Lecture Series Winter 2020-21
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| 4 Nov 2020 | Virgin Mothers and Hell-Bent Sons: Daoist Rituals for Delivering Mothers from Blood Lake Hell Jessey Choo (Cultural History of Medieval China; Rutgers University–New Brunswick) Watch online... |
| 10 Nov 2020 | Resonances and Repercussions of Kepler’s Harmonices Mundi (Harmony of the World, 1619) Günther Oestmann (History of Science; Technical University of Berlin) |
| 24 Nov 2020 | Divining the Future and Averting Misfortune in Japan: The Case of Shugendō George Klonos (East Asian Religions; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Watch online... |
| 1 Dec 2020 | The Emperor’s Dragon Form: Physiognomy and Appearance Politics in Early Ming China Lex Jing Lu (East Asian History and Gender Studies; Clark University) Watch online... |
| 15 Dec 2020 | Lea Braun (Medieval German Literature; Humboldt University of Berlin) cancelled
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| 12 Jan 2021 | Self-Knowledge as Religious Knowledge: Lottery Divination in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China Yang Shen (Cultural Anthropology; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen) |
| 19 Jan 2021 | Presentation of Two New Books "Prognostication in the Medieval World – A Handbook" and "Mittelalterliche Rechtstexte und mantische Praktiken" |
| 26 Jan 2021 | On Eagles, Lions, and Things to Come: Prophecies in the Late Medieval Holy Roman Empire Manuel Kamenzin (History of the Middle Ages; Ruhr University Bochum; IKGF Visiting Fellow) Watch online... |
| 2 Feb 2021 | Reorganizing the Knowledge of the Future: Local State Divination (yinyang) Schools in Yuan China (1271-1368) Qiao Yang (History of Asia; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Watch online... |