Lecture Series Summer 2018
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Schedule
| 10.04.2018 | How Did Hellenistic Astrology End Up in Medieval China? Horoscopy in Tang China Jeffrey Kotyk (Chinese Studies, Leiden University; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 24.04.2018 | How to Forestall Misfortune: Religious and Political Strategies in Early Medieval Italy Carola Föller (Medieval History, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 08.05.2018 | A Pope, a Saint, and a Forerunner of the Antichrist: Eschatological Interpretations of Contemporary Events Advanced by the Roman Curia under Gregory IX Wendan Li (Medieval History, Free University of Berlin) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 15.05.2018 | Design Your Own Paradises: Millenarianism in the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism Olaf Czaja (Tibetology) |
| 29.05.2018 | The Course of History, Eschatology, and Transcendence in Medieval Latin Christianity Klaus Herbers (Medieval History, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg; IKGF Deputy Director) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 05.06.2018 | 18:00 s. t. BOOK LAUNCH: Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China, edited by Donald Harper and Marc Kalinowski Introduced by the editor, Marc Kalinowski (Chinese Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) |
| 18:45 SPECIAL LECTURE: Political Counselling in the Ancient Near East; or, On Prognostication as Sense and Nonsense Stefan Maul (Assyriology, Heidelberg University) |
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| 12.06.2018 | Siting Dreams: Incubation Practice in Late Ming China Brigid Vance (East Asian History, Lawrence University; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 19.06.2018 | Prophetic Body Signs in Early Modern Romance Literature Folke Gernert (Romance Studies, Trier University) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 26.06.2018 | Fate and Freedom in the Postsocialist Chinese Popular Imaginary Kwok-kan Tam (Comparative Literature and Culture, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Watch online... |
| 03.07.2018 | Sheltered in the Heavenly Jerusalem: Late Medieval Concepts of Eschatology within the Teutonic Order Susanne Ehrich (Medieval Literature, University of Regensburg) Watch online... |
| 10.07.2018 | On the Relationship between Learned Magic and Divination: Scrutinizing the Leipzig Magica Collection Bernd-Christian Otto (Study of Religions, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt) Watch online... |