IKGF (hybrid) Lecture Series
During the summer term 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
All lectures will also be streamed online (live): https://fau.zoom.us/j/66470896618?pwd=cFN0SlFVS1E4SlJpOUprLzdQdzA5QT09
| 2022/05/03 | Orientation and Avoidance: Prenatal Space Divination during the Tang and Song Dynasties Cheng Wan-Chun (IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 2022/05/17 | Pictures at an Exhibition. An Illustrated Report on the Exhibit “Signs of the Future. Divination in East Asia and Europe” 2021 at the National Museum in Nuremberg Michael Lackner (IKGF Director) |
| 2022/05/31 | The Changing Portrayal of Divination and Prognostication in pre-Han and post-Han shu 書 texts Thomas Crone (IKGF Research Coordinatot) |
| 2022/06/14 | The Epistemology of the UFO: The Communities and Narratives of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Cold War USSR Alexey Golubev (University of Houston) |
| 2022/06/28 | [title tba.] Dimitri Drettas (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| 2022/07/12 | Destiny and Human Nature in Daoist Internal Alchemy: The Views of Liu Yiming (1734-1821) Fabrizio Pregadio (IKGF Guest Professor) |
| 2022/07/26 | The Prognostication for the Change of Fate—Yiguandao’s Eschatology and Responding Practices Yeh-Ying Shen (IKGF Visiting Fellow) |