Fate, Freedom and Prediction: Reflections on Comparative Method in Early China and the Ancient Mediterranean
Convenor: Prof. Lisa Raphals (University of California, Riverside)
May 12-13, 2015
Programme
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
| 10:00 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction |
| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Understanding Delphi Through Tibet Prof. Michael Flower (Princeton University) |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:45 p.m. | Good Better Best: Fortune and Fate at the Oracle of Zeus, Dodona Prof. Esther Eidinow (University of Nottingham) |
| 3:15 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Writing Fate: Rethinking Greek Oracular Practices Through Comparativism Prof. Marcello Carastro (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) |
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
| 9:00 a.m. | Which Self Image? Body, Mind, and Fate in China and Greece Prof. Lisa Raphals (University of California, Riverside) |
| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Choosing a Life: Lunyu 2.4 and Self-Determination Prof. Richard King (University of Bern) |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:45 p.m. | The Meanings and Practice of Sacrifice in Early Greece and China Prof. Michael Puett (Harvard University) |
| 3:15 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Conclusion |
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"Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe."
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