Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Subversive Mythology: The Sensory and the Spectacular in the Cults of Zhu Xi"
Prof. Dr. Lionel Jensen
Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"De-Rationalizing Chance Mechanims? On the Role of Mathematical Practice and Theory in Divination with Dominos in Late Imperial China"
Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard
Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Zukunftserwartung zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits: die politische Sprache mittelalterlicher Traumvisionen"
Dr. Uta Kleine
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Beatus of Liébana, text and images (VIII-XIII centuries). Conceptions of Time and Future in Medieval Spain"
Prof. Dr. Patrick Henriet
Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Sterndeutung als naturwissenschaftliche Methode der Politikberatung. Astronomie und Astrologie am Hof Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493)"
Dr. des. M.A. Daniel Carlo Pangerl
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Divination, Revelation and the Dynamics of Religious Change in Modern Taiwan: The Case of Spirit-writing Cults"
Prof. Dr. Philip Clart
Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Willensfreiheit oder Prädestination? Überlegungen zum Umgang mit übernatürlichen Mächten in den 'Aufzeichnungen von Erschöpfung und Gram' (Qiongchou zhi 窮愁志) des Li Deyu 李德裕 (787-850)"
Michael Höckelmann, M.A.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Divination and Divinization: The Shi 栻 Board in Medico-Religious Sources"
Dr. Dominic Steavu
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
Lecture
"Fate, Prediction and the Threat of Total Destruction in Spain: A Fifteenth-Century Nightmare"
Prof. Dr. Ángel Gómez Moreno
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