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About Us

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:35:08 +0100

The ESSWE was incorporated under Dutch law on 21 April 2005 in Amsterdam.

ESSWE is governed by its Articles, and by Byelaws made under those articles.

Since the ESSWE was incorporated under Dutch law, the official version of the Articles of Association is in Dutch (available here). An English translation is provided here.

The collected Byelaws currently in force (in English) are provided here:

A: Membership

1)      In response to a request for admission as a member, the Membership Secretary will decide which membership category is appropriate. When in doubt, the Membership Secretary will consult an ad hoc committee consisting of the President, the Vice-President and a third person chosen by the President and the Vice-President. (Byelaw passed 21 June 2008 and amended 23 June 2010)

2)      Persons who do not have a current university affiliation normally become associate members. Only under the most exceptional circumstances will the Board consider giving full membership to persons without such a university affiliation, and then normally only to those who have a relevant PhD degree. In order to consider such cases, the Board will request a CV, a list of published works, and one representative article or book chapter. (Byelaw passed July 6, 2011)

3)      In cases where a member of the Board proposes that an existing member’s membership cat

Articles and Byelaws

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:45:56 +0100

ESSWE Articles and Byelaws

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:43:15 +0100

Articles and Byelaws

The ESSWE was incorporated under Dutch law on 21 April 2005 in Amsterdam.

ESSWE is governed by its Articles, and by Byelaws made under those articles.

Since the ESSWE was incorporated under Dutch law, the official version of the Articles of Association is in Dutch (available here). An English translation is provided here.

The collected Byelaws currently in force (in English) are provided here.

ESSWE Newsletter

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:03:55 +0100

If you have any information that you think should appear in the ESSWE Newsletter, please contact our Newsletter editor, Per Faxneld: per.faxneld@rel.su.se

ESSWE Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2006)

ESSWE Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (compilation 2007-2009)

ESSWE Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 2011)

ESSWE Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2011)

ESSWE Affiliated, Regional, Thematic Networks

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:48:19 +0200

The ESSWE encourages the establishment of networks of scholars sharing an interest in particular themes within the field. The purpose of these networks is to strengthen communication and cooperation among the scholars involved, whether by means of discussions, meetings, or more structured cooperation.

At present, for example, there is a proposed Network for Contemporary Esotericism.

Proposing networks

Persons interested in establishing thematic networks should submit a short proposal (2-4 pages) covering:

the objectives of the network (its mission and goals)

who will lead it (please attach CVs)

who might be its founding members (supply names and institutional affiliations, if known)

how the network will operate and be organized

and what possible activities are envisaged over the network's first two years (in as much detail as possible).

Proposals should be sent to the ESSWE Secretary.

Thematic Networks

Contemporary Esotericism Research Network (ContERN)
Egil Asprem (University of Amsterdam) e.asprem@uva.nl (Coordinator)
Kennet Granholm (Stockholm University) kennet.granholm@rel.su.se (Coordinator)

ESSWE Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity

The Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity (NSEA) provides contact for specialists of ancient esoteric thought, history, and literature. While the ancient sources (Gnostic, theurgic, Neoplatonic, Hermetic, etc.) of Western Esotericism

ESSWE Bursaries

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:47:07 +0200

Guidelines for ESSWE travel bursaries

NB: At the present time, all available bursary funds have been disbursed.

1. General aspects

1.1. A fund has been created by the ESSWE in order to assist students and/or members from economically disadvantaged countries through travel bursaries. The fund is used primarily for facilitating participation in ESSWE conferences, and secondarily for participation in ESSWE workshops and other academic activities whose purpose is in accordance with the aims and goals of the ESSWE.

1.2. If the budget of the ESSWE allows, a number of bursaries of € 300 each will be granted to applicants for participating in the regular ESSWE conference, held every two years. The remaining amount, divided into bursaries of € 200 each, will be allocated for applicants attending other workshops or conferences.

1.3. Bursaries for participating in conferences will be reserved for applicants who will present a paper. In other cases, such as workshops, active participation will be valued, but will not be a requirement.

1.4. The bursaries will be made available under the following conditions:
a) The applicant must be a paid-up member or a paid-up student member of the ESSWE.
b) The applicant must have sought funding from other sources as well, such as the applicant’s home university or national funding organizations, if available.
c) Preference will be given to students and/or full members from the former Eastern

Conferences

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:44:16 +0200

ESSWE 4: The Fourth International ESSWE Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2013

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:21:03 +0200

The theme of the next ESSWE conference is 'Health' and in due time a Call for Papers will be posted both here and in the Agenda.

The dates for the Gothenburg conference will be Wednesday 26 June - Saturday 29 June 2013.

Anyone interested in proposing a session for the conference should contact the ESSWE 4 Conference Organiser, Henrik Bogdan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

ESSWE 1: The First International ESSWE Conference, Tübingen, Germany, 19-22 July 2007

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:08:42 +0200

Constructing Tradition: Means and Myths of Transmission in Western Esotericism

Inaugural Conference, organised by ESSWE in cooperation with the University of Tübingen.

Thursday 19th July

18.00 hrs Welcome from the Rector of the University of Tübingen, the President of ESSWE, Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff, and Conference Chairman, Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher.

18.30 hrs Opening Lecture Jan Assmann: 'Ägypten und der Ursprung der Esoterik. Zur Geschichte und Genese eines Mythos'

Followed by: Reception in the Foyer of the Tübingen Museum

Friday 20th July

Master Narratives

08.30 hrs Kocku von Stuckrad: 'Secrecy as Social Capital'

09.20 hrs Bernhard Tschofen: 'Folklore und Esoterik. Wissensordnungen und Wissenschaftspraktiken der deutschsprachigen Volkskunde'

10.10 hrs Break

10.25 hrs Wouter Hanegraaff: 'Western Esotericism in Enlightenment Historiography: The Case of Jacob Brucker'

Kabbalistic Concepts of Tradition

11.15 hrs Giulio Busi: 'Giovanni Pico and the Ideal of concordia discors. Disharmony as a Way to Esoteric Wisdom'

12.05 hrs Break

12.20 hrs Moshe Idel: 'Revelation versus

ESSWE 2: The Second International ESSWE Conference, Strasbourg, France, 2-4 July 2009

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:58:38 +0200

Capitals of European Esotericism and Transcultural Dialogue

Organised by ESSWE in cooperation with the University of Strasbourg

La naissance et le développement de divers courants ésotériques occidentaux sont particulièrement liés à certains lieux privilégiés, vers lesquels ont convergé puis se sont cristallisées, pour des raisons historiques et culturelles complexes, activités, influences et traditions diverses. Certaines villes ont pu fonctionner, parfois pendant de longues périodes, comme des centres de diffusion de disciplines ou de courants spécifiques – c’est ainsi que d’aucunes se sont trouvées plus étroitement liées au développement de l’alchimie ou de la franc-maçonnerie. Un cas particulièrement intéressant est celui des « villes-frontières », marquées par une double culture ou faisant office de creusets interculturels, qui semblent plus encore que d’autres aptes à se constituer en lieux d’émergence de tels courants.
Le projet du IIè colloque international de l’ESSWE est ainsi de contribuer à définir une ‘géographie’ de l’ésotérisme occidental, en établissant une ‘cartographie’ transhistorique des lieux de son émergence et de l’écriture de ses traditions.

The birth and development of a plurality of western esoteri

ESSWE 3: The Third International ESSWE Conference, Szeged, Hungary, 6-10 July 2011

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:05:33 +0200

Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism

Organised by ESSWE in cooperation with the University of Szeged and its Cultural Iconology and Semiography Research Group

Wednesday 6 July

19:05–19:30 Welcome Reception
Official opening by Professor Gábor Szabó, Rector of the University;
ESSWE Presidential address by Professor Wouter Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam)

19:30–20:30 Plenary Paper 1 (Moderator: György Szönyi)
Professor Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA):
'Glory, Transfiguration, and the Fire Within: Ficino on the Metaphysics and Psychology of Light'

Thursday 7 July

09:00–10:30 Session 1A Alchemy (Moderator: Thomas Willard)
Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam / Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy):
'Artist & Athlete of Fire: Heinrich Khunrath on the Symbolic Harmony of Christ and the Philosophers' Stone'
Jo (Georgina) Hedesan (University of Exeter):
'The Verbal and Visual Symbolism of Distillation Alchemy in the 17th Century: Interpreting the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz and the Mutus Liber'
Mike A. Zuber (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich / Literature and Culture Studies):
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STATUTEN

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:13:32 +0200

Naam. Zetel.

Artikel 1.

1.1.         De Vereniging draagt de naam: The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.

              Zij is gevestigd te Amsterdam.

1.2.         De Vereniging is een rechtspersoon zonder winstoogmerk, opgericht naar Nederlands recht.

Doel.

Artikel 2.

2.1.         De Vereniging heeft ten doel de bevordering van de academische studie van de verschillende verschijningsvormen van de Westerse esoterie vanaf de late oudheid tot aan het heden, en het waarborgen van de toekomstige ontwikkeling op dit terrein, zomede al hetgeen met het vorenstaande verband houdt of daartoe bevorderlijk kan zijn.

2.2.         De Vereniging tracht haar doel te bereiken door:

              a)       het organiseren van conferenties en andere academische vergaderingen;

              b)       in het algemeen het bevorderen van contacten en uitwisseling tussen geleerden;

              c)       het bevorderen van

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:12:07 +0200

The ESSWE was incorporated on 21 April 2005 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Since the ESSWE was incorporated under Dutch law, the official version of the Articles of Association is in Dutch (available here).

The following English translation of the Dutch articles has no legal significance.

Name; registered office

Article 1

1.1.         The name of the Society shall be The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.

              Its registered office shall be in Amsterdam.

1.2.        The Society is a non-profit corporation, incorporated under Dutch law.

Objects

Article 2

2.1.         The objects of the Society shall be to promote the academic study of the various manifestations of Western Esotericism from Late Antiquity to the present, to secure the future development of this field, and to do anything that is related to the above or may be conducive to it.

2.2.         The Society shall seek to achieve its object by:

              a)       Organizing conferences and other academic meetings;

              b)     &n

Aries New Series (2001-Present)

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:05:51 +0200

2001-2010, edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff; 2010-Present, edited by Peter J. Forshaw
Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden

Volume 11, Number 2, 2011

Pondering Imponderables: Occultism in the Mirror of Late Classical Physics
Author: Asprem, Egil

Tra esoterismo, New Age e mistica cristiana: le dottrine del «Cerchio Firenze»
Author: Baroni, Francesco

'Spiritus et angeli sunt a Deo submissi sapienti et puro': Il frammento del Magisterium eumantice artis sive scienciae magicalis. Edizione e attribuzione a Berengario Ganello
Author: Gehr, Damaris

The Kabbalah, the Philosophie Cosmique, and the Integral Yoga. A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence
Author: Heehs, Peter

'Fräulein Sprengel' and the Origins of the Golden Dawn: A Surprising Discovery'
Author: McIntosh, Christopher

Volume 11, Number 1, 2011

The Strange Case of Ben Kadosh: A Luciferian Pamphlet from 1906 and its Current Renaissance
pp. 1-22(22)
Author: Faxneld, Per

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429-1503) on Astrology and Poetic Authority
pp. 23-52(30)
Author: Soranzo, Matteo

Perception, Vision, Phantasmagoria: Ways of Seeing in the Early Modern Pe

Aries Old Series (1985-1999)

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:45:41 +0200

ARIES: Association pour la Recherche et l'Information sur l'Esotérisme
Directeurs de la revue ARIES: Roland Edighoffer, Antoine Faivre, Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Published by Archè, La Table d'Emeraude

Issue 1 (1985)

Armand Abecassis, Gershom Gerhard Scholem

Pierre Deghaye, L'Oeuvre de Friedrich Christoph Oetinger

Roland Edighoffer, Goethe et l'Hermétisme

Issue 2 (1985)

Christian Jambet, Henry Corbin

Bernard Tannier, L'Oeuvre de Frances A. Yates (Une nouvelle interprétation de la "Philosophie Occulte" à la Renaissance)

Antoine Faivre, Le "De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines" de Francisco de Holanda

Jacques Fabry, La Révélation primitive selon Pierre Gordon

Issue 3 (1986)

Claude-Henri Rocquet, Mircea Eliade

Pierre Deghayte, Henri de Lubac et Joachim de Flore

Joseph Strelka, Ergründer esoterischer Einsicht. Zu Herbert Kesslers literarischem und philosophischem Schaffen

Armand Beyer, Eugène Susini (1900-1982) et Franz von Baader

Issue 4 (1986)

Antoine Faivre, Théosophie et mystique spéculative du siècle baroque en

Archive of Past Events

Tue, 31 May 2011 13:00:33 +0200

An archive of past events related to the history of Western Esotericism

Mail Archive

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:55:08 +0200

Below is an overview of all the Emails you have sent to other members. If you click "view" you can see the content of that Email and details about the recipients.

ESSWE Members

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:44:35 +0200

Here you find all active ESSWE members. You can use this site for selecting members and sending e-mails. You can search for a name or find members using the subject list.

N.B. Members who entered information about themselves have a profile button behind their names.

Contribution

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:31:07 +0200

When your membership is about to expire, you will receive an e-mail from the ESSWE administration. Payments for renewal of your membership can be made through the safe pages of PayPal* (with creditcard) or to ING in Amsterdam. Please find the information below. Membership fee is EUR 30.--, for students the fee is EUR 15.--.

Within The Netherlands please transfer your money as you are used to.

Within 27 European countries and their overseas territories** please transfer the money with the full and correct IBAN (SWIFT address) and BIC for payments. Payment should be made in EURO and carry the instruction 'shared charges'. This will cost you the same transfer money as a domestic payment according to European regulations. But please check whether your own bank complies with these regulations. If not, please add the transfer cost to the fee. Thank you.

* Please add EUR 1.50 to the fee if you pay through PayPal (click on logo at the foot of this page).

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Perform a payment by bank

Name: ESSWE
Account number: 1036457
IBAN: NL22INGB0001036457
BIC: INGBNL2A

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Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:27:46 +0200

This option allows you to call attention to websites of organisations, educational programmes, libraries & archives, or any other resources you consider relevant to the study of Western esotericism. The link will be automatically added to the list of links.

Shared files

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:27:15 +0200

This service for ESSWE members allows you to upload publications, drafts, lectures, syllabi, a complete list of publications, etc. that you want to share or discuss with other members.

Publications

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:26:47 +0200

Here you can enter bibliographical references of scholarly books you have written or edited. You can also upload a cover image, provide description of content, keywords under which visitors will find it on the ESSWE website, and a link to your publisher. Please note: this page is for BOOKS ONLY. If you wish, you can upload your complete list of publications under "shared files".

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Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:25:57 +0200

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