhetorically and politically to maintain the superiority of the colonizers, and strategies of rejection and appropriation by the colonized. Important as they are, these topics can give the misleading impression that encounters with alien science were strictly a phenomenon of modern global imperialism. In fact, political expansion and exposure to new cultures have been reflected in changing scientific traditions since antiquity, including the spread of Graeco-Roman dominance into the Near East and North Africa, and the subsequent merging of many former territories of the Roman Empire, along with parts of Iranian, Indian, and Chinese cultures, into the growing realm of Islam. This seminar will address the explicit recognition and assimilation (or modification) of ‘foreign’ elements in the exact sciences, changes within existing scientific traditions in imitation of foreign texts and practices.

This is the second conference of the Association for the Study of Esotericism (ASE).

A new and unique summer study program fusing traditional text-study, modern academic scholarship, and experiential spiritual practice.

Inaugural conference of the Queensland Society for the Study of Religion (QSSR).

The New York Open Center and Lapis Magazine Online host a conference titled: "An Esoteric Quest in Central Europe" from August 31 until September 8. The conference will be held at three differenct places in Central Europe, starting in the Czech Republic and moving to Weimar in Germany.

Two-day conference organized by Hilary Carey, Lauren Kassell and Rob Ralley, to be held at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 8-9 September 2006.

One topic of this conference is "Esotericism".

The conference "Die Enzyklopädik der Esoterik: Allwissenheitsmythen und universalwissenschaftliche Modelle in der Esoterik der Neuzeit" is the 61st "Wolfenbütteler Symposion"

This conference aims to provide an introduction into the masonic and esoteric symbolism in 18th-century garden architecture, provide an overview of recent academic research into the subject, and raise awareness of the importance of preserving the remaining sites as a part of our cultural heritage.

The Western Esotericism Group of the American Academy of Religion has two sessions (one co-sponsored with the Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group) at the Annual Meeting of the AAR in Washington, DC, November 2006.

The conference is organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO)/ working group "Russian and East European Culture" (Prof. Birgit Menzel, University of Mainz/Germersheim), in cooperation with the Harriman Institute/Columbia University (Prof. Catharine Theimer-Nepomnyashchy) and will take place in the European Academy in Berlin. Conference languages are English and Russian.

International academic conference under the patronage of The Grand Lodge of Scotland, The United Grand Lodge of England, and the Grand Lodge of Ireland.

The next conference of CESNUR will also include panels on new religious movements and on "Internationalization of Western esotericism: West, East and what about Middle East?". The Call for Papers is out now. Deadline for submitting proposals is 10 January 2007.

This international conference, hosted by the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, brings together leading scholars, in order to break new ground for a better understanding and conceptualization of the role of Kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.

17. Tagung der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft Topic: "Naturmagie und Deutungskunst: Wege und Motive der Rezeption von G. B. Della Porta in Europa"

The inaugural conference of the ESSWE will be held at the University of Tübingen, Germany, 20-22 July 2007.

International conference on "Western Esotericism," organized by the Donner Institute, Åbo (Turku), Finland. Conference language is English. A Swedish Call for Papers is out now.

"An Esoteric Quest for The Golden Age of Andalusia: Sufis, Kabbalists and Christian Philosophers in Medieval Spain" A five day conference in Granada, Spain From the organizers' announcement: Our conference will be a quest for the beauty and spiritual philosophy of the golden age of Andalusia, a time when a culture of tolerance among Muslims, Christians and Jews produced works of enduring spiritual and artistic genius.

This is the second conference on Divination at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, entitled 'Divination and Dialogue'. Keynote speakers: Philip Peek, Barbara Tedlock, Juha Pentikainen.

Il convegno, primo in Italia e unico nel suo genere, è dedicato alla storia, ai personaggi, ai testi e alle dottrine dell’esoterismo occidentale. Curato da Alessandro Grossato, il convegno riunisce a Venezia i massimi esperti di una materia relativamente nuova, ma il cui studio è in crescente sviluppo presso molti Atenei d’Europa, e non solo. Le loro relazioni danno conto dello stato attuale degli studi e delle ricerche riguardanti le principali forme e correnti dell’esoterismo occidentale, partendo dagli ultimi secoli dell’Antichità per arrivare, attraverso il Medioevo e il Rinascimento, fino all’Età contemporanea.

The idea that a perfect society could be planned, created and sustained can be traced back to Plato’s description of Atlantis, but it entered the popular imagination during the religious and cultural upheavals of Renaissance and Reformation when, in the early sixteenth century, Sir Thomas More published Utopia, his speculative vision of an ideal society. Since that time speculative philosophers, enthusiasts, dreamers, visionaries and reformers – of every shade of religious, political and philosophical opinion – have presented countless other visions of the ideal society to the world at large, ranging from Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

The Western Esotericism Group of the American Academy of Religion will sponsor 2 sessions this time, at the meeting in San Diego, California.

The second, major, international meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC), “The Re-Enchantment of Nature across Disciplines: Critical Intersections of Science, Ethics, and Metaphysics,” will be held 17-20 January 2008 in Morelia, Mexico and will be hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Morelia, Mexico.

This conference on the cultural history of outer space, space travel and space exploration examines the manner in which Europeans imagined outer space over the course of the twentieth century.

On March 25, a conference on "Emblems, Magic, and Hidden Knowledge" will be held for students as well as independent and established scholars, in collaboration with the department History of Hermetic Philosophy (GHF, Religious Studies) of the University of Amsterdam. Particular emphasis will lie on the role of imagery and emblems in magic and alchemy, and in pursuits and conceptions of (hidden) knowledge; however, questions related more generally to the study of Western esotericism and its methodology will also be addressed. For the program, see "Read more."

The Academia Belgica (Rome) is hosting a conference on "Music and esotericism: Art and science of sounds facing the occult knowledge. Musique et ésotérisme : L'art et la science des sons face aux savoir occultes. Musica e Esoterismo: L'arte e la scienza dei suoni si incontrano con i saperi occulti". For the Call for Papers and more information, see "Informazione ricerca" on the website provided below.

The Association for the Study of Esotericism (ASE) is hosting its third biannual North American Conference on Esotericism at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC, USA. The conference addresses various topics in Western Esotericism, particularly related to themes exploring the relationship between esotericism, religion, and nature. The Call for Paper is available (see "read more").

The University of Kent will host a Symposium for postgraduate students in applied theology, cultural study of cosmology and divination, mysticism and religious experience, as well as religious studies.

Zwei große Globalisierungsschübe werden durch das Auftreten Neuer Medien mitgestaltet: durch analoge Neue Medien um 1900, und durch digitale Neue Medien in der Gegenwart. Für die Moderne ist bekannt, dass das Auftreten Neuer Medien mit zentralen Debatten über die „Modernität“ und „Modernisierung“ von Trancepraktiken einherging. Insbesondere der Spiritismus und die Entstehung der modernen Esoterik um 1900 lösten durch ihre Praktiken und ihre kosmologischen Ansprüche eine fortwirkende Debatte über die Modernität von Trancemedien und ihre Verwendung Neuer Medien aus. Eine Vielzahl von Diskursen und Praktiken im ersten Globalisierungsschub setzte Trance-Erfahrungen in Neue Medien um, legitimierte Trance-Medien durch Neue Medien, und bezweifelte und bekämpfte Trance-Erfahrungen durch den Rekurs auf Neue Medien; doch auch in den entlarvenden Praktiken gingen Austreibungen und Beschwörungen ständig ineinander über. Es ist daher nicht die scheinbare „Abseitigkeit“ des Spiritismus und der Esoterik, aus denen die Sprengkraft der Kontroversen rührt, sondern ihre zentrale Stellung in der Dynamik der modernen Kosmologie. Aus dieser Stellung erklärt sich, warum die lange Debatte um spiritistische Praktiken und Postulate sich um 1900 in einer solchen Vielzahl von ästhetischen, wissenschaftlichen und esoterischen Gestalten niederschlagen konnte, und zwar in allen künstlerischen Avantgarden seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert; in der Theoriebildung verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen, insbesondere der modernen Ethnologie, der Psychologie und der Psychiatrie; in neue Kategorisierungen und Organisationen der entstehenden Esoterik und „okkulter“ Praktiken und in den Kernbestand der späteren Medientheorien. For the conference program, click "read more"!

The Esoteric Studies Research and Teaching Group in conjunction with the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland presents the 3rd Annual Alternative Expressions of the Numinous Conference

ESSWE has no conference in 2008. Instead, ESSWE is organizing two panels for the 2008 conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (which will be held in Brno, Czech Republic from 7 to 11 September 2008). The two sessions will address the following topics: ‘Ex Oriente Lux: The Presence of Western Esotericism in Eastern Europe’ ‘The Political Temptations of Western Esotericism’

The Western Esotericism Group of the American Academy of Religion is hosting three sessions at this year's annual meeting of the AAR in Chicago, 31 October - 4 November 2008.

Conference "From Ma'ashallah to Kepler: The Theory and Practice of Astrology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," held at the Warburg Institute, London, UK, from 13-15 November 2008.

"The Threat and Allure of the Magical in Literature, Language, Philosophy, History and the Arts" 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley March 13-15, 2009 Dating back to the 9th Century Old High German Merseburg Incantations (die Merseburger Zaubersprüche) and their influence on the fairy-tale world of the Brothers Grimm, references to the magical boil forth from a wide range of cultural forms, from Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) in music to Werner Herzog’s Invincible in film. In silent film, modern literature and the arts, magic both heralded and haunted an artistic revolution in which the avant-garde and the occult recurrently intersected. In critical theory, ideology is often described in terms of a spell. Accordingly, this conference presents an opportunity to explore these cultural encounters with the magical and further inquire why this space of radical alterity carries such an allure and/or threat.

Unbegreifliche Zeiten. Wunder im 20. Jahrhundert Essen, 18. bis 21. März 2009 Internationale Konferenz in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut (KWI), der Gerda Henkel Stiftung und dem Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie (AG+T) Organisation: Alexander C.T. Geppert und Till Kössler For a German description and program see "read more"

Astrology: Magic, Divination and Destiny: A module from the Master’s program from Lampeter University, Wales, UK in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology Liz Greene, Nick Campion and Bernadette Brady This is one of the modules for the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at Lampeter University

"Capitales de l’ésotérisme européen et dialogue des cultures / Capitals of european esotericism and transcultural dialogue" International Conference organized by the University of Strasbourg (Equipe d’accueil d’Etudes germaniques, EA 1341/UDS) and the Maison interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme-Alsace (MISHA) in partnership with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE). 2-4 July 2009 in Strasburg, Maison interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme-Alsace.

19. TAGUNG DER CHRISTIAN KNORR VON ROSENROTHGESELLSCHAFT "Konversion und Transformation des Wissens Interreligiöser Austausch im vormodernen Europa" For the conference program, please see the PDF provided on the conference website.

The Third International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture is devoted to the topic "Religion, Nature, and Progress." The conference will be held 23-26 July 2009 at the University of Amsterdam.

EASR conference devoted to "Religion in the History of European Culture” Messina, 14-17 September 2009 Panel: ‘The presence of esoteric currents and ideas in Italy from the 18th century to our days’ Convenor: Marco Pasi (University of Amsterdam)

The sixth international conference on "The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena," celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first astronomical uses of the telescope, will be held at the Palazzo Franchetti in Venice (Italy). The Conference will explore humanity's fascination with the sky, which has been a strong and often dominant element in human life and culture. It provides a meeting place for scholars from a variety of disciplines and artists to present and discuss their studies on the cultural impact and inspirations of astronomical phenomena.

"Alternative Spiritualities, the New Age and New Religious Movements in Ireland": Interdisciplinary conference at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (October 30th - 31st, 2009). Welcome address: Prof. Tom Inglis (UCD) Plenary lectures: Prof. Eileen Barker (LSE) Prof. Paul Heelas (Lancaster University)

IAHR Panel: "Western esotericism and its boundaries: Between discourses of identity and difference" Convenors: Allison Coudert (University of California at Davis), Cathy Gutierrez (Sweet Briar College), Marco Pasi (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

IAHR Panel: Seduced by Science: The culture of religion and science in the early 20th century Panel Organizers: Egil Asprem and Tessel M. Bauduin (Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Contact: T.M.Bauduin@uva.nl / E.Asprem@uva.nl Deadline call for papers: April 15th 2010

Symposium Call for Papers: Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish Mysticism Around the Time of Chrétien de Troyes Eagle Hill Foundation, Steuben, Maine, USA Friday, October 15th, through Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Influence of Western Esoteric Movements on Modern Thought Thursday 22 - Sunday 25 July, 2010 San Jose, California San Jose, CA - The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, a 501(c) 3 public benefit organization, is sponsoring the esoteric conference, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Influence of Western Esoteric Movements on Modern Thought at Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, Thursday, July 22 through Sunday, July 25, 2010. This conference brings together scholars and practitioners within the field of western esotericism to explore the substantial influence this tradition has had on modern thought.

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Call for Papers for the Fourth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Esotericism and Mysticism The Secret and the Manifest: The Variety of Representations of Esotericism and Mysticism 2-4 December 2010 Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)

Keynote Speaker: Bruce Moran, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico della Mirandola described two forms of magic. There was that branch of sorcery consisting “wholly in the operations and powers of demons,” as well as a more benign craft pertaining to none other than “the highest realization of natural philosophy.” To many Renaissance thinkers, magic was a legitimate field of study as well as a potential threat to established orthodoxies. Inspired by this formulation, this interdisciplinary conference aims to consider scientific thought alongside magic and domains that modern vocabulary would describe as pseudoscience, such as alchemy and astrology, and invites papers related to diverse ways of magical and scientific knowing in the early modern world.

The Rosicrucian Conference 2010: The Rosicrucian Tradition, Past, Present & Future 8-9 May 2010 Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus The aim of the conference is to clear away popular misconceptions and to clarify the historical origins and the philosophical and spiritual nature of Rosicrucianism – a movement that came to light in Christian Europe during the period following the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and which is a central feature of Western Esotericism. The speakers at this international conference are drawn from a wide spectrum of experts and authorities in the fields of Rosicrucianism and Western Esotericism, with two keynote papers to be delivered by Professor John Warwick Montgomery, author of The Cross and the Crucible, a seminal and magisterial study of J.V. Andrea’s The Chemical Wedding; and Wouter Hanegraaff, Professor of the History of Hermetic Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism. Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Chair of Western Esotericism, Department of History, University of Exeter, is also addressing the conference.

A one-day workshop for graduate and postgraduate students organised by the Chair for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, on Thursday 24 June 2010. Speakers: > Prof. Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University) > Dr Stephen Clucas (University of London) > Dr Jennifer Rampling (University of Cambridge)

Présence de l’ésotérisme chrétien dans la Franc-maçonnerie 19 Octobre 2010 - 3 Mai 2011 Le cycle 2010-2011 du « Séminaire d'étude des mouvements maçonniques et ésotériques » propose d'interroger d'un point de vue académique les liens subtils et affinités intellectuelles unissant l'ésotérisme chrétien et les sociétés initiatiques modernes et contemporaines. Speakers: Jean-Pierre Laurant, Jean-Francois Var, Dominique Clairembault, Francesco Baroni, Serge Caillet, Robert Vanloo.

Call for Papers: Between Light and Darkness - International Symposium on Fin-de-siècle Symbolism The symposium Between Light and Darkness will take place December 9th and 10th 2010 at the Ateneum Art Museum - Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The focus of the symposium is on religion, mysticism, and subjectivity in Symbolist art and theory, and on the fin-de-siècle relationship between art and science, considering also the ways in which the Symbolist influence has continued after the fin-de-siècle period. The purpose is to bring together scholars studying Symbolism and related subjects and to shed new light on the interconnectedness of esoteric thought and the discourses of Modernity.

We would like to invite you to the conference 'Knowledge to die for: Transmission of Prohibited and Esoteric Knowledge through Space and Time' on May 2-4 at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science. The conference deals with prohibited, heretical and esoteric knowledge, as attested in Mesopotamia and in ancient Jewish, Rabbinic, and Apocalyptic literature, as well as in Christian and Islamic contexts, pre-Islamic and later Iranian sources, and incorporating Judeo-Christian-Muslim heterodoxies. Speakers will include: Michael Stone (Jerusalem), Boris Uspenskij (Naples), Gebhard Selz (Vienna), Tal Ilan (Berlin), Alexander Kulik (Jerusalem), James Russell (Harvard), Dimitri Gutas (Yale), Hans Kippenberg (Bremen), Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin), Antonio Panaino (Bologna), Maria Macuch (Berlin), Velizar Sadovski (Vienna), Jens Braarvig (Oslo), Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Berlin), Yuri Stoyanov (London), David Shankland (London), Matteo Martelli (Berlin). We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference.

Call for Papers Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence University of Kent, Canterbury, UK In this inter-disciplinary conference we will be addressing the question of inspired creativity. In many traditions the fount of creative vision and the source of divinatory insight is located in an intelligent ‘other’, whether this is termed god, angel, spirit, muse or daimon, or whether it is seen as an aspect of the human imagination and the activation of the ‘unconscious’ in a Jungian sense. From the artistic genius to the tarot reader, the sense of communication with another order of reality is commonly attested. Such communication may take the form of a flash of intuitive insight, psychic or clairvoyant ability, or spiritual possession. In art and literature many forms have been given to the daimonic intelligence, from angels to aliens, and in the realm of new age practices encounters with spiritual beings are facilitated through an increasing variety of methods including shamanism, hypnotherapy, mediumship, psychedelics, channelling and spirit materialisation. Theories of divinatory practices such as astrology, tarot or I Ching often assume a spirit or god-like intelligence at work in symbolic interpretation, and guardian angels abound in self-help literature.

A Three-Day International Colloquium, Bern 12–14 May 2011 This conference explores the ways in which knowledge was shaped, shared, and circulated among artists, artisans, scientists and architects, as well as collectors, and connoisseurs in the Netherlands and the Spanish Habsburg World. By expanding our focus to include the Netherlands, Spain, and the Spanish Habsburg lands in Italy and the New World we hope to open new fields of research beyond the dominant Italian model. Among the foci of the contributions are epistemological dimensions of tacit and experimental knowledge; the intersections between art, alchemy, technology, natural philosophy, and theology; circulation of learned and hermetic knowledge; notions of virtuosity and ingenuity in various arts and crafts; antiquarianism and ‘love of the arts’ in the Netherlands and Spain; and the circulation and transformation of artists’ secrets across different cultural-geographical contexts.

Call for Papers, ESSWE3: Lux in Tenebris The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism in cooperation with the University of Szeged and its Cultural Iconology and Semiography Research Group announces its third international conference on The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism July 6-10, 2011

The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism in cooperation with the University of Szeged and its Cultural Iconology and Semiography Research Group announces its third international conference on The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism

We are proud to announce that a research workshop, Text & Image in Religious Cosmography: Reading Ilanot and Parallel Artifacts, will take place at the University of Haifa from 25-27 July 2011.

The aim of this conference, organized by the University of Vienna’s Institute of Art History in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, is to conduct a debate regarding heterogeneous research approaches to the relationship between Neoplatonism and art. The intention is to enable art historians – both those concerned with the history of their own discipline and also those whose research is on the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance itself – to meet up with historians from a wide variety of specialist fields, so that advocates and opponents of the view that Neoplatonic philosophy influenced the fine arts during the Italian Renaissance can have an opportunity to discuss their different standpoints.

CRASSH and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Alchemists pursued many goals, from the transmutation of metals to the preservation of health and life. These pursuits were continually informed and modified by medical knowledge, while alchemical debates about nature, generation, and the achievability of perfection in turn impacted on medicine and natural philosophy. Alchemical texts circulated in print and manuscript; in courts, in households, and in the marketplace, both reflecting and contributing to debates about the body and the natural world. Alchemy was studied by physicians, clerics, natural philosophers, merchants, artisans and aristocrats; some drawn toward theoretical speculation, others towards empirical practice.

This conference, jointly sponsored by the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums, headed by prof. Nicola Mapelli, and the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, seeks to examine the complex intersections of religion, nature and art. Sessions will focus on broad cultural and geographic areas: “Asian Religions, Nature and Art,” “Renaissance Art, Religion and Nature,” “Indigenous Religions, Nature and Art,” “Spirituality-based Environmental Activism, Nature and Art”. Some general areas of presentation could include: art symbolizing religious aspects of nature, nature itself as religious art, nature-themed religious art, art that expresses religious-based resistance to environmental destruction.

The field of Empire and post-colonial studies has received a good deal of attention in recent years. However, with the notable exception of Jessica Harland-Jacobs pioneering study, Builders of Empire, Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2007), an important aspect of associational life in this field – the study of freemasonry – has not received the attention that it deserves. This two-day event will therefore address this neglected topic and will include keynote lectures by Dr Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Associate Professor at the University of Florida, Professor Cécile Revauger, University of Bordeaux III, Professor Andrew Prescott, Kings College London, and Dr Jim Daniel, former Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England.

The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar) is to provide a London forum for scholars working in the history of philosophy, intellectual history and the history of science of Europe in the period 1400-1650. The term 'philosophy' is interpreted in its fullest Renaissance sense, and includes such themes as: Neoplatonism, scholasticism and late Aristotelian philosophy, Epicureanism, stoicism, scepticism, cosmological theories, the classification of the disciplines, encyclopaedism, Lullism, the art of memory, the philosophy of mathematics, theories of the soul, theories of language and signs, etc.

Vocal Ensemble Musa, conducted by Peter Dijkstra will be performing a programme entitled 'Hermetische Harmonie (Hermetic Harmony)' on Saturday 5 November 2011 at the Noorderkerk Amsterdam. Programme: Veijo Tormis, Autumn Landscapes; William Byrd, Quomodo cantabimus & Domine, quis habitabit?; Olli Kortekangas, The Way to the Woods; Aaron Jay Kernis, Ecstatic Meditations; and a commissioned composition by Ed de Boer, Corpus Hermeticum

European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and Aries Reception Monday, 6:30 pm–7:30 pm Location: IC-Twin Peaks The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and its associated journal Aries invite current and potential members of ESSWE and current or potential contributors to Aries to a reception to hear briefly about plans for ESSWE and Aries, and to renew or extend contacts within the field.

A one-day conference organized by Guido Giglioni In the course of his illustrious career at the Warburg Institute, D.P. Walker (1914-1985) published seminal works that contributed to redefining our view of early modern magic and demonology, such as Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella (1958), Decline of Hell (1964) and Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (1981). This conference intends to celebrate his legacy by presenting the most recent results by young researchers working at the Warburg Institute. Speakers will include Anna Corrias, Sietske Fransen, Michael Gordian, Nicholas Holland, James A. T. Lancaster, Anthony Ossa-Richardson

The Association for the Study of Esotericism and Mysticism announces its Fifth International Conference: Mystic and Esoteric Movements in Theory and Practice

Probablemente los dos aspectos del Mundo Antiguo que más interés suscitan son el mito y la magia. Aunque los estudiosos de ambos se plantean con frecuencia su definición y su justificación conceptual, su simple mención desencadena variadas connotaciones y abre ante nosotros un haz de fascinantes perspectivas. El objeto del presente Coloquio es estudiar las relaciones entre los relatos míticos y el mundo de la magia en Grecia y Roma, a partir de dos grandes secciones temáticas. 1. La magia en el mito; 2. El mito en la magia

Probablemente los dos aspectos del Mundo Antiguo que más interés suscitan son el mito y la magia. Aunque los estudiosos de ambos se plantean con frecuencia su definición y su justificación conceptual, su simple mención desencadena variadas connotaciones y abre ante nosotros un haz de fascinantes perspectivas. El objeto del presente Coloquio es estudiar las relaciones entre los relatos míticos y el mundo de la magia en Grecia y Roma, a partir de dos grandes secciones temáticas. 1. La magia en el mito; 2. El mito en la magia

An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Witchcraft, Demonology and the Occult in the Early Modern Period