Conference Presentations

2025

• Casey, Conerly. 2025. ‘Cooking Spirit-Recommended Medicines in Stew: Bori Healing, Epidemics and Nigerian Public Health’. Lecture presented at the Medical Anthropology Seminar, University College London, UK.

• Di Puppo, Lili. 2025. ‘Being Seen: A Methodological Approach to Studying Sufi Knowledge and Experiences of Divine Presence’. Lecture presented at the Workshop Knowledge Transmission and Ways of Living, The Labyrinth, Alain Daniélou Foundation, Zagarolo, Italy.

• Engler, Steven. 2025. ‘(Re)Defining “Esotericism”’. Seminar presentation presented at the Graduate Seminar for students of the Research Masters in Religious Studies (Western Esotericism), University of Amsterdam.

• Herrmans, Isabell. 2025. ‘The Myna Bird Struck Dumb: Precariousness and Productive Uncertainty in Luangan Shamanic Practice and Contemporary Lives’. Conference Presentation presented at the Finnish Anthropological Society Conference, Helsinki.

• Liu, Zheng. 2025. ‘Concealment and Secrecy: The Transmission of Yijing and Divination Techniques in Contemporary China’. Conference Presentation presented at the Hong Kong Anthropological Society, Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong.

• Marino, Davide. 2025. ‘Journey to the East (and Back): China and “Western Esotericism” from Reception History to Global Religious Studies’. Guest lecture, Center for Modern East Asian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2025. ‘Alternative Rationalitäten Und Esoterische Praktiken in Globaler Perspektive’. Lecture presented at the Theology Today, Erlangen, Germany.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2025. ‘Gnoseologies: Researching Alternative Rationalities. A Conversation with Religious Studies Scholar Bernd-Christian Otto’. Conference Presentation presented at the Harvard Gnoseologies Series.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2025. ‘Creole Frictions and Fictions: On Ritual Encounters and Poiesis at Unpredictable Interstices’. Lecture presented at the Workshop Knowledge Transmission and Ways of Living, The Labyrinth, Alain Daniélou Foundation, Zagarolo, Italy.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Embodied Ethnographies: Sensory Methodologies after the Crisis of Representation’. Plenary Roundtable, University of Warsaw.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Gnosologies: Wisdom from the Edge: A Conversation with Anthropologist Paul Stoller’. Podcast Interview presented at the CSWR Harvard University Podcast.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Harmattan Dust: Clearing the Air to Think About the Anthropological Past, Present and Future’. Invited Lecture, Institute of Ethnology, University of Hamburg.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Toward a Convivial Anthropology’. Invited Lecture, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Writing and Rewriting in Sorcery’s Shadow: Mistakes and Other Missteps on the Anthropological Path’. Invited Lecture, Center for Transversal Thinking, The Labyrinth, Rome, Italy.

2024

• Casey, Conerly. 2024. ‘As Spirits Ride Their Mounts: Sensing, Materiality and Intimacy in Bori Rituals’. Conference Presentation presented at the Aesthetics of Esoteric Practices Conference, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy.

• Casey, Conerly. 2024. ‘Ecologies of Collaboration’. Conference Presentation presented at the Healing Ecologies and Medical Diversity: Ethnographic Approaches to Wellbeing Workshop, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

• Casey, Conerly. 2024. ‘Maguzawa of Kano, Nigeria’. Conference Presentation presented at the Zoroastrianism across the Indian Ocean Workshop, Zoroastrian Foundation, London, UK.

• Casey, Conerly. 2024. ‘Traces of Bori: Worlding the Spirit Immaterial’. Conference Presentation presented at the Traces of Connections in Shamanic Communication, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2024. ‘Esotericism and the Making of Modernity in the Global South’. Conference Presentation, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

• Graw, Knut. 2024. ‘Mantic Traces: Divination and Its Aftermath in Senegal’. Conference Presentation presented at the International Society for Academic Research on ShamanismISARS, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

• Graw, Knut. 2024. ‘Shells That Speak: Divination and Its Author’. Lecture presented at the Invited lecture at Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Graw, Knut, and Júlia Gyimesi. 2024. ‘From the Knowing Field: Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Notes on Family Constellation Therapy as Liberation Medicine’. Conference Presentation presented at the International workshop on Liberation Medicine: Past, Present and Future, Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

• Graw, Knut, and Kelly E. Hayes. 2024. ‘Esoteric Economies and Ritual Flows: Comparative Perspectives from Senegal and Brazil’. Conference Presentation presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Barcelona, Spain.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2024. ‘Esoteric Economies and Ritual Flows: Comparative Perspectives from Senegal and Brazil’. Conference Presentation presented at the Religion and the Economy: Genealogies, Borders and Thresholds, Barcelona, Spain, June 26.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2024. ‘Space Age Religion: The Imagined World of Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn.’ Conference Presentation presented at the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA).

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2024. ‘Space Age Religion: The Imagined World ​of Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn’. Conference Presentation presented at the Lake Forest College Lecture Series.

• Hayes, Kelly. 2024. ‘Space-Time Travelers: Interstices of the Real, the Material, and the Imagined in the Valley of the Dawn’. Conference Presentation presented at the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) biannual meeting.

• Herrmans, Isabell. 2024. ‘The Luangan Spirit Realm: Traces and Interconnections’. Conference Presentation presented at the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS) Conference, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Have We Ever Been Human? Śrīvidyā’s Enmeshed Beingness and Existence Beyond the Anthropocene’. Guest Lecture, Universität Würzburg.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Embracing the World Through Tantra: Perspectives from South Asia’. Presentation presented at the Temples of Eros, London, Royal Albert.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Tantra Goes West: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Encounters, Centre–Margin Dynamics and an Insidious Paradox’. Presentation presented at the Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP), Online.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Existence Beyond the Anthropocene: The Enmeshed Beingness of Śrïvidyā Practitioners in South India’. Conference Presentation presented at the European Academy of Religion (EUARE), Palermo, Italy.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Motherhood, the Śrīvidyā Way: Of Male Mothers and Birthing the Cosmos.’ Conference Presentation presented at the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS), Rome, Italy.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Śaktipur’s Cosmological Architecture: The Embodiment of Śakti and Śiva’s Play.’ Conference Presentation presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, Spain.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘When the “Esoteric” Strikes Back: Revising the Field of Tantric Studies’. Lecture presented at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), Oxford, UK.

• Marino, Davide. 2024. ‘Eradicating the Three Scourges: A Chinese Cinematic Perspective on Xiéjiào’. Conference Presentation presented at the The Aesthetics of Esoteric Practices: Materialities, Performances, Senses, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy.

• Marino, Davide. 2024. ‘From Da(o)Daism to Traditionalism: Giulio Evola’s Daodejing’. Conference Presentation presented at the EANASE Conference Visions of the Past: East Asia and Beyond. Online.

• Marino, Davide. 2024. ‘“Protect Human Rights and Eradicate Evil Cults”: Anti-Xiejiao Propaganda in Contemporary Mainland China’. Conference Presentation presented at the EUARE Conference Paradigm Shifts, Palermo, Italy.

• Müller, Dominik. 2024. ‘The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Research Group Project in Retrospective.’ Lecture presented at the Institut National des Languages et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France.

• Müller, Dominik. 2024. ‘Verbotene Magie, Staatlicher Exorzismus – Staat Und Islam in Brunei, Darussalam’. Lecture presented at the Abteilung Ethnologie of the Natural History Museum, Nürnberg, Germany.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘Afterword: The Politics of Authenticity in Esoteric Practices’. Conference Presentation presented at the International Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies, Erlangen, Germany.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘CAS-E and MagEIA: Exploring Synchronicities between Two Bavarian Centers for Advanced Studies’. Conference Presentation presented at the 1st International MagEIA Symposium, Würzburg University, Germany.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘Experiences Deemed “Esoteric”: An Explorative Survey in Collaboration with IGPP, CAS-E and RENSEP’. Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP).

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘Experiential Meaning Making in Esoteric Healing Practices: Musings from a Practitioner-Scholar’. Conference Presentation presented at the International Workshop “Healing Ecologies and Medical Diversity: Ethnographic Approaches to Wellbeing, Rome, Italy.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘Practitioner-Scholarship and the Co-Production of Knowledge in the Study of Esotericism’. Conference Presentation presented at the Future of the History of Religions conference, Zürich.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘Rejected Religion Spotlight – Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto & Andrea Centore’. Conference Presentation presented at the Rejected Religion Podcast.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘“The Study of Worldviews”: A Response’. Conference Presentation presented at the 21st Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion, Goethenburg.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘Überlegungen Zur Zukunft Der Akademischen Magieforschung’. Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP).

• Previato, Tommaso. 2024. ‘Islamic Afterworlds and Nation Building in Modern China’. Conference Presentation presented at the 2024 East Asian Network for the Academic Study of Esotericism (EANASE) conference.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2024. ‘“Look How Beautiful This Magic Work Is!” On the Esthetic, Performative and Affective Magic Efficacy of Shimmer’. Conference Presentation presented at the The Aesthetics of Esoteric Practices: Materialities, Performances, Senses, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘Ethnographic Writing in Turbulent Times’. Lecture, ZMO Berlin, Germany.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘Wisdom from the Edge’. Invited Lecture, Bayreuth University, Germany.

• Wright, Pablo. 2024. ‘Periferias Paganas Comparadas: Una Mirada Etnográfica a La Antroposofía (España) y El Movimiento Romuva (Lituania) Como Heterodoxias Sociorreligiosas’. Symposium presented at the II Simposio Internacional sobre Místicas y Heterodoxias sociorreligiosas (GREMHER), University of Barcelona, Spain.

• Wright, Pablo. 2024. ‘Tracing Shamanism in the Sacred Peripheries of the Argentine Chaco Indigenous Modernity’. Presented at the International Association for Academic Research on Shamanism ISARS Conference, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.

 2023

• Abbasi, Maryam. 2023. ‘Crisis, Recovery, and Gender Identity, An Ethnographic Study on Female Participants of the Zar Ritual in Hormozgan Province of Iran’. Conference Presentation presented at the The 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and Practice, Malmö University, Sweden.

• Abbasi, Maryam. 2023. ‘Transgressing Boundaries: Digital as a Space for Esoteric Practices an Anthropological Study of Iranian Social Media-Based Esoteric Practices’. Conference Presentation presented at the 20th annual conference of the European association for the study of religions and technoogy, Vilnius, Lithuania.

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2023. ‘Religionsunterrichtsästhetik’. Keynote presented at the Konvent evangelischer Pfarrer*innen im Schuldienst, Augsburg.

• Burkhardt, Stefanie. 2023. ‘Eine Verfinsterung Afrikanischer Weisheit? Zur Rolle Afrikas in Esoterik-Diskursen’. Presented at the DVRW Conference Bayreuth, Bayreuth.

• Burkhardt, Stefanie. n.d. ‘Mircea Eliade and the Function of Reading for Religion in Modernity’.

• Casey, Conerly. 2023. ‘Affect in Spirit-Human Sociality, and a Warming Sahel. Affect in Sociality: Relational Dynamics in Motion’. Conference Presentation presented at the Finnish Anthropological Society Conference, Rovaniemi, Finland.

• Casey, Conerly. 2023. ‘Animating the Sahel: Eco-Intimacies and Alternative Rationalities of Health’. Conference Presentation presented at the CAS-E Session: Esoteric Practices from Global Comparative Perspectives, Malmö University, Sweden.

• Casey, Conerly. 2023. ‘Backs of the Past’: Visions of the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory, History and Herstory from the Backs of Women from the Global South’. Conference Presentation presented at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.

• Casey, Conerly. 2023. ‘Cooking Medicines: Spirit-Recommended Sahelian Plants for Stews’. Conference Presentation presented at the Health Humanities Working Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

• Casey, Conerly. 2023. ‘Introduction: Robert Desjarlais’ Phantasms, Workshop and Dialogue with Robert Desjarlais’. Presented at the Center for Advanced Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

• Casey, Conerly. 2023. ‘Mediated Spirits: Co-Productions of Religion, Media and Psychiatry in Northern Nigeria’. Conference Presentation presented at the Antinomy or Complicity? Esoteric Practices and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania.

• Casey, Conerly. 2023. ‘Multi-Species Ethnography: Anthrozoological Lens’. Presented at the Anthrozoology MA Residential, University of Exeter, England.

• Cheng, Wan-Chun. 2023. ‘The Invisible Crisis: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) of Public Health Perspective’. Conference Presentation presented at the The Seventh Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) & Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, South Korea.

• Chophel, Dendup. 2023. ‘Migration, Resilience, Religiosity and Communal Outcomes: Bhutanese Communities in Bhutan and Australia’. Conference Presentation, Institute of Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

• Chopel, Dendup. 2023. ‘Spirit Embodiment and Multisensory Communication: Creative Coexistence between Buddhist and Shamanic Orientations in a Bhutanese Village’. Presented at the Lecture.

• Chopel, Dendup. 2023. ‘The Return to Nature: Animist Cultures, Buddhist Modernist Sensibilities and Ecological Practices in Bhutanese Communities’. Conference Presentation presented at the Buddhist, Spiritual, Esoteric and Ecological Movements in the 21st Century: A Dynamic Legacy, University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, Denmark.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2023. ‘Between the Persianate and the Western Worlds: The Entangled History of Modern Parsis’. Conference Presentation presented at the Nineth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, Russian-Armenian University.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2023. ‘Ilme Kṣnum Par Aitihāsik Pravacan (“Historical Perspectives on Ilme Kṣnum”)’. Conference Presentation, First Dastoor Meherjirana Library (Navsari, India).

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2023. ‘The Social Dimension of Zoroastrian Esotericism: The Performance of the Nīrangdīn Ceremony in India’. Conference Presentation presented at the Nineth Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Malmö University, Sweden.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2023. ‘The Zoroastrian Ceremony of Nīrangdīn: Text and Performance’. Conference Presentation, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2023. ‘Creating Daoism: The Fangdao Yulu and Daoist Esoteric Practices in the Republican Period’. Conference Presentation presented at the Joint Research Colloquium “Religions in China”, Hamburg, Germany.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2023. ‘Gates to Heaven: Chinese Landscape Painting and Daoist Sacred Geography’. Conference Presentation presented at the Middle Period China Conference, Yale University, USA.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2023. ‘Haiwai Zhongguo Daojiao Meishushi Yanjiu 海外中國道教美術史研究’. Conference Presentation presented at the (Research on Daoist Art History in the West) Daojiao meishushi xilie jiangzuo 道教美術史系列講座., Peking Unversity, China.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2023. ‘Helan Yu Zhongguo Zai Shiqi Shiji de Wenhua Jiaoliu 荷蘭與中國在十七世紀的文化交流’. Conference Presentation.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2023. ‘The Order of the Tolerant: An Esoteric Archive in the Netherlands’. Conference Presentation, Erlangen, Germany.

• Graw, Knut. 2023. ‘Tracing Emic-Etic Continuities in Mandinka Divination: The Case of Nganiyo’. Paper Presentation presented at the Annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), Malmö University, Sweden.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2023. ‘Alternative Space-Times and the Chronotopic Imagination: ​Materializing the Past in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn’. Research Presentation presented at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Erlangen, Germany.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2023. ‘Becoming a Master: Materializing Esoteric Wisdom in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn’. Research Presentation presented at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Erlangen, Germany.

• Herrmans, Isabell. 2023. ‘Affective Images: Precarity as an Emergent Form among the Luangan of Indonesian Borneo’. Conference Presentation presented at the Finnish Anthropological Society Conference ‘Relations and beyond’, Rovaniemi, Finland.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2023. ‘Academic Freedom: The Case of Decolonial Subversions’. Roundtable Discussion presented at the European Conference for South Asian Studies, Torino.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2023. ‘Ask a Scholar with Dr Monika Hirmer’. Interview at the Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP), Online.

• Lackner, Michael. 2023. ‘Divination as an Alternative Rationality’. Conference Presentation presented at the Conference Archives of the Impossible, Rice University, Houston, USA.

• Lackner, Michael. 2023. ‘The Global Lunyu: A Multilingual Tour d’horizon’. Conference Presentation presented at the Interpretation and Reinvention of Chinese Philosophy, European Association of Chinese Philosophy, Macerata, Italy.

• Lackner, Michael. 2023. ‘The Roots of Chinese Civilization: A Golden Age’. Conference Presentation presented at the Eclogues of Desire, Cultural Myths of the Golden Age Conference, Ernst von Siemens Foundation Munich, Germany.

• Lackner, Michael. 2023. ‘關於海外漢學的幾點思考 (Some Thoughts about Sinological Research Overseas)’. Conference Presentation presented at the International Chinese Language Education Forum, Beijing, China.

• Liu, Zheng. 2023. ‘When Correlative Thinking Meets Divination Techniques—The Juxtaposition of Sinological Analysis and Ethnographic Account’. Conference Presentation presented at the British Association for Chinese Studies, King’s College, London, UK.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2023. ‘New Age Diplomacy. A Soviet-American Peace Movement to End the Cold War’. Conference Presentation presented at the Conference: “Scientific Readings”, Daugavpils University, Latvia.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2023. ‘New-Age-Kultur Im Spät- Und Postsowjetischen Russland’. Conference Presentation presented at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany.

• Müller, Dominik. 2022. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Conceptual Contours of a Newly-Established Interdisciplinary Research Centre’. Conference Presentation presented at the Knowledge Transfer by World Experts Series., Universiti Kelantan Malaysia (UMK), Malaysia.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2023. ‘Hinduismus – Unboxing Ganesha’. Seminar presentation, University of Salzburg, Austria.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2023. ‘Spirituality and Art: Transgressions in the Context of Religious Pluralism’. Conference Presentation presented at the 5th International Conference on Dayalbagh (Art) Science (& Engineering) of (Evolutionary/Re-Evolutionary) Consciousness (DSC) Dayalbagh, Agra, India, and Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2023. ‘Theology in the Times of Crisis’. Workshop presented at the Tanzania Workshop, Neuendettelsau, Germany.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘A Practice of the Impossible? Pondering the Peculiarities of Modern Sigil Magick’. Conference Presentation presented at the 2nd Archives of the Impossible Conference, Rice University, Houston, USA.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Conference Presentation presented at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Conference Presentation presented at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Vilnius, Lithuania.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Antinomy or Complicity: Esoteric Practices and Technology’. Conference Presentation presented at the 20th Conference of the EASR / European Association for the Study of Religion, Vilnius, Lithuania.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Grants’. Conference Presentation presented at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Malmö University, Sweden.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Practical Matters: Grants’. Conference Presentation presented at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Malmö, Sweden.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Practitioner-Scholarship and the Co-Production of Knowledge in the Study of Esotericism’. Conference Presentation presented at the Occulture Conference, Berlin, Germany.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Practitioner-Scholarship and the Co-Production of Knowledge in the Study of Esotericism’. Conference Presentation presented at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘RENSEP: An Introduction’. Conference Presentation presented at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Malmö University, Sweden.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘RENSEP: The Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices’. Conference Presentation presented at the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘RENSEP: The Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices’. Conference Presentation presented at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Malmö, Sweden.

• Ozhiganova, Anna. 2023. ‘Esoteric Exchange behind the Iron Curtain: Comparative Analysis of Late Soviet Esotericism and Western New Age’. Conference Presentation presented at the The 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism “Western Esotericism and Practice”, Malmö University, Sweden.

• Ozhiganova, Anna. 2023. ‘Esoteric Practice as Technology: Creating a New (Super) Human Being in the Late Soviet Union’. Conference Presentation presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions “Religions and Technology,” Vilnius, Lithuania.

• Ozhiganova, Anna. 2023. ‘Swim into the New Civilization: Late-Soviet Utopia of Giving Birth to Babies-Dolphins’. Conference Presentation presented at the International Conference on “Religious Utopias” organized by the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of Religion, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2023. ‘Introduction: The Politics of Authenticity’. Conference Presentation, Conference Center Forschungscampus Waischenfeld, Germany.

• Stoller, Paul. 2023. ‘Doing: Public Anthropology’. Presented at the Du Burgos Memorial Lecture, University of British Columbia.

• Stoller, Paul. 2023. ‘Doing Public Anthropology’. Keynote Presentation presented at the Western Atlantic Ethnography Workshop.

 2022

• Abbasi, Maryam. 2022. ‘Personhood, Embodiment, and Zār Ritual, (An Ethnographic Study of the Power Dynamics among the Zār Participants in the Hormozgān Province of Iran)’. Conference Presentation presented at the DGSKA AG Religionsethnologie.

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2022. ‘Assemblage Thinking and Theory for a Critical Study of Religion’. Meeting presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), Denver, Colorado, USA.

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2022. ‘Creating Affects While Dancing: Insights into the Aesthetics of Hawaiian Hula Dance Practiced by Non-Hawaiians’. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Denver, USA.

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2022. ‘Global Hawaiian Hula Dance and the Complex Matter of Neo-Colonial Women’s Spirituality’. Ghent University.

• Casey, Conerly. 2022. ‘Eco-Intimacy, and Relational Ontologies of Illness. A Shifting Sahel: Ecologies of Health and Healing across Niger and Northern Nigeria’. Conference Presentation presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Seattle, Washington, USA.

• Casey, Conerly. 2022. ‘Relational Ontologies of Illness, and the Nigerian Sahel’. Conference Presentation presented at the Center for Advanced Study, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

• Cheng, Wan-Chun. 2022. ‘Orientation and Avoidance: Prenatal Space Divination during the Tang and Song Dynasties’. Joint Workshop presented at the Medical Encounters, Practice, and Archives in China, Tel Aviv University Confucius Institute, Tel Aviv.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2022. ‘Creating Daoism: The Fangdao Yulu and Daoist Esoteric Practices in the Republican Period.’ Conference Presentation, Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

• Lackner, Michael. 2022. ‘Signs and Signification in a Global Perspective: A Review of the Research Done at the IKGF, Erlangen’. Lecture presented at the Conference Divination and Diviners in Chinese Religions, Florida, USA.

• Lackner, Michael. 2022. ‘Theorie Und Praxis Der Wahrsagung Im Chinesischen Sprachraum’. Presented at the Yangsheng Society., Trier University, Germany.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2022. ‘Esotericism in Late and Post-Soviet Russian in Global Perspective’. Conference Presentation presented at the Cultures of New Age in Late and Post-Soviet Russia: Ideologies, Networks, Discourses.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Achtsamkeit. Religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven Zur Spirituellen Lebenskunst’. Conference Presentation presented at the Symposion (Un)-endlich Leben – Lebenskunst in spiritueller Perspektive, Wildbad Rothenburg, Germany.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Buddhismus und Moderne’. Seminar presentation, University of Salzburg, Austria.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Digitales Darshan – Religion Online’. Workshop presented at the Religion als anderes Wissen? Zum Wissen religiöser Praktiken aus medientheoretischer Perspektive, University Bonn, Germany.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Popular Mindfulness – A Spiritual Practice between Neuroscience, Therapy and Self-Awareness’. Conference Presentation presented at the Fourth international Dayalbagh Science of Consciousness conference (DSC), Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Deemed University, Agra, India.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Religion and Development’. Conference Presentation presented at the Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar Interfaith Centre (Zanzic), Tanzania.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Religion and Theology in Public Life’. Conference Presentation presented at the Tanzania Workshop.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Religion in the Public Sphere’. Conference Presentation, Tumaini University, Makumira, Tanzania.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Science Must Fall – Herausforderungen Interkultureller Theologie an Unsere Wissensformen’. Conference Presentation presented at the Fachhochschule für Interkulturelle Theologie, Hermannsburg, Hermannsburg, Germany.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Spiritualität: Religion, Säkularisierung Und Globalisierung’. Conference Presentation, Wildbad Rothenburg, Germany.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Spiritualität Zwischen Religion Und Säkularisierung’. Conference Presentation presented at the Ulrich Winkler-Lecture, University of Salzburg, Austria.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Euro-Buddhism and the Role of Christianity’. Conference Presentation presented at the International Conference of the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies (ENBCS), Salzburg.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2022. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Conference Presentation presented at the 8th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Cork, England.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2022. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Conference Presentation presented at the 3rd Trans-States Conference, Northampton, England.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2022. ‘Introduction to CAS-E’. Conference Presentation presented at the Inaugural Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies, Erlangen, Germany.

• Stoller, Paul. 2022. ‘Lessons from the Edge of the Village: Extending African Wisdom to a Troubled World’. Lecture presented at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Seattle, Washington, USA.

• Stoller, Paul. 2022. ‘Sensuous-Ethnography Reconsidered’. Keynote presented at the Association of Brazilian Anthropology Bi-annual meetings.

Organized Workshops & Conferences

Forthcoming 2025

• Graw, Knut, and Kelly E. Hayes. 2025. ‘The Esoteric Personal: Experience, Autobiography, and Personal Learning in the Study of Esoteric Practices by Knut Graw and Kelly E. Hayes’. Workshop, CAS-E.

• Lackner, Michael, Philipp Clart, and Taiwanese Ritual performers. 2025. ‘Writing with the Phoenix Stylus’. Workshop, Erlangen and Nürnberg.

• Pregadio, Fabrizio. 2025. ‘Daoist Internal Alchemy and Science in Contemporary Taiwan’. Workshop, CAS-E. 

2025

• Rivera Andía, Juan, and Cecilie Odegaard. 2025. ‘Ownership and Hidden Knowledges in Indigenous South America and Beyond: Human and Non-Human Sounds, Images, and Bodies’. Workshop, CAS-E.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Weaving the World: Ethnographic Writing’. Workshop, CAS-E. 

2024

• CAS-E, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, and RENSEP. 2024. ‘The Aesthetics of Esoteric Practices: Materialities, Performances, Senses’. Workshop, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy.

• Menzel, Birgit, Michael Lackner, CAS-E, and Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP). 2024. ‘Altered States, Exceptional Experiences, and Stable Self-Transformation over Time in Contemplative Practice – I’. Workshop, CAS-E.

• Menzel, Birgit, Michael Lackner, CAS-E, and Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP). 2024. ‘Altered States, Exceptional Experiences, and Stable Self-Transformation over Time in Contemplative Practice – II’. Workshop, Freiburg, IGPP.

• Menzel, Birgit, Michael Lackner, CAS-E, and Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP). 2024. ‘Altered States, Exceptional Experiences, and Stable Self-Transformation over Time in Contemplative Practice – III’. Workshop, CAS-E.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘Weaving the World: Ethnographic Writing’. Workshop, CAS-E.

• Stoller, Paul, Conerly Casey, and Emily Pierini. 2024. ‘Healing Ecologies and Medical Diversity: Ethnographic Approaches to Wellbeing’. Workshop, Sapienza Università di Roma.

• Wang, Fan-Sen. 2024. ‘Study Day with Prof. Fan-Sen Wang on Symbolic Action in Late Imperial China’. Workshop, CAS-E.

2023

• Burkhardt, Stefanie, Jahnel Claudia, Hock Klaus, Kaiser Klaus-Dieter, and Michael Biehl. 2023. ‘Grenzüberschreitungen – Plots, Akteure, Kontexte. Missionserzählungen in Literatur Und Film’. Presented at the Fachgruppentagung der Sektion Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie in der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie, Wittenberg.

• Desjarlais, Robert. 2023. ‘Workshop with Robert Desjarlais’. Workshop, CAS-E.

• Lackner, Michael. 2023. ‘The Käte Hamburger Kolleg IKGF: Insights and Outlooks’. Conference Presentation.

• CAS-E, DFG, FAU. 2023. ‘Politics of Authenticity in Esoteric Practices’. Conference Presentation presented at the CAS-E International Conference, Conference Center Forschungscampus Waischenfeld, Germany.

• Stoller, Paul. 2023. ‘Weaving the World: Ethnographic Writing’. Workshop, CAS-E.

2022

• CAS-E, DFG, and FAU. 2022. ‘CAS-E Inaugural Conference: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Conference, Orangerie, Erlangen.

Organization Conference Panels 

Forthcoming 2025

• Menzel, Birgit, and Bernd-Christian Otto. 2025. ‘Comparing Esotericisms: Experimenting in Collaborative Authorship’. Conference Panel presented at the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), Vilnius University, Lithuania.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2025. ‘The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: A Typological Survey’. Panel Organization presented at the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), Vilnius University, Lithuania.

2025

• Lunkwitz, Diana. 2025. ‘Steiner 2025 Lecture Series’. Lecture Series presented at the Research on Anthroposophy Network (RAN), Online.

2024

• Casey, Conerly, Emili Pierini, and Paul Stoller. 2024. ‘Healing Ecologies and Medical Diversity: Ethnographic Approaches to Wellbeing Workshop’. La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

2023

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2023. ‘Ethnographies of the Yoga Body’. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Religion 2023, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Presented at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Malmö University, Sweden.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Antinomy or Complicity: Esoteric Practices and Technology’. Conference Presentation presented at the 20th Conference of the EASR / European Association for the Study of Religion, Vilnius, Lithuania.

• Sillander, Kenneth, Ivan Tacey, and Isabell Herrmans. 2023. ‘Affect in Sociality:  Relational Dynamics in Motion’. Presented at the Finnish Anthropological Society Conference ‘Relations and beyond’, Rovaniemi.

2022

• Youngstedt, Scott, and Conerly Casey. 2022. ‘A Shifting Sahel:  Ecologies of Health and Healing across Niger and Northern Nigeria’. Conference Presentation presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Open Circle Films, Workshops & Presentations

2025

• Abbasi, Maryam. 2025. ‘Communion with the Unseen: A Comparative Ethnography of Spirit Possession Rituals in Iran and Oman’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 3.

• Engler, Steven. 2025. ‘Religion at the Crossroads: An Afro-Brazilian Polythetic Definition’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 20.

• Farrer, Douglas. 2025. ‘Bridewealth for a Goddess (Chris Owen 2000)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, July 8.

• Gang, Li. 2025. ‘Politics of Orthodoxy, and Process of Othering: Esoteric    Practices and Alternative Rationalities in the Case of Islamic Mysticism in China’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, February 4.

• Graw, Knut, and Kelly E. Hayes. 2025. ‘Esoteric Economies and Ritual Flows’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 17.

• Lackner, Michael. 2025. ‘Spirit Writing’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, January 28.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2025. ‘Insel Der Dämonen (Friedrich Dahlsheim 1933)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, January 7.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2025. ‘The Spirit Woman (Nicholas Echevarria, 1978)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 10.

• Palmié, Stephan. 2025. ‘El Monte Aujourd’hui’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 27.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2025. ‘Yo Soy Hechicero (Ron Stanford 1996)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 13.

• Schüttpelz, Erhard. 2025. ‘The Amerindian Americas. A Parallax and Its Paralipomena’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, January 14.

• Varela, Serigo Gonzalez. 2025. ‘From Not-Knowing to Not-Doing’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, July 22.

• Wright, Pablo. 2024. ‘Tracing Shamanism in the Sacred Peripheries of the Indigenous Argentine Chaco: Between Tradition, Power, and Healing’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, July 2.

• Xavier, Shobhana, Tommaso Previato, Lili Di Puppo, Oleg Yarosh, and Ezster Spät. 2025. ‘Sufism Roundtable’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, July 15.

2024

• Bastos, Cecilia, and Monika Hirmer. 2024. ‘Different Perspectives on the Yogic Body: From Renouncing to Embracing the World’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, February 6.

• Farrer, Douglas. 2024. ‘Art of Silat (Douglas Farrer 2014)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, December 10.

• Graw, Knut. 2024. ‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life (Yukari Hayashi and Barrie McLean 1994)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, December 17.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2024. ‘Slaves of the Saints (Kelly E. Hayes and Catherine Crouch 2011)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 14.

• Hertzer, Dominique. 2024. ‘Divinatory Practice with the Yijing, a Practical Demonstration’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, November 5.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘East Meets West (BBC 2013)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, July 9.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2024. ‘Ostrov (Pavel Lungin 2006)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 2.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2024. ‘Words with Gods (Guillermo Arriaga, Héctor Babenco, Álex de La Iglesia 2014)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 28.

• Ozhiganova, Anna. 2024. ‘The Secrets (Avi Nesher 2007), Introduced by Ilia Mozias; and Russian Psychics (Documentary on Soviet Parapsychology)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 26.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘Les Maitres Fous (Jean Rouch 1955)’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 25.

2023

• Abbasi, Maryam. 2023. ‘Sweat Lodges in the Black Forest’. Film and Discussion presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, November 21.

• Cantú, Keith. 2023. ‘Baul-Songs and Tantric Meditation at Esalen, Including a Musical Performance’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 6.

• Erichiello, Mariano. 2023. ‘The Future of Modern Zoroastrian Studies’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 16.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2023. ‘The Order of the Tolerant’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 18.

• Graw, Knut. 2023. ‘Migration, Anthropology and Voice: Notes on a West-African Memoir. An Experiment’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, April 25.

• Gyimesi, Julia. 2023. ‘Theory and Practice of Psychodynamic Movement and Dance Therapy’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, January 16.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2023. ‘Alternative Space-Times and the Chronotopic Imagination: Materializing the Past in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 23.

• Menzel, Birgit, and Anna Ozhiganova. 2023. ‘Western New Age and Soviet Esotericism – Similarities and Differences’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, April 18.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Practices of the Impossible, Including an Exercise in Practical Magic’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, May 9.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Practitioner-Scholarship and the Co-Production of Knowledge in the Study of Esotericism’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, December 12.

• Rutkin, Darrel. 2023. ‘An Introduction to Astrological Theory and Practice’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, December 5.

• Stoller, Paul. 2023. ‘Back to the Future: Healing Projects in New York City and Beyond’. Seminar presentation presented at the Open Circle Seminar, Center for Advanced Studies Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 20.