Events

• 7 May 2025, 16:00

  Mapping mystical experiences in the Voice of the Silence of Blavatsky

  Presentation by Erica Georgiades, MRes in Religious Experience from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

• 26 Feb. 2025, 16:00

  When Occultism Went North: The Esoteric Environment in Sweden, 1880–1930

  Lecture by Johan Nilsson, a postdoctoral researcher in the history of religion at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

• 17 Dec. 2024, 16:00-17:30

  To Make It Happen: The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs

  Guest lecture by Kasper Opstrup, assistant professor in modern cultural studies at the University of Copenhagen.

• 16 Nov. - 18 Nov. 2024

  Nature, Theosophy and related esoteric currents

  This two-day conference invites reflection and research on understanding the particular views and practices cultivated by the Theosophical and other esoteric currents in relation to nature.

• 23 Oct. - 25 Oct. 2024

  A Tide of Ghosts: Esotericism and Art beyond Fact and Fiction

  A two-day multidisciplinary conference exploring how the use of fictionings, in various entanglements of art, politics, and esotericism, bleeds into the real and how the two relate, if they ever are truly separate.

• 22 May - 23 May 2023

  Buddhist, Spiritual, Esoteric and Ecological Movements in the 21st Century: A Dynamic Legacy

  A two-day workshop that will explore the ways that Buddhist modernism continue to transform spiritual and ecological movements within and beyond the 21st century.