a) Medieval and Modern Literature
Materia Medica. Spanish XVII Century Heterodoxia, Alterity, and the Uncommon.
Prof. Dr. Elena del Río Parra
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The Perception of Destiny and Contingency in the Works of Gao Xingjian, esp. the Work "One Man's Bible".
Wang Liying
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Fate, Prediction and the Threat of Total Destruction in Spain: A Fifteenth-Century Nightmare
Ángel Gómez Moreno
The Conception of Fate among Modern Chinese Intellectuals: Using the Example of Records about Prognostication in the Dairies of their Contemporaries
Li Fan
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b) Optimism of Progress and Prognostication in Chinese Conceptions of Modernization
Comets, Earthquakes, and other Omens: Metaphorization and Political Reform, 1874-1882
Dr. Daniel Hausmann
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Fixing Foreign Sciences - Political Interventions in Transnational Knowledge Transfers in Maoist China
Prof. Dr. Marc Matten
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Seas of Fire - Earthquakes, Disasters and Japan in the 20th Century
Prof. Dr. Kerry Smith
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Fate, Contingency, and Self-Assertion in Chinese Modernity. Comparing Mou Zongsan′s and Wang Hui′s Interpretation of Neo-Confucianism
Prof. Dr. Kai Marchal
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Interdependence of Science and Religion in Modern Japan: The Background of Fukushima
Prof. Dr. Takahiro Nakajima
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Narrating the National Fate: Time, Historical Consciousness, and Cultural Trauma in the Study of 'Chinese Modernization' in Post-war Taiwan.
Prof. Dr. A-chin Hsiau
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c) Status of Divination in Present Day China
Fate and Freedom in Chinese Film, TV Drama and Popular Culture
Kwok-kan Tam
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Studies on the Present Status of Mantic Arts in China
Alexandra Fialkovskaya
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The Intellectuals’ Belief in Fate in Modern China （1840-1949）
Xiong Yuezhi
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Knowing fate: an anthropology of contemporary divinatory practices in China and Taiwan
Stéphanie Homola
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The Renaissance of Divinatory Techniques in Mainland China
Michael Lackner
Understanding Happiness in Contemporary China (PhD-Project)
Nikola Markewitsch
Fengshui in Present Day China (PhD-Project)
Xiaokun Song
The Dissection of Characters as a Prognostic Technique (PhD-Project)
Anne Schmiedl
Xiangshu 相術 – Body and Divination (PhD-Project)
Philipp Hünnebeck
d) Re-Evaluation of Classical Chinese Techniques of Prognostication
The Establishment of a Divination Database: Centered on Publications of Phoenix Halls in Taiwan
Guoping Li
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Prediction and narrative order in fictional diaries of the Republican era
Carsten Storm
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Recoding Astrology: The Accommodation of Foreign Astrology in Late Imperial China
Chang Che-chia
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Traditional Beliefs and Colonial Modernity in 20th century East Asia
Faye Kleeman
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Modern Chinese Critique of Progressivism
Axel Schneider
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The Critical Re-evaluation of Traditional Chinese Divinatory Practices in the Field of Religious Studies during the Republican Period, 1912-1949
Christian Meyer
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Mixin in Republican China
Prof. Dr. Iwo Amelung
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e) Africa
The Globalization of African Divination Systems – Theoretical Perspectives from the Study of Religion
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hock
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Divination, Time, and the Subject in Senegal and Gambia
Dr. Knut Graw
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