Rethinking Methodology: Sensory Modalities in Ethnographic Research
Check out some images from the 1-day workshop on feeling, hearing, and seeing ethnography differently. The workshop, organized by Maryam Abbasi in collaboration with Dominik Müller, took place on December 11, 2025 at CAS-E.
Different Perspectives on the Yogic Body: Kundalini’s Thousand Guises
A workshop by Dr. hab. Bernd-Christian Otto, Permanent Fellow, CAS-E, and Dr. Monika Hirmer, Postdoc Research Coordinator, CAS-E In this workshop, Monika and Bernd introduced different aspects of Kundalini yoga from their respective perspectives: Monika provided insights into Goddess worship as it is practiced among the tantric practitioners whom she lived with as a researcher […]
CAS-E Visits Fondation Alain Daniélou (Zagarolo, Italy)
This is the second consecutive semester that a number of CAS-E team members, and visiting and permanent fellows were invited to participate in the workshops organized by Interstices: Center for Transversal Thinking (Freiburg, Germany) hosted at the Fondation Alain Daniélou (Zagarolo, Italy). In 23-25 May, 2025, the topic of the workshop was “Knowledge Transmission and […]
CAS-E Newsletter 2025/03
CAS-E Welcome Day and Fellow Cohort Winter Semester 2025/26
Welcome Day at CAS-E, October 14, 2025: Fellows and Team Members Left to right: Prof. Lackner, Dr. habil. Otto, Prof. Müller and Prof. Maltese introduce CAS-E
Excursion to Bamberg
Check out some images from a sunny trip to Bamberg by CAS-E fellows Lili Di Puppo, Tommaso Previato and Sergio González Varela on June 28, 2025! Sergio González Varela Lili Di Puppo Tommaso Previato
CAS-E panel at the Convention of the Association for Parapsychology
Anna Ozhiganova, Birgit Menzel and Bernd-Christian Otto visited the Convention of the Association for Parapsychology in Freiburg on July 15-18, 2025. Anna Ozhiganova and Birgit Menzel with colleagues at the Convention.
CAS-E goes to EuARe!
This year’s conference of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe) took place in Wien, Austria, on July 8–12, 2025. Many CAS-E members attended the conference, where they presented their latest work. University of Vienna, venue of the conference. Kelly Hayes discussing her latest book with Stefanie Burkhardt, Steven Engler and Marco Pasi. Oleg Yarosh with […]
“Writing with the Phoenix Stylus” Performance
Below you can have a look at some of the moments from the “Writing with the Phoenix Stylus” ritual, held on July 4, 2025, in Erlangen and on July 6, 2025, in Nürnberg. The delegation of ritual specialists from Taiwan at CAS-E. Check out the video here. Check out the video here.
CAS-E goes to ESSWE!
Check out some pictures from the Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, on June 26-28, 2025. Bernd-Christian Otto. Photocredit: Kristina Petrikonyte, ESSWE. Kelly Hayes, Knut Graw are joined online by Birgit Menzel to discuss CAS-E tandem-papers. Photocredit: Kristina Petrikonyte, ESSWE. Anna Ozhiganova presenting on […]
