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The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) is Europe'a only scholarly society for the study of Western esotericism. Founded in 2005, the society promotes academic study of the various manifestations of Western esotericism from late antiquity to the present, and works to secure the future development of the field.
Publications
The ESSWE publishes a peer-reviewed journal, ''Aries'', and an associated book series with Brill, and also a periodic Newsletter.
International conferences
The ESSWE holds an international conference in a different European country every two years, and holds a workshop for graduate students in years in which there is no conference. Past conferences have been in Tübingen (2007), Strasbourg (2009), and Szeged (2011).
Other activities
The ESSWE provides various resource on its website, awards prizes and travel bursaries to recognize and encourage younger scholars, and has two regional networks, the Scandinavian Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (SNASWE) and the Israeli Network for the Study of Western Esotericsm (INASWE).
Relationships
The ESSWE is an affiliated society of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) and a related scholarly organization of the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
Current officers
- President: Wouter J. Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Vice President: Jean-Pierre Brach (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, France)
- Treasurer: Demetrius Waarsenburg (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Secretary: Mark Sedgwick (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
- Membership Secretary: Egil Asprem (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Webmaster: Peter J. Forshaw (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Antoine Faivre (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, France)
- Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (University of Exeter, UK)
- Boaz Huss (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- Andreas Kilcher (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland)
- Marco Pasi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Gyorgy E. Szonyi (University of Szeged, Hungary)
- Helmut Zander (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany)