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| 18.10.2016 | "So werden uil grosser nuÿung inder welt": German Vernacular Translations of John of Rupescissa's Vade mecum in tribulatione(1356) Robert E. Lerner (Department of History, Northwestern University) Listen online… Watch online... |
| 25.10.2016 | Aspects of the Computistic Argument in Song Dynasty Cosmological Visualizations Holger Schneider (Chinese Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) Listen online… Watch online... |
| 08.11.2016 CANCELLED |
Tezcatlipoca’s Smoking Mirror: Fate, Agency and Divination among the Aztecs Isabel Laack (Study of Religions, Heidelberg University) |
| 15.11.2016 | Political Theory in the Middle Ages and the Art of Mastering the Human World’s Uncertainty Bee Yun (Political Science and Diplomacy, Sungkyunkwan University Seoul; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online… Watch online... |
| 22.11.2016 | Resources of Prognosis in the Byzantine Empire Michael Grünbart (Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Münster) Listen online… |
| 29.11.2016 POSTPONED TO SUMMER TERM |
Serving a Higher Purpose:
Divination and the Reform of Spirit-Writing in Republican China Matthias Schumann (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| 13.12.2016 | Disasters and Celestial Phenomena in Eleventh-Century Political Discourse in China Martin Kroher (Chinese Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; IKGF Research Fellow) |
| 10.01.2017 | Aesthetic Dimensions of Rituals Aida Bosch (Sociology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) Listen online… Watch online... |
| 17.01.2017 | Towards a New Philosophy of History? The Morphology of Cultures and the Limits of Individual Freedom David Engels (Roman History, Université Libre de Bruxelles) |
| 24.01.2017 | Letting the Right Ones In: Court-Sanctioned Memories of Diviners, Healers, and Artisans in Five Mid-Sixth- to Mid-Seventh-Century Dynastic Histories Stephan Kory (Chinese Studies; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online… Watch online... |
| 31.01.2017 | Interpreting the Mandate (ming 命) in Premodern China: Zhu Xi’s (1130-1200) Philosophical and Mantic Discourse Maud M’Bondjo (Chinese Studies, Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online… |
| 07.02.2017 | Theorizing Prediction Philipp Balsiger (Philosophy, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |