Lecture Series Summer 2017
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| 02.05.2017 | Typology, Prophecy, and Cabbala as a Strategy for Cultural Accommodation in Jesuit Figurism Daniel Canaris (Italian Studies, University of Sydney; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 16.05.2017 | Serving a Higher Purpose: Divination and the Reform of Spirit-Writing in Republican China Matthias Schumann (Chinese History and Culture, Goethe Universiy Frankfurt) |
| 23.05.2017 CANCELLED |
Tezcatlipoca's Smoking Mirror: Fate, Agency, and Divination among the Aztecs Isabel Laack (Study of Religions, Heidelberg University) |
| 30.05.2017 | Decision-Making by Prognostic Disclosure: Epistemology and Cosmology in African Divination Klaus Hock (History of Religion, University of Rostock; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 13.06.2017 | How to Deal with Prophecies in Late Antiquity: The Case of Dracontius Maria Jennifer Falcone (Classical Philology, Catholic University of Milan; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... |
| 27.06.2017 | A 17th-Century Tibetan Dice Divination of the Deity A-phyi Jan-Ulrich Sobisch (Tibetan Studies; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 04.07.2017 | Power and Fate in 19th- to 20th-Century China Pablo Blitstein(Intellectual History, Heidelberg University) |
| 11.07.2017 | The Tiger and Other Animals as Symbols in Tibetan Geomancy (sa dpyad) Petra Maurer (Tibetan Studies, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities / LMU Munich; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 18.07.2017 CANCELLED |
"A Certain Perfection of the Soul": Maimonides' Conception of Prophecy and Its Impact on the Kabbalah Annett Martini (Jewish Studies, Free University of Berlin; FAU Guest Professor) |
| 25.07.2017 | Mantic Echoes in Daoist Ritual Texts of the Six Dynasties Period Stephen Bokenkamp (Chinese Studies, Arizona State University; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... |