Keynotes, Distinguished Lectures, and Interviews
Aschenbrenner, Lina. “Religionsunterrichtsästhetik,” Keynote, 4. Konvent evangelischer Pfarrer*innen im Schuldienst, November 2023, Augsburg.
Hirmer, Monika. “Śrīvidyā’s Enmeshed Beingness and Existence Beyond the Anthropocene.” Guest lecture at the Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg on 18th Jan 2024.
Lackner, Michael. “Divination: An Alternative Rationality”, Flask talk, Conference Archives of the Impossible Conference: Transnationalism, Transdisciplinarity, Transcendence, Rice University, USA, May 11-13, 2023.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “A Practice of the Impossible? Pondering the Peculiarities of Modern Sigil Magick”, FaConference Archives of the Impossible Conference: Transnationalism, Transdisciplinarity, Transcendence, Rice University, USA, May 11-13, 2023.
Stoller, Paul. “Doing: Public Anthropology,” Du Burgos Memorial Lecture, University of British Columbia (Zoom) April 05, 2023.
Stoller, Paul. “Doing Public Anthropology,” Keynote address, Western Atlantic Ethnography Workshop, April 22 2023.
Stoller, Paul. “Lessons from the Edge of the Village: Extending African Wisdom to a Troubled World,” Distinguished Lecture of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, Seattle Washington, Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 10, 2022.
Stoller, Paul. “Sensuous-Ethnography Reconsidered,” Keynote, Association of Brazilian Anthropology Bi-annual meetings, August 2022.
Lectures and Conference Presentations
Abbasi, Maryam. Transgressing boundaries: digital as a space for esoteric practices an anthropological study of Iranian social media-based esoteric practices, 20th annual conference of the European association for the study of religions and technoogy, Vilnius, Lithuania, (2023.08.4-8)
Abbasi, Maryam. Crisis, recovery, and gender identity, An Ethnographic Study on female participants of the Zar Ritual in Hormozgan Province of Iran , presentaation, The 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and Practice, Malmö University, Sweden, (2023.06.26-28)
Abbasi, Maryam. Personhood, embodiment, and Zār ritual, (An ethnographic study of the power dynamics among the Zār participants in the Hormozgān province of Iran), speech, Mid-Term Meeting organized by DGSKA AG Religionsethnologie, (2022.10.14)
Aschenbrenner, Lina. “Creating affects while dancing: Insights into the aesthetics of Hawaiian hula dance practiced by non-Hawaiians,” (Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Denver, November 2022).
Aschenbrenner, Lina. “Global Hawaiian Hula Dance and the Complex Matter of Neo-Colonial Women’s Spirituality,” (Decolonizing Contemporary Women’s Spirituality, Ghent University, December 2022).
Aschenbrenner, Lina. “Assemblage thinking and theory for a critical study of religion,” (Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), Denver, Colorado, November 2022).
Burkhardt, Stefanie. “Mircea Eliade and the Function of Reading for Religion in Modernity”, Lecture Series of the research project “The Invention of the Modern Religious Bookshelf” at Freie Universität Berlin (https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/lecture-series-religious-bookshelf-burkhardt.html), 13.7.2023
Burkhardt, Stefanie. “Eine Verfinsterung afrikanischer Weisheit? Zur Rolle Afrikas in Esoterik-Diskursen”, presentation in panel “Neue Perspektiven für die Esoterikforschung” at DVRW Conference Bayreuth, September 2023.
Cheng, Wan-Chun. “The Invisible Crisis: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) of Public health perspective” (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, June 28 – July 2, 2023.
Cheng, Wan-Chun. “Orientation and Avoidance: Prenatal Space Divination during the Tang and Song Dynasties” (Medical Encounters, Practice, and Archives in China) Tel Aviv University-Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Joint Workshop in Honor of Charlotte Furth and Nathan Sivin), Tel Aviv University Confucius Institute, Tel Aviv, September 18-20, 2022.
Chophel, Dendup. “The return to nature: Animist cultures, Buddhist modernist sensibilities and ecological practices in Bhutanese communities”. Presented at the “Buddhist, Spiritual, Esoteric and Ecological Movements in the 21st Century: A Dynamic Legacy” (in-person conference organized by the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies). 22-23 May 2023. (Invited paper presenter) https://ccrs.ku.dk/research/centres/centre-for-contemporary-buddhist-studies/calendar/dynamic-legacy/
Chophel Dendup. “Migration, Resilience, Religiosity and Communal Outcomes: Bhutanese Communities in Bhutan and Australia”. Invited Guest Lecture (In-person) delivered at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences. 9 February 2023. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/isa/das-institut/weitere-artikel/news-detail/isa-international-guest-lecture-dendup-chophel?fbclid=IwAR2G7TFTvrUzTLbMkbLMyIaKw1bR8Uo5Nt-tuhwNqSTnJprgb6yS33u39IY
Chophel, Dendup. “Spirit embodiment and multisensory communication: Creative coexistence between Buddhist and shamanic orientations in a Bhutanese village”, Lecture delivered at CAS-E on 13 June 2023.
Casey, Conerly. Introduction: Robert Desjarlais’ Phantasms, Workshop and dialogue with Robert Desjarlais. Center for Advanced Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University, May 10, 2023, Erlangen, Germany.
Casey, Conerly. Discussant: ‘Backs of the Past’: Visions of the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory, History and Herstory from the Backs of Women from the Global South, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, June 6-7, 2023, Berlin, Germany.
Casey, Conerly. Panelist: Multi-species Ethnography: Anthrozoological Lens, Anthrozoology MA Residential, University of Exeter, April 28, 2023, Exeter, England.
Casey, Conerly. “Mediated Spirits: Co-productions of Religion and Media in Northern Nigeria. Antinomy or Complicity? Esoteric Practices and Technology”, convened by Bernd-Christian Otto, European Association for the Study of Religions, September 4-8, 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Casey, Conerly. “Animating the Sahel: Eco-Intimacies and Alternative Rationalities of Health”. CAS-E Session: Esoteric Practices from Global Comparative Perspectives, convened by Bernd-Christian Otto, European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, June 26-28, 2023, Malmo, Sweden.
Casey, Conerly. “Affect in Spirit-Human Sociality, and a Warming Sahel. Affect in Sociality: Relational Dynamics in Motion”, organized by Kenneth Sillander, Ivan Tacey and Isabell Herrmans, Finnish Anthropological Society Conference, March 21, 2023, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Casey, Conerly. “Relational Ontologies of Illness, and the Nigerian Sahel”, Center for Advanced Study, Friedrich-Alexander University, October 25, 2022, Erlangen, Germany.
Casey, Conerly. “Eco-Intimacy, and Relational Ontologies of Illness. A Shifting Sahel: Ecologies of Health and Healing across Niger and Northern Nigeria”, organized by Scott Youngstedt and Conerly Casey. American Anthropological Association Meetings, November 12, 2022, Seattle, WA.
Errichiello, Mariano. “Between the Persianate and the Western worlds: the entangled history of modern Parsis”. Presented at the Nineth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, Russian-Armenian University, 2023.
Errichiello, Mariano. “The social dimension of Zoroastrian esotericism: the performance of the nīrangdīn ceremony in India”. Presented at the Nineth Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, University of Mälmo, 2023.
Errichiello, Mariano. “Ilme Kṣnum par aitihāsik pravacan (‘Historical Perspectives on Ilme Kṣnum’)”. First Dastoor Meherjirana Library (Navsari, India), March 22, 2023.
Errichiello, Mariano. “The Zoroastrian ceremony of nīrangdīn: text and performance”. Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany), June 21, 2023.
Gesterkamp, Lennert. “The Order of the Tolerant: An Esoteric Archive in the Netherlands.” Center of Advanced Studies (CAS-E), Erlangen University, Germany, 18 July 2023.
Gesterkamp, Lennert. “Gates to Heaven: Chinese Landscape Painting and Daoist Sacred Geography.” Middle Period China Conference, Yale University, 22-25 June 2023.
Gesterkamp, Lennert. “Haiwai Zhongguo daojiao meishushi yanjiu 海外中國道教美術史研究” (Research on Daoist Art History in the West) Daojiao meishushi xilie jiangzuo 道教美術史系列講座. Peking University, 2 May 2023 (online).
Gesterkamp, Lennert. “Helan yu Zhongguo zai shiqi shiji de wenhua jiaoliu 荷蘭與中國在十七世紀的文化交流”(Cultural Exchanges Between the Netherlands and China in the Seventeenth Century) Beiwai quanqiu zhili jiangtang 北外全球治理講堂.” Beijing waiguoyu daxue, 29 March 2023 (online).
Gesterkamp, Lennert: Participating in Colloquium on Chinese Religions, Free University, Berlin, 7-8 July 2023.
Gesterkamp, Lennert. “Creating Daoism: The Fangdao yulu and Daoist Esoteric Practices in the Republican Period.” Joint Research Colloquium “Religions in China”, Hamburg University, 27-28 January 2023.
Gesterkamp, Lennert. “Creating Daoism: The Fangdao yulu and Daoist Esoteric Practices in the Republican Period.” Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 13 December 2022.
Graw, Knut. “Migration, Anthropology, and Voice: Notes on a West African Memoir”. Paper presented at CAS-E Open Circle Seminar, 25 April 2023.
Graw, Knut. “Divination Dialogues”. CAS-E Lecture Series, Erlangen, May 23, 2023.
Graw, Knut. “Tracing Emic-Etic Continuities in Mandinka Divination: The Case of Nganiyo”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), Malmö University, 26-28 June 2023.
Hayes, Kelly. “Becoming a Master: Materializing Esoteric Wisdom in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn”, research presentation, Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. June 6, 2023.
Hayes, Kelly. “Alternative Space-Times and the Chronotopic Imagination: Materializing The Past in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn,” research presentation for informal workshop, Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. May, 2023.
Herrmans, Isabell. “Affective Images: Precarity as an Emergent Form among the Luangan of Indonesian Borneo.”, Finnish Anthropological Society Conference ‘Relations and beyond’ (Rovaniemi, March 2023)
Lackner, Michael. 關於海外漢學的幾點思考 (Some thoughts about Sinological Research Overseas) ， Beijing語言大學， International Chinese Language Education Forum, April 20, 2023.
Lackner, Michael. “Divination as an Alternative Rationality”, Conference Archives of the Impossible, Rice University, Houston, May 15, 2023.
Lackner, Michael. “The Roots of Chinese Civilization: A Golden Age?”, Conference, Eclogues of Desire, Cultural Myths of the Golden Age, Ernst von Siemens Foundation Munich, June 6, 2023.
Lackner, Michael. “The Global Lunyu: A Multilingual Tour d’horizon”, International Conference Interpretation and Reinvention of Chinese Philosophy, European Association of Chinese Philosophy, Macerata. June 16, 2023.
Lackner, Michael. Lecture, Trier University, „Theorie und Praxis der Wahrsagung im chinesischen Sprachraum“, January 11, 2022. repeated December 16, 2022, at Yangsheng Society.
Lackner, Michael. “Signs and signification in a global perspective: a review of the research done at the IKGF, Erlangen”. Lecture February 17, 2022, University of Florida, Conference Divination and Diviners in Chinese Religions 中國宗教中的占卜與卜人 .
Lackner, Michael. Lecture Chengdu University, Du Fu Academy, Speech at the Opening Ceremony of Du Fu Academy, 此命當何-歐亞卜術，術數與神術的比較 （A comparison between Chinese and European Mantic Arts）April 4, 2021.
Menzel, Birgit. “New Age Diplomacy. A Soviet-American Peace Movement to End the Cold War”, Conference: “Scientific Readings”, Daugavpils University, January 26, 2023.
Menzel, Birgit. “New-Age-Kultur im spät- und postsowjetischen Russland”, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg i.B., April 4th, 2023. (New-Age-Kultur im spät- und postsowjetischen Russland).
Menzel, Birgit. Round-table Discussion, “Esotericism in Late and Post-Soviet Russian in Global Perspective”, Conference “Cultures of New Age in Late and Post-Soviet Russia: Ideologies, Networks, Discourses”, June 17, 2022.
Müller, Dominik. „Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Conceptual Contours of a Newly-Established Interdisciplinary Research Centre“ 07 June 2022, Universiti Kelantan Malaysia (UMK), Knowledge Transfer by World Experts Series.
Nehring, Andreas. „Alternative Rationalitäten und Esoterische Praktiken in Globaler Perspektive“, Lecture Series: Theology Today, Department of Theology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 21.5.2023.
Nehring, Andreas. “Theology in the Times of Crisis”, Tanzania Workshop, Neuendettelsau, 6.-9.3.2023.
Nehring, Andreas. “Hinduismus – Unboxing Ganesha”, Seminar-Workshop in Luzern with University of Salzburg, 12.-13.5.2023.
Nehring, Andreas. “Spirituality and Art: Transgressions in the Context of Religious Pluralism”, at the 5th International Conference on Dayalbagh (Art) Science (& Engineering) of (Evolutionary/Re-Evolutionary) Consciousness (DSC) Dayalbagh, Agra, India, and Kiel University Germany 27.-29.06.2023.
Nehring, Andreas. “Digitales darshan – Religion Online”, Workshop at the University of Bonn: Religion als anderes Wissen? Zum Wissen religiöser Praktiken aus medientheoretischer Perspektive, 21./22.10.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. „Achtsamkeit. Religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven zur spirituellen Lebenskunst“; Symposion (Un)-endlich Leben – Lebenskunst in spiritueller Perspektive, Wildbad Rothenburg, 23.-25.3.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. „Spiritualität: Religion, Säkularisierung und Globalisierung“, Symposion Wildbad Rothenburg, 12.11.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. “Religion and Theology in Public Life”, Tanzania-Workshop, Neuendettelsau, 13.–15.5.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. “Buddhismus und Moderne”, Seminar-Workshop, University of Salzburg, 13. – 15.10.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. „Spiritualität zwischen Religion und Säkularisierung“, Ulrich Winkler-Lecture Universität Salzburg, 06.04.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. „Science must fall – Herausforderungen interkultureller Theologie an unsere Wissensformen“, Fachhochschule für Interkulturelle Theologie, Hermannsburg, 30.07.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. “Religion in the Public Sphere”, at: Tumaini University, Makumira, Tanzania, 06.09.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. “Religion and Development”. at: Tumaini University, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar Interfaith Centre (Zanzic), Tanzania, 14.09.2022.
Nehring, Andreas. “Popular Mindfulness – A Spiritual Practice between Neuroscience, Therapy and Self-Awareness”, at: Fourth international Dayalbagh Science of Consciousness conference (DSC) Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Deemed University, Agra, India, 26-29.09.2022.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “Practitioner-Scholarship and the Co-Production of Knowledge in the Study of Esotericism”, at: Occulture Conference, Berlin, October 20-22 2023.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “Antinomy or Complicity: Esoteric Practices and Technology”, at: 20th Conference of the EASR / European Association for the Study of Religion (Vilnius, Lithuania, September 4-8, 2023).
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “RENSEP: an introduction”, at: 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (Malmö, June 26-28, 2023).
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “Grants”, at: 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (Malmö, July 2023).
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “RENSEP: the Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices”, at: Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (Amsterdam, Netherlands), June 8, 2023.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “A Practice of the Impossible? Pondering the Peculiarities of modern sigil magick”, 2nd Archives of the Impossible Conference, Rice University (Houston, Texas, USA), May 13, 2023: https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu/flash-talk-speakers/bernd-christian-otto
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective”, Invited lecture at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University (Sweden), April 5, 2023.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective”, 3rd Trans-States Conference. Northampton, September 2022.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective”, 8th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism. Cork, July 2022.
Ozhiganova, Anna. “Swim into the New Civilization: Late-Soviet Utopia of Giving Birth to Babies-dolphins”, International Conference on “Religious Utopias” organized by the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of Religion, March 16-18, 2023 (Humboldt University in Berlin).
Ozhiganova, Anna. “Esoteric Exchange behind the Iron Curtain: Comparative Analysis of Late Soviet Esotericism and Western New Age”, The 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism “Western Esotericism and Practice”, June 26–28, 2023 (Malmö University, Sweden).
Ozhiganova, Anna. “Esoteric Practice as Technology: Creating a New (Super) Human Being in the Late Soviet Union, 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions “Religions and Technology,” September 4-8, 2023 (Vilnius University, Lithuania).
Romberg, Raquel. Introduction: Robert Desjarlais’ “Presence” Workshop and dialogue with Robert Desjarlais. Center for Advanced Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University, May 10, 2023, Erlangen, Germany.
Romberg, Raquel. Activation and Subjectivation: A Photographic Essay on Rituals and Gestures that ‘Do.’ CAS-E Summer Lecture Series, Erlangen, July 11, 2023.
Romberg, Raquel. “Sensing the Spirits: The Healing Dramas and Poetics of Brujería Rituals” (on Zoom). The Anthropology Forum, Haifa University, January 16, 2023.
Stoller, Paul 2023 “Lessons from the Edge of the Village: Extending African Wisdom to a Turbulent World, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, May 02, 2023.
Conference Organization
Burkhardt, Stefanie (with Claudia Jahnel, Klaus Hock, Klaus-Dieter Kaiser, Michael Biehl). „Grenzüberschreitungen – Plots, Akteure, Kontexte. Missionserzählungen in Literatur und Film“, Fachgruppentagung der Sektion Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie in der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie, 30.3.– 1.4. 2023, Wittenberg.
Lackner, Michael, Conference: The Käte Hamburger Kolleg IKGF: Insights and Outlooks, 12. Juni 2023, 08:00 – 14. Juni 2023, 18:00: https://www.fau.de/termine/conference-the-kaete-hamburger-kolleg-ikgf-insights-and-outlooks/
Nehring, Andreas. “Euro-Buddhism and the Role of Christianity”, International Conference of the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies (ENBCS), Salzburg 30.6.-4.7.2022, conference co-organization and moderation of one panel.
Romberg, Raquel. Inaugural 2022 CAS-E International Conference “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices,” Erlangen, December 8-10.
Romberg, Raquel. 2023 CAS-E International Conference “Politics of Authenticity in Esoteric Practices.” With Stefanie Burkhardt. Conference Center Forschungscampus Waischenfeld, Germany, November 15-17.
Organization of Panels at Conferences
Aschenbrenner, Lina. Organizer, Panel: “Ethnographies of the Yoga Body,” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Religion 2023, San Antonio, Texas.
Youngstedt, Scott; Casey, Conerly. Co-organizers, Panel: “A Shifting Sahel: Ecologies of Health and Healing across Niger and Northern Nigeria”, American Anthropological Association Meeting (Seattle, Washington, USA, November 2022).
Sillander, Kenneth; Tacey, Ivan; Herrmans, Isabell. Co-organizers, Panel: “Affect in Sociality: Relational Dynamics in Motion.”, Finnish Anthropological Society Conference ‘Relations and beyond’ (Rovaniemi, March 2023).
Otto, Bernd-Christian, chair and organizer of a CAS-E double panel on ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’, at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (Malmö, July 2023).
Otto, Bernd-Christian, chair and organizer of a CAS-E double panel on ‘Antinomy or Complicity: Esoteric Practices and Technology’, at the 20th Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion (Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2023).
