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Now published ! Bauduin, T.M. 2014. Surrealism and the Occult. Occultism and Esotericism in the Work and Movement of  André Breton. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press/Chicago University Press. 

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Find my dissertation online: Bauduin, T.M.. 2012. The Occultation of Surrealism: A Study of the Relationship between Bretonian Surrealism and Western Esotericism. University of Amsterdam: PhD-dissertation, published online. 

Information about all my publications, including links, downloadable tables of contents and downloadabel texts, please visit my academia profile.  

Full teaching portfolio and other documents on academia.

Currently I am teaching at the Radboud University, with the department of Cultural Studies.

At the UvA I have taught courses with the departments of Art History, Religious Studies and History of Hermetic Philosophy, in the BA and the MA, as well as an interdepartemental honours-course. 

2014-2015        UvA

Parijs Excursie / Paris Excursion*                  BA-1    KGS

2013-2014        UvA

Onderzoeksvaardigheden SOP                      BA-1    Art History (KGS)

Parijs Excursie / Paris Excursion*                  BA-1    KGS

Inleiding in de Kunstgeschiedenis III               BA-1    KGS

Wetenschapsfilosofie                                     BA-2    KGS

Benaderingen in de Kunstgeschiedenis*           BA-3    KGS

2012-2013        UvA

Parijs Excursie / Paris Excursion                    BA-1    KGS

Inleiding in de Kunstgeschiedenis III               BA-1    KGS

Benaderingen in de Kunstgeschiedenis*            BA-3    KGS

Tweede lezer MA-scripties                             MA      KGS

Examencommissie Kunstgeschiedenis              BA & MA KGS

2011-2012        UvA

Parijs Excursie / Paris Excursion*                  BA-1    KGS

Eerste en/of twee lezer BA-scripties              BA-3    KGS, Religiestudies (RS)

Western Esotericism from the 18th century    BA-3    History of Hermetic Philosophy (gHF)/RS

2010-2011        UvA

Parijs Excursie / Paris Excursion                    BA-1    KGS

2009-2010       UvA

Parijs Excursie / Paris Excursion                    BA-1    KGS

Mentoraat/tutorship                                        BA-1    Religious Studies (RS)

Eerste en/of twee lezer BA-scripties              BA-3    KGS

2008-2009       UvA

Occult Trajectories I: Mod. art & occultism   MA      gHF/ RS

Excursion: Occult art in Paris                         BA-3 & MA KGS, gHF

Honours course: Religie Verbeeld/t                BA-3 (honours) Dept. of Art, Religion, Culture

Onderzoeksvaardigheden I                             BA-1    RS

2007-2008       UvA

Webinar Introduction Religious Studies          pre-BA RS

Visuele Analyse                                                BA-1   KGS

Mentoraat/tutorship                                        BA-1    KGS

2006-2007       UvA

Onderzoeksvaardigheden I                             BA-1    KGS

* = I have also coordinated this course. 

My research visualised.

Please find the various expressions and various stages of my research (i.e., chapters, conference papers) visualised in word-clouds. With many thanks to Wordle.

Conference paper: The Occultation of Surrealism in 1947

My thesis, Chapter Three: The Surrealist Sleeping Sessions

Article: Science, Occultism and the Art of the Avant-Garde

Forthcoming in Brill Journal of Religion in Europe, 2012.

My thesis, Chapter Four: Nadja

Invited presentations

International

Bauduin, T.M. (9-5-2014). ‘Hilma af Klint: An ‘Abstract’ ‘Pioneer’?’. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (Denmark).

---- (14/16-11-2013). ‘“Modest Recording Instruments Without Talent”: Automatism in Surrealism’. Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany).

---- (11-06-2013). ‘Hilma af Klint: mediumism, abstraction and the colours of spiritual evolution’. Academy of Fine Arts, Münster (Germany).

---- (23-05-2013). ‘The Occultation of Surrealism’. University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

---- (25-05-2013). ‘The Automatic Message. Automatism and the avant-garde’. Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Sweden).

National

----. (21-09-2012). ‘On “the Spiritual” in Modern art. Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian’. University of Leiden (Netherlands).

Conference papers, international

Bauduin, T.M. (12-04-2014). ‘The modernity/anti-modernity of Bosch: reception of early Renaissance Netherlandish art in Surrealism’. Inaugural Conference, Network on 19th and Early 20th-century Reception of Netherlandish, Belgian and German Early Renaissance Art: Primitive Renaissance: Northern European Art and the Fin de Siècle. National Gallery, London (United Kingdom).

---- (17-09-2013). ‘Medieval Surrealism – Surrealist Medievalism: the case of Hieronymus Bosch’. MDRN: Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avant-Gardes. University of Louvain, Louvain (Belgium).

---- (26-09-2013). ‘Theosophical iconography in the art of Hilma af Klint’. EMTMA Research Network: Enchanted Modernities. University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

---- (07-07-2011). ‘The “occulture” of modern art in Surrealism’. ESSWE: The Visual and Symbolic in Western Esotericism, University of Szeged, Szeged (Hungary).

---- (17-08-2010). ‘“A New Freedom from the Tyranny of Established Laws”: Science, religion and the avant-garde in the early 20^th century’. IAHR XX^th Congress: Toronto (Canada).

---- (10-10-2009). ‘“Les secrets de l’art magique surréaliste”: Elite knowledge and the avant-garde in French Surrealism, 1920s and 30s’. Cambridge Centre for Western Esotericism Annual Conference: The Lure of Secrecy: Western Esotericism and the Arts, Cambridge (United Kingdom).

---- (01-11-2008). ‘« Secrets de l’art magique surréaliste »: Surrealism and mediumism’. AAR Annual Conference, Chicago (United States).

Conference papers at national conferences and media appearances not included; list available upon request. 

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