The Digital as a Space for Esoteric Practices: An Anthropological Study of Esoteric Practices in Contemporary Iran
CAS-E Associated Scholar Maryam Abbasi investigates the digital as a space for esoteric practices in her project at the Institute of Sociology, Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The project, commenced in February 2024, culminates in the publication of a monograph on esoteric practices in contemporary […]
Knowing Hands: Chinese Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Situ, Comparison, and Contact
CAS-E is thrilled to announce the international research project “Knowing Hands: Chinese Hand-memory Techniques & Handy Knowledge in Situ, Comparison, and Contact,” commencing in April 2025 for a duration of thirty-six months. “Knowing Hands” is a joint German–French collaboration between Prof. Marta Hanson (CAS-E Associated Scholar, Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Stéphanie Homola (French National Centre for […]
Book by CAS-E Permanent Fellow Kelly E. Hayes features on the Mysterious Universe podcast
March 3, 2024 CAS-E Permanent Fellow Kelly E. Hayes’ book Spirits of the Space Age: The Imagined World of Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn features on the Mysterious Universe Podcast An unassuming and hardworking woman arrived in BrasÃlia in 1957 to contribute to the construction of the new capital city. Yet, within two decades, she […]
