Dr. des. Lavinia Pflugfelder
Assistant / Postdoc (Fachbereich Religionswissenschaft)
Office
Heuberg 12
4051 Basel
Schweiz
Office hours: tuesday and thursday 10–4 (please schedule a meeting time per e-mail)
Office: Heuberg 12
Teaching
ENTRY IN THE COURSE DIRECTORYregularly:
Fall semester: Introduction to Religious Studies
Spring semester: Introduction to the European History of Religions
Lavinia Pflugfelder works as academic staff and lecturer at the University of Basel where she is completed her PhD-project on religion-productive image discourses and the interlinking of the academic and the religious in neopagan witchcraft.
Projects
Lectures
«Fragmentierung oder Bricolage? Enchanted Epistemes zwischen wissenschaftlicher und transzendenter Autorität», Wissen, Wahrnehmen, Wundern. Epistemische Praktiken an Schnittstellen von Spiritualität, Kunst und Wissenschaft, (Workshop Arbeitsgruppe Enchanted Epistemes), Universität Freiburg 27.–28. November 2025.
“Imaginationsgeschichten der Hexe: Vom Basler Konzil bis zur Witchsploitation”, 30. Studierendensymposium der Religionswissenschaft 2025 Doing and Believing. Religion und Gender, Basel 29. Mai–1. Juni 2025
"Hexen! Religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Wissen, Gender und Magie”, Workshop, Organisation und Durchführung (2024). Werkstattbericht: “Die Denkfigur der Hexe und Enchanted Epistemes”
"Wissen, Gender, Magie und die Denkfigur der Hexe", Doktorierenden und PostDoc-Workshop "Hexen! Religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Wissen, Gender und Magie", Universität Basel 1.-3. Juni 2024
"Ambivalenz der Teufelsfigur: Horror und Faszination", Beitrag und Paneldiskussion, Fakultätstagung Theologische Fakultät Basel 2023 "Theologie & Horror", 15.-17. Mai 2023
Research interests
European history of religion of the 19th century
- Esotericism and occultism
- Secret societies
- Magic
Religion and popular culture
- Heavy metal, black metal, occult rock
- Music video and bricolage
- Image exchange between pop culture and religion(s)
- Religion and horror (film)
Religion, image and identity
- Gender and concepts of deities in contemporary paganism
- Wicca and narratives of origin
Religion and nature
- Nature and gender in neopagan discourses
- Concepts of nature in Romanticism and the sacralization of nature
![[Translate to English:] verschiedene Figuren männlicher Götter in einer Vitrine, teils beruhen sie auf historischen Darstellungen, teils sind es zeitgenössische Interpretationen](https://religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/e/e/csm_Hexenmuseum_Liebegg_2-6-24_klein_937e7dc96a.jpeg)
![[Translate to English:] verschiedene Figuren männlicher Götter in einer Vitrine, teils beruhen sie auf historischen Darstellungen, teils sind es zeitgenössische Interpretationen](https://religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/e/e/csm_Hexenmuseum_Liebegg_2-6-24_klein_4f0cb699d9.jpeg?1752054865)
CV
- 2025-current, academic associate with teaching assignment, Study of Religion Department, University of Basel
- 2020-2025, research associate with teaching assignment, Study of Religion Department, University of Basel
- 2018-2020, Employment as student assistant in Greek Philology, University of Basel
- 2017-2020, Employment as student assistant, Study of Religion Department, University of Basel
- 2020-2025 Doctoral Study, Study of Religion, University of Basel
- 2018-2020 Master in Study of Religion, German Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Basel.
- 2010-2017 Bachelor in Study of Religion, German Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Basel
Memberships
2022-current, Member of the Research Collective Enchanted Epistemes
2020-current, Member of the Board of the Swiss Society for the Study of Religions (SGR)
2019-current, Member of the Editorial Board Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft (ZjR)