Our recent publication is Aries. Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism Volume 23 (2023): Issue 1 (Jan 2023): Special Issue The Study of Esoterism in East-Central Europe, edited by György E. Szönyi and Rafał Prinke. See the journal’s website for the table of contents HERE. On the occasion of György E. Szönyi‘s 70’th birthday, a special publication was released: Fidele … More New publications
Since the nineteenth century, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced rapid social, political, and economic changes, which caused transformation and upheavals in local societies. Rising nationalism culminating in the Revolutionary year 1848, echoes of the Romantic movement, ongoing industrialisation, First World War, the emergence of national states and disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, later followed … More Call for papers: Polish Journal of Arts and Culture. New Series. Special Issue – Occultism and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciencesin cooperation withEuropean Society for the Study of Western EsotericismThe Central and Eastern European NetworkandCzech Association for Social AnthropologyAnthropology of Religion, Magic and Supernatural Networkcordially invite you to the 4th CEENASWE conferenceOCCULTISM AND POLITICS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE 27 – 29 September 2021Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1, 160 … More Programme of the 4th CEENASWE conference: OCCULTISM AND POLITICS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Czech Association for Social Anthropology Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Supernatural Network and European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism The Central and Eastern European Network announce CALL FOR PAPERS for the 4th CEENASWE conference OCCULTISM AND POLITICS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE 27 … More OCCULTISM AND POLITICS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE – the 4th CEENASWE conference
Dear CEENASWE Members, our online meeting, repeatedly postponed, will finally take place this Friday at noon. All participants who sent their details after our call for applications were already informed. It will be rather small and informal – especially that we already have some news to share about this year’s conference; the official meeting will … More CEENASWE online meeting
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Frances Yates and Hungary – by György E. Szőnyi From the Author: This talk (now in an edited form) was given for the “Medieval Wednesdays” at CEU, Budapest on April 22, 2020. However, because of the corona virus quarantine, I spoke from Szeged using the zoom platform and my listeners were scattered in Budapest and … More Frances Yates and Hungary – by György E. Szőnyi
At the beginning of the 17th century, Europe was on the eve of the outbreak of the largest religious war in its history. Conflicts between representatives of different religious denominations limited freedom of expression. However, there was one man whose writings changed philosophical and theological thought and exerted a great influence on the literature and … More The Life and Legacy of Jacob Boehme – a documentary film
The Central and Eastern European Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism was about to organize its fourth international colloquium. The conference was to take place in northern Poland, and was organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Languages of the University of Gdańsk. Due to the coronavirus threat, the organization of the conference was … More The 4th CEENASWE Conference postponed
We are happy to announce that the first volume of CEENASWE, although published as chronologically second (after the monograph devoted to literature and culture published in 2018), was just published by JATEPress in Szeged, Hungary. The volume titled Studies on Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe was edited by Nemanja Radulović and Karolina Maria … More Studies on Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe
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