Lecture Series Winter 2018-19
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| 16.10.2018 | The Future of Human Rights at Stake: Responding to Recent Dystopias Heiner Bielefeldt (Human Rights and Human Rights Politics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 30.10.2018 | Caught in Destiny: The Propagation of the Notion of Fate in Contemporary Taiwan Stéphanie Homola (Ethnology, Elite Master's Programme "Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures", Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 13.11.2018 | On Short Notice and in the Long Term: Conceptualizing Future in Late Medieval Visual Art Daniela Wagner (Art History, University of Tübingen) |
| 20.11.2018 | Between After Death and Afterlife: Conceptions of the Time Between Individual Death and the Day of Resurrection in Christianity and Islam Katja Thörner (Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Watch online... |
| 27.11.2018 | Revelation, the Promulgation of Christ, and Prophecy: The Past as Memory of the Future in Rupert of Deutz Miriam Czock (History of the Middle Ages, University of Duisburg-Essen; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 04.12.2018 | Decision-Making between Path Dependencies and Freedom of Choice: Ethical Reasoning in Public Policy Advising Sven Grundmann (Political Sciences, Elite Master's Programme "Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures", Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) |
| 11.12.2018 | A Different Kind of Vision? Agency and Genre in Late Antique and Medieval Journeys to the Afterlife Nicole Volmering (Irish and Celtic Languages, Trinity College Dublin; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 18.12.2018 | Empire and Asceticism: On the Role of the End Times in Late Antique Christian Historiography Veronika Wieser (History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) Listen online... Watch online... |
| 08.01.2019 | Securing the Past and Shaping the Future: The Strategic Deployment and Modus Operandi of Tibetan Prophecies Per Kjeld Sørensen (Tibetology, Leipzig University) Watch online... |
| 15.01.2019 | Fixing Foreign Sciences: On the Contingency of Knowledge and the Transformation of Epistemology of Science in Maoist China Marc Matten (Chinese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Watch online... |
| 22.01.2019 | The Mirror of Ice (Bingjian 冰鑑): A Manual of Chinese Physiognomy Philipp Hünnebeck (Chinese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) |
| 29.01.2019 | Ragnarök: Prophecies and Notions of the End Time in Old Norse Religion Thomas Krümpel (Scandinavian Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg / Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich) |
| 05.02.2019 | Archaeology of Osteopyromancy in Early China: New Discoveries and New Perspectives Maria Khayutina (Sinology, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Watch online... |