Reading the Signs - Languages of Prognostication
May 30-31, 2013
Programme
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
| 9:30 a.m | Welcome Addresses
Thomas Fröhlich (IKGF, Erlangen), Klaus Herbers (IKGF, Erlangen), Iwo Amelung (Frankfurt), Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg) |
| Panel 1 | DIVINATION IN EARLY CHINA Chair: Nikola Chardonnens, IKGF, Erlangen |
| 9:50 a.m. | Divination and Fate in the Eastern Han Michael Puett (Cambridge, MA) |
| 10:10 a.m. | The Organization of the Dynastic Histories Hanshu
and Hou Hanshu: Visualization and Questions Nicolas Zufferey (Geneva) |
| 10:30 a.m. | Kidder Smith Revisited: On the Difficulties
of the Zuozhuan’s Interpretation of the Zhouyi Michael Schimmelpfennig (Erlangen) |
| 10:50 a.m. | Discussion |
| 11:10 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Panel 2 | THEORIES AND INTERPRETATION (Chair: Esther-Maria Guggenmos, IKGF, Erlangen) |
| 11:40 a.m. | Theorizing Divination: Chinese and Greek Lisa Raphals (Riverside, CA) |
| 12:00 p.m. | The Composition of Commentaries on
Classics in the Light of Newly Excavated
Mathematical Manuscripts Karine Chemla (Paris) |
| 12:20 p.m. | The Diagram Relevance in
Chinese Buddhology and Zhou-Yi Zhou Qi (Beijing) |
| 12:40 p.m. | Discussion |
| 1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Panel 3 | LANGUAGES AND THEIR LIMITS Chair: Holger Schneider, Erlangen |
| 2:30 p.m. | Aha, Chen and Other Misunderstandings Erling von Mende (Berlin) |
| 2:50 p.m. | A Chinese Figurist at Work:
Liu Ning and his Studies of Chinese Characters Chu Ping-yi (Taipei) |
| 3:10 p.m. | Ricci 'On Friendship':
Some Failures of Transmission Christoph Harbsmeier (Oslo) |
| 3:30 p.m. | Discussion |
| 3:50 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
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| 4:20 p.m. | Resistance and Societal Change:
The Role of Traditional Semantics Ken'ichi Mishima (Tokyo) |
| 5:20 p.m. | End of Day 1 |
Friday, May 31, 2013, 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
| Panel 4 | REWRITING THE PREDICTIVE SCIENCES Chair: Song Xiaokun, IKGF, Erlangen |
| 9:30 a.m. | Reflections on the Cultural Role of Popular Encyclopedias (日用類書) in Late Imperial China Richard Smith (Houston, TX) |
| 9:50 a.m. | A New Language of Prognostication:
Ferdinand Verbiest on Logic and Astronomy Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg) |
| 10:10 a.m. | Science and Prognostication in
Early 20th Century China Iwo Amelung (Frankfurt) |
| 10:30 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:50 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Panel 5 | PROGNOSTICATION AND THE
MEANING OF MODERNITY Chair: Philipp Hünnebeck, IKGF, Erlangen |
| 11:20 a.m. | The Different Meanings of Life:
Rudolf Eucken, Henri Bergson, Ernst Haeckel
and Hans Driesch in China Kevin Chang (Taipei) |
| 11:40 a.m. | Modern Millennialism in the Age of Revolution:
Taiping and the West Jürgen Gebhardt (Erlangen) |
| 12:00 p.m. | Acceleration of Change and Prognostication
of Progress: Two Interrelated Topics in Modern
Chinese Political Thought Thomas Fröhlich (IKGF, Erlangen) |
| 12:20 p.m. | Discussion |
| 12:40 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Panel 6 | THE POETICS OF DIVINATION Chair: Florian Wagner, IKGF, Erlangen |
| 2:10 p.m. | Divination, Language, and Rationality in the
Classic of Documents (Shangshu) Martin Kern (Princeton) |
| 2:30 p.m. | Rationality in Refutations of Buddhism
and Christianity by Chosôn Literati Marion Eggert (Bochum) |
| 2:50 p.m. | Divination as a Mode of
Understanding Literary Texts Christoph König (Osnabrü,ck) |
| 3:10 p.m. | Texts on Experiences in St. Patrick’s Purgatory.
Signs of Future? Klaus Herbers (IKGF, Erlangen) |
| 3:30 p.m. | Discussion |
| 3:50 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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| 4:20 p.m. | Confucius at 60 Counting the Stalks: Apocryphal
Remarks on Divination in Chinese History Michael Lackner (IKGF, Erlangen) |
| 5:00 p.m. | General Discussion |
| 6:00 p.m. | End of Conference |
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