a) Middle Ages
Roger Bacon's (ca. 1220–1292) Idea of Progress, Laws of Nature and the Laws of the Stars
Yael Kedar
Strategies for Coping and Arguing with the Future in Early Medieval Italy
Carola Föller
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Signs and prodigies at the Byzantine Court: Their Significance and Function in Political Prognostication from the 6th to 15th centuries
Michael Grünbart
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Fate, Destiny, Prognostication and Dream Divination across Pagan and Christian Cultures: the Case of Dracontius
Maria Jennifer Falcone
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Coping with the Future in the Ottonian Age (10th-early 11th centuries). Transcendence, Contingency and Lack of Herrschaftsrationalität
Stefano Manganaro
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Prophet, Astrologer, Philosopher in the Political Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Bee Yun
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Between Fate, providentia Dei and the Free Will: Investigations in Medieval Canon Law on the Basis of Selected Examples (700-1140)
Andreas Holndonner
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Science, Divination and Prophecy at the Papal Court of the Late Middle Ages
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
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Intercultural Translation of Confucian Concepts relating to "Fate": with examples from the Latin translation of Zhongyong embodied in Confucius Sinarum Philosophus and Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex
Luo Ying
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Mantic, Fate and Freedom in Medieval Europe, esp. in the works of Thomas of Aquinas and Meister Eckhart
Loris Sturlese
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Conceptions and Significance of Future in German Historiography (12th & 13th century)
Hans-Christian Lehner
(PhD Project)
Divination and the Epistemology of Prognostication in the Middle Ages
Alexander Fidora
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b) Early China
Prophecy and Spirit-Writing in Qing Conquest China
Daniel Burton-Rose
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A Study of the Relationship between Buddhism and the Dunhung Prognostication Texts
Gang Yang
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Adaptive Agency
Mercedes Valmisa
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Economic Cycles and Price Theory in Early Chinese Texts
Paul R. Goldin
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The social Origin of Wu (Shamans) in the Shang and Zhou dynasties
Jinfeng Wang
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Myth, History, and Music in the Creation of the Excavated Bamboo Guicang 歸藏 Hexagram Text
Constance Cook
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Reading the Future in the Past: Time, Prediction, and History in Early Chinese Historiography
Piotr Gibas
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Fate, Death, and Material Culture in Early China
Lillian Tseng
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Fate and Authorship in Early China
Martin Kern
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Divinatory Hermeneutics and Text Exegesis in Early China
Joachim Gentz
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Divinatory Techniques and the Interpretation of Signs in the Political Theory of Han Feizi
Death and Ritual Wailing in Early China
The Concept of Fate in the Zhuangzi
Albert Galvany
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Human and Non-human Destinies in Zhuangzi and Aristotle
Lisa Raphals
Legal, Institutional, and Social Frameworks of Prognostic Practice in Early China
Michael Lüdke
Sages, Creation, and Fate
Michael Puett
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Writing, Texts and the Divinatory Mission in Archaic China
Wang Fuzhi and the Confucian ming Narrative: A Theology of Fate and Destiny
c) Imperial China
Forged Prophecies: Liu Ji's Shaobingge and Late Qing Anti-Manchu Sentiments
Phillip Grimberg
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The Construction and Influence of the Knowledge System of Shushu in the Han-Dynasty
Ru-xuan Huang
The Interpretation and Overseas Dissemination of Zhu Xi's Yi-ology
Keyan Liu
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Spirit Writing and the Uncertainly of the Future in Late Imperial China
Elena Valussi
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Elite Religiosity in Late Imperial Suzhou: Peng Dingqiu (1645-1719) and Self-Fashioned Literati Piety
Daniel Burton-Rose
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What goes beyond natural order? The articulation of fate (ming) and principle (li) in Zhu Xi's (1130-1200) philosophical and mantic discourse
Maud M'Bondjo
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Letting the Right Ones In: State-Sanctioned Memories of Diviners, Healers, and Artisans in Five Mid-Sixth to Mid-Seventh-Century Dynastic Histories
Stephan N. Kory
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Sima Guang's commentary to Yang Xiong's Fayan
Nicolae Christian Statu
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Diagrammatic Aspects of Cosmological Thought. An early Song Image and Number (xiang shu) Debate Reconsidered
Holger Schneider
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Disasters and Celestial Phenomena in 11th Century Political Discourse in China
Martin Kroher
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The Relationship between Prognostication and Law as Reflected in Mantic and Legal Manuscripts from the Qin Dynasty
Ulrich Lau
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Changing Fate: Visual Culture in the Ming and Early-Qing China
Ning Yao
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Probing the Mandate of Heaven: Classicism, Apocrypha, and the Formation of an Empire of the Great Peace in Han China
Zhao Lu
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Research on the idea of "verification" (应验 yingyan) in the "Records of the Five Phases" (五行志 wuxing zhi) of the Chinese Standard Histories
Zhou Zhenhe
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Pattern Precognition in Three “Spring and Autumn” Weft Texts
Grégoire Espesset
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Concepts of Fate and Freedom in religious Ruism of the Song- and Ming-Dynasty (11th - 17th century)
Sophia Katz
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Contingency and Determination/Destination: The Time of Shao Yong
Martin Doesch
(PHD Project)
Concepts of Fate and the Organization of Mantic Knowledge among the Song Dynasty Elite
Liao Hsien-Huei
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Subversive Mythology: The Sensory and the Spectacular in the Cults of Zhu Xi
Lionel Jensen
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The Role of Mathematical Practice and Theory in Divination in Late Imperial China
Andrea Bréard
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Understanding is Within One's Grasp (Liaoran zaiwo 遼 然 在 握): A Cultural History of Bodily Arts of Memory, Prognostication, and Being in Chinese Medicine
Marta Hanson
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Freedom, Fate and Free Will in Discourses on Chinese Tragedies
Natascha Gentz
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d) Ancient India
Human Agency and Fate in the Mahābhārata
Sven Sellmer
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e) Comparative Studies
Two Patterns of Cyclical View of History
Prof. Dr. Yangming An
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A Comparative Analysis between the Concepts of Fate and Divinatory Signs in Mesoamerica, China, and Europe
Araceli Rojas Martínez Gracida
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Theorizing Prognostication
Philipp Balsiger
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Leo Strauss and the Doctrine of Providence in Medieval Arabic and Jewish Philosophy
Thomas Meyer
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Fate, Fatalism and Autonomy
Lisa Raphals
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Fortuna and Monotheism
Andreas Kablitz
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Towards a Theory of Philological Praxis
Christoph König
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f) Tibet
Rope, Silver, and Lapis: The Unique Mythology and Prognostic Technique of ju thig
Alexander Smith
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Tibetan Geomancy (sa dpyad)
Petra Maurer
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The Dice Divination of the Tibetan Protectress A phyi Chos kyi sgrol ma
Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
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Divination, Fortune, and Kingship in Tibet
Brandon Dotson
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g) Japan
Childbirth and the Arts of Judgement in Medieval Japan
Anna Andreeva
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