About the mailing list Hexenforschung
Mail-Adress: hexenforschung@listserv.dfn.de
Homepage: http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/hexenforschung.html
The Mailing List Hexenforschung (Witchcraft Research), founded in August, 2000, to represent research into the historical witchcraft trials, is a part of the project AKIH ("Workshop for Interdisciplinary Witchcraft Research.") The list has found a new home with DFNList (in place of KBX7). The list offers a generally accessible WWW-Archive, now with full text search capabilities at http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/hexenforschung.html.
The list operates as one of the liveliest history mailing lists anywhere. At present it numbers about 180 members. On average, several messages are exchanged every day.
Subjects
Scholarly discussions of questions related to witch-hunting and magic in the past and present, in line with the approaches of the Arbeitskreis Interdisziplinaere Hexenforschung (AKIH), i.e. The Workshop for Interdisciplary Witchcraft Research. The mailing list constitutes an interdisciplinary forum for everyone interested in pursuing these topics in a scholarly manner.
The list is collaborating with historicum.net (Server Fruehe Neuzeit / Early Modern History Server), Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich and the University of Cologne (http://www.historicum.net/themen/hexenforschung/) and the Bestwitches Mailing-List, Joan Pontius / USA .
Topics
We welcome all scholarly discussions, messages, announcements of work in progress, publications, and meetings, etc. We discourage off-topic messages as well as unscholarly announcements (e.g., with esoteric or anticlerical purposes). Although the main language of the list is German, English contributions are welcome.
Application
The mailing list is administered by Dr. Klaus Graf (University of Freiburg) on behalf of the AKIH. Advisory Counsel: Prof. Dr. Gudrun Gersmann (German Historical Institute, Paris / University of Cologne / historicum.net), Dr. Dietmar Nix (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Erik Midelfort (University of Virginia), Dr. Jürgen Michael Schmidt (University of Tuebingen), Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff (University of Dresden), and Dr. Rita Voltmer (University of Trier).
Applicants in addition are kindly asked to contact the administrator directly (klaus.graf@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de), providing some information about themselves and their scholarly interests.
Dr. Klaus Graf
letzte Überarbeitung: 07.05.2009