IKGF (hybrid) Lecture Series

Notes by a diviner, counting the kind of questions asked by his clients (personal collection of Prof. A. Bréard) — Notes by a diviner, counting the kind of questions asked by his clients (personal collection ©A. Bréard)

15. October 2021

During the winter term 2021/2022 the IKGF organizes a lecture series on the Consortium’s theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe.

It takes place on Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am–1:45 am CST).

The lectures will be held in person at

Building D1, Room 00.235 (“Großer Seminarraum”)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hartmannstr. 14
91052 Erlangen

For online participation please register here.

2021/11/02	Tokens of Destiny: Golden Dragons and Jade Slips in Daoist Ritual and Archaeology Dr. Lennert Gesterkamp (IKGF Visiting Fellow)
2021/11/23	Fortuneteller and Catholicism in Taiwan: Building the Cosmological Other Dr. Marco Lazzarotti (IKGF Visiting Fellow)
2021/12/07	Reading the Sky, Divining the Flood: How People Predicted the Weather in Early Qing China Erling Hagen Agøy (IKGF Visiting Fellow)
2021/12/21	“Mankind” (renlei 人類) and “Existence” (cunzai 存在) in Neoclassicst Cyberpoetry on the ChinaNet Prof. Frank Kraushaar (IKGF Visiting Fellow)
2022/01/11	Facing the Inevitable Future: Prognostics and Predictions in Late Medieval Books on the Preparation for Dying Patrick Nehr-Baseler (Department of History CAU Kiel)
2022/01/25	History Repeats Itself: Prophecies and Temporalities in 15th Century Byzantium Rike Szill (Department of History CAU Kiel)
2022/02/08	Divining Sacrifice: Drowning Victims and Combined Killing Methods in Late Shāng Sacrificial Practice (ca. 13th-11th cc. B.C.) Dr. Susanne Adamski (University of Münster)